My quartet on Sunday
I was just at a dress rehearsal for my string quartet, which will be performed Sunday night at 8PM at St. Paul's Episcopal at Coventry and Fairmount. The great pleasure of working with the Cleveland Chamber Collective is that they really dig in and play what I've written. They've done my stuff before, so it's not an alien style for them. There was not much at all to do...a little encouragement to play a bit faster and lighter, a couple balances to fix, one unauthorized rallentando to remove, and it was there. I was surprised at how big the sound was...not quite Grieg Op. 27 big, but nearly, and the duets and trios were a real relief to the ear. I'm not quite as convinced by the end of the finale as I'd like to be; it sounds like it was dashed off in 3 days (well, because it was). But it's fun. If Kronos had been the resident quartet at Esterhaza, this would have been a Haydn quartet.
Now...sax trio on April 25, then a 'cello and piano piece I haven't begun yet on April 27, and the Symphony on May 18. So y'all gonna get your butts moving and come to hear 'em?
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