shosty five

This week our quartet had the privilege of two back-to-back performance opportunities for our Shostakovich 5. The first was on a program that one of the Seminar conductors was putting together. He had programmed Richard Strauss’ long and complicated Metamorphosen, scored for 23 solo strings. He needed something else to round out the program, so we gladly obliged. The concert was held in the Methodist church downtown. We played pretty well, but there were a few personal issues that messed up the ensemble occasionally. The next day we played on a Spotlight Recital (open by audition) held at Aspen Chapel (read: Anything-goes Religion Center). It went much better, and our coach was very pleased, as were we. There was a very small audience at both of the recitals, with perhaps a total of 25 attendees. But we were very glad for the performance opportunities. We had fun.














L-R: James (violin II), Kevin (cello), Christine (viola), me (violin I)