QSCM: Behind the Scenes (Letter from the Chair)
This is your October "Letter from the Chair", although I'm not sure we're going to call it that very often anymore. If you're here,...
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B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Oct 63 min read
ATT 2024: What People Say....
"Amazing", "OMG they are so good," "How can just four players make so much sound?" "How can just four players make me feel so much?" ...
cynthiay85
Oct 52 min read
Classical Pirate Radio: the first year
Congratulations to our Classical Pirate Radio team - 52 shows are now available on SoundCloud! That is 104 hours of classical music...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Sep 12 min read
Jessie Montgomery: "Strum"
Plucking and strumming are not quite the same things: Violinists usually use draw a bow across the string to get it to vibrate and break...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Sep 12 min read
Dvorak: The "American"
Dvorak celebrated "American" quartet is one of 15 that remain popular to this day on chamber music performance programs. Dvorak's...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Sep 12 min read
Night Sky: Patricia Morehead, Notes
Patricia Morehead, Composer and oboist, describes sources of her work and the way these ideas are manifest in the writing of "Night Sky",...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Aug 273 min read
Guess who's coming to town?
A few weeks ago QSCM Artstic Director and Madoc Quartet Violinist Sebastian Sallans programmed Patricia Morehead's "Night Sky" for string...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Aug 264 min read
MQ - WHAT ARE YOU?
MQ: Madoc Quartet! Madoc, a small community, known mostly mid point between Toronto and Ottawa on highway 7. And Madoc has its own...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Aug 161 min read
ALL TERRAIN TOUR: INFO VIDEO
QSCM: The Madoc Quartet is Back, Labour Day Weekend Watch here for all you need to know when you are ready to GO MORE DETAILS at...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Aug 146 min read
Down tools? Oh I surely hope not! I don't have time to go on strike. I have to practice!
What happens when artists go on strike? Does anyone go hungry? Anyone except the musicians that is? QSCM argues yes: when art stops, the...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Aug 32 min read
Classical Pirate! What does it mean?
This image is of REM Island, a platform off the coast of Holland. It was taken over for use as a "pirate" radio station in 1964. "Pirate...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Jul 194 min read
All Terrain Tour 2024: Madoc Quartet is Coming your Way
QSCM's ALL TERRAIN TOUR just keeps getting better! DISCOVER MQ at https://www.madocquartet.com/ QSCM's ALL TERRRAIN TOUR 2024 features ...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Jul 194 min read
QSCM Volunteers: Making it Go, Getting it Done
Volunteers are what make QSCM go. June and July is one of our busiest times for catching up on paper work, and this year more than ever. ...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Jul 112 min read
QSCM 2019: Transcendence Indeed: Chamber Music at Hazzards Corners and Beyond
The post that follows is from 2019: RE-Sharing this early experience of bringing Chamber Music to Hazzards Corners Church as we...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
May 135 min read
The Joyful Muse: Part II, The COMPOSERS, The MUSIC
QSCM’s Joyful Muse Event features works created entirely by women. Jocelyn Morlock, Chen Yi, Jesse Montgomery, and Rebecca Clarke:...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
May 132 min read
The Joyful Muse: Part I, Women in Music
PART I: DUO THALIA: Women in Music Violinist Xueao Yang and cellist Kendra Grittani created Duo Thalia in 2019. Called after the Greek...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Mar 292 min read
Making the Muse Joyful: The ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL and QSCM
QSCM is excited to announce that we have been awarded an Ontario Arts Council grant to assist us with presenting "The Joyful Muse"...
cynthiay85
Jun 13, 20232 min read
The Piano
In 1698 the world was changed forever: Bartolomeo Christofori invented the fortepiano. It was totally unlike the two keyboard concert...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Jun 12, 20233 min read
“ATHLETES WITH SMALL MUSCLES”
On the making of the virtuoso pianist: Leon Fleisher, brilliant and celebrated pianist and mentor-teacher of the last century, said of...
stavrevapetya
Mar 16, 20233 min read
Why pay musicians?
To be honest, I was initially scratching my head with this title, because to me (as a pianist), it’s immediately obvious why we “should”...
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