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QSCM wishes everyone the best of times for holidays and all happiness in the new year. nI wanted to share a Holiday Greeting with you all that would point everyone in the direction of joyous…

I LOVE this picture: It was taken at Hunter Ford in Madoc by a volunteer with an excellent eye and sense of fun! A donor since QSCM’s inception in 2015, Hunter Ford in Madoc has…

(*This post is actually more or less by Cynthia Young. Edited by me, Bonnie but sometimes it’s hard to get the software to actually believe how much we all work together!) Did you know the…

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, reading, you probably are aware that we’ve changed how we do…

“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?” These are just some of the comments brought on as…

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 Radio” refers to radio stations broadcasting without a…

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 sound, but they can also, pluck and strumm, and well,…

Dvorak celebrated “American” quartet is one of 15 that remain popular to this day on chamber music performance programs. Dvorak’s writing seems to make not only string players happy but also audiences! The “Amercian” is…

Patricia Morehead, Composer and oboist, describes sources of her work and the way these ideas are manifest in the writing of “Night Sky”, for String Quartet: “My inspiration for Night Sky began with a fascinating presentation…