String Quartets play String Quartets! Who knew?
Yes. It's true: the string quartet (violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello) plays string quartets (usually multi movement works scored for...
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B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Sep 19, 20202 min read
4 Days!
Jacques Marhand's work, Quatre Jours dans la vie d'un homme , newly scored for String Quartet, is about exactly that: four days in the...
Cynthia Young
Sep 15, 20202 min read
Thinking outside the box...
A few months ago, during our initial lock down, live musical concerts ceased to exist. Performers still wanted to perform, audiences...
Tamara Best
Jul 27, 20203 min read
Why do we call ourselves a Society?
When you consider our name: the Quinte Society for Chamber Music (or QSCM for short) you probably already understand the “M” part. In...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Jul 24, 20201 min read
It matters, and it matters to us.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/that-sound-youre-hearing-is-classical-musics-long-overdue-reckoning-with-racism/2020/07/15...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Jun 29, 20204 min read
AGM: Report from the Chair
Message from the Chair June 27 QSCM celebrated our successes and accomplishments in 2019 with our second Annual General Meeting. COVID...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Jun 6, 20201 min read
What is to be done?
In light of the recent outbreak of violence sparked by the senseless, racially motivated persecution and death of George Floyd in the US...
Cynthia Young
Apr 20, 20202 min read
Need some music therapy?
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, one of music's most enduring and influential composers. An...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Mar 28, 20201 min read
Escape! Now!!!
Catching a bit of cabin fever? Remember "Made in Canada" at Hazzards Corners in Madoc TOwnship with Nathan Bredeson and Michael Ibsen?...
Cynthia Young
Mar 23, 20204 min read
Music and the Gig Economy
The economic reality for musicians has not changed much since traveling minstrels wandered from town to town. From buskers in the subway...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Mar 14, 20203 min read
Resiliance: Artists show us the way
I am reading posts on social media from artists all over the world telling us that their gigs, entire seasons, are cancelled. It is a...
Cynthia Young
Mar 2, 20201 min read
So What's a String Quartet Anyway?
Quiz: What is the instrumentation for a string quartet? a) 4 violins b) violin, viola, cello, double bass c) violin, violin, viola, cello...
Cynthia Young
Feb 15, 20203 min read
Music and Improvisation
While wandering the interwebs one day, I was intrigued to find that a common distinction between "classical" and "popular" music is that...
Cynthia Young
Jan 31, 20202 min read
5 Years!
https://www.intelligencer.ca/entertainment/local-arts/cultivating-creativity-milestone-year-for-quinte-society-for-chamber-music/ Cynthia...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Jan 11, 20202 min read
2019, Looking Back : Bredeson / Ibsen, Made in Canada - Classical Guitar
Remember September? QSCM presented our first Classical Guitar event at Hazzard's Corners in Madoc Township: Made in Canada with Michael...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Dec 29, 20191 min read
Annamaria Popescu, QSCM Advisory: Profile, La Scena Musicale
La Scene Musicale is Canada's premier classical music magazine, and Mezzo Soprano Annamaria Popescu one of Canada's most preminent...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Dec 28, 20191 min read
Highlights from ALL Terrain Tour
QSCM's All Terrain Tour is Back! May 22,23,24. Tickets at www.qscmusic.com now!
Cynthia Young
Dec 2, 20192 min read
A (mostly) forgotten American composer...Leo Ornstein
Until I heard Ben Smith perform Sonata No. 4 at Stirlingfest in October, I had never heard of Ornstein. I was mesmerized by this sonata;...
B.Sallans, QSCM (Chair)
Oct 21, 20192 min read
Benjamin Smith at the Piano: StirlingFEST brings it home!
Benjamin Smith performs Leo Ornstein Sonata No. 4 in Stirling Ontario.
Cynthia Young
Oct 16, 20192 min read
Clara and Robert Schumann....and Brahms?
Until fairly recently, the impact that Clara Schumann had on the artists and composers of the Romantic period had disappeared into the...
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