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 life of a man, not a god, a man. Inspired by…
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Music as Crime
A few years ago, as part of my Master’s degree, I took a course entitled “Art and Crime”. Besides the obvious connotations of theft and forgery, we also examined “art as a crime” and “the…
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Beethoven was hard to listen to once too….
Listen to this excellent talk by the great musicologist and critic Charles Rosen to discover why modern music is challenging, and well worth the challenge. Beethoven was new once too.
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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 violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello). Learn more about the string quartet, including its…
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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 still wanted to listen and the virtual concert was born. Musicians from every genre…
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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 fact, if you are reading this, you probably already know what we…
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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/2020/07/15/1b883e76-c49c-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html
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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 19 restrictions dictated a Virtual Meeting. As a result we will publish from the…
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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 and Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto, ON QSCM cannot remain silent on the…
