Tuesday, November 18, 2008

TSQ at Grace Lutheran, Friday November 21, 2008

This is just a reminder to our Boulder readers that the second concert in our concert series at Grace Lutheran Church will take place this Friday, November 21 at 7.30pm (not Saturday, November 22 as initially advertised). We'll be playing an exciting programme of works by Schubert (the Quartettsatz D.703), Mozart (Quartet in D major K.575), and Beethoven (Quartet in F major Op. 59 No. 1, "Razumovsky"). We will be giving a pre-concert talk at 6.45. We recommend showing up early to get good seats, because some of the seats offer only partial visibility.

Grace Lutheran Church is located at 1001 13th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302. The church's phone number is (303) 442-1883. Tickets are by door sales only; adults $20, students and seniors $5 and children under 12 free.

We do hope you can make it! Grace Lutheran is a beautiful, acoustically perfect little church, and it's run by wonderful people. We're very excited about this concert series and are very much looking forward to Friday night. See you there!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The TSQ goes to Florida!


We spent the past week in Tampa, Florida, where we competed in the Rutenberg Chamber Music Competition. We were delighted to be accepted into the finals, and to win the Jeremy Rutenberg Prize for our performance of Haydn's "Emperor" Quartet. We stayed with the Painters, an amazing family who spoiled us rotten, and made some wonderful new friends among our fellow competitors and University of Southern Florida students.

We also found a little time to get away from our instruments! Here's a photo of the four of us at the end of the pier at Clearwater Beach, Florida, which was a pleasant drive across a causeway from Tampa. This was during a spectacular sunset where we spent some time watching flying pelicans diving into the sea for fish!

The next photo is at a miniature golf course where we went to relax after the competition was over! Chris won the game...