October 18th, 2021

We had a fine concert yesterday. The Salem String Quartet played the dark and dramatic Quartet no. 8 by Shostakovich in honor of those who died during the pandemic, and Haydn’s “Sunrise” Quartet to look forward to a better future after Covid. In addition, the last...

October 11th, 2021

Yesterday I had my second rehearsal of the last movement of the Schubert Quintet with the Salem String Quartet. Before I became president, I played in several Camerata concerts. After I became president because of the failing health of our founders Lydia Woods and...

October 10th, 2021

Mark Babson has volunteered to write program notes for our concerts. He just sent me the notes for this concert, and they are well written and informative. David Gortner was writing our notes; I wrote some after he and his wife moved back to California. We are...