by lmg_admin | Oct 11, 2021 | Notes from George
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...
by lmg_admin | Oct 10, 2021 | Notes from George
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...
by George Struble | Sep 17, 2021 | Notes from George
Yoicks! I just discovered that I had not written a blog entry reporting that our September 19 concert had to be postponed until 2022. And I didn’t update our website Next Concert page until a few days ago. I will try to do better. The Unitarian Church has closed for...
by George Struble | Aug 19, 2021 | Notes from George
The title of the email says it: “Delgani Welcomes Supserstar Violinist Anthea Kreston.” Wyatt True, who has been first violinist of the Delgani Quartet, stepped aside from that to concentrate on being the Quartet’s executive director. The Delgani Quartet searched...
by George Struble | Jul 28, 2021 | Notes from George
We have now scheduled a second November concert: on November 28, the Rose City Trio, with Sarah Kwak, violin, concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony; Nancy Ives, principal cellist of the Oregon Symphony; and Susan Chan, piano. We usually don’t schedule a concert so...
by George Struble | Jul 26, 2021 | Notes from George
I found that neither Willamette University nor the Salem Public Library is willing to accept the Gortner chamber music collection. But after some deliberation, Chemeketa Community College is happy to take it as the nucleus of its own collection of playable chamber...
