Coffee Concerts

Newsletter #6     November 2015

Welcome to our sixth newsletter – designed to keep you informed about our activities, as well as other local chamber music events.

 

2015/16 COFFEE CONCERT SEASON UNDERWAY
The current season opened on 25 October with a performance of stunning lyricism and passion by the Elias String Quartet. For reviews of the concert by Andrew Polmear and Richard Amey see www.stringsattachedmusic.org.uk  and choose ‘News and Views’.
The next concert, on 29 November by the Aronowitz Ensemble, is enough of a departure from Strings Attached tradition to justify a little background information and discussion.

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Elias String Quartet 25th October 2015 – Review by Richard Amey, Worthing Herald

A white cello case walks up Gardner Street in late October sun through the teeming Sunday lunchtime throng. Its feet belong to Marie Bitlloch and she trails behind three black fiddle cases that have waists and legs below them. It’s the Elias String Quartet on their way back to Brighton station Continue reading Elias String Quartet 25th October 2015 – Review by Richard Amey, Worthing Herald

Elias String Quartet 25th October 2015 – Review by Andrew Polmear

Brighton audiences are getting to know the Elias String Quartet, not least from their Beethoven series in All Saints Church, Hove in the 2015 Brighton Festival. There they triumphed over an echoing church acoustic with playing as intimate as in a drawing room. In the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange for the start of the new coffee concert season the acoustic was warm but still resonant enough, Continue reading Elias String Quartet 25th October 2015 – Review by Andrew Polmear