Archive for December, 2009
Music for a 90th Birthday Party
On Sunday, Nancy (Viola) and I were excited to be playing for a 90th birthday party at a venue down in Surrey. The music we had been asked to play was of a popular classical and light in nature with a few carols as we were getting near to Christmas. The lady whose birthday it [...]
Music for a Corporate Dinner
December is always a full month for string quartets when it comes to Christmas parties and corporate events. Last week, we had the pleasure of playing for a company who had booked us previously in the year and invited us back again for their Christmas party. The event was held in the Royal Berkshire Conference [...]
A Warm and Intimate Concert on a Freezing Night
On Friday, we were to perform the second Christmas concert at the Church of St Michael in the North Gate in central Oxford. Keeping the programme quite similar to the concert at St Giles the week before, we still scheduled in a day of rehearsal as Reiad (Viola) was due to play in place of Adrian who [...]
Music for an Office Party
On Tuesday last week, we were invited back to a travel management company based near Liverpool Street in London to provide music for their annual Christmas party, held for staff and regular customers. This was the second time we’d played for this particular event and both times a string duo was perfect for the occasion, [...]
Candlelit Concert, St Giles, Cheddington
On Friday the 11th December we really got into the Christmas spirit with a programme of winter and festive music performed by candlelight in our village Church, St Giles, Cheddington. This is the fourth time we’ve performed in the church and word seems to have got around because by the week of the concert, the organisers [...]
Wedding at Hedsor House
Hedsor house is an impressive Tudor building near Taplow in South Buckinghamshire and on Saturday the string quartet were booked to play for a wedding there. The venue has a stunning central hall with a circular gallery which is ideal for a string quartet to project music from. Before the wedding, we played a selection [...]
Wedding at The Dairy, Waddesdon
On Saturday we returned for the second time in a week to the Dairy at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. Again, this was a booking for the quartet and we played excerpts from Vivaldi’s Spring and Summer from the four seasons in front of attentive guests before the bride entered. One special aspect of the ceremony was [...]
