Manor House Music String Quartet Weblog

Travellers Tales at St Mary’s

On Saturday evening (after performing at a wedding in Hertfordshire during the afternoon), we gave our first concert in the 13th century Church of St Mary the Virgin, in Eaton Bray - Bedfordshire. The church had previously  hosted a jazz event and has a choral concert planned for later in the year, but it was [...]

The Bells of St Giles

String players are accustomed to looking after extremely old, valuable instruments - and with some members of the Manor House String Quartet owning violins, violas or cellos that are centuries old, we’re all extremely conscious of how carefully they need to be treated if these instruments are to survive and play music for generations to come. Talking to [...]