Manor House Music String Quartet Weblog

I Saw Three Ships - Concert at Cuddington.

Last night we returned to play once again at St Nicholas Church in Cuddington - a village near the border between Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Having given a concert back in September in this Church, we were especially keen to return to such an enthusiastic, delightful audience. It was a beautiful, clear and frosty night with [...]

Christmas Concert for a Corporate Evening

About a week ago, the quartet were booked to be part of an unusual alternative to the traditional office Christmas Party. The company had organised an evening for their staff in which a concert of Christmas music and carols was given at a venue in Soho, after which the group were going off to dinner. [...]

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 [...]

Three Ships, Harvest Time and Droplets

With the first of our Christmas String Quartet Concerts fast approaching, we wanted to devote some of yesterdays rehearsal time to playing through the first of the completed Christmas carol arrangements which we’ll be performing. The first concert will be on the 11th of December in St Giles Church, Cheddington and the second will see us [...]