We have thousands of human-written stories, discussions, interviews and reviews from today through the past 20+ years. Find them here:

Search the site Search

String Quartet

October 8, 2005 at 11:42 PM

Here a foto of me playing (second violin) in a string quartet, about 10 years ago, when I was a student during our yearly chamber-‘competition’. The chambermusic club of our orchestra (Sempre Crescendo) was C-dur. The color of the orchestra was blue and the color of C-dur was yellow. With an other string quartet I had played SQ KV 421 of Mozart, but here we played Rosamunde of Schubert, also quite easy. But our viola-player was ill so we arrange a substitute. Another problem was that the first violin was forgotten his music, so he had to read from the Quartett music score for all four. We had to repeat one part and we 3 had to turn 1 page, but the first violinist had to turn 5 pages.

People began to yell and laugh. But the atmosphere was not serious, so therefore we got a prize for the most authentic playing and got a big part of cheese, which is yellow, just like the color of C-Dur. The committee of C-Dur wear yellow committee-dresses and we began and end the evening with singing the C-dur song (in C-dur) with the notes and text on a yellow paper. The name of our quartet was: The Radio and Television Philharmonic Chamber String Quartet, but we didn’t reach Carnegie Hall.