Wednesday, November 4, 2009

the quest

It's a challenge to find music this way! "A" doesn't have many famous composers but we have found some good pieces. Arriaga, who was called the Spanish Mozart (...I am told by someone here who has an amazing memory for facts and details) wrote 3 string quartets. And he died before he turned 20! We previewed them on Silvertrust, a great online resource, and have decided to do the 2nd one. It's very fun, sometimes seeming like early Beethoven, sometimes Schubert, but basically Arriaga.
We're still trying to come up with interesting venues. Any ideas out there? So far, we have an art center, a museum and a church.
Does anyone know of an unused retail space? or a rustic outbuilding? Or??