Thursday, March 3, 2011

the alphabet marches "ON"

On March 20, the Expanded Original Universe Quartet will play an all string program at the Pelican Gallery in Petaluma. Nielsen, Nardini, Onslow and O'Carolan will be the composers.
More on them soon, but first an explanation of the strange name of the group might be in order!
Many years ago 4 of us were invited to play on a cruise in Alaska. And the name of the ship was the Universe. It was wonderful fun and for several years after that we kept going on the cruise with slightly different combinations of players. So all of us played there, but our Original group was Mari, Joe, Betsy, and Yaba. Gwyneth joined the next year with a slightly different group. It was a wonderful time on a not too state-of-the-art boat that actually, after a few more years, was found totally unsafe and destroyed. I suppose bits of it are still floating around the universe.....