The Sylvestris Quartet are an all gut-string Bay Area group whose repertoire spans from the Baroque era to the 20th century. I interviewed violinist Anna Washburn and violist Aaron Westman via email to discuss their upcoming performance in Westhaven and what eschewing modern strings can entail for modern players. What is the history of the […]
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DJs, St. Paddy’s and a Gut-string Quartet
John Steinbeck set his 14th novel Cannery Row in the height of the Great Depression, in a town dominated by one industry: fish canning. We live in such a place now — wait. I was going to write an introduction about a changing mono-economy, its effect on the local culture and how the citizens view […]