Lovely

I just got back from a concert by the Delgani string quartet – I’ve heard the violinists before, and now they have their own non-profit ensemble. This was the first concert of their inaugural season, and they performed various “firsts” – Prokofiev’s first string quartet, and Mendelssohn’s first string quartet, and in between a work commissioned from a local composer (Terry McQuilkin) who spent almost as much time telling us about the piece as the quartet spent playing it.

Outside it was dark and stormy – rain falling, dead leaves littering the streets and getting wet – but inside the concert hall (a Lutheran church) the music felt like a light, a light full of life, in the darkness. One high note from near the end of the Mendelssohn piece is still held fast in my memory.