By Robert Croan Martin Luther King was the focus of the first concert by Chameleon Musicians in the group’s inaugural season at the Broward Center – a totally engaging performance Jan. 14, by the Amernet String Quartet and Chameleon’s founder-director, cellist Iris van Eck. The series’ new venue is the Center’s Abdo River Room – a sleek, modern space, if not quite as … [Read more...]
Amernet Quartet masterful in Schubert, Onslow at Chameleon
By Robert Croan The Adagio movement of Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major is one of the most sublime, transfixing moments in all music. The entire work, composed shortly before the composer’s early death in 1828, is one of the greatest achievements in the chamber music genre. It’s dramatic, it’s anguished, it’s pugnacious, it’s soul-searching, and it’s very, very difficult … [Read more...]