http://rogerbourland.com/2009/02/13/good-music-at-ucla/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:19:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://rogerbourland.com/2009/02/13/good-music-at-ucla/comment-page-1/#comment-108026 Brad Wood Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:42:32 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/?p=2870#comment-108026 At a Pacific Serenades donors and composers/performer's garden party hosted last year by a very generous couple (a totally class act with valet parking, wonderful food and Morgan Pinot Noir [!] among other things), a UCLA student quartet performed a fragment of a commissioned piece with Gary Gray, then followed with the first movement of the Schubert #14. It was thrilling, and I very much wanted to hear them do the rest of the piece. Of course things were winding up and this was out of the question. As well, when I congratulated them afterwards, they said they hadn't even finished practicing the rest of the piece as yet. At a Pacific Serenades donors and composers/performer’s garden party hosted last year by a very generous couple (a totally class act with valet parking, wonderful food and Morgan Pinot Noir [!] among other things), a UCLA student quartet performed a fragment of a commissioned piece with Gary Gray, then followed with the first movement of the Schubert #14. It was thrilling, and I very much wanted to hear them do the rest of the piece. Of course things were winding up and this was out of the question. As well, when I congratulated them afterwards, they said they hadn’t even finished practicing the rest of the piece as yet.

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