by Nicholas Stevens
If the Miami String Quartet’s performance with pianist Spencer Myer last week could have come with a motto, it might have been “never underestimate Haydn.” In a concert at the Kent Blossom Music Festival, where the Quartet’s members have long served as faculty, the opener — a quartet from the late 1790s — stole the show from Romantic and contemporary fare. Of course, the real stars of the evening were the performers, who more than won over an appreciative audience. [Read more…]
On Wednesday evening, July 6, the Miami String Quartet and pianist Spencer Myer gave a thrilling concert in Ludwig Recital Hall at Kent State University. This installment of the Kent/Blossom Faculty Concert Series showcased two short but fiery string quartets — Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Serioso” in f, Op. 95 and Gabriela Frank’s Milagros (“Miracles”) — as well as Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quartet in g, Op. 25. 
