The Left Bank Line Quartet Recreates the French Salon

Imagine sitting in an elaborate Parisian salon a hundred years before luxuriating in songs by revered composers. The same personal possibility awaits wherever the Left Bankstring quartet events piques the senses with the taste of Slavic love utilized by composers Johann Hummel, Anton DvorAk and Johannes Brahms.The members of LBSQ are violinists David Salness and Sally McLain, violist Katherine Murdock, and cellist Evelyn Elsing. Their commitment to chamber music and individual collaboration with an incredible roster of contemporary painters in this country and abroad enable them to reproduce the sounds created by the world's great composers. For the Allegro Moderato activity from Hummel's Clarinet Quartet in E-flat major and the Brahms Clarinet Quintet, they're registered by National Symphony Orchestra clarinetist Loren Kitt.Salness, a professor of cello and director of chamber music at the University of Maryland, has organized student winners of top awards. A member of the Audubon Quartet for twelve years, he's executed with people of the Guarneri, Juilliard and Cleveland quartets and appeared in major locations world wide including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and London's Wigmore Hall.Sally McLain launched her career playing at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Bach Aria Festival and Institute and Ny String Institute. She's appeared at the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, Lisner Auditorium, and with the NSO at the Kennedy Center. In addition to playing chamber music with the Embassy Series, the Potomac String Quartet and 20th Century Consort, she often works with Eclipse Chamber Orchestra.Violist Katherine Murdock is just a world-traveling chamber musician, performing in Edinburgh, Salzburg, New Zealand, South America and with such observed chamber groups as Music from Marlboro, the Boston Chamber Music Society and the Brandenburg Ensemble. She was a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet from 1988-1994, touring and serving as Artist in Residence at Harvard University and the University of Delaware. At present she is on the college of SUNY Stony Brook and the University of Maryland and performs and records as a part of the Los Angeles Piano Quartet.Cellist Evelyn Elsing, a teacher of cello at the University of Maryland, appears often through the Washington, DC area with regional sets. Among her awards are the Stanley Medal from the University of Michigan and an Solo Recitalist Fellowship Grant. Summers discover her on the faculty of the Interlochen Center for the Arts and playing the Aspen, Ravinia and Spoleto Festivals.Salness emphasizes that each artist in the attire produces ability and commitment to their routines, taking cues from the composers whose works they celebrate.He claims that Hummel knew how to set off the woodwind, so they start on a higher note along with his clarinet, violin and viola quartet, followed closely by DvorAk's last quartet comprising American and Czech impacts. When he wrote it because he'd just returned home after being in the United States many years he was hopeful and happy. The warmth to be home illustrates the soulful slow movement. Both he and Brahms were good friends and Brahms tried unsuccessfully to influence him to go to Vienna. His quartet goes nicely with the Brahms Clarinet Quintet since Brahms was looking eastward during the time and was interested in folk music. These quartets constructed inside a period of 12 years represent great experience and the wealthy posts of their skills that creates independent tapestries.