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Opinion: how chamber music develops communication and listening skills

2022-12-05T09:31:00

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Violist Rosalind Ventris shares her experience of the transformative power of playing chamber music

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When I was about 16 years old, I played the slow movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet in E minor op.59 no.2 in a chamber concert. Feeling totally in awe of this music, I kept thinking: ‘I want to do this for the rest of my life.’ But it was also more than this. It felt like a rare moment of total clarity: after the rewarding process of rehearsals and coaching, in the performance I felt, ‘This is what I love and where I want to be.’….

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