Living Archive

Nick Kitchen, who visited Community MusicWorks last month with the Borromeo String Quartet to present a Musical Workshop, has created a website where you can stream high quality videos of his Quartet's recent concerts.

During vacation, I spent some time with a few of my favorite chestnuts
of the chamber music repertoire: the Mendelssohn Octet, Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence, Beethoven's Quartet Opus 132…

In Nick's words, "there was often the feeling that something special had occurred [in a concert], that a
unique beauty had come to life. It was wonderful to know that
performers and audience members might treasure a memory of the event,
but sad that there was so often no chance of revisiting the events of
the concert, enjoying them again, studying them, learning more from
them."

I love this idea of a "unique beauty" coming to life on the concert stage. What Nick has offered the public through the Living Archive is a new way–thanks to technology– to recreate our experience in the concert hall. A chance to revisit a treasured memory, for the eyes as well as the ears. 

Click here to visit the Living Archive.

-Heath Marlow, CMW staff