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Flaming Fiddles

Submitted by Sderci on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 18:45

My third year of Curtis, 1998-1999, Zach DePue transferred from Cleveland and we immediately began playing in quartet together (along with Priscilla Lee and Jessi Thompson, the Grancino Quartet after a violin the school was lending me). But Zach grew up in Ohio, the youngest of four violin-playing brothers, and fiddling was his first love. So for the Holiday Party in December, which used to be a sort of vaudeville show, we volunteered this act, Flaming Fiddles. Zach's brother Jason played guitar and stuntman.

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Submitted by Sderci on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 05:17

An instructive comment from a quartet coaching:

A few months after I formed the Grancino String Quartet with Zach DePue, Jessi Thompson and Priscilla Lee, we were fortunate enough to go up to New York for a quartet coaching with Mr. Galimir. At this point he had stopped coming down to Curtis except for rare visits to hear one or two people or groups. I remember that he hadn’t heard any groups yet that year, so we were excited to play a Haydn Quartet, Op. 55 No. 1, that we had been working on.

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