![]() On January 12, 2009, Emily Hsiao and her mother picked me up at my hotel and drove to Huron High School. We are all very excited and are looking forward to your visit! Many of us will be at your concert on Sunday. I’d probably have time to hear music in your school. The rest of the quartet will leave the morning after our Ann Arbor concert but I’m staying on to do a reading and book signing at one of the local bookstores. I hope your tour has been going well, and I hope to see you in January! Our chamber orchestra has been working on the Mendelssohn Octet (Presto), and if I may recall correctly, I believe that Guarneri has played that with the Johannes String Quartet. We would very much like to meet you, and now that Guarneri is retiring, we feel that this could be our last chance.Īlso, I was wondering if you had any chamber music advice for us. You may recall that I contacted you over the summer about your stop in Ann Arbor during Guarneri’s Farewell Tour this season.Īs the date for Guarneri’s Ann Arbor performance is approaching, I was wondering if you had a better idea if the Guarneri String Quartet could stop by my high school during your stay in Ann Arbor. The following excerpted e-mails tell a story of life, death, and the enormous power of music. ![]() Only hours after my visit to the school, a brutal attack on one of those students tragically ended her young life. She asked whether the Guarneri Quartet would have time to listen to music students in her high school when we played in Ann Arbor, Michigan that winter. Last summer, Emily Hsiao, a teenager whom I’d never met, e-mailed me.
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