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Heartfelt Stuff
A concert by the Amici Ensemble,
enjoyed by HOWARD SMITH
I hadn't booked formally. Yet here I was on the front row in a packed house. My eyes closed I imagined a concert hall in Montreal, Moscow, Munich or Milan.
At any of the above I'd be unlikely to hear string playing of a higher quality.
Amici Ensemble - from left to right: Haihong Liu, Kristina Zelinska, Euan Murdock, Rowan Prior, Lyndsay Mountfort, Vyvyan Yendoll, Donald Armstrong and Christina Vaszilcsin
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The fact is the venue was a one-time bottle store, currently a 100 seat (+ or -) amateur theatre; and here in Greytown (population 2000) for a one-off concert under the auspices of Greytown Music Group was Amici Ensemble -- four violins, two violas and two cellos, all but one members of the Wellington-based New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO).
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Copyright © 27 May 2008
Howard Smith, Masterton, New Zealand
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