At The Bridal Muse, our mission is to provide you with a supporting cast to one of the most important events in life, your wedding day. While the leading roles have already been decided, we will join you to decide the supporting actors and actresses, directors, extras, and anyone else you would like included in your entourage.
The Music Makers’ Foundation, School of Groove, and Boston String Quartet are proud to present the 2009/2010 Xibus Tour, which will be taking place in 16 cities throughout the United States. Tour dates and venues are now available.The 2009/2010 Xibus Tour will feature The Boston String Quartet and Selected Guest Artists. Learn moreabout the participating musicians.
The tour is designed as an interactive learning experience
for high school music students.
The Xibus Tour will feature the talents of the respective symphony orchestras of sixteen high schools throughout the United States. Partnering with internationally acclaimed artists, students will engage in one full day of classes and workshops, and a second day consisting of intensive rehearsals, culminating in an evening performance. Students will participate in music ranging in style from Led Zeppelin to Ennio Morricone, from Celtic to jazz, and more.
This opportunity is provided to students at no cost by the Music Makers’ Foundation, and our corporate sponsors and donors, and is an effort to support live music and K-12 music education in the communities visited by introducing audiences to new music, and by providing outstanding performance opportunities to young artists and students.
Since its formation 2004, the Boston String Quartet has been a creative leader in contemporary classical music in New England. Having made their professional debut at Weil Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, the quartet performs their own arrangements of classical chamber music, rock, jazz, world music and more, and is continually “exploring different ways of sparking musical interest” [Boston Globe]. This journey has allowed for collaboration with John Mayer, the Boston Ballet, Jennifer Holliday, Lisa Fisher, Tim Janis, Dave Fiucznyski, as well as opportunity to perform at such venues as the Los Angeles Music Awards, PBS, and the Yankee Homecoming Festival. Committed to music education in the Boston metro area, the members of the Boston String Quartet are currently ensemble in residence at contemporary music school, School of Groove. To date, the Boston String Quartet has released two independent albums — “Spectrum” and “On Christmas Eve” [“a lovely alternative sound for the holiday season” –Audiophile Audition] can be heard over the radio or may be found performing on local television stations — and is currently recording on Boston-based classical label, Navona Recordings.
