Sunday 23 September 2012

Naming a chamber group is hard.

Choosing a name for your chamber group can be hard. Very hard. I've recently experienced this over the weekend, when I finally established a piano trio with a good violinist friend of mine, and her good cellist friend.

Usually there are the usual options a chamber group can take:

1. Name the group after a favourite composer.
2. Name the group after a favourite chamber work (e.g. Archduke, Ghost, Trout)
3. Name the group after a member of the group.
4. Try and combine all the members' names into one name, and make it sound cool/abstract.


But what if you don't want these options? Naming your group after a composer or a work can define what your group is about, but can also strangle your chamber group into only performing works by said composer, or performing works in that style/period. Naming the group after a certain member could also have dire consequences if members get 'jealous'... or, in my case, no one in your group likes their own name enough.

So far we have...one option, which I have thought of, but I shall announce what the name shall be soon!

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