GUARNERI UPDATE

posted by James Reel

My organization, the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, has booked the Guarneri Quartet for an April concert here in Tucson, one of its very last before it disbands. But second violinist John Dalley has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and will soon undergo treatment, which will of course disrupt the quartet's tour schedule. For a good short news item on the subject, see this from the online version of Strings magazine. (By the way, that line about the group being featured in the February issue is a reference to a big article by yours truly.)

According to the Guarneri's management, the Tucson date should not be affected. Here's the message we got: "Commencing January 15, some February performance dates are currently being rescheduled. ... Your concert on April 22 will take place as scheduled. Only some dates in second half of February are affected."

That's good news for us in Tucson, and I do hope that eventually John Dalley will have good news as well. At least prostate cancer is one cancer whose treatment has a high success rate.