The
Bronte String Quartet recently played in St Hildeburgh Church, Hoylake (a review in
this article). A performance that is a part of its present
tour around Brita
in. The Bronte Quartet
"have been working together full-time since September 2001. Much in demand for concerts, they have performed at such venues as the Wigmore Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Snape Maltings Concert Hall and at festivals including Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Hampstead and Highgate, Chelsea and Brighton. They have also appeared live on BBC Radio 3." Of course in Brontëblog we asked ourselves... why Brontë? We were not the only ones asking this question because the answer was to be find in the
June newsletter of the US Brontë Society (Region 3)"Wanting to know "why Brontë", I contacted the group. Jon’s reply follows:
Many thanks for your interest. We are named the Bronte Quartet partly because of the gender make up of the group but also because we have an interest in literature generally. Bronte also means "thunder" in Greek which has a nice resonance don't you think?! And this way the circle is completed... because that precisely is one of the theories that many biographers consider was behind the change of Brunty/Prunty by Brontë when, in October 1802, Patrick Brontë, aged 25, registered as a student at St John's College, Cambridge
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in. The Bronte Quartet "have been working together full-time since September 2001. Much in demand for concerts, they have performed at such venues as the Wigmore Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Snape Maltings Concert Hall and at festivals including Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Hampstead and Highgate, Chelsea and Brighton. They have also appeared live on BBC Radio 3." Of course in Brontëblog we asked ourselves... why Brontë? We were not the only ones asking this question because the answer was to be find in the June newsletter of the US Brontë Society (Region 3)
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