Expressed their enthusiasm after your performance  August, 2004

August 23, 2004
Christine Vitale
MusicMoves Boston

Dear Christine and MusicMoves Boston,

On behalf of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, I would like to thank you for sharing your extraordinary talents, knowledge and love of chamber music with us on April 15, 2004 at our weekly Organization of Older Students Lecture Series. Your presentation of “Interactive String Chamber Music” was truly inspiring and informative, a very special highlight in our spring programming. A large number of our regular senior attendees expressed to me their enthusiasm after your performance/presentation, saying how lucky they felt to have had the opportunity to experience beautiful music in such an intimate setting, in a format that allowed for an interactive and dynamic dialogue between musicians and audience. Many said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience to hear such an accomplished string quartet while also getting to know the individual musicians and the background behind the compositions.

Christine, in one hour you miraculously combined an engaging performance with an incredible amount of historical information about chamber music and the evolution of its compositional style, focusing on particular composers. Your dedication to making classical music more accessible and interesting to people of all ages and backgrounds was very clear that day and you did an absolutely wonderful job! We all could have happily stayed the whole afternoon listening to your group!

The Cambridge Center for Adult Education is thrilled to continue its collaboration with MusicMoves Boston this fall. Your “Morning Musicale,” a light-hearted concert of works by the Mendelssohns, Dvorak, Glazunov and Faure, featuring renowned pianist Virginia Eskin and virtuoso cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer, will be our grand finale to our Thursday Morning Lecture Series on December 9. I am positive many of those who attended your presentation in April will be rushing to see you again! And I look forward to developing further programming with your group for this coming winter term. This is just the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration!Thank you again for sharing your marvelous work with us and we look forward to seeing you soon!
Best wishes,

Vanessa Trien
Program Planner
Cambridge Center for Adult Education

On the occasion of my fiftieth birthday celebration, my husband Karl surprised me with an amazing gift. I arrived home from work to find our house filled with family and friends, a feast in the oven, and the dining room set for a festive dinner. The excitement escalated when the door chimes rang and Greg and Christine Vitale arrived at our door, violin cases in hand. I realized then that a truly incredible evening lay ahead.

After dinner, Greg and Christine played a spellbinding performance of violin duets in our living room for our guests and me. We were transfixed. Greg and Christine are each incredibly talented and accomplished artists. Hearing their lovely instruments, played together with such skill and grace, in the intimate setting of our living room, was a joy I will never forget. I think one of the most beautiful pieces for two violins every written is the Adagio movement from Bach’s Double Concerto in D minor, and their performance of this piece was breathtaking.

I am an amateur violinist and Karl’s gift of this special evening for me is a jewel I will forever cherish.

Pamela A. Hanner