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New Orford Quartet, keeping ties to orchestral world, makes mixed showing at Northwestern

Jan 9, 2017 – 8:05 pm
New Orford's members are principals in Montreal, Toronto and Detroit symphonies. (Alain Lefort)

Review: The Jan. 8 concert at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall raised as many questions as it answered about the Canadian New Orford String Quartet. While its four members, two concertmasters and two principals in the Montreal, Toronto and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, are obviously all excellent individual musicians, it was hard not to wish at times for more interpretative depth and insight.