**Since this episode recording of Checking on the Arts, some musicians have come down with the flu. This performance has been rescheduled for Sunday, April 24, at the same venue (David Lusk Gallery). Tickets will be honored then. If you can't attend, call 901-754-1516 or email Marsha Evan at mevans37@comcast.net for a full refund.
Kacky Walton spoke with composer Elena Ruehr, violinist Marcin Arendt of the Ceruti String Quartet, and collaborative pianist Adrienne Park about the upcoming Memphis Chamber Music Society event, "Música da Camera."
Guests discussed the program, which includes two original works by Ruehr, notably her String Quartet No. 5: "Bel Canto," inspired by Anne Patchett's novel.
The quartet has ten movements, each a musical interpretation of moments in "Bel Canto," a drama based on the Lima Crisis of 1996-1997 that the author likened to an opera.
