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Introducing our new violist: Natalie Loughran
Drumroll please… It is finally time for us Castalians to crack open the Champagne and announce, with tremendous excitement, that Natalie Loughran is our new violist! Our first official concert together will be at the Wigmore Hall on May 13th and…
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Lambs on the Sidewalk
Castalian String Quartet Blog
If one more person reacts like that, I thought, then I’ll do away with life in civilisation and set-up camp off-grid. Casual superstition—can’t stand it. Leave it to the pros. Take me, a bona fide expert: if Liverpool are playing it’ll be the same socks, the same boxer briefs, a You’ll…
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Curl It Like Carlos
Castalian String Quartet Blog
It was the 1998 football World Cup and my parents had bought me the tournament’s seminal hardback guide—a hefty bible of star players, colourful kits and vital statistics. Decked out in Colombia’s banana-yellow strip and sporting a wild mop of blond curls, one footballer captured my imagination above all…
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