Monthly Archives: October 2018

Musicians of the Scarab Club Chamber Music Series talk about preparing and performing Florent Schmitt’s Quartet Pour presque tous les temps (1955).

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On October 7, 2018, Detroit’s Scarab Club Chamber Music Series launched its 21st season with a performance of Florent Schmitt’s quartet Pour presque tous les temps, Op. 134 (“Quartet for Almost All the Time”), a late-career work for flute, violin, cello and piano created by Schmitt in 1955 when the composer was 85 years old. […]