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Ame Piano Quartet in South Africa
  • Music contingent plays South Africa
    William David and his fellow members of the Ames Piano Quartet have performed throughout the world. A couple of years ago, the Iowa State resident chamber ensemble even performed in Cuba.

    But nothing prepared David and the other Iowa State musicians for what they experienced in South Africa.

    "Cuba wasn't nearly as poor or desolate as South Africa," David said. "In Cuba, the students we worked with had well trained music teachers and, despite the poor equipment they had, the kids could really play the string instruments and piano. In Cape Town there were very few decent instruments. Most of the students we worked with didn't know how to read music. The facilities were pretty primitive."

    The Ames Piano Quartet (David, Mahlon Darlington, George Work and Jonathan Strum), together with two faculty in the Department of Music's vocal division, Donald Simonson and Mary Creswell, were invited to perform concerts and teach in Cape Town, South Africa.
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