Joints stiffen and fingers slow after 37 years of playing together, but a quartet this old can be an amazing creature, like a wild Banyan tree with many trunks and one canopy. Hard to imagine transplanting just one root, though, which is what the Emerson String Quartet did on Thursday when they premièred their new cellist, Paul Watkins, at St-George’s Church for the Montreal Chamber Music Festival.
The critic then makes a tiny typo. See if you can find it!