By Tom Strini
ThirdCoast Digest
January 29, 2012
Robert Cohen served as the Fine Arts Quartet’s emergency cellist last spring, when the late Wolfgang Laufer fell ill. Cohen then played a tour with the FAQ and returned for a November concert, and that seems to have sealed the deal.
Before Sunday’s concert at the Zelazo Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Cohen told the big crowd about growing up as the son of the concertmaster of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and hearing and playing chamber music at home with his father and friends. He got the call from the Fine Arts one year and one day before the concert, and one day after his father died. Cohen had spent the bulk of his career as a touring soloist and no doubt will continue in that role, but he said that the time was right for him to turn his career more toward chamber music...
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