from the India Buildings, Liverpool
The Kutcher String Quartet:
Samuel Kutcher (first violin) ;
Max Saalpeter
; Raymond Jeremy (viola) ; Douglas Cameron (violoncello)
Alfred E. Rodewald was a prominent amateur of music in Liverpool in the 'nineties and the early years of this century. Among other achievements he founded and conducted the Liverpool Orchestral Society, which had, in its day, one of the best orchestras in the country. The society and the orchestra were able to continue only for a year or two after Rodewald's death in 1903, but the Rodewald Concert Society was founded by a small group of musical people on Merseyside, with the double purpose of keeping Rodewald's memory alive and performing chamber music under conditions as near to ideal as possible. Most of the society's concerts are by string quartets, the best-known of which have figured in the programmes.