Element Quartet Element Quartet The Element Quartet was a string quartet prominent in British musical life in the 1950s and 1960s. The members were Ernest Element and Sylvia Cleaver (violins), Dorothy Hemming (viola), and Norman Jones (cello). The quartet were the first to perform Schubert's String Quartet No. 2 in C major following restoration of its previously lost score. The performance was broadcast on BBC Radio on 23 December, one of the many broadcasts they made for the BBC from the 1950s to the early 1960s. The Element Quartet was particularly associated with the early string quartets of Robert Simpson. The quartet
Helicopter String Quartet it comes to the music, but I found the movie fascinating, in part because the story has so much ready-made suspense. Any number of things could go wrong in the execution of the quartet, and it’s entertaining to see how the composer and his crew respond to each problem that arises—it’s something of an intellectual action movie.” Helicopter String Quartet Helicopter String Quartet is a 78-minute 1996 Dutch English- and German-language independent underground experimental documentary art film directed by Frank Scheffer. The film, whose producer is Ton van der Lee, documents the preparations and rehearsals in 1995 for the world-premiere