Qualla: Garth Newel Music Center https://qualla.com/garth-newel-music-center en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/2/garth-newel-music-center-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Garth Newel Music Center https://qualla.com/garth-newel-music-center Garth Newel Music Center: Introduction https://qualla.com/garth-newel-music-center/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. Garth Newel is a Welsh phrase meaning "new hearth" or "new home," and that is what the artists William Sergeant Kendall and his second wife Christine Herter Kendall intended their mountainside estate to be when they began building it in 1923 outside Hot Springs, Virginia. They painted there, raised award-winning Arabian horses there, and hosted small chamber concerts in the main residence. After their deaths, the property could have become any number of things. Instead, it became a music center. Today the Garth Newel Piano Quartet plays more than 50 concerts a year on the same mountainside where the Kendalls used to set up chairs for friends.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/2/garth-newel-music-center-wp/dnz2-garth-newel-music-center-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Garth Newel Music Center: Painters and Arabian Horses https://qualla.com/garth-newel-music-center/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. William Sergeant Kendall (1869-1938) was an American figure painter who had studied in Paris and exhibited at the Paris Salon. Christine Herter Kendall (1890-1981), his second wife, was also a painter. The couple moved permanently to Virginia in the early 1920s and began building...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/2/garth-newel-music-center-wp/dnz2-garth-newel-music-center-painters-and-arabian-horses.mp3 0:06 2 full Garth Newel Music Center: From Concerts in the Living Room to a Music Center https://qualla.com/garth-newel-music-center/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Kendalls hosted small concerts at Garth Newel throughout their lives - chamber music played in the main residence for friends and guests from Bath County's elite summer society. When Christine died in 1981, the question was what to do with a 114-acre artist's estate with no l...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/2/garth-newel-music-center-wp/dnz2-garth-newel-music-center-from-concerts-in-the-living-room-to-a-music-center.mp3 0:06 3 full Garth Newel Music Center: The Garth Newel Piano Quartet https://qualla.com/garth-newel-music-center/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. At the center of Garth Newel's musical life is the Garth Newel Piano Quartet - the resident ensemble of violin, viola, cello, and piano. The quartet's current members are Teresa Ling on violin, Fitz Gary on viola, Isaac Melamed on cello, and Jeannette Fang on piano. They perform ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/2/garth-newel-music-center-wp/dnz2-garth-newel-music-center-the-garth-newel-piano-quartet.mp3 0:06 4 full Garth Newel Music Center: The Festival Year https://qualla.com/garth-newel-music-center/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Summer Chamber Music Festival, on weekends between late June and Labor Day, features twenty performances by the quartet and guest artists, plus student ensemble performances from the Fellowship program. Three "Fall Foliage" concert weekends fill October. Thanksgiving and New ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/2/garth-newel-music-center-wp/dnz2-garth-newel-music-center-the-festival-year.mp3 0:06 5 full Garth Newel Music Center: Teaching the Next Generation https://qualla.com/garth-newel-music-center/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. The education programs are as central to Garth Newel as the performances. Each summer, college and conservatory students from around the world come for the Young Artists Fellowship - a month of rehearsals and master classes culminating in a final concert at the music center. The ...

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