Almost half a century ago, four students at theRoyal College of Music began to meet...

Almost half a century ago, four students at the
Royal College of Music began to meet informally to play some favorite pieces and improve
their ensemble technique. The result was the now
celebrated Ennismore Quartet. This October at Wigmore
Hall in London, they'll present a program of Mozart,
Beethoven and Britten to celebrate 45 years
of great music making. A performance given
even greater significance by the recent announcement that this will be the
Ennismore's farewell concert. Yesterday, at their
Primrose Hill home, I spoke to violinist Florence Morrell
and her husband Charles, the cellist, asking them first how hard it had been to reconcile
a successful domestic existence, three children, five grandchildren,
with the demands of international