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| | Purcell String Quartet |
 | | The viola and cello chairs each had two incumbents: Streatfeild was succeeded in 1969 by Philippe Etter, and Hampton was replaced in 1989 by Heather Hay. |
 | | In the 1980s it also played concerts in other Canadian cities and toured in the USSR (1980), Cuba, Mexico, and Florida (1986), Japan (1987) and France and Great Britain (1989). |
 | | The group continued to premiere other pieces, eg, John Fodi's String Quartet No. 6 'Aus Tiefer Not' (1985), and also became known for its performances of many other Canadian works, eg, pieces by Beckwith, Eckhardt-Gramatté, Pépin, Prévost, and Somers, as well as, for instance, all the Beethoven and Bartók quartets. |
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