When violist Sally Chisholm started playing with the Pro Arte Quartet nearly 20 years ago, she looked at her music and noticed the markings of the musicians that had come before.
â??I told Parry (Karp, the cellist), Iâ??m hesitant to erase anything in my part,â? Chisholm said. â??He said, â??No, no, no. We start anew each day. You take a fresh look at everything. You want to honor history, but you want to make new history every day.â??â?
Pro Arte has been the quartet in residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 70 years.