last month, the newly formed string quintet, Simply Strings, makes its first public performance at the National Gallery on Sunday, June 26 at 7.30 p.m.

Quintet members, from left, Daniel Leetch, Kate Ross, Jonathon Palmer, and kneeling Mary Longbourne, and Charles Li will play music by Haydn, Halvorsen and Mozart and wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served in the Watlington Room.

Tickets at $15 (members $10) are available from the National Gallery (tel.

295-9428) or at the door.