Staying up Past Our Accustomed Bedtimes for Great Music – Again! (Hooray!)
The Calidore String Quartet returned to Duke University for the first time since 2018 to present the first full concert offered by the Chamber Arts Society of Durham since the pandemic began. The program was introduced by series...
Read MoreIt’s been a helluva year, so the return of chamber music concerts to indoor venues marks – forgive us for mixing metaphors! – a big change in wind speed, direction, and lift. That’s why the appearance of...
Read MoreThe Chamber Music Society of Detroit has done it again – the organization that has emerged, through cameramusic, as the nation’s leading online presenter of superbly produced online concerts and recitals, offered yet...
Read MoreUnited Strings of Color Offers Vigil with Poetry and Music
It’s been nearly 20 years since 9/11, in the wake of which there were memorial performances of Mozart’s Requiem literally around the world. And yet the slaughter on our own streets, in our own communities, and often at the hands of law enforcement officials, sworn to protect and defend us, has continued virtually unabated. Enter Margaret Partridge, former executive director of the Philharmonic Association, the umbrella organization that hosts a wide range of youth performing organizations, from beginner orchestras to full-fledged jazz bands. It was her idea, sparked by the death of violinist Elijah McClain in 2019, to create a program called United Strings of Color to offer enhanced opportunities to young musicians of color….
Bach at His Best from ECU Cellist Emanuel Gruber
Bach cataloger Wolfgang Schmieder (whose last name gave rise to the S. numbers many writers now use when citing the master’s works instead of the more traditional BWV – Bach Werke Verzeichnis prefix) was...
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