Fusion: Zaretsky’s Muted Gestures in a Swannanoa World Premiere
The Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival continued this week with a very strong performance by the Tesla Quartet along with pianists Lenore Fishman Davis and Inessa Zaretsky. The 320-seat Kittredge Theatre on the Warren Wilson...
Read MoreRomantic Joy at the Brevard Music Festival
Musicologist Siegwart Reichwald delivered a half-hour “symphony talk” before the Brevard Music Festival concert began on July 6. Reichwald, who wrote program notes for most of the festival’s major concerts,...
Read MoreA Fine Start in Swannanoa
Since Inessa Zaretsky became the director of the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, I have eagerly anticipated each year’s five-week summer festival. In addition to being a fine collaborative pianist and an interesting...
Read MoreAll-Mozart Program Provides Commentary and Performance
When is the last time that you attended a concert of classical music that attracted thirty people under the age of eighteen? Young people side-by-side with the usual fifty or so much older concert attendees? For me, it was the...
Read MoreA Fine Winners’ Recital Concludes the AAPF Competition
“It takes a village,” they say, “to raise a child.” For a child with musical ability in Western North Carolina, that village includes the Asheville Area Piano Forum. (Full disclosure: I am an AAPF member....
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