The Eastern Music Festival’s opening week for the 2024 season is packed with exhilarating musical performances featuring our faculty artists, Young Artists, fellows, and distinguished guest artists: pianist William...
Read MoreEMF Conducting Scholars Present Concert with Festival Orchestra
As the Eastern Music Festival approaches the final days of the 2022 season, the students show what they have learned during the six-week-long festival. This is the second time that the nine Conducting Scholars have presented...
Read MoreThe Eastern Music Festival Presents Works by Liebermann and Saint-Saëns
The Eastern Music Festival rolled along with a performance by their Young Artists Orchestra in Guilford College’s Dana Auditorium. The orchestra, under the direction of José-Luis Novo and featuring cellist Julian...
Read MoreA Memorable Mahler 9 from Eastern Music Festival
How fortunate to be able to attend a concert and hear a great symphony for the first time, live – even after a lifetime spent mostly in the concert halls of the world. Such was my experience on a recent Thursday evening,...
Read MoreAn Inside Look at Greensboro Symphony’s and Youth Symphony Orchestras’ Plans for the Coming Season
In my last article, I highlighted two Greensboro arts organizations (ArtsGreensboro and CreativeGreensboro) and their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus was on their on-going work to support the arts and the arts...
Read MoreYouthful Classics at the Philharmonic Association
In a double-header performance, the Triangle Youth Orchestra and Triangle Youth Symphony presented their spring performances, showcasing 84 and 95 students, respectively in these local auditioned youth orchestras that have...
Read MoreDavid Glover’s Orchestral Immersion as TYP Conductor
An altogether admirable transfer of power took place Sunday evening in Meymandi Concert Hall as David Glover led his first full concert as conductor of the Triangle Youth Philharmonic, the flagship orchestra of the Philharmonic...
Read MoreAs the Partridge Family Prepares to Take its Leave, Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
For 30 years, Hugh Partridge, the man who has become our region’s greatest and most diligently persistent music educator, has encouraged young people to take up instruments in the service of art music. With the...
Read MoreThree in Two Days – Checking out Our Stellar Youth Orchestras!
The first two of three concerts in two days for the Philharmonic Association were presented on May Day in Meymandi Concert Hall as the Triangle Youth Orchestra and the Triangle Youth Symphony offered brief programs demonstrating...
Read MoreHendersonville Symphony Youth Orchestras in Satisfying Spring Concert
The Thomas Auditorium of Blue Ridge Community College was nearly filled Sunday afternoon with parents, siblings and friends of the student musicians in the three ensembles that form the Hendersonville Symphony Youth Orchestras...
Read MoreTriangle Youth Philharmonic Presents I Am Quixote
As part of the seven-month long I Am Quixote Festival, The Triangle Youth Philharmonic presented a program of works either inspired by or thematically related to the famous story of Don Quixote, the hapless knight-errant and...
Read MoreSophisticated Holiday Concert Performed at Exceptionally High Levels by TYP
We’re in the throes of holiday programming, with Nutcrackers and Messiahs, carols and other songs, bells, jazz out-takes, and more. (We have friends who used to leave the country for the entire month of December, and a...
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