At 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall, the Fry Street Quartet will perform the music of Haydn, Bartok and Barber. For Barber’s “Dover Beach,” the quartet will be joined by School
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Is it more Jewish to feed matzah to the children on Seder, or to feed the starving children in South Sudan? This was one of the questions Rabbi David Saperstein asked last week on a
Rossen Milanov conducts the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra during a performance of Edward Elgar's "Enigma" on Thursday, July 19, 2018 in the Amphitheater. HALDAN KIRSCH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER So far, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s season has been a
Jeremy Bailenson’s course on virtual reality at Stanford University has a rather unusual required textbook: William Gibson’s 1984 sci-fi thriller, Neuromancer. “In this book, Gibson talks about how virtual reality is going to change the
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra For tonight’s concert, percussionist Adam Sliwinski needs 40 twigs, bone-dry, preferably of similar length and thickness. He will have to break all of them multiple times — and he’s been practicing. “The
Sō Percussion Jason Treuting’s musical mentors include the drummer for Steely Dan, a Balinese gamelan master, the timpanist of the Rochester Philharmonic, several renowned marimba players, a pianist and a jazz trumpeter. That’s the kind
MADELINE DEABLER / DESIGN EDITOR Harry Potter’s birthday is three days from Saturday, July 28, and that means Hogwarts will soon be back in session — but this time, it’s the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra that
In May 1997, Jon Nakamatsu was a German teacher. By June, he was an internationally known concert pianist. That’s because in June 1997, Nakamatsu won the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. It changed Nakamatsu’s
Stilian Kirov leads the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67 in Beethoven Festival Concert No. 2 on Tuesday, July 24, 2018, in the Amp. ABIGAIL DOLLINS/STAFF
Rossen Milanov conducts the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra during their performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 Saturday, July 21, 2018 in the Amphitheater. This concert was the first of a three-part Beethoven festival this week.
Few things remain as constant throughout the ages as love — and the fact that people write songs about it. When tenor Nicholas Phan was learning Baroque love songs, he was surprised by how relatable
It’s not supposed to be easy to play Beethoven’s piano. A reputable Beethoven scholar had to negotiate for eight months with the piano’s owner — the Hungarian National Museum — just to sound a few
Nicola Melville and John Milbauer spent the same four summers at Chautauqua Institution as piano students almost 30 years ago. In the early 2000s, they both joined as piano faculty and are now co-chairs of
People from all over the world admire the scope and achievement of the Western classical music canon. But cellist Dorothy Lawson said Western classical music can often seem condescending to those of other musical traditions.
Almita Vamos Rami Vamos Nurit Pacht Eugeni Monacelli For Chautauquans, this weekend’s chamber music concert will be an eclectic mix of familiar and foreign repertoire presented by members of the School of Music faculty.
Like those before it, Alexander Gavrylyuk’s 13th season at Chautauqua has been a busy one. The pianist can be seen whizzing around the grounds on his bicycle, teaching master classes and private lessons to 22