If you were looking for innovative programming at Tuesday’s final Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert, forget about it. The pairing of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and Brahms’ First Symphony was as predictable as it gets, guaranteed
Received wisdom tells us that the great Hollywood film scores were born in Vienna and brought to California by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner. That’s correct but insufficient, as Daniel Boico and the Chautauqua
It was tempting when sitting down to write this piece to review the aesthetics and acoustics of the new Amp, but that would be unfair to the music and the musicians of Thursday’s concert billed
After a concert on Thursday evening that featured a world premiere (Annie Gosfield’s “Almost Truths and Open Deceptions,” apparently tepidly received), it wouldn’t be hard to see Saturday’s all-Russian program as a peace offering
When conductor Teddy Abrams was introduced at last evening’s Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert, there was a moment’s hesitation before the tentative applause. Perhaps the audience in the half-full Amphitheater thought the diminutive bespectacled guy
Who was this Beethoven guy anyway? He is the most familiar of composers, but what do we do with him? To some he is the culmination of classicism. Others consider him the first Romantic, a