Romance is driven by passion, excitement and even mystery in our lives. It is something to which we can all aspire (often with some regularity), making it a natural impetus for North Carolina Dance Theatre’s final performance at the Amphitheater on Saturday night.
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No surprises, just a well-known plan executed to perfection
August 14, 2011
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JoAnn Falletta is a tiny woman who nonetheless makes big explicit gestures on the podium. Her stick technique was so clear and precise, her left hand so expressive, her subtle, hip-swaying movements so balletic, that anyone in the 20th row of the Amphitheater Thursday would have known what she was after.
Read more Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, with Cooper and Figlin, works to establish rapport with NCDT
August 13, 2011
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For the second and final time this season, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and the North Carolina Dance Theatre in residence will bring ballet to the Amphitheater stage at 8:15 p.m. Saturday. Guest conductor Grant Cooper and pianist Arkadiy Figlin will join the CSO for an evening of well-known, rhythmically driving works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Johann Strauss Jr. and Beethoven.
Read more The triumph of the human spirit
August 11, 2011
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Richard Sherman, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s principal flute, said he’s performed some of his best concertos here.
“These are people that I’ve known, many of them, for as long as I’ve been coming here,” he said. “There’s a comfort factor; there’s a friendship factor; there’s a trust factor that enables me to feel that I know that they’re going to be supportive and they’re going to be right with me.”
Read more A night of music bringing Chautauquans together
August 10, 2011
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Call it an “American” or “pops” program, but the real theme of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s delightful “Community Concert” Tuesday night at the Amphitheater was collaboration.
Between the CSO itself, guest conductor-pianist Stuart Malina, the large crowd, and the 50-plus amateur musicians from the community who accepted the invitation to share the stage, the event was more about music’s power to bring people together than any particular genre or branch of the repertoire.
Read more Romantic & American
August 9, 2011
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The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra will grow a little larger as it welcomes musicians from the community into the ensemble in the second half of tonight’s concert. Guest conductor and pianist Stuart Malina will lead the CSO in a fun, high-energy evening of American and Romantic works at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater.
Read more ‘Over-the-top musical pleasure’
August 7, 2011
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Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears…
A community collaboration
August 6, 2011
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For the second time this season, Stuart Chafetz will step out from behind the timpani and onto the podium to conduct the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
The orchestra will accompany Chautauqua Opera Young Artists in an evening of Broadway classics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Hits from “Fiddler on the Roof,” “She Loves Me,” “Fiorello!” and many others will be performed at 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater.
Read more CSO’s Thursday performance a crowd-pleasing crescendo
August 5, 2011
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The sound raised into the dying of the light. It showed the heart of the orchestra. It appeared at the edge, where things are precious and vulnerable, a smaller sound than expected.
Read moreCSO musicians to show how instruments work in today’s Brown Bag
August 5, 2011
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Meet four members of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and learn more about how their instruments work at today’s Brown Bag lunch, sponsored by the Symphony Partners.
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