Chautauqua’s School of Music puts a heavy emphasis on chamber music, but this is not the norm for conservatories, music schools or music festivals. Many music students said they either had very limited chamber experience
Pianist Alexander Kobrin won the Gold Medal of Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2005 and is currently a faculty member at Eastman School of Music. Now, he is at Chautauqua for the first time.
Gold-plated architecture, masses of flickering candles, elaborate murals of Jesus painted on high ceilings — these are the decadent features of the Russian Orthodox tradition Jared Jacobsen hopes to capture during this week’s Sacred Song
Brian Zeger In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, salons functioned as gathering places for creators and intellectuals of different disciplines. In the parlors of generous hosts, artists would participate in a cross-pollination where painters, musicians, poets