Crescendoing into its final performance of the season, the 2022 Music School Festival Orchestra will soon watch the flick of Maestro Timothy Muffitt’s baton for
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Skilled pianists pressed the keys of their beloved instruments, and the notes echoed through and beyond Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall on Thursday. These were the
Historically, Chautauqua’s School of Music has never featured its students playing chamber music in the Amphitheater. Until now. “(The Amp) has always been reserved for
While Western New York summers are not known for unbearably warm temperatures, students like Julimar Gonzalez, who live in Bellinger Hall during Chautauqua’s summer season,
Chautauquans enjoy their music and are dedicated to those who create it. They proved this in 2021 when around a dozen people stood outside Fletcher
KRISTEN TRIPLETT - STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Timothy Muffitt conducts the Music School Festival Orchestra during the Student Opera's production of Marriage of Figaro Monday July 19,
NICHOLE JIANG & DAVID KWIATKOWSKI - STAFF WRITERS Stage director John Giampietro, center, works to set the staging for a scene with Chautauqua Voice Program
NICHOLE JIANG - STAFF WRITER Percussionists Liam McManus, left, and David Wang rehearse with pianists Narae Lee, left, and Kerry Waller for the Music School
NICHOLE JIANG - STAFF WRITER Rossen Milanov, conductor and music director of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, leads the CSO and the Music School Festival Orchestra
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Jon Nakamatsu, now a guest faculty member at the School of Music, plays Vladimir Horowitz’s personal piano during a special
NICHOLE JIANG - STAFF WRITER Music Director Timothy Muffitt conducts as the Music School Festival Orchestra performs on Monday July 5, 2021 in the Amphitheater.
NICHOLE JIANG - STAFF WRITER Chautauqua Piano Program competition winner Andrew Chen on Thursday July 8, 2021 in front of Lenna Hall. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The conductor raises his baton to the ceiling, the orchestra comes to the crescendo of “Stars and Stripes Forever,” and the American Flag unfurls above
NICHOLE JIANG - STAFF WRITER Music Director Timothy Muffitt conducts the Music School Festival Orchestra during their opening performance of the season Monday, June 28,
NICHOLE JIANG - STAFF WRITER Timothy Muffitt, Artistic and Musical Director of the MSFO, conducts on Monday, June 28, in the Amphitheater. MEREDITH WILCOX/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Music School Festival Orchestra will perform onstage for the first time in over a year at 8:15 p.m. Monday, June 28 in the Amphitheater.