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
Dolson, Bernatis, Robbins, Caballero The first four installments of the 2020 season’s Into the Music with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra series featured string players of
During the COVID-19 pandemic, some musicians were forced to explore solos during quarantine, but for Aaron Berofsky, his partners were in the next room over.
ILLUSTRATION BY MADELINE DEABLER/DIGITAL EDITOR John Milbauer, co-chair of Chautauqua’s School of Music Piano Program, watched Christopher Taylor’s afternoon piano recital from his 13-inch MacBook
ILLUSTRATION BY MADELINE DEABLER/DIGITAL EDITOR The words “groovy” and “jazzy” are not usually used to describe the classical works of giants like Beethoven, Brahms and
ILLUSTRATION BY MADELINE DEABLER/DIGITAL EDITOR For the final instrumental recital of the season, Ellé Crowhurst is attempting to complete a jigsaw puzzle in under 10
ILLUSTRATION BY MADELINE DEABLER/DIGITAL EDITOR Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin’s love was forbidden. Amidst the politics of the Soviet Union he was born into in 1937,