ZACHARY LEWIS - GUEST CRITIC Above left, 2021 Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Diversity Fellows open the show by performing Jessie Montgomery’s “Strum” Tuesday in the Amphitheater. Above right, Music Director Rossen Milanov conducts the winds section
ZACHARY LEWIS - GUEST CRITIC Chautauqua Opera Company Young Artists perform their final song “Sing to Love” with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and Principal Pops Conductor Stuart Chafetz Saturday in the Amphitheater. KRISTEN TRIPLETT /
ZACHARY LEWIS - GUEST CRITIC Under the baton of music director Rossen Milanov, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and Jared Jacobsen Chair for the Organist Joshua Stafford team up for a performance Saturday in the Amphitheater. KRISTEN
ZACHARY LEWIS - GUEST CRITIC Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, performs for Chautauqua Tuesday in the Amphitheater. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Emotions ran uncommonly high Tuesday night at the Amphitheater. With and through Apollo’s Fire,
ZACHARY LEWIS - GUEST CRITIC The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra performs with guest conductor Cristian Măcelaru Wednesday in the Amphitheater. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER At first glance, there might not have seemed anything terribly remarkable about the
During the last concert of the Russian Festival, from left, Violinist Augustin Hadelich performs "Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 63" while Music Director Rossen Milanov conducts the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
Among themes for orchestra programs, few are more common than Spain. The evening of Spanish music. Give the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra extra credit, then, for breathing new life into the concept. On its season finale
One distinct, widely overlooked advantage to visiting Chautauqua at the end of the season: the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra is at or near its very best. So it seemed Saturday, anyway. On its penultimate performance of
Ain’t no party like a Chautauqua party. Especially on Independence Day. Sure, there are larger parties, and parties with bigger budgets. But if there’s a group that gets its audience more fired up on the
The future of the performing arts at Chautauqua is bright indeed, if the new Amphitheater is any barometer. Moments after dignitaries cut a ceremonial ribbon Sunday, a battery of artists representing Chautauqua’s cultural community took
Photos by Eslah Attar. Another day, another incredible violinist. Such has been the rule thus far in the 2016 season of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. And that’s to say nothing of the orchestra. Just as
Residents and guests aren’t the only ones who reunite at Chautauqua. No, as the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s 2016 season kickoff concert Thursday night at the Amphitheater reminded all in attendance, the arrival of a new
Thought-provoking dance doesn’t fly everywhere. At Chautauqua, however, where thinking rules, it’s just the thing. Or rather, it was. Wednesday night in the Amphitheater, Charlotte Ballet got the 2016 summer dance season off to an