At 12:15 p.m. Tuesday June 26 in the Hall of Christ, Jared Jacobsen will celebrate the capability and rich history of the Tallman Tracker Organ during his performance “A Music Machine.” Built in 1893, Chautauqua’s
It’s possible that no piece of music has been abused over the centuries as much as Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35. Violin virtuoso Augustin Hadelich believes the concerto’s survival in spite of
Every time Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Brian Reagin revisits Ernest Chausson’s “Poème,” op. 25, he says it’s like riding a bicycle. It’s sort of a dark joke, considering Chausson supposedly died from slamming into a
Steven Mackey considers himself a kind of musical mutt. Mackey grew up playing electric guitar. He admired Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar and Led Zeppelin. In his late teens, he had his first encounter with classical