NICHOLE JIANG - STAFF WRITER After a year of endless Zoom calls, social distancing and uncertainty, the School of Music returns to the stage with
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When George Floyd lost his life at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer, the world didn’t stop. Instead, it marched. It chanted. It
Chiara Valle and Stelth Ng met at Chautauqua Institution in 2016 — Valle a first-year student at the School of Dance, Ng a third-year at
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 “It’s kind of a funny story,” Melanie Long said, as to how her choice for the fourth and final voice
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,
ILLUSTRATION BY MADELINE DEABLER/DIGITAL EDITOR Through arpeggios, flamenco rhythms and lip trills, two Chautauqua School of Music instrumental students will conjure the imagery of Spain
ILLUSTRATION BY MADELINE DEABLER/DIGITAL EDITOR Fairy tales and picking flowers — both seemingly lighthearted activities on the surface, but for the third voice recital of
ILLUSTRATION BY MADELINE DEABLER/DIGITAL EDITOR Timothy Jones is breaking the rules in Friday’s piano recital, looking for emphasis in all the “wrong places.” Right as
ILLUSTRATION BY MADELINE DEABLER/DIGITAL EDITOR Fantasies are fanciful, seemingly untethered in their rhythm, form and inspiration. The musical term, more commonly known as “fantasia,” has
ILLUSTRATION BY MADELINE DEABLER/DIGITAL EDITOR Strung to the melodies of the world’s most well-known art songs are stories of war and peace; love and loss.
The “Polonaise-Fantaisie” was one of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin’s final works, a culmination of everything he had worked on in his career spanning three decades