Guest Critic Review

Guest critic: CSO Diversity Fellows, wind section deliver ‘chamber music of the highest order’

by Zachary Lewis on August 13, 2021

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

Guest critic: Replete with drama, Apollo’s Fire takes audience on ‘vivid, almost visceral’ Baroque journey

by Zachary Lewis on July 30, 2021

ZACHARY LEWIS - GUEST CRITIC Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, performs for Chautauqua Tuesday in the Amphitheater. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF

Guest critic: With ‘bridge-builder’ Măcelaru, CSO shines light on Dvořák’s ‘Legends’

by Zachary Lewis on July 30, 2021

ZACHARY LEWIS - GUEST CRITIC The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra performs with guest conductor Cristian Măcelaru Wednesday in the Amphitheater. KRISTEN

Guest critic: Concerts showcasing individual CSO sections — and a cappella — play out in refreshing ways

by Andrew Druckenbrod on July 23, 2021

ANDREW DRUCKENBROD - GUEST CRITIC The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra wind section, under the baton of Music Director Rossen Milanov, presents

Guest Critic: In Rossen Milanov’s Final Concert of Season, CSO and Michelle Johnson Give Strauss Works ‘Life in Death’

by Anthony Bannon on August 20, 2019

Review by Anthony Bannon: The footing is difficult; the way to death is not easy, or clear. Art in its

Guest Critic: Paul Taylor Dance Company and CSO Performance Concludes Seminal Residency

by Jane Vranish on August 16, 2019

Review by Jane Vranish: It was good to see such a monumental pairing of music and movement last Saturday night at the Amphitheater, a match that became epic in so many ways. There hasn’t been

Guest Critic: Strohl’s ‘Flora/Fauna’ Reinterprets Functional Pottery

by webchq on August 16, 2019

Review by Melissa Kuntz Rich traditions within the ceramic arts are given a new twist in the “Flora/Fauna” exhibition in the

Guest Critic- ‘His Greatest Hits’: Paul Taylor Dance Company Celebrates Founder’s Legacy

by Jane Vranish on August 9, 2019

Review by Jane Vranish: No longer just an impeccably designed, mostly Victorian community by the lake, Chautauqua Institution has taken

Guest Critic: Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Performs with Violinist Augustin Hadelich

by Zachary Lewis on August 5, 2019

During the last concert of the Russian Festival, from left, Violinist Augustin Hadelich performs "Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2

Guest Critic: CTC Breaks Down Walls in ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’

by webchq on August 5, 2019

Guest Critic: Anthony Bannon It was in the eyes. They led the way and subtly stole the show, casting

Guest Critic: ‘On Common Ground: Works on Paper’ ‘Blows Open the Parameters of Drawing’

by webchq on August 3, 2019

Review by Vicky A. Clark- “On Common Ground: Works on Paper” at the Strohl Art Center, curated by the Susan and John Turben Director of VACI Galleries Judy Barie, shows how the medium of drawing

Guest Critic Review: ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’

by webchq on July 29, 2019

Guest Critic by Andrea Simakis There are moments in the entertaining, but uneven One Man, Two Guvnors, now playing at

Guest Critic: Representation Core of ‘Reconstructing Identities’

by Howard Halle on July 27, 2019

Review by Howard Halle- Depending on whom you ask, sometime within the next 20 to 50 years, the United States

Guest Critic: CSO and MSFO Bring Skill and Color to ‘Fiendishly Difficult Work’

by Andrew Druckenbrod on July 21, 2019

Review by Andrew Druckenbrod: Think of the volume of a typical orchestral fortissimo and then double it. Then double it again.

Guest Critic: Dancers’ Choreography Showcased in ‘Made in Charlotte,’ with ‘Unsex Me Here’ as Highlight

by Steve Sucato on July 20, 2019

Review by Steve Sucato: Proving their exceptional July 3 “International Series” program was a hard act to follow, Charlotte Ballet’s final

Guest Critic: Works in Patton’s ‘Lineages in Bloom,’ Closing Monday, ‘Possess a Gothic Floridity’

by Howard Halle on July 20, 2019

Works by artist Daisy Patton are displayed Sunday, June 23, 2019 in her exhibition Lineages in Bloom: New Works by Daisy Patton in Strohl Art Center. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR Review by Howard Halle: In his seminal treatise,

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