school of music

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 ignited.   Before 2020, the 2017 Women’s March held the record

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 minutes.  Crowhurst will play the first three movements of “Sonatine”

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 the first movement of Mozart’s Sonata No. 2 in F

In 1925, composer and pianist George Gershwin played foxtrot improvisations for piano students at Chautauqua’s School of Music. Nearly 100 years later, Sara Davis Buechner is bringing those improv stylings back.  Buechner “I wanted to