Summer update: 8/22 – 8/28
this was me this weekend: because …. piano piano piano! but also…. 50 billion notes! 4 pianos + over-the-top epic rep = broken strings and lots of scampering The pianos […]
Summer Update: 8/14 – 8/21
One of my favorite chamber music memories was during my first semester as a masters student, where I was assigned to play the Poulenc Sextet for wind quintet and piano. […]
Summer update: 8/8-8/14
When I moved to Bath County at the beginning of September 2015, I was there just in time to catch the blowout string extravaganza that was last summer’s finale. Always […]
Summer Update: Aug 1-7
I’m terrible with goodbyes. Because how do you encapsulate your appreciation for someone in a hurried moment? It’s one of those instances where words fail me, but oh well, goodbyes […]
Summer Update – July 25-31
You know, I have never met a less complain-y group of 18-25 year olds than this one. Not one whiner in the bunch. It’s remarkable, really. Maybe they’re being real […]
Summer Update: 7/18 – 7/24 Parker Qt Residency
Smush. I’m typing this at 1:26am in a darkened room, so bugs are flying on the sole light that is my computer screen. And, being lazy, I’m smushing them against […]
Summer update – 7/11-7/17/16
So the Emerging Artists have all arrived. Which means our normally quiet grounds are full of life and laughter. It’s been wonderful; instead of shutting off the lights at […]
On the start of our 2016 summer season
The summer shenanigans at Garth Newel are now in full swing. Technically, we started July 4th weekend, with Rene Marie packing Herter Hall on Saturday, and with us resident musicians at […]
On Lera Auerbach
This week I annoyed the quartet by asking them if we could start programming next year’s pub concerts. (Sorry guys!) This is way ahead of when we usually do it, but […]
gutted
It’s too much. One of the deadliest, most horrific mass shootings in US history occurred yesterday morning at Pulse Orlando. A MASSACRE of innocents by a MONSTER whose evil is beyond all comprehension. There […]
