Putting a face to what you hear
This summer is shaping up to be one full of visits from the composers of programmed pieces. This is significant because we live in a time where this doesn’t actually […]
Garth Newel featured on NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer
We’re so fortunate to have been featured in a series of episodes on Lowell-award winning podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Listen to all 5 of the episodes in […]
Unapologetically Yours
by Jeannette Fang I’ve been noticing more and more musicians saying that they don’t enjoy the spotlight. I don’t know if this is becoming a trend or not, it’s just something […]
A Man with a Passion: the 6 degrees of William Cobbett
Walter Willson Cobbett may not have composed symphonies or even picked up an instrument as a child, but his influence in the world of chamber music is so far-reaching that […]
2017 Amateur Chamber Music Workshop Photos
Photos from the Amateur Chamber Music Showcase (3.26.17) Chet Swartz – violin, Doris Swartz – piano Beethoven Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola: Debbie Stephenson – flute, Karan Wright – […]
On musical memories and Faure’s Piano Quartet no.2 op.45
The hardest thing to put into words is the feelings you’ve forgotten about that only surface when listening to music. Clouded with the dust of the everyday mechanics, your brain […]
On Mark Carlson’s Piano Quartet
Piano Quartet by Mark Carlson: Composer, Teacher, Performer and Music Lover When I was a sophomore at UCLA and struggling with, among many things, the anxiety that comes with trying […]
On Steven Stucky’s Piano Quartet
by Jeannette Fang It was on Valentine’s Day of last year that Steven Stucky passed away. Brain cancer, they reported. “Steven Stucky, Composer Who Won a Pulitzer, Dies at 66” […]
On “Cruel ragtime” and Chopin nocturnes
Sometimes musical kinship between two vastly different composers isn’t readily apparent until you start practicing for a concert that you’ve programmed them on. One wouldn’t naturally find similarities between the […]
On Dohnanyi’s Piano Quintet no.2 in E-flat
In our first rehearsal yesterday of Dohnanyi’s op.26 Piano Quintet, Juliette, who was unfamiliar with the work, remarked on how nostalgic it seemed. “Was it a late composition?” Meh, more […]
