Stop. Look. Listen.

I have actually heard, I forget where, the complaint that classical music “isn’t loud enough.” Friday’s Lancaster Symphony Orchestra concert at the Fulton Opera House was more than loud enough, with a program that was full both musically and emotionally. And not only was the orchestra expanded for the occasion but the concert marked the […]

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This weekend’s Lancaster Symphony Orchestra program features Gustav Holst’s The Planets, Miguel del Aguila’s Choral Suite No. 2 (read more about the composer here)and John Williams’ “Call of the Champions,” composed for the 2002 Winter Olympics. All this and art, too!

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Following your dreams is one of the main threads running through the work of Connie De Alva Higgins, now on display through Nov. 30 at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center’s first-ever art exhibit, “Latin Soul/Alma Latina,” at its 150 S. Prince St. building. I stopped by on First Friday, Nov. 7, and spoke briefly with the […]

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A snapshot or two from November’s First Friday in downtown Lancaster: Matthew Lester’s “Champ’s: A Photographic Project,” Champ’s Barber School, 54 W. King St.

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Tapestry, a four-woman singing group that sprang from Boston’s lively early-music scene in 1995, sang of heaven and its inhabitants, beauty and light — and darkness, too – at Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performance Center Sunday evening in a program titled “In the Company of Angels.” Soprano Cristi Catt and mezzo-sopranos Laurie Monahan, Daniela Tošić and Carolann Buff […]

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… Proud Mary keep on winning? Anyway, the Pennsylvania Music Expo has found itself new digs way up in Denver, at the German Trading Post, 2152 N. Reading Rd. (Rt. 272), very close to the Turnpike. (If you’ve been up that way, you’ll probably recognize the building: it’s the one with the big round sign.) […]

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