Stop. Look. Listen.

Some familiar faces will be joining the Fry Street Quartet at the Market Square Concerts’ Summermusic Festival 2009 starting this week, including Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra Conductor and pianist Stuart Malina, HSO concertmaster Odin Rathnam and pianist Michael Sheppard, who appeared in the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra’s spring chamber music series here. Also slated to perform are oboist […]

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My review, from the March 2 Lancaster New Era …
Classical musicians, like many other musicians, like to get out from under the umbrella of larger groups and take the spotlight in smaller ensembles.
The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra’s new chamber music series put violinist Igor Yuzefovich, the orchestra’s concertmaster, pianist Michael Sheppard and cellist Dariusz Skoraczewski in […]

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That’s right, Glass as in Philip Glass. Violinist Maria Bachmann, performing with Jon Klibonoff, piano, will be performing a new work, Duo No. 1 for Violin & Piano, Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg, part of the Market Square Concert series. The work was commissioned for the 70th birthday of Market Square […]

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Four saxophones, new music: the PRISM Quartet will perform at Franklin & Marshall College 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24. Since there’s not a lot of music out there for a quartet of saxes, the group has gotten quite a few noted U.S. composers to write new works, including William Bolcom and Steven Mackey.
Two pianos, two […]

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The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Sounds of the Season’ concert is reviewed here. A tip of the Santa hat to concertmaster Igor Yuzefovich and the rest of the musicians, who turned in a warm and spirited performance. A few orchestra members actually wore Santa hats for the second half of the concert, and one double-bassist put the hat on her […]

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Just for the record, there weren’t “Too Many Oboes” at Saturday night’s Allegro concert at F&M’s Barshinger Center — when they’re played this well, you can never have enough. The four oboists — section leader Jeffrey O’Donnell, Emery DeWitt, Jill Marchione and Megan Norcross — played in various configurations, exhibiting, to steal a phrase from […]

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Sunny summer Market days mean music in downtown Lancaster. The Dave Wilson Quartet was in the gazebo in Penn Square Friday at noon, part of the Brown Bag Concert Series, while Another Tomorrow played outside Central Market. Another Tomorrow also plays at First Fridays, so watch for them Aug. 1. 
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More weekend music: Allegro’s second summer concert, “Too […]

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The telephone number to call to get tickets for the Next Generation Festival at Millersville University is 872-3811. I listed the wrong phone number yesterday. (Now I’m going to go back and fix the original entry!)

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Continuing a long tradition of summer performances, the Next Generation Festival returns to Millersville University next week. Pianist and festival Artistic Director Awadagin Pratt, violinists Ben Breen and Tai Murray, violist Susan Gulkis Assadi and cellist Thomas Kraines will perform Friday, June 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Lyte Auditorium. The concert is free but tickets are […]

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One look at the program titles for Allegro: The Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster should tell you this is not classical business as usual. The ensemble opens its seventh season Saturday, June 14 with “WHO??” featuring less-than-familiar works by (mostly) less-than-familiar composers, according to Brian Norcross, Allegro’s music director. Two of J.S. Bach’s sons are represented: Carl Philip […]

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