Stop. Look. Listen.

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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August now belongs to Music at Gretna: Rather than being spread out all over the summer, the classical, jazz and pop concerts will be concentrated in that one month. According to Michael Murray, executive director of Music at Gretna, starting the concerts after Gretna Theatre finishes its summer season means the organizations won’t constantly have to switch sets, which […]

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Classical music fans may have noted a performance by the Lark Chamber Artists Saturday at Harrisburg’s Whitaker Center (one of the Market Square Concerts) and wondered if this was the same group as the Lark Quartet (which has performed several times in Lancaster).
It is; in fact, the core group, which was founded in 1985, still […]

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