Stop. Look. Listen.

Long schedules call for short films. Rumschpringe and the Theater of the Seventh Sister have teamed up for a Black Friday Weekend Bazaar at the Stahr Performing Arts Center, 438 N. Queen St.: “Merch, Music, Magic, Movies and More.” $6 per day or $11 for a weekend pass, come and go as you please. Hours […]

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A terrifying drive on a California freeway, set to appropriate music. (Thank you to Mind the Gap.)
Wendy Edsall-Kerwin at Hammermarks considers the importance of community. (And now you’re in the blogroll!)

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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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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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One of the most interesting projects of this season is going to be on stage at Millersville University Friday night. The American Repertory Ballet will perform “Worlds End. And Worlds Begin,” a world premier dance choreographed by ARB director Graham Lustig, with music by MU professor and composer Rusty Banks and video images by Scott […]

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The Keystone Record Collectors organization has managed to negotiate two more months at 2460 New Holland Pike in Leola for the Pennsylvania Record Expo. Shows are this Sunday, Oct. 12 and Sunday, Nov. 9. See details here.

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Israeli violinist Hagai Shaham gave a fiery account of Jenő Hubay’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in G minor at Friday’s opening concert of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Gunzenhauser, who dedicated the performance to the memory of Dorothy Ann “Dot” Haley, 1986-1988 symphony board chairman, and also to the memory of […]

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That curious sound you hear: random bleats, tweets, twangs and thumps, fragments of melody and the hum of strings, coalescing around the plangent “A” from the oboe. Here, there and all around, musicians are hauling their black clothes out of the closet as symphony orchestras get ready for the upcoming season. Here’s a look at some […]

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