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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The second set of concerts in Allegro’s summer series take place at 2 and 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, July 12 at F&M’s Barshinger Center and that’s good news for music lovers. (I know it’s really called Allegro: The Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster, but I feel like we know each other well enough to be on a first-name basis). […]

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Like many concertgoers, I’ve heard a lot of music but I don’t always recognize what I hear. It’s not usually an issue. Concerts have programs, radio stations now have playlists you can look up online. But encores are not always announced, and this was the case at last Friday’s Lancaster Symphony Orchestra concert. The pianist […]

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Thinking about Funky Friday! Yes, the WXPN show is coming to the Village, along with a host of other acts for the LAUNCH Music Conference. It starts tonight and continues through Saturday.
Elsewhere …
“A summit conference, a Scout Jamboree with elements of speed-dating:” Michael Tilson Thomas on the YouTube Symphony. 
But those critics!
Classical music in the club? Well, why […]

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The Pennsylvania Academy of Music joins the First Friday lineup again for April, with its first community open house since its opening last June. The open house will take place 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and feature tours of the Philip Johnson-designed building, informal performances by student ensembles from the piano, voice, wind, string and […]

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The Millersville University Chorale will present “Songs of Children” by Robert Convery, a musical setting of poems written by children in the Terezin concentration camp, Thursday (April 2) at 7:30 p.m. The chorus will be accompanied by Jonathan Lefever, piano; MaryLee Yerger, violin; Madeleine Darmiento, viola, and Steven Lavender, cello. The composer will speak before the […]

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The new Rosa Rosa Late Jazz club held a preview Thursday — here are a few scenes, featuring Mayor Rick Gray getting ready to cut the ribbon and the Max Puglia Quartet in performance. The club will open to the public tonight (Friday, March 27), with the Tim Warfield Band performing at 10:30 and Max Puglia […]

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My review of Sunday’s second Chamber Music Series concert is posted here. The next concert won’t be until May 17, with two big works planned: Brahm’s Sextet in B flat Major, Op. 18 and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence Sextet in D Minor, Op. 70. Details here. So far, so good: I hope the LSO does this […]

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Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera Saturday: Bellini’s La Sonnambula, with Natalie Dessay as Amina, 1 p.m., Penn Cinema. Here are some reviews: it seems Mary Zimmerman’s production received a critical reception but the singing and acting are getting more love. Besides, Dessay is being a good sport about the whole thing. (HT to About Last Night for […]

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This will be a deep blue Friday in Lancaster, with the Chameleon Club’s Blues Fest, with Johnny Winter, the Nighthawks, Blue Light Special & Ragtime Willie, starting at 7, and the last installment of the Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery’s Midwinter Bluesfest, featuring the Billy Penn Project, starting at 5. The gallery also will be opening an […]

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