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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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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In Windsor Forest, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 1929 set of five choral pieces, was not familiar to Rob Upton, artistic director of the Wheatland Chorale, when two members of the chorale introduced him to the work. His reaction? “Where has this been all my life?” That’s what Upton told the audience at the April 27 Wheatland […]

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There’s nothing much modern about the interior of St. James Episcopal Church in Lancaster, but guitarist, composer and experimental musician (and Millersville University Professor) Rusty Banks filled the interior with the newest of new music Sunday afternoon in a program of mostly 21st century works.
The first two works on the program were for solo guitar: Banks’s Jim […]

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Straight from the heart: Violinist Tim Fain lit up F&M College’s Barshinger Center Friday evening with incandescent performances of music from the late 19th to the early 21st century, all of which were basically romantic in spirit.
Among the familiar pieces was Edvard Grieg’s Sonata No. 3 in C Minor, rich in heartfelt themes and lively with […]

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