Rochester’s newest concert series offers gentle music from a violent age
Brenda Tremblay
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What makes it great?
Last week, Nicholas Goluses walked into his studio, picked up his chocolate-colored, six-stringed guitar, and played through his solo parts in Bill Dobbins’ new Guitar Concerto. “It’s exuberant music,” he said. “It has the joy of rhythm, the joy of dance.” He hugged the instrument to his chest. “I’ve been waiting a long time for […]
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Warren Benson
One wintry night in the 1970s, Warren Benson urged his wife and four children to hurry up and get dressed, or they’d be late for a Christmas Eve service. No one really wanted to go, but they scurried into the car anyway. On the way to Rochester’s First Unitarian Church, his daughter Kirsten Benson Hampton […]
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Music of the spheres
An 18th-century draft of the No Child Left Behind Act would have pushed students way beyond math and reading. It might have required extensive testing in the Seven Liberal Arts, inherited from the ancient Greeks, which ranked music with geometry and astronomy. It’s hard to exaggerate the importance of music in pre-Enlightenment worldviews. People from […]
