Rochester chamber music ensemble fivebyfive has collaborated with visual artists in the past, but never with glass blowers.
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Marc Webster uses quarantine conditions to create innovative classical music video
Marc Webster’s new music video for “The Seduction of Brie” is complex and rich enough to satisfy classical music nerds, and concise and topical enough to engage with Instagram audiences.
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Music video review: fivebyfive performs ‘Waiting in the Rain for Snow’
On November 17, Rochester chamber ensemble fivebyfive released its music video for “Waiting in the Rain for Snow” by composer David Crowell — just in time for the slushy in-between season that surely awaits us.
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Album review: ‘Trobairitz’
The Archive Ravens ‘Trobairitz’ Self-released thearchiveravens.com Rochester’s enigmatic art-folk quartet The Archive Ravens delivers a distinctive blend of world folk, neo-Renaissance, and classical chamber music in its impressive debut album of original music, "Trobairitz." There’s the deep, bellowing cello, accented by lead vocalist Ava Sauer’s interwoven vocal harmonies in the Japanese-influenced "Kintsugi," or the cathedral-level […]
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Fresh string quartets come to 2019-20 Eastman-Ranlet Series
The 2019-20 Eastman-Ranlet Series of Sunday string quartet concerts isn’t flashy at first glance, but initial appearances can be deceiving, with two groups with which you may be unfamiliar.
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‘Mozart in France’ concert highlights chamber music rarities
The Society for
Chamber Music in Rochester is known for putting together captivating programs.
For next weekend’s concert, which takes place on Sunday, December 16 at the Performance Hall at Hochstein, SCMR does it again, with a program called “Mozart
in France.”
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Skaneateles Festival
The combination of a relaxed, summery atmosphere and lofty musical artistry is a potent one. As western New York’s summer chamber music festivals attest, it is also a popular one. One summer music festival preceded the others: The Skaneateles Festival, which held its first program in 1980, is celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2014, and […]
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“Gypsy Strings and The Masque of the Red Death”
Anything written by Edgar Allan Poe is memorable, not the least of which is “The Masque of the Red Death.” First published in 1842 in Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine, it has been adapted into everything from heavy metal by Crimson Glory to a film starring Vincent Price to the literary spice of Stephen King’s […]
