American music is like America, says Ward Stare, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s music director. “It’s a melting pot,” he says, “a diversity of sounds and influences, and a tremendous breadth of styles. And Rochester has been an important center for American music for nearly a hundred years.” Stare will prove his point in the next couple […]
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Staying true to Beethoven
The Amenda Quartet has played all kinds of music during its short six years, but it has remained true to its initial conception. The quartet — violinists (and married couple) Patricia Sunwoo and David Brickman; violist Melissa Matson; and cellist Mimi Hwang — formed with the goal to learn all of Beethoven’s string quartets. (The […]
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Fresh winds
A new wind symphony is making its debut performance in Rochester, a historic place for wind ensembles.
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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 […]
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CLASSICAL PREVIEW: Summer road trip with the RPO
According to Ward Stare, the only place you’ll want to be on July 19 is at the Eastman Theatre, where he’ll lead the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in “three of the greatest works by three of the greatest composers.” Stare, a 30-year-old Rochester native, speaks of Beethoven, Mozart, and Wagner the way that some speak of […]
