The Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet presents its annual Spring Gala performance under the direction of Monika Alch on Friday at 8 p.m. at the Amphitheater at Chautauqua Institution. Tickets are now available at tickets.chq.org or by calling the box office at 716-357-6250. This year’s Gala ...
This year’s Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival concluded with a matinee program that continued the previous evening’s exploration of concerti at the historic 1891 Fredonia Opera House. The afternoon’s musical offerings began with a beautiful performance of “Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 1” written by Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713). The Italian composer’s four-movement work was nothing short of magical in the capable hands of Maestro Grant Cooper and the International Baroque Soloists, with featured musicians Aika Ito (violin), Jennifer Wood (violin), and Elizabeth Simkin ...
IN REVIEW By ANDREW MARTIN SMITH The 25th annual Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival continued Saturday with an evening program of concerti. True to form, Maestro Grant Cooper, the festival’s Artistic Director and Conductor, continued his encouragement of young, up-and-coming musicians by programming two technically demanding works presented by artists at the early stages of their musical careers. The concert opened with a concerto for harpsichord written by the seemingly monolithic Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), with Alan Giambattista as soloist. This particular ...
After a two-year, pandemic-related hiatus, this summer marked the exciting return of the Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival to the Fredonia Opera House. Now in its 25th year, under the artistic direction of maestro Grant Cooper, the festival began with a Friday evening concert that featured music created by one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s numerous progeny, a premiere performance of music written by a living composer, and a tangentially related musical curiosity. The International Baroque Soloists took to the stage to begin the evening’s program with the world premiere of ...
The Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival celebrates its 25th year when it returns to the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center June 10-12. Under Artistic Director Grant Cooper, this year’s series of three concerts will feature a world premiËre, incredible soloists and a few faces ...
Nearly a month prior to the commencement ceremony of the 2022 Class of SUNY Fredonia, senior student Madeline Keenan exhibited artworks from her series “You Can Only Find it Once it’s Lost” and “I Am,” both of which convey her connection to the environment and how it has contributed toward her growth as an artist. Throughout the last four years, Keenan has been working toward her dual degree in drawing and painting and ceramics, a time filled with projects, papers, and guided assignments. Somewhere along this period, the artist claimed that “my brushstrokes were ...
