CASSADAGA — The Ozone Rangers will be performing on Cassadaga’s Floating Stage from 5-7 p.m. Sunday They will be performing classic rock, country, southern rock and quite a few ZZ Top favorites. This group has been together for well over 40 years and their experience and love of ...
SINCLAIRVILLE — The Sinclairville Free Library is hosting a demonstration of how to get started with borrowing ebooks and audiobooks through the free Libby app. This free event will get you up to speed on everything you need to know to get started with Libby, including: finding your library and signing in, navigating the app, browsing and searching for titles, borrowing titles and placing holds, managing notifications, and much more. The library’s Getting Started with Libby Training takes place on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Please bring your passwords to your app store and/or Amazon ...
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 ...
