Archive for July, 2011

Colorado Quartet Brings Great Chamber Music to Music Mountain…

The Torrington Register Citizen reports: In Falls Village, America’s oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, Music Mountain, continues it’s 82nd anniversary season celebration with an unforgettable weekend of chamber music including the highly praised all-women ensemble, Colorado String Quartet. Sunday afternoon brings the Colorado String Quartet to Gordon Hall with an elegant, diverse program: Haydn’s [...]

Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company Performs at Brandeis University

Last night the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company performed for the community at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. Carolyn Dorfman Dance is a professional dance company whose high-energy and technically demanding repertory uses movement as metaphor to take audiences on what one reviewer described as “intellectual and emotional journeys.” The company is led by the dynamic [...]

Gene Bertoncini: The Profile of a Unique Veteran Jazz Guitarist

Mike Joyce, writing for Jazz Times Magazine describes Bertoncini, “‘The Segovia of Jazz Guitar,’ as the late jazz critic and historian Gene Lees dubbed him, belongs on the short list of guitarists who are equally unique and versatile. Comfortable in jazz, pop, classical and Brazilian settings, Bertoncini is a superb stylist on both nylon-string acoustic [...]

Baltimore Consort Brings Merriment of 17th Century to Indianapolis

Jay Harvey for the Indianapolis Call Star reported on the Baltimore Consort performance for the Indianapolis Early Music Festival: “Music was a haven from the turbulence of Shakespeare’s time, and its forms were short and accessible to soothe the people. The Baltimore Consort connected with its audience Friday in a program of songs and dances [...]