Some news for your Friday!  Oct. 14, 2022

Some news for your Friday! Oct. 14, 2022

Applications for our Grant Program are open, and we have extended the deadline to Nov. 15! We realize that that our revised program is unconventional, proposing channels of communication between your artistic planners and the experts on our Board.  But we believe the...
The Performance: Beach’s Concerto Comes to Life!

The Performance: Beach’s Concerto Comes to Life!

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in area premiere of rare, remarkable Concerto. [update added at end after hearing second performance] Amy Beach was 33 years old when she gave the premiere performance of her own Piano Concerto (op. 45 in C-Sharp Minor) in April 1900....

Beach’s Concerto Comes to Life!

It’s one thing to know a piece from recordings and quite another to hear it come to life in performance. For those trying to get to know Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto, I think it helps to be familiar with the three songs that she drew on for themes. These are...