Tag Archives: Akiko Tarumoto
Chamber Music Festival of Lexington 2014
For the first time, the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington will offer programming for 10 continuous days, Aug. 14 to 24, featuring the festival’s core ensemble of top-tier national and international musicians and the return of last year’s ensemble-in-residence, WindSync. … Continue reading
Notebook: Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, first concert
You might assume a singer would mess things up. The instrumentalists, after all, have been performing together for six years, developing rapport, character, and sound. They have had other players in, all instrumentalists who became part of the group — … Continue reading
Review: UBS Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, Saturday night
Saturday was a playful and eventful night for the 2010 UBS Chamber Music Festival of Lexington. For the third consecutive year, the festival presented the world premiere of a piece commissioned by the festival. But before that, festival president Charles … Continue reading
Review: UBS Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, Friday night
Alexander Fiterstein ended his wholly appropriate introduction of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time saying, “I hope you enjoy it.” It was a somewhat awkward thing to say, given the nature of the piece. But even those of … Continue reading
Review: A ‘dreamy’ quintet
Clancy Newman’s Dream Sequence sounded like a nightmare. The piece, which had its world premier Saturday night at the UBS Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, started with about as much racket as a piano quintet can make, the piano sounding … Continue reading
Review: UBS Chamber Music Festival of Lexington not a one-man show
This could have easily been the Nathan Cole Show. That was what the UBS Chamber Music Festival of Lexington hung its first edition in 2007: Hometown guy made good Nathan Cole, a violinist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, came back … Continue reading
