“This Spanish Brass concert is like a journey through a museum,” said Carlos Benetó Grau, trumpet player and founding member of the Spanish Brass ensemble. “When you are in a museum, you see artists of so many different styles. That’s what we want to bring to the audience.”
Join the journey, starting with Baroque and ending with jazz, at 4 p.m. today in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall as part of the Logan Chamber Music Series.
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For the second and final time this season, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and the North Carolina Dance Theatre in residence will bring ballet to the Amphitheater stage at 8:15 p.m. Saturday. Guest conductor Grant Cooper and pianist Arkadiy Figlin will join the CSO for an evening of well-known, rhythmically driving works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Johann Strauss Jr. and Beethoven.
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As the School of Music festival draws to a close, Thursday Morning Brass will say goodbye to its student members.
Trombonists Leland Evans, Corey Sansolo and Greg Hammond will play with the group for the last time this summer and collect donations to help fund student scholarships for the 2012 Season. The 14-member brass ensemble will play a one-hour concert at 12:15 p.m. Sunday on Bestor Plaza on the Colonnade steps.
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Ion Sky, the four-member rock and country band from Fredonia, N.Y., will play a two-hour show of high-energy cover songs at 9 p.m. tonight at the College Club.
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Richard Sherman, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s principal flute, said he’s performed some of his best concertos here.
“These are people that I’ve known, many of them, for as long as I’ve been coming here,” he said. “There’s a comfort factor; there’s a friendship factor; there’s a trust factor that enables me to feel that I know that they’re going to be supportive and they’re going to be right with me.”
Sherman will perform Joaquín Rodrigo’s “Fantasía para un Gentilhombre,” as arranged for flute by James Galway. Guest conductor JoAnn Falletta will lead the orchestra in a program of 20th-century works, including Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, Op. 100, at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater.
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The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra will grow a little larger as it welcomes musicians from the community into the ensemble in the second half of tonight’s concert. Guest conductor and pianist Stuart Malina will lead the CSO in a fun, high-energy evening of American and Romantic works at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater.
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After 37 years as an ensemble, the Audubon Quartet will play its final concert, featuring the music of Antonín Dvořák and a quintet with special guest David Salness at 4 p.m. today in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall.
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For the second time this season, Stuart Chafetz will step out from behind the timpani and onto the podium to conduct the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
The orchestra will accompany Chautauqua Opera Young Artists in an evening of Broadway classics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Hits from “Fiddler on the Roof,” “She Loves Me,” “Fiorello!” and many others will be performed at 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater.
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Meet four members of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and learn more about how their instruments work at today’s Brown Bag lunch, sponsored by the Symphony Partners.
Violinist Lenelle Morse, violist Caryn Neidhold, clarinetist Jerome Simas and French horn player William Bernatis will bring their instruments and answer questions in today’s Brown Bag lunch, which takes place at 12:15 p.m. in Smith Wilkes Hall.
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“You can feel, while you’re on the podium, the pride from the audience to the orchestra,” said conductor Carl St.Clair, speaking about his 2005 debut with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. “The chemistry there with the orchestra and the audience was so visceral and incredible, because the audience is so knowledgeable.”
St.Clair will lead the orchestra at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater in a program featuring Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont, Op. 84 and Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14. CSO concertmaster Brian Reagin will trade in his concert whites for a soloist’s black when he performs Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No 1. in G Minor, Op. 26.
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