Tsontakis, who lives in a home overlooking the Ashokan Reservoir, won the two biggest prizes in classical music composing: the Grawemeyer Award and the Charles Ives Living Award. Three of his concertos will soon come out on a recording by Naxos, the world’s best-selling classical label.
With the Maverick Concerts season just recently ended, I’m particularly thankful for Saugerties Pro Musica to occupy at least some
Two years ago, a little-known Ukrainian-American pianist named Inesa Sinkevych made her area debut at a Saugerties Pro Musica concert.
We had a world record five classical Maverick Concerts since my last column a mere two weeks ago. The first,
The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, “the little festival that could,” was founded in 2009 by a group of
The Bard Music Festival opens this year with Mascagni’s Iris, an opera that has one of the most lurid tales
Maverick Concerts’ classical series got off to a rousing start with two strong quartets (not a typo!) On Sunday, June
When I went backstage during intermission of the first regular season Maverick Concert, I spoke with members of the Escher
The Maverick Concerts season opens this weekend with a Young People’s Concert by Elizabeth Mitchell & Family on Saturday, June
“If it had been left up to me,” says Susan Hoover of her new book, “it would never have been