First spotting of the “The Jury”
There were a few weeks in mid-July when NCMF Composer-in-Residence Jon Deak emailed me a new page of the manuscript every day.
There were a few weeks in mid-July when NCMF Composer-in-Residence Jon Deak emailed me a new page of the manuscript every day.
Arnold Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet, Op. 10, is widely considered to be a visionary work.
I love playing with Clancy and also just hanging with him.
Even if they cut off both my hands and I have to hold my pen in my teeth I shall go on writing music.
There is a transcendent moment near the beginning of this quartet that makes my heart leap in my chest.
Summer 2022 features arguably the most perfect of Mozart’s perfect quartets, the C Major (K.465).
Does anyone in Newburyport really need an introduction to Rhina?
I met Jon Deak about twenty years ago over breakfast on the Upper West Side
I started cooking in grad school when I procured a copy of Marcella Hazan’s “Classic Italian Cookbook.”
Kneisel Hall is a pre-professional chamber music festival in Blue Hill, Maine, founded in 1902.
Tickets for the 2021 NCMF Winter Baroque concert have gone live and, as promised, the concert will be a doozy.
After marinating indoors for the better part of a year and a half, we’ve all been desperate for live music. Et voilà – this summer, every concert sold out.
When I was a teenager, I got a job one summer working as a bike messenger in New York.
This summer we’ll be performing Shostakovich’s String Quartet in Eb Major, No. 9.
This summer, violinist Rebecca Anderson will be playing the third unaccompanied violin sonata by Eugène Ysaÿe.
This summer, tuba virtuoso Scott Devereaux will be playing Capriccio for solo tuba by the late Polish master Krzysztof Penderecki.
Set aside Wednesday, August 4 to Sunday, August 15 because NCMF is on for summer 2021 with six concerts in six days.
NEWBURYPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL BEGINS 20TH YEAR WITH 20-DAY CHALLENGE MATCH!
Sunday, June 6 the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival is back in action.
The first LP I ever owned was a collection of marches by John Philip Sousa...
Last year the great Italian composer Ennio Morricone passed away at the age of 91.
You may have seen me around Newburyport or playing viola in the summer concert: my name is Alessandra, and I am David's younger daughter.
With Winter Baroque squarely behind us, I thought I’d take off my Artistic Director hat and put on another.
Decades ago I read “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking and dimly remember a passage where he said the concept of infinity is beyond the capacity of the human brain to conceptualize.
Distant echoes, the vast roof overhead - I feel a slight chill and sense of awe when I walk into a cathedral.
David talks with composer Ania Vu about her background and new composition for the Winter Baroque concert.
I love winter: the low afternoon sun, footsteps crunching on new snow, huddling in bed under a comforter, that unusual pink night sky that signals snow.
I'm proud of the work we did to make August 2020 a success in the midst of COVID-19 with events both live and virtual. The highlight was undoubtedly the "quartet caroling" around town.
On selected nights of the festival, I asked past artists of NCMF to choose a surprise Youtube performance as a treat for our audience.
Scott Devereaux (tuba): A conversation with David Yang, Artistic Director NCMF
On selected nights of the festival, I’ve asked past artists to choose a surprise Youtube performance as a treat for our audience.
Eliana Yang: A conversation with Beth Clary, President of NCMF Board
On selected nights of the festival, I’ve asked past artists to choose a surprise Youtube performance as a treat for our audience.
On selected nights of the festival, I’ve asked past artists to choose a surprise Youtube performance as a treat for our audience.
On selected nights of the festival, I’ve asked past artists to choose a surprise Youtube performance as a treat for our audience.
Eric Ewazen: A conversation with David Yang, Artistic Director NCMF
On selected nights of the festival, I’ve asked past artiststo choose a surprise Youtube performance as a treat for our audience.
On selected nights of the festival, I’ve asked past artiststo choose a surprise Youtube performance as a treat for our audience.
David Yang in conversation with Beth Clary, President of the NCMF Board
On selected nights of the festival, I’ve asked past artists to choose a surprise Youtube performance as a treat for our audience.
Despite general weirdness everywhere, we’re determined to make NCMF 2020 joyful with many festival-related events - some live, some virtual.
For the last nineteen years, Newburyport Chamber Music Festival has taken over the town for a week or two every August.
David chats with Sébastien van Kuijk, a Festival Artist in August 2019 whose 2020 visit here was foiled by COVID-19
This summer I will occasionally post conversations with the artists who were scheduled to come to Newburyport this summer.
The pain started as a dull ache in my abdomen around New Rochelle; by Stamford I was doubled over in agony.
In 1982 I received the best birthday present of all time: a Sony Walkman WM-R2.
Some of you have been wondering what we are going to do this summer with COVID-19 followed by the foundation-rocking and (hopefully) transformative events of the last few weeks.
Recently I’ve noticed the call of a Very Loud Bird I don’t recall hearing outside my window in the morning.
Why can’t I get enough of sad music?
You’re going to have to indulge me in this week’s post just a bit.
While we all sit at home in our pajamas struggling to recall what day of the week it is, let’s look back at an extraordinary solo piano recital at St. Paul's.
As we all hunker down indoors, “socially distanced” and grimly tracking the progress of COVID-19 across our communities, I thought some kind of distraction might be welcome.
Michael Brown's March 2020 performances are postponed. David conveys the sad news but offers some suggestions for music to lessen the coronavirus anxiety.
With Michael Brown performance and discussion coming up, David Yang reflects on composers and the act of composing.
March is coming, spring is not far behind, and that means piano recital.
It seems that around this time of year people are specifically drawn to reassuring music.
Playing baroque music is a kind of going back to the basic ingredients of our art form.
I thought this would be a good time to look back at one of the most extraordinary pieces I have ever commissioned.
REFLECTIONS ON NCMF SUMMER 2019: A Visual Portrait
Just think what was going in the Roaring '20s in art, literature, science, politics, society.
Artistic Director David Yang's notes on the new piece for 2019.
I’ve wanted to program this incredible, weird, and magical piece for ages.
After a Book Salon focusing on Shostakovich and the "The Noise of Time" by Julian Barnes, here are David Yang's program notes for Shostakovich’s 6th String Quartet featured this summer.
In advance of this summer’s festival, Artistic Director David Yang is sending out some of the program notes he has written on the repertoire, in this instance Mozart’s String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421.
An Introduction to Summer Season #18.
Sitting after the recital drinking with pianist Michael Brown the issue of character came up, specifically as in "can you enjoy an artist's work if the guy was a jerk?"
The good news -- but also bad news -- is that there's only one ticket left to Michael Brown’s upcoming piano recital in Newbury.
In preparation for his March 30th solo piano recital, I asked Michael to share some of his favorite performances by other artists of works on his upcoming concert program.
2019: Our 18th Season begins with Michael Brown, pianist and composer.
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