Musings

Last year the great Italian composer Ennio Morricone passed away at the age of 91.

Goethe said "music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music." That sounds good but what does it really mean?

You may have seen me around Newburyport or playing viola in the summer concert.

For the holidays, I thought I’d take off my Artistic Director hat and put on another.

The concept of infinity is beyond the capacity of the human brain to conceptualize.

I feel a slight chill and sense of awe when I walk into a cathedral. I get the same feeling of immensity when I listen to the sixth suite.

David talks with composer Ania Vu about her new work written for the NCMF Winter Baroque concert.

I love winter: the low afternoon sun, footsteps crunching on new snow, huddling in bed under a comforter...

Bringing music to the streets: Covid 19, the summer of 2020, and "quartet caroling" in Newburyport neighborhoods .

I asked past artists of NCMF to choose a surprise performance for our audience.

Scott Devereaux (tuba): A conversation with David Yang, Artistic Director NCMF

I asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.

Eliana Yang: A conversation with Beth Clary, President of NCMF Board

I asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.

I asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.

I asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.

Eric Ewazen: A conversation with David Yang, Artistic Director NCMF

I asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.

I asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.

David Yang in conversation with Beth Clary, President of the NCMF Board

I asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.

Despite general weirdness everywhere, we’re determined to make NCMF 2020 joyful.

For 19 years, the festival has taken over the town for a week in August.

David chats with Sébastien van Kuijk whose visitwas foiled by COVID-19

I will occasionally post conversations with the artists who were scheduled to come this summer.