Musings

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.

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.

To state the obvious, one person’s definition of “pleasing sounds” can be another’s fingernails against a blackboard.

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 and why does it feel so good?

When the festival started in 2001, I hoped it would become a kind of second home to my family and me.

If Bach is God, Beethoven is Man, and the meaning of "beklemmt."

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.

As we all hunker down indoors, I thought some kind of distraction might be welcome.

David offers some suggestions for music to lessen the coronavirus anxiety.