A special bonus on the Winter Baroque concert
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David YangThomas Baltzar’s jewel of a piece, his Prelude, packs more in two minutes than some composers stuff into an entire symphony.
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David YangThomas Baltzar’s jewel of a piece, his Prelude, packs more in two minutes than some composers stuff into an entire symphony.
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David YangWhat is the difference between a modern and "historic" cello and why use one over another?
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David YangDavid offers some suggestions for music to lessen the coronavirus anxiety.
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David YangSummer 2022 features arguably the most perfect of Mozart’s perfect quartets, the C Major.
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David YangOne of the most extraordinary pieces I have ever commissioned.
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David YangAn Introduction to Summer Season #18.
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David YangCan you enjoy an artist's work if the guy was a jerk? Many great artists and musicians are not necessarily people you would want to be around.
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David YangOur 18th Season begins with a recital by Michael Brown, pianist and composer.
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David YangI asked Michael to share some of his favorite performances by other pianists.
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David YangFor the holidays, I thought I’d take off my Artistic Director hat and put on another.
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David YangDoes anyone in Newburyport really need an introduction to the National Treasure that is Rhina?
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David Yang"...suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray..."
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David YangThere are certain very specific and individualized sounds we associate with childhood.
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David YangWhy can’t I get enough of sad music and why does it feel so good?
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David YangThe first LP I ever owned was a collection of marches by John Philip Sousa.
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David YangBringing music to the streets: Covid 19, the summer of 2020, and "quartet caroling" in Newburyport neighborhoods .
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David YangWhen the festival started in 2001, I hoped it would become a kind of second home to my family and me.
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David YangI 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.
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David YangI’ve returned to the tried and true holiday formula of not programming anything composed after 1750.
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David YangDavid talks with composer Ania Vu about her new work written for the NCMF Winter Baroque concert.
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David YangGoethe said "music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music." That sounds good but what does it really mean?
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David YangDavid reflects on 10 years of performing, recording, and living as a member of a touring string trio.
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David YangI love playing with Clancy and also just hanging with this terrific musician and human being.
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David YangIs there such a thing as a perfect piece of music, something that never gets old?
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David YangReflections on the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival of 2019: A Visual Portrait
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David YangRunning a music festival is very much a group effort. Please welcome our newest board member.
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David YangIt seems that Covid 19 had one last surprise in store for us for the summer.
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David YangI met Jon about twenty years ago over breakfast on the Upper West Side.
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David YangArnold Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet is widely considered to be a visionary work.
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David YangOnly one ticket left to Michael Brown’s upcoming piano recital in Newbury.
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David YangThe complicated personal background to Shostakovich’s 6th String Quartet.
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David YangIn 1785, Mozart dedicated a new set of six string quartets to his friend, colleague, and mentor, Josef Haydn.
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David YangDavid reflects on composers, compositions, and the act of composing.
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David YangWhile 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.
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David YangI love winter: the low afternoon sun, footsteps crunching on new snow, huddling in bed under a comforter...
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David YangSome of you have been wondering what we are going to do this summer.
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David YangI asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.
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David YangI asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.
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David YangThere were a few weeks when Jon Deak emailed me a page of the manuscript every day.
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David YangAs we all hunker down indoors, I thought some kind of distraction might be welcome.
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David YangThe concept of infinity is beyond the capacity of the human brain to conceptualize.
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David YangI asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.
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David YangDavid chats with Sébastien van Kuijk whose visitwas foiled by COVID-19
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David YangI will occasionally post conversations with the artists who were scheduled to come this summer.
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David YangI asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.
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David YangDespite general weirdness everywhere, we’re determined to make NCMF 2020 joyful.
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David YangI asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.
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David YangFor 19 years, the festival has taken over the town for a week in August.
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David Yang"Even if they cut off both my hands and I have to hold my pen in my teeth I shall go on writing music."
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David YangI asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.
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David YangI asked past artists of NCMF to choose a surprise performance for our audience.
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David YangSet aside August 4 to August 15 because NCMF is on for summer 2021 with six concerts in six days.
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David YangI asked past artists to choose a surprise performance as a treat for our audience.
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David YangAfter marinating indoors for the better part of a year and a half, we’ve all been desperate for live music.
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David YangThere is a new look for Winter Baroque this year (tickets go on sale today!).
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David YangJust think what was going in the Roaring '20s in art, literature, science, politics, society.
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David YangI started cooking in grad school when I procured a copy of Marcella Hazan’s “Classic Italian Cookbook.”
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David YangPlaying baroque music is a kind of going back to the basic ingredients of our art form.
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David YangScott Devereaux (tuba): A conversation with David Yang, Artistic Director NCMF
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David YangTickets for the 2021 NCMF Winter Baroque concert have gone live and, as promised, the concert will be a doozy.
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David YangEric Ewazen: A conversation with David Yang, Artistic Director NCMF
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David YangArtistic Director David Yang's notes on the new piece for 2019.
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David YangEliana Yang: A conversation with Beth Clary, President of NCMF Board
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David YangRecently I’ve noticed the call of a Very Loud Bird I don’t recall hearing outside my window in the morning.
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David YangLast year the great Italian composer Ennio Morricone passed away at the age of 91.
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David YangSunday, June 6 the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival is back in action.
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David YangMarch is coming, spring is not far behind, and that means piano recital.
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David YangIt seems that around this time of year people are specifically drawn to reassuring music.
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David YangI’ve wanted to program this incredible, weird, and magical piece for ages.
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David YangThere is a transcendent moment near the beginning of this quartet that makes my heart leap in my chest.
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David YangIn 1982 I received the best birthday present of all time: a Sony Walkman WM-R2.
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David YangThis summer we’ll be performing Shostakovich’s String Quartet in Eb Major, No. 9.
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David YangThe pain started as a dull ache in my abdomen around New Rochelle; by Stamford I was doubled over in agony.
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David YangWhen I was a teenager, I got a job one summer working as a bike messenger in New York.