Shostakovich, Quartet No. 2, and the Shadow of Stalin
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David Yang“Even if they cut off both my hands and I have to hold my pen in my teeth
Notes from NCMF's Artistic Director, David Yang, on upcoming and past programs
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David Yang“Even if they cut off both my hands and I have to hold my pen in my teeth
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David YangThis summer I will occasionally post conversations with the artists who were scheduled to come to Newburyport this summer.
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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. Et voilà – this summer, every concert sold out.
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David YangIn 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.
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David YangIn 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.
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David YangAfter 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.
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David YangI’ve wanted to program this incredible, weird, and magical piece for ages.
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David YangArtistic Director David Yang's notes on the new piece for 2019.
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David YangI thought this would be a good time to look back at one of the most extraordinary pieces I have ever commissioned.
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David YangMarch is coming, spring is not far behind, and that means piano recital.
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David YangWith Michael Brown performance and discussion coming up, David Yang reflects on composers 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 at St. Paul's.
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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 YangJust think what was going in the Roaring '20s in art, literature, science, politics, society.
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David YangYou’re going to have to indulge me in this week’s post just a bit.
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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 YangFor the last nineteen years, Newburyport Chamber Music Festival has taken over the town for a week or two every August.
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David YangMichael Brown's March 2020 performances are postponed. David conveys the sad news but offers some suggestions for music to lessen the coronavirus anxiety.
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David YangDistant echoes, the vast roof overhead - I feel a slight chill and sense of awe when I walk into a cathedral.
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Alessandra YangYou may have seen me around Newburyport or playing viola in the summer concert: my name is Alessandra, and I am David's younger daughter.
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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 YangSet aside Wednesday, August 4 to Sunday, August 15 because NCMF is on for summer 2021 with six concerts in six days.
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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 YangSummer 2022 features arguably the most perfect of Mozart’s perfect quartets, the C Major (K.465).
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David YangDoes anyone in Newburyport really need an introduction to Rhina?
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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 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 YangWhen I was a teenager, I got a job one summer working as a bike messenger in New York.
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David YangI'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.
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David YangI 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.
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David YangSunday, June 6 the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival is back in action.
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David Yang2019: Our 18th Season begins with Michael Brown, pianist and composer.
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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 YangDavid chats with Sébastien van Kuijk, a Festival Artist in August 2019 whose 2020 visit here was foiled by COVID-19
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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 YangPlaying baroque music is a kind of going back to the basic ingredients of our art form.
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David YangAs 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.
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David YangSome 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.
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David YangDavid talks with composer Ania Vu about her background and new composition for the Winter Baroque concert.
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David YangWith Winter Baroque squarely behind us, I thought I’d take off my Artistic Director hat and put on another.
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David YangDecades 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.
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David YangDespite general weirdness everywhere, we’re determined to make NCMF 2020 joyful with many festival-related events - some live, some virtual.
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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 YangThe good news -- but also bad news -- is that there's only one ticket left to Michael Brown’s upcoming piano recital in Newbury.