Musings

"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.

Running a music festival is very much a group effort. Please welcome our newest board member.

Summer 2022 features arguably the most perfect of Mozart’s perfect quartets, the C Major.

Does anyone in Newburyport really need an introduction to the National Treasure that is Rhina?

I met Jon 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.”

"...suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray..."

Kneisel Hall is a 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.

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, Becky Anderson will be playing the third  violin sonata by Eugène Ysaÿe.

This summer, Scott Devereaux will be playing Capriccio for solo tuba by Krzysztof Penderecki.

Set aside August 4 to August 15 because NCMF is on for summer 2021 with six concerts in six days.

Is there such a thing as a perfect piece of music, something that never gets old?

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.

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.