When we last played at Carnegie Hall, in 2008, Allan Kozinn wrote in the New York Times that the ensemble “is now in another league… [The performance was] “virtuosic, polished and played largely from memory.” We return to Carnegie’s Zankel Hall next Monday to present a motley concert highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of recent classical [...]
And thus began our most recent master class as part of our Meadows Prize residency at SMU. We came up with this idea a few weeks ago and decided to try it out for the first time here. I began the exercise by asking the assembled Chamber Music Class the above question, called on volunteers [...]
At Music10 this past June, one of the conversations that seemed to keep going from day to day and among many different groups of people was a discussion about the meaning of dynamics. We may know what the Italian words forte and piano technically mean, but how do performers interpret them on their instruments? How [...]
