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Friday, August 4, 2017

The Baroque Concert

I was low on power in my camera, so I only got one shot. This is the Monteverdi opera, Tancredi and Clorinda, in the synagogue.


Our precious friends...

Marcel and Hilleane


Thursday, August 3, 2017

From our small group

Victoria Skokanová is from Slovakia and plays flute. We had the privilege of her attendance in our small group discussions.


Our small group

Some of our Russian contingent:


and the whole group:


Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Crescendo Faculty Concert

Here are some snaps from the Crescendo Faculty Concert:


Paolo Paroni, Simone Strohmeier, Gargiulo Gustavo, Stuart Pincombe, and Bill Buchanon playing short works by Monteverdi, Gabrielli, and Cavalli.


Jozef Kolinek (violin) and Reto Reichenbach (piano) playing a sonata by Elsner.


Christian Davidson (bassoon) and Bethany Brooks (piano) performing a sonata by Saint-Saens.


Eugene Alcalay playing Liszt.


Dag Anders Eriksen (violin) and Yee Ree Kim (piano) performing a Grieg sonata.


Andrea Melath and Samuel Toth performing Kodaly songs.


Domingo Istvan, Reto Reichenbach, and Eugene Alcalay performed a work by Rachmaninov for six hands!






Marcel's lecture

Again, Dr. Marcel Zwitser gave a lecture to Crescendo, this time on Tchaikovsky, a signal choice, since the orchestra will perform the 5th Symphony. The brilliant lecture covered aspects of Tchaikovsky's last years.


Polina Kulikova, fresh from her gold medal performance in a recent piano competition, played two short works for piano by Tchaikovsky.


The last few drops

With our friends Jerry & Kay A group from Texas Jerry with the M's A pair of Luddites from NC (they were both reading paper books on...