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HEIFETZ HAPPENINGS
All Signs Point to “April in Paris” in the Valley!
What better way to point out our upcoming “April in Paris” presentations than with a few Parisian street signs? Our French-accented edition of Heifetz On Tour arrives <<pour le Week-End>> for a series of concerts in the springtime splendor of the Shenandoah Valley. You’ll hear performances either born, influenced, or otherwise reflective of the City […]
Video of the Week: A Babbling Ballabile
BALLABILE (Ital., from ballare, to dance). A piece of music adapted for dancing. The term can be applied to any piece of dance music. – A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900) edited by George Grove Our Video of the Week shares a comparative rarity today: The dance-inflected Ballabile movement from Francis Poulenc’s 1948 Sonata for Cello and Piano. Cellist Noémie […]
The Pick of Performance Today!
Some of the memorable performances by our Heifetz students have been getting some national play of late, thanks to Performance Today, America’s most popular classical music radio program hosted by Fred Child. The show is broadcast on more than 280 public radio stations across the country and reaches approximately 1.2 million listeners each week. For the third […]
