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POTSDAM — World-renowned cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason will perform at Hosmer Hall on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. as part of SUNY Potsdam’s 42nd McElheran Visiting Artist Series.

On Benjamin Britten’s String Quartet No. 2 and Moriah Evans’s “Remains Persist.”

Thursday, Nov. 2

First the battle, then the music “Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance,” by Jeremy Eichler (Alfred A. Knopf, 386 pp…

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By Annette HinkleAs an oboist, James Austin Smith can often be found performing on some of the most famous concert stages in the world, including Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. But truth be told, Smith also (in fact, particularly) enjoys presenti

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Remember, remember an Aura November

In his sweeping solos, Wyatt Underhill, an acting associate concertmaster, managed to turn his violin into an oboe, the oboe into a gong, then back into a violin solely through the specificity of his fingers. 

When they weren’t having screaming rows, the members of this overlooked 1930s collective changed the course of cultural history. Why isn’t it better known?