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In arts notes: Escher Quartet to perform next week; Dewey Decibel series to feature Victor Haskins & SKEIN; upcoming exhibit at Williamsburg Contemporary Art Center; and Ewell Concert Series presents Miramar with the Rosette String Quartet.

The ensemble had scheduled the performance with a soprano vocalist. After she and the group’s resident violist fell ill, the quartet changed the program

An audience on the lawn of the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood in 2018. (Courtesy Fred Collins) Classical-music devotees who’ve been missing the sound of live music and the camaraderie of intermissions can begin to breathe a sigh of relief as the pandemic, at least around these parts, begins to wind down. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has just announced that Symphony Hall will reopen Sept. 30 with celebrity violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter playing the new John Williams Violin Concerto No. 2...

Special to the Aspen Times Yefim Bronfman coaxed an ear-caressing range of tone from the Steinway grand piano on the stage of the Benedict Music Tent Tuesday evening. He applied breathtakingly precise technique to find expressive details in works by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and the iconoclastic Soviet-era composer Galina Ustvolskaya. Miraculously, it all came through indelibly in the spacious expanses of the tent, a space hardly ideal for solo piano music. Bronfman always is all business, so...

Special to the Aspen Times Aspen audiences got their first tastes in years of classical recitals in the vast spaces of the Benedict Music Tent this week. The music was top-notch. For this more intimate concert form the venue is going to take some getting accustomed to. With the 500-seat Harris Hall off limits due to COVID protocols, something gets lost in translation in the vast spaces of the 2,050-seat tent. There was a time when the festival presented chamber music in the tent occasionally. I...

Capital Region calendar events for Thursday, June 3 through Wednesday, June 9.  

REGISTER STAFF Entertainment is picking up in the valley. While online shows continue with two new offers from Lucky Penny and UpStage Napa Valley, the outlook is good for in-person shows this summer. Lucky Pennys In the Mood Lucky Penny Productions presents, "In the Mood," an all-new music show online starting Friday, April 23. The latest production from their Video Theater is a virtual concert featuring popular songs from the 1930s through today. The four women, who were cast in L...

The New York Times), “eloquent and enthralling” ( The Boston Globe), and described as “the most compelling American group to come on the scene” ( The New Yorker), the   has quickly become a vital force in the international chamber music world. Since their debut performance in New York City in 2011, they have toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, the Far East, and India, traversing the extensive oeuvre of traditional piano trio repertoire and introducing audiences to new...