Apr 15, 2018 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
It was a conversation between three friends at the Open Road. A week or so before, at the WindSync concert, they’d saved seats in the balcony, for another friend and I. We guessed we’d each be coming in late from a Maundy Thursday service. I was the last to arrive,...
Apr 5, 2017 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
We’ve heard before the Schubert Sonata played Thursday night. The B-flat major, D. 960, was also at the end of Peter Rösel’s written program in November of 2015. Unlike Rösel’s, the finale of Alexander Kobrin’s evening at the Tryon Concert...
Feb 27, 2017 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
“It is my great pleasure to finally be in beautiful Tryon and to be a part of your incredible series. I feel very grateful and honored to be able to share my music with your most attentive audience. Needless to say, I had a great time! Thank you for inviting me....
Feb 21, 2017 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
He’s not Itzhak (Isaac) Perlman. Not Joshua Bell. Not anyone we actually remember hearing live—most of us. Maybe he’s Fritz (that’s German, though) Kreisler. More likely…no, you’ll see, he has to be the reincarnation of the great (another Hebraic name) Jascha (Jacob)...
Jan 22, 2017 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
The political winds were blowing this last Friday. However we read them, January 20, 2017 will likely represent far more than the normal Friday, and happy anticipation in the work week’s end. TGIF at the Tryon Fine Arts Center brought other winds, the...
Oct 31, 2016 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
Academy of St Martin in the Fields—A Stirring Remembrance “When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, It was transformed for me into love.” Franz Schubert We seem to be on a roll this season, TCA bringing thus far...
