Jan 31, 2020 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2019-2020
Maybe passing through generations, the sound began as notes inscribed on paper. Finding the beauty, the passion, or perhaps the chaos or order in the representation of life, belongs to the artists. This February 6, Thursday, the featured artists are young people...
Nov 2, 2019 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2019-2020
Blog in Two Parts Rex’s concert blog is in two parts this week. First, he gives a “Golden Remembrance” of Tryon Concert Association’s Joella Utley, recently deceased, in the context of TCA’s last concert with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and then...
Mar 20, 2019 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2018-2019
The Titanic sails again 8:00 P.M. Tuesday, March 26th at the Tryon Fine Arts Center, and our young Steinway piano is perfect for the occasion. Apparently, Yefim Bronfman, entering perhaps his sixties, has been traveling the seven seas for some time giving performances...
Mar 8, 2019 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2018-2019
Robert Schumann gave up the study of law to pursue music as a pianist, composer and critic. “Kym”, as we refer to him in our common community, did the opposite. He left a budding career as a college professor of music and pianist to become a corporate lawyer....
Jan 20, 2019 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2018-2019
Reminiscent of the glory days, when the train brought notables traveling north to south and south to north, when F Scott Fitzgerald would encamp there between rides to visit Zelda recovering from tuberculosis in Asheville, three friends had coffee in the condominium...
Nov 7, 2018 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2018-2019
We once again present what has become a popular Clef Notes feature— our blogger, Rex Gallatin interviewing Program Committee member Kymric Mahnke about the upcoming Tryon Concert Association concert on November 15, 2018, featuring the Juilliard String Quartet....
Oct 3, 2018 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2018-2019
He’s back. Jeff Nelson’s back! Just. And the Canadian Brass knows it. It wasn’t the same when he was gone. Probably, though, it surprised everyone that he would ever return. Most things like that don’t. The Beatles didn’t. That kind of talent can’t sit still. Usually....
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,...
Mar 17, 2018 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2017-2018
It was an enchanting evening, awhile back, dark earlier, before the time change. That was Friday, February 23, before another weekend. Two sisters they were, violinist Johanna Mulfinger Lebo, cellist Sharon Mulfinger Gerber—two from a family of eleven children. But...
Feb 1, 2018 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2017-2018
Stephen Hough is a Renaissance man. He has the kind of genius we might expect to put things together in a surprising way. But that doesn’t mean we’re prepared for the surprise. Last Friday at the TCA concert, this celebrated British pianist took the...
