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16 MAY 2025 · In Part Two of Summer Music Camps for Adults we focus on musicians.
There are more than a few camps all over the country. Some with a focus on your instrument. There’s the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan and the Austin, Texas Chamber Music Center has several Workshops.
11 MAY 2025 · Many of Austin’s music groups are ending their 2024-2025 seasons this month. One is ATX Chamber Music and Jazz. It’s closing the season with a performance of the Julliard String Quartet. Co-Artistic Director Anna Petrova says it’ll be like old home week for her and a friend. Prepare for your summer by attending the season closer of the Austin Gay Men’s Chorus. They want you to help them Shake The Rafters. It’s called a full-spectrum extravaganza of emotion, community, and vocal cords working overtime in the best way possible.
2 MAY 2025 · How about spending part of your summer elevating your skills at a music camp for adults? There are plenty of choices, here in Austin, in Texas and all over the US. There is, of course, the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. Gary Gatzke Associate Director of Continuing and Community Education says there’s a wait list for many of the camps they offer. There’s also Berkshire Choral International, a summer choral camp offering performances in some of the most prestigious places in the world. In Austin, there’s the summer program for Alumni of the Texas State University's Choral Program. Stay tuned for Part Two of Summer Music Camps for Adults. The focus will be on camps for musicians and their instruments. Listen for it during the week of May 18th.
25 APR 2025 · There’s a young woman in the Dallas area who is introducing at risk and low-income kids to classical music through a program called Miles for Music. Emma Fossum, a 17-year-old high school student says the idea for the free program started with her youngest sister, who is autistic. Fossum, a pianist and a beauty queen has been traveling to schools in North Texas presenting the program for the last 8 months. She’s hoping to expand the program statewide and maybe nationally.
23 APR 2025 · To steal a phrase from a big budget movie:
There is a disturbance in the force.
Many if not all of DEI programs have been cut by the federal government.
Harpist Ashley Jackson has a new album that will soothe your soul.
Make an effort to see and/or hear one of two shows now in circulation:
The Equity Arc Wind Symphony and Words and Music of Black America.
There are some competitions to enter. Click the links on the Classical Music In Color page on https://secondstreetdreams.com/
19 APR 2025 · There is something to be said for “togetherness” .
It’s the running theme in a recent study about the positive effects on young people who play in a classical music ensemble or orchestra.
Dr Anna Bussu of Edge Hill University near Liverpool, England, is a psychologist and a senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice. She conducted the study called: Playing music together: Exploring the impact of a classical music ensemble on adolescent’s life skills self-perception. This paper explored the effectiveness of ensemble performance on the development of an adolescent’s life skills.
10 APR 2025 · Back in October, 340 pianists applied for the 2025 Cliburn .
Only 30 were granted entry.
They will be coming from 17 countries when the competition begins on May 21st in Fort Worth. All of them are hoping to win Gold, but there’s the silver and bronze medals, special awards and cash prizes of over half a million dollars. This is also the first competition for the recently established Cliburn Agency that the winners can claim for career management packages worth a total of over $2 million. The CLIBURN International Piano Competition is widely considered one of the most prestigious contests in classical music.
4 APR 2025 · A Cancer diagnosis changes everything.
Pianist Yoko Misumi knows that first hand, which led to the album she and her colleague from the Greenwich Trio, cellist Heather Tuach curated and produced. It’s called IN THE MIRROR, an emotional journey born of reflection, healing, and hope. There are original works and new arrangements by 11 composers, all women on the album. They include Jennifer Higdon, Dobrinka Tabakova and Jessie Montgomery.
27 MAR 2025 · DakhaBrakha is a world-music quartet from Kyiv, Ukraine on an American tour. They’re performing at Bass Recital Hall on April 11th. While not classically classical, the band describes themselves as the sound and soul of Ukrainian folk music with a modern flair. Marko Halanevych and Iryna Gorban, the original members of the band, say they think of family members back home in Kyiv whenever they perform the music they love to play. While they enjoy their audiences, the members of DakhaBrakha are looking forward to seeing their families again soon.
16 MAR 2025 · Women’s History Month has brought forth an album of classical music featuring two of the most famous women composers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Their music is performed by pianist Anna Shelest in the album she produced called Donna Voce, Volume 3: Clara Schumann & Cécile Chaminade. She even got her husband involved. Dmitri Shelest performs with his wife on Chaminade’s Pièces Romantiques, Op. 55 for piano four hands.
Volumes 1 and 2 feature the works of Fanny Mendelssohn and Amy Beach.
This album is one of the last supported by the recently closed The Sorel Organization
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