Opening night of this year's Skaneateles Festival promises to be very different from any other year.
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Skaneateles Festival brings world-class chamber music to area
Skaneateles Festival brings world-class chamber music to area
The free concert Wednesday will feature hyperscore compositions created by area students and others and performed by professional musicians.
Hyperscore is a computer program which allows people with “little to no formal music training” to be able to create compositions.
In May, students from three schools and adults from Welch Allyn participated in the Skaneateles Festival's Hyperscore project.
Nine of the pieces composed through the project, as well as traditional work by classical composers, will be played during opening night by professional musicians.
“That's going to be a very cool concert,” said Carol Bryant, communications manager for the festival. The scores created through the project will be projected on a screen behind the musicians during the performance, as well.
Bryant said hyperscore notation is very different from that used in traditional music scores and is a lot more colorful: “The audience can kind of follow along.”
The Daedalus Quartet, new to the Skaneateles Festival this year, is also expected to be a highlight, Bryant said. The foursome combines memorized and spontaneous music and performs with eight instruments between four people.
“I think they are really going to be something,” she said.
The Brass on the Grass concert on Aug. 19 is also expected to be a festival favorite. This year the concert will have an “outdoors under the stars” theme. The brass ensemble will perform music including Holst's Saturn from “The Planets,” “Music for the Royal Fireworks” by Handel and works by Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein.
The Sept. 2 finale performance will feature traditional chamber music including Vivaldi's “The Four Seasons,” plus concertos by Bach and Mozart.
In addition to its many concerts, however, the festival also offers classes. Friday is the deadline to register for master classes, available for music students of any age. Students are able to work one-on-one with festival musicians in piano, violin, cello or viola.
KidsFest, the free program exposing children to chamber music, will also return with two performances on Wednesdays, Aug. 16 and 23, with themes “Peter and the Wolf” and “That's All Folks,” focusing on folk music.
This is the 27th season of the Skaneateles Festival, which features world-class chamber music.
Staff writer Anne Gleason can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 248 or at anne.gleason@lee.net
Hyperscore is a computer program which allows people with “little to no formal music training” to be able to create compositions.
In May, students from three schools and adults from Welch Allyn participated in the Skaneateles Festival's Hyperscore project.
Nine of the pieces composed through the project, as well as traditional work by classical composers, will be played during opening night by professional musicians.
“That's going to be a very cool concert,” said Carol Bryant, communications manager for the festival. The scores created through the project will be projected on a screen behind the musicians during the performance, as well.
Bryant said hyperscore notation is very different from that used in traditional music scores and is a lot more colorful: “The audience can kind of follow along.”
The Daedalus Quartet, new to the Skaneateles Festival this year, is also expected to be a highlight, Bryant said. The foursome combines memorized and spontaneous music and performs with eight instruments between four people.
“I think they are really going to be something,” she said.
The Brass on the Grass concert on Aug. 19 is also expected to be a festival favorite. This year the concert will have an “outdoors under the stars” theme. The brass ensemble will perform music including Holst's Saturn from “The Planets,” “Music for the Royal Fireworks” by Handel and works by Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein.
The Sept. 2 finale performance will feature traditional chamber music including Vivaldi's “The Four Seasons,” plus concertos by Bach and Mozart.
In addition to its many concerts, however, the festival also offers classes. Friday is the deadline to register for master classes, available for music students of any age. Students are able to work one-on-one with festival musicians in piano, violin, cello or viola.
KidsFest, the free program exposing children to chamber music, will also return with two performances on Wednesdays, Aug. 16 and 23, with themes “Peter and the Wolf” and “That's All Folks,” focusing on folk music.
This is the 27th season of the Skaneateles Festival, which features world-class chamber music.
Staff writer Anne Gleason can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 248 or at anne.gleason@lee.net
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