During the weekend of May 6th and 7th, we will close our 26th season with a dramatic program of Russian works culminating in Tchaikovsky’s towering Piano Trio. Pianist Andrew Armstrong, with his passionate expression and dazzling technique, along with violinist and two-time GRAMMY nominee Jennifer Frautschi, will join Edward Arron for an unforgettable performance. Learn […]

  By Milton Moore  For The Day, published March 11, 2017 Old Lyme — As odd as it may sound, Mozart finally got his due at Musical Masterworks … Yes, that Mozart, the axiomatic “world’s most popular composer.” The Old Lyme chamber music series bookended two of Mozart’s most innovative and sadly underperformed works — his […]

By Rick Koster, The Day, March 9, 2017 Modern composers who create under the broad canopy of “classical music” take mighty strides into unexplored frontiers. At the same time, who amongst them can claim to not have been influenced by Mozart? Not many — and certainly not the otherwise wildly different Arvo Pärt and Alfred Schnittke. The latter explored […]