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...