Dec 21, 2017 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2017-2018
Somehow, they just seemed older than their youthful appearance. The four gray suits, white shirts and ties that matched the garnet red gown of the woman may have contributed to that. This was Calmus, who’d come here once before, in 2012. Unforgettable then, the...
Nov 17, 2017 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2017-2018
She took us, mesmerized and lost, to an ornate place it appeared she knew at another time—a child’s return. It was the sophisticated, opulent, intellectually and artistically cross-pollinated and supremely confident Paris of the Eiffel Tower before the fall into the...
Oct 27, 2017 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2017-2018
Black satin; gold letters proclaiming its distinguished pedigree, time would tell what the noble figure on the TFAC stage, genderless and still, would become. It’s first run lay before it, the start of the TCA season, Tuesday, October 17, 2017. Gwen Suesse entered the...
Apr 5, 2017 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
We’ve heard before the Schubert Sonata played Thursday night. The B-flat major, D. 960, was also at the end of Peter Rösel’s written program in November of 2015. Unlike Rösel’s, the finale of Alexander Kobrin’s evening at the Tryon Concert...
Feb 27, 2017 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
“It is my great pleasure to finally be in beautiful Tryon and to be a part of your incredible series. I feel very grateful and honored to be able to share my music with your most attentive audience. Needless to say, I had a great time! Thank you for inviting me....
Feb 21, 2017 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
He’s not Itzhak (Isaac) Perlman. Not Joshua Bell. Not anyone we actually remember hearing live—most of us. Maybe he’s Fritz (that’s German, though) Kreisler. More likely…no, you’ll see, he has to be the reincarnation of the great (another Hebraic name) Jascha (Jacob)...
Jan 22, 2017 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
The political winds were blowing this last Friday. However we read them, January 20, 2017 will likely represent far more than the normal Friday, and happy anticipation in the work week’s end. TGIF at the Tryon Fine Arts Center brought other winds, the...
Oct 31, 2016 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
Academy of St Martin in the Fields—A Stirring Remembrance “When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, It was transformed for me into love.” Franz Schubert We seem to be on a roll this season, TCA bringing thus far...
Oct 3, 2016 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
The FAQ: Keeper of the Flame, Guardian of the Grail Expectations are one thing, but feeling the refinement, the effortless merging of power and artistry are yet another. Thursday night at Tryon Concert Association’s presentation of the Fine Arts Quartet was the full...
Sep 25, 2016 | Tryon Concert Association Season 2016-2017
The Fine Arts Quartet: Vintage Red Wine and Polished Mahogany This coming Thursday evening, September 29, 2016 at 8:00 pm in the Tryon Fine Arts Center, we will be gifted with a performance by the Fine Arts Quartet playing a work by Haydn (often...
