Music Interviews

The pandemic put many things on hold last year including the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. The BCMF returns this year with a season titled Homecoming. Highlights include the opening performance with Alan Alda on August 4, and the world-premier of a commissioned work by Eric Ewazen. Kate Remington talks with the festival's founder and music director, Marya Martin, about this year's joyous return.

In a universe where Wielders paint their worlds to keep them colorful, Picnic Province has suddenly become black and white and Chicory, its Wielder, has vanished! Her housekeeper picks up Chicory's world-painting brush and decides to go on a quest to find her. That's how the adventure, Chicory: A Colorful Tale begins.

Soundtrack composer Lena Raine says she was all in as soon as the devleoper, Greg Lobenov, showed her the very earliest ideas for a game which was not more than a dog who paints.

After a year's pause, the Charles Ives Music Festival returns this summer with a season inspired by The Promise of Living from Aaron Copland's The Tender Land.  Kate Remington talks with Artistic Director and composer Paul Frucht about the Festival, which opens with a concert titled Joy on Saturday, July 31, at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.