And a marathon it was running from 12:00 noon until 10:00pm; I didn’t get there at the absolute beginning and didn’t stay until the absolute end, but did manage to get in about 8 hours of quality time with some very fine musicians playing a varied and interesting fare of post-modern music.  Continue Reading

Eugene Onegin, the book, was written by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) and tells the story, all in poetic verse, of a certain Eugene Onegin – a self-centered, superficial, arrogant, worldly, cynical, selfish, aristocratic jerk from Saint Petersberg who inherits a farm out on the Steppes from a dying uncle. Continue Reading

Sunday night was a night of miraculous musical performance – a revival and revelation of Franz Schreker’s Kammersymphonie in einem Satz (Chamber Symphony in One Movement) and the premier of  Unexpected Affinities a Concerto Grosso for Reed Quintet and String Orchestra,  by the young composer Graham Cohen.  Continue Reading

Simply amazing.  I feel as if for a brief time, I left planet earth.  Not sure what happened exactly.

I had meant to attend a chamber music fund raising event for the Red Rocks Music Festival Continue Reading

This was a wonderful treat on a Sunday afternoon – all original music, none of it heard in a public setting, a premier.  The artists, all accomplished professionals, were fabulous.

So who is Kent Trostel? Continue Reading