If any one thing can be counted upon for end-of-year entertainment opportunities here on the Hill, the annual get-together at the Idyllwild Public Library, with the blending of women’s voices in Local Color, is a significant fact of life. That, plus the performances of the Idyllwild Master Chorale at the Idyllwild Arts Academy usually make…
Every yearly scheduled event presented at the Lowman Concert Hall on the Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) campus promises treasures of sound production from a wide-ranging talented student body to the most distinguished guest artists. This is particularly true of the programs regularly slated for the end of the fall and the beginning of the winter…
The prospects of the Labor Day holiday weekend always bode well for the Idyllwild area, regardless of ever-changing weather patterns and the ever-increasing plethora of yard sales and other outdoor activities. To this mixture of community togetherness, the joint coordinators of the Manhattan Chamber Players, Luke Fleming and Brendan Speltz, both dedicated musicians as well…
The renewal of the summer season on the Idyllwild Arts campus grounds was an especially rewarding event — as noted by the players and the audience alike, on the first of the three-evening concerts on this year’s schedule. The revamped programs from the previously cancelled season proved a great incentive. The scene was set effectively…
Piano concert: Antoinette Perry, William Wellborn and Douglas Ashcraft Sunday, June 9 Lowman Concert Hall, Idyllwild Arts Ccmpus
Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra Concert Saturday, April 27, 2019, 7:30 p.m. Lowman Concert Hall, IAA Campus The occasion of the final orchestral program of Idyllwild Arts Academy’s year was a pleasant enough evening, with only light breezes interrupting an otherwise warm, ambient environment, and further banishment of the latest off-Hill human frailties (nefarious and otherwise)…
What with the preceding weeks of cold, blustery rain and snow here on the Hill, it would seem somewhat adverse for a recitalist to present a public program dealing in the main with (possibly) equally adverse weather conditions. Nevertheless, the presenter in question, guest pianist Caroline Oltmanns, acquitted herself of the task quite well on…
By Arthur Connor Music Reviewer
Music Review Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra program: Rossini: “Overture, Guillaume Tell” Villa-Lobos: “Ciranda das Sete Notas” Tchaikovsky: “Symphony #5, E Minor, Opus 64” For the inaugural concert of conductor Scott Hosfeld’s third season this past weekend, a unified program centered around IAAO’s normally outstanding string sections seemed the order of the evening, and as usual,…
As an incentive to celebrate the warmer weather recently, the Idyllwild Arts Academy faculty gave the community ample opportunity this past Thursday evening with a carefully selected program of late Romantic piano music, as provided by a very capable piano pedagogue in the person of Parvati Mani. The rather spacious confines of Lowman Hall proved a sonorous environment, and a small group of interested IAA students and patrons were in attendance to hear that well-balanced auditory offering.