Transformations. That’s the title of this year’s festival, now already well underway, and already transformative. Titles are a trick: when they work they open up previously boarded up doors of understanding for an audience; they suggest a through-line, a thread to follow through the labyrinth; they illuminate connections between different...
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Collaborators / By Caroline Stinson / July 9, 2013
As performing artists our world is not only enriched by our collaborators and colleagues, it is fueled by them. The process of finding these special people lasts a lifetime and is first established in those eager encounters at summer camp, our orchestra assignments in undergrad, or who we drove with...
WVIA Interview with Andrew Waggoner on ArtScene
Listen to Peter Wynne’s interview with our new Artistic Director, all about Transformations! Get a taste of WCM’s Summer Festival July 14 to 27 in the Catskills. Highlights include composer-in-residence John Harbison, classical improv and a gala celebration of our 20th Anniversary. Many thanks to Erika Funke of WVIA for...
Chamber of Blogs
Wow, a blog. I’m not sure how I’ve managed to maintain a web presence for over ten years now without keeping one, but somehow I have. I’ve certainly run my mouth off on other people’s, but haven’t seen it as either personally necessary or serving some greater good for me...
Puffs and Snippets / Judith Pearce / February 1, 2013
So I think it must be a good omen that perhaps the least technically savvy member of the WCM crew is writing our opening blog. In fact, of course it IS, because it’s one of the first outward signs of “new brooms”, in other words, my transition, or simply “the...