As a Texan teen learning to play the marimba, Chad Beebe ’25MMA watched a lot of YouTube videos. Those that most piqued his interest featured the Yale Percussion Group and its director, Robert van Sice. Watching and listening to the performance and interview clips, Beebe told himself, “This feels like something special.”
(CAMDEN, NJ) New Jersey-based professional training orchestra Symphony in C launches its 2023-2024 season with its new Music Director, Noam Aviel, on Saturday, November 4, 2023 at Gordon Theater at the Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts in Camden, New Jersey. The concert features Smetana s Overture from The Bartered Bride, Tchaikovsky s Symphony No. 4, and Rachmaninov s Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18 performed by piano prodigy Harmony Zhu. Showtime is 8:00pm.
The Stanford violinist was artist-in-residence at Stanford with the St. Lawrence String Quartet from 1998 to 2022. As violist Lesley Robertson puts it…