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Pianist and teacher Nelita True makes her mark on young pianists during Duxbury Music Festival
DUXBURY – Side by side, both at their own pianos, teacher and student discuss the music in front of them, the teacher listening carefully as each note is struck and then encouraging the student to listen as she plays the same piece another way.
During her second master class with the four piano students studying with her as part of the Duxbury Music Festival, renowned pianist Nelita True challenges the students to really listen to the music. She gives them her perspective on the music.
“The music is just the blueprint,” she said. “It doesn’t tell us the whole story. We have to come as close as we can to the intention of the composer.”
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DUXBURY – During the sixth season of the Duxbury Music Festival, now through Aug. 5, music lovers will have the opportunity to hear many of the world's renowned musicians in concert. This summer's festival offers recital programs containing traditional, as well as more exotic, chamber repertoire for your listening enjoyment.
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Festival offers ensemble treats
When you think of chamber music, the string quartet gets "the lion's share'' of respect, says pianist Stephen Deitz. The Duxbury Music Festival feeds the lion this year with a strong program of string quartets, enriched by works that expand on the foundation of stringed instruments with piano and woodwinds.
"For chamber music, the string quartet is at the top of the list, the regal ensemble,'' said Deitz, the festival's director.
The festival, which gets underway today for its student musicians, is a 20-day intensive program for the study and performance of solo and chamber repertoire for college music students and professors. A series of faculty concerts, including Sunday's concert in a private home overlooking the sea in Cohasset, raises money to support the study program and provides summer treats for South Shore music lovers. Read more...
Music in the air: Duxbury Music Festival on tap
The navy blue banners billowing in the warm summer breeze once again signal the coming of a taste of Tanglewood here in town. The Duxbury Music Festival, presented by the South Shore Conservatory, will celebrate its sixth season this July 17 though Aug. 5.
The 20-day intensive program brings together world-renowned faculty and distinguished undergraduate and graduate students for a unique solo and chamber instrumental study and performance experience in an "idyllic" seaside setting. Read more...
Duxbury Music Festival begins Sunday
DUXBURY — With his time in sunny California winding down a few weeks back, Duxbury Music Festival Director Stephen Dietz eagerly looked forward to his return to Duxbury to make final preparations for the start of this year's celebration of music. Dietz hopes his efforts to bring quality musicians and quality music to town will meet with the approval of the audiences at the many South Shore Conservatory concerts expected to attract music lovers to town starting this Sunday, July 17, and running throughthrough Aug. 5. He specially selects the music to bring attention to pieces outside the norm. Read more...
Duxbury Music Festival returns Sunday
DUXBURY — Classical music is not the first thing that comes to mind about Duxbury in summer, yet the town is home to an impressive chamber music festival that draws talented musicians from across the country.
"It's very unusual for a suburb so close to Boston to have a music festival like this," said festival director Stephen Deitz. "It's an exciting opportunity to hear repertoire that isn't performed a lot but deserves to be, and that fits a summer seaside feeling."
The 20-day festival, which opens with a concert Sunday in the Duxbury Performing Arts Center, is both a training program for serious musicians and a bonanza for audiences. About 20 students, ranging in age from teens through 20s and from all parts of the country, study with seven instructors, also drawn from across the country. Read more...
Duxbury Music Festival schedule
DUXBURY — The sixth season of the South Shore Conservatory's Duxbury Music Festival runs from July 17 to Aug. 5. The event invites accomplished undergraduate and post-graduate students to participate in an intensive program for the study and performance of solo and chamber repertoire. Festival Director Stephen Deitz has recruited a faculty of internationally acclaimed musicians, including: Nelita True, Jean David Coen, Mina Perry, Regina Yungand Stephen Deitz, piano; Bayla Keyes and David Salness, violin; Michelle LaCourse, viola; and Alexander Suleiman, cello. Read more:
Classics to launch music festival
The Duxbury Music Festival will hold its opening concert next Sunday at 6 p.m. at the Duxbury Performing Arts Center. Nicholas Palmer will conduct the 30-piece Duxbury Music Festival Orchestra in a program of classical music from great Romantic composers Wagner, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. The highlight of the program is the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto featuring violinist Dasol Jeong, last year's festival's solo competition winner.
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