It's hard to imagine any great American classical summerstock taking its show on the road to New York City.
Brevard Music Center is stationed in the gentle, rolling hills of western North Carolina. Tanglewood? She's nestled in the Berkshire town of Lenox, Massachusetts.
Even "Banglewood" (the Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute, that is) has a permanent home at MASSMoCA.
Pearched atop Elk Mountain in the Centennial State, Colorado's Aspen Music Festival and School, going strong for nearly seven decades now, announced its travels plans almost a month ago--truly, the first concert of its kind.
With snow on the ground the morning of in lower Manhattan, Alan Fletcher, Aspen's president and CEO (and, full disclosure, Classicalite guest blogger), brought a star-studded roster--Aspen and Atlanta music director Robert Spano, soprano alumna Dawn Upshaw, St. Louis concertmaster David Halen, noted violinist and chamber music coach Sylvia Rosenberg--to SubCulture on Bleecker St. for a one-night-only gig.
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