KWGN Denver: Bravo! Vail Music Box
Despite the challenges surrounding the pandemic, the Bravo! Vail Music Festival is committed to enriching its community with the power of music.
In lieu of their normal Summer festival season, Bravo! Vail hosted more than 40 community concerts this summer in their custom-built mobile performance stage, the Bravo! Vail Music Box. These concerts, though socially-distant, brought the joys of live chamber music to businesses, community groups and individuals throughout the Vail Valley.
KDVR
Despite the challenges surrounding the pandemic, the Bravo! Vail Music Festival is committed to enriching its community with the power of music.
In lieu of their normal Summer festival season, Bravo! Vail hosted more than 40 community concerts this summer in their custom-built mobile performance stage, the Bravo! Vail Music Box. These concerts, though socially-distant, brought the joys of live chamber music to businesses, community groups and individuals throughout the Vail Valley.
Watch the interview below.
WGN: The Juilliard String Quartet
The Juilliard String Quartet plays live on WGN’s Morning News in Chicago.
WGN Morning News
Juilliard String Quartet is widely considered America's most important string quartet. With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet continues to inspire audiences around the world. They were founded in 1946 and hailed by the Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history." The Juilliard draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics while embracing the mission of championing new works. Each performance of the Juilliard Quartet is a unique experience, bringing together the four members’ profound understanding, total commitment and unceasing curiosity in sharing the wonders of the string quartet literature.
Watch them live in WGN’s studios here.
CNN Money Switzerland: Chinese Star Maestro Long Yu - A Life for Classical Music
Maestro Long Yu appears on CNN speaking about his musical influences.
CNN Money Switzerland
He grew up during China‘s Cultural Revolution, when Western classical music was banned. Today, Long Yu is the artistic director and chief conductor of the China Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and one of China‘s most successful and celebrated conductors. The New York Times even called him "the most powerful figure in China’s classical music scene". He's also a cultural ambassador promoting cooperation between East and West, and was the first who ever conducted a Chinese orchestra at the Vatican. Yu talks to Martina Fuchs about his life, the growing audiences of classical music in a rapidly changing China, and his role as a cultural diplomat.
Watch the interview here.