“Like Running a Triathlon on Ice Skates”
Anne Akiko Meyers opens Brevard Music Festival with a customized concerto In the classical-music idiom, concert violinist Anne Akiko Meyers is the equivalent of a rock…
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One Hundred Banjos and the People Who Love Them
Camp led by bluegrass bigwigs culminates in a public concert Kristin Scott Benson was the 2018 recipient of the Steve Martin Award for Excellence…
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What’s the Frequency, Mike?
Mike Mills is best known as the bassist in R.E.M. From the band’s formation in Athens, Georgia in 1980 to its amicable dissolution in…
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If the Glass Slipper Fits
Growing up in San Francisco’s arts scene, Caroline Hewitt took piano lessons, but not because she wanted to. “Music started as a chore,” admits…
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One Hundred Moods of Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein waged war between New York City street gangs in his most successful work, the 1957 musical West Side Story — but asked…
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Allargando Like That
When most kids his age were asking for BB guns or skateboards, Keith Lockhart pined for piano lessons. And as a high-school freshman in…
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Nature, Nurture, and Particle Accelerator
Composer, pianist, percussionist, and beatmaker — Mason Bates doesn’t let his prominence in the world of orchestral music keep him from DJ-ing a set…
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Brevard Does Blues
Brevard Music Festival is diversifying more swiftly than a chameleon in a rainforest — witness its 80th-anniversary spectacular starring contempo-Christian crossover star Amy Grant,…
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Angel of an Opportunity
Dr. J. Mark Scearce was a graduate student in 1987 when he sat in a movie theater mesmerized as he watched Mickey Rourke, Robert…
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Rambling Back Home
Asheville- and Brevard-based bluegrass phenoms Steep Canyon Rangers are six players strong, four (very major) awards deep, and many decades immersed in the culture…
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