Many thanks to the wonderful Vega String Quartet for working with the students today! It was a terrific day at Emory’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. The students had a full day of coaching and rehearsals—just before the first outreach concerts kick off. Here are a handful of photos from the day.
The chamber groups are hard at work getting ready for the upcoming outreach concerts, which get underway this Tuesday, July 15. Here are a few shots of “The Gaggle Quartet”‘ preparing for their two outreach concerts on Tuesday. But that is not all that is happening this week. Tomorrow, Monday, July 14, is a full…
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We were privileged to have the Franklin Pond students take a Master Class with the ASO’s Principal Cello, Christopher Rex. Mr. Rex joined the ASO as Principal in 1979, the same year in which he became the first cellist ever to win the string prize in the biennial Young Artists Competition of the National Federation…
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Hot off the press! Even the students have not seen these photos. Enjoy!
Here are photos from mid-week–including photos from the wonderful concert by the college students and our very own Franklin Pond Quartet!
Although the students have seen some of these photos, parents have not. Enjoy these photos from the early days of our retreat at Berry College.
Here are some photos from our Sunday session before leaving the retreat. We hope you enjoy them!
Franklin Pond student, cellist and composer, Mason Johnston has just won the 2014 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Next Generation Student Composition Contest. Inspired by the moon, his new piece, Dominus, will be performed on the Atlanta Symphonys Concert for Young People called Space: Music of the Universe, conducted by Assistant Conductor Joseph Young. About 10,150 local students will attend these…
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Well, maybe not really. But Daniel Laufer will be at the Franklin Pond Retreat, and he certainly looks a lot like George Gershwin, as you can see from this photo. Compare this shot of Daniel “Piano Man” Laufer with the two images of the real George, shown below. We’re excited about the start of the…
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Tuesday, July 1, 7:30 in Barnwell Chapel. The Franklin Pond Quartet will open the concert with Haydn Quartet Op. 20 #2, and the Gershwin Lullaby, then the College Festival Sextet will perform the Brahms Sextet #1 in Bb Major, Op. 18. The concert is free and open to the public.
