02.22.2019 Around the Island Shelter Island Friends of Music season kicks off with Tanaka and Shtrykov One of the advantages of attending and enjoying musical events over many years is that the listener hears works from an ever-expanding catalogue of composers.
02.13.2019 Around the Island Clarinet-piano duo comes to the Island BY JOHN MILLER To the great relief of music-starved Islanders, the Shelter Island Friends of Music will commence its 2019 Season on Sunday, February 17 at 3 p.m.,...
04.03.2018 News An act of defiance: How the music of Verdi inspired courage and hope In 1941, a young Czech conductor named Rafael Schächter was arrested and sent to Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp outside of Prague. Like other concentration camps in Europe, tens of...
10.13.2016 Around the Island Movies at the Library: Zeffirelli’s dazzling ‘La Traviata’ The Shelter Island “Movies at the Library” series continues Tuesday, October 18 with a screening of Guiseppi Verdi’s opera “La Traviata.” Acclaimed as the best film version of an...