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The Catskill Choral Society celebrates ‘The Seasons’

By Bill Snyder | May 1, 2018

We hear from Catskill Choral Society music director G. Roberts Kolb who is leading them in two performances of Franz Joseph Haydn exuberant oratorio ‘The Seasons’. Maestro Kolb has produced a new English edition of the work.

Photo credit: Catskill Choral Society

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