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Geneva Music Festival Highlights Women in Music
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The Geneva Music Festival opens on May 24 and goes through June 16th in various venues in and around Geneva.
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The Geneva Music Festival opens on May 24 and goes through June 16th in various venues in and around Geneva.
It’s been a week since Tracy Mitrano won the tight Democratic primary in New York’s 23rd Congressional district. The 23rd covers the western Southern Tier, the Finger Lakes and includes Ithaca, Geneva and Hornell. Mitrano is campaigning at rallies across the district this week.
The Smith Center for the Arts presents the 5th Annual Scott LaFaro Day Celebration Concert on Saturday, April 7 in the Smith Opera House in Geneva. Bassist Marc Johnson joins us to talk about Scott’s legacy as a a ground-breaking jazz bassist. He is joined on the concert by his wife, Grammy-winning pianist and composer Eliane Elias, and Marc will even play a few number on Scott’s double bass.
Photo Credit: Jos Knaepen
Opera Ithaca presents Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ in two performances.
Geneva Light Opera presents Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s dramma giocoso ‘Don Giovanni’. Jimi James, the baritone singing the title role, joins us along with General Manager Gena Rangel to talk about this unique and challenging work that runs the gamut from high drama to slapstick comedy. https://wskg.org/audio/genevadon.mp3
Photo credit: Kevin Schoonover for Geneva Light Opera
The Geneva Music Festival opens this week. Geoffrey Herd, the director and also one of the performers, talks about the wide-ranging music being performed in the festival, and about the rather wide-ranging venues for them. https://wskg.org/audio/genevagoeff.mp3
Photo credit: Cavani String Quartet for the Geneva Music Festival