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The Geneva Music Festival Opens this Week

By Bill Snyder | May 31, 2017

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.

Photo credit: Cavani String Quartet for the Geneva Music Festival

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