With fall weather rapidly approaching, the Jamestown Concert Association is gearing up for a new season of hosting performances by classically trained, world-class musicians in the Jamestown area.The 2016-17 season, which officially kicks off Friday, Oct. 21, will feature a monthly series of ...

Today marks exactly 15 years since the passing of my first and most influential music mentor.On Oct. 13, 2001, Jeremy Wright Kinnear died in the early morning hours of his 21st birthday as the result of a hit-and-run accident in Fredonia.But despite his short time with us, the 1999 Southwestern ...

ST. BONAVENTURE - The Verona String Quartet will play works by Haydn, Ravel and Shostakovich in a performance at 7:30 p.m. Friday at St. Bonaventure University's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.It is the second concert of the 2016-17 Friends of Good Music performance season.The Verona ...

Back in my college days, as an adjunct to my part-time job as a newspaper sports writer, I assisted in radio broadcasts of some basketball games."You sound good," I was told. Some people also told me that while my voice sounded good, I had nothing interesting to say. Hah! Probably fans of the ...

I remember starting off every school day by standing, facing the good old Red, White and Blue and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. We would all kind of murmur together, staring at the flag with our hands over our hearts.From a very young age, we learned that pledge and said it every day until ...

What do you think of when you hear the term metamorphosis? My mind immediately goes to the change that a moth undergoes to become a butterfly although Webster's defines it merely as a change in shape or form.One summer years ago we did a VBS program that had a song about the butterfly. It said, ...