Swann hears the phrase again . . . And it was so particular, it had a charm so individual, which no other charm could have replaced, that Swann felt as though he had encountered in a friend’s drawing room a person [Read More]

TIME FLOW: THE BEGINNING & THE END,  SEPT 2017 Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, /  Time let me [Read More]

ATLANTIC CROSSINGS, APRIL 2017 Dear friends, Long before I had ever held a flute up to my lips, or had ever heard the names Copland, Ravel, or Strauss, I was given a little music box of two Viennese figures in dirndls, [Read More]

Message from the Director, February 2017 My child, my sister, Think of the sweetness/ Of going to live there together! To love free from care/ To love and to die, In the land that is the image of you! The misty [Read More]

Dear Friends, As I write this message during Thanksgiving weekend, with my two kitties, Daphne and Chloe, obsessively surveying the bird feeder, a steaming cup of Earl Grey tea next to a multitude of candles on the coffee table, and an [Read More]

Dear Friends, If you’ve been coming to Mistral concerts for a while, then you probably know that there are certain themes which live deep within my DNA, color my day to day living, and guide my artistic choices: memory, love, and [Read More]

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