Although I usually try to write something about the music that we hear at the Via Salzburg concerts, I want to write a little bit about Via Salzburg itself. Not so much the group as a whole, but about the people who make up that group. Not long ago I attended the annual Via Salzburg [...]

Without wishing in any way to be morbid, I would like to discuss the importance of the theme of death in some of the music in the upcoming concert, specifically the Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. It’s not hard to see how this piece of music might be associated with mourning, with its elegiac [...]