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News from the Noteworthy: Orchestra Preps for Start of Third Season

Rosemary Summers, Thomas Wolf and Maciej Żółtowski gather around FCO’s new harpsichord in October 2023. (Photo by Tara Barnwell) News from the Noteworthy from Fenimore Chamber Orchestra Orchestra Preps for Start of Third Season Fenimore Chamber Orchestra came about as the result of a conversation held in 2021, during the height of the worldwide pandemic, by its founders Thomas Wolf, Rosemary Summers and Maestro Maciej Żołtowski. Observing that the artistically-rich community of Cooperstown lacked a chamber orchestra, and undeterred by…
August 8, 2024
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Lasting Impressions: FCO: An Ideal Realized

In this instance, Telemann has produced his own musical novel. Telemann chooses, however, the errant side of Don Quixote, as an old and crazy man. There was nothing errant about the performance presented by Maestro Maciej Żołtówski, conducting from the harpsichord, and the orchestra. The title of the movements, provided by Telemann himself, were easily evident and, especially in the case of the windmills, given loving and charming nuance.…
July 4, 2024
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Brilliant Debut of Fenimore Chamber Orchestra

Brilliant Debut of Fenimore Chamber Orchestra By T. Stephen Wager Maestro Maciej Żółtowski with members of Fenimore Chamber Orchestra In these days when so much strife is to be found seemingly everywhere in the world, the genesis of any new orchestra is a unifying element to the human spirit. This was how Thomas Wolf described it on August 27 during the opening celebrations of Fenimore Chamber Orchestra at its debut concert. Mr. Wolf is Chair of the Governing Board of…
September 1, 2022

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