Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Staunton: a new string mecca


The Heifetz International Music Institute, Daniel Heifetz’s career-development program for teenage and young-adult string players, is moving its summer program to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton.

With the program’s arrival, Staunton gets the substantial bonus of thrice-weekly concerts by the institute’s students and faculty in July and August 2012, the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Holly Prestidge reports:

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/flair/2011/sep/13/tdmet02-heifetz-international-music-institute-movi-ar-1304623/