Spy Review: Isidore String Quartet Interlude by Steve Parks
The Isidore String Quartet, riding high after back-to-back years as winner of Canada’s prestigious Banff International String Quartet Competition (2022) and an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2023) put their credentials to inspired effect in their Chesapeake Music Interlude concert Saturday night. Never mind that the program listed a trio of pieces by dead European composers. The concert was adventurous enough with Bartok’s atonally immersive riff that critics derided as “barbaric” when his second string quartet debuted during World War I. But Ravel’s ground-breaking early career ... [Continue Story]
Arts Highlights
Mid-Shore Arts: A Spy Check-in with the Avalon’s Al Bond and Jessica Davies
There were two things on Al Bond's mind for the latest Spy check-in with the president of Avalon Foundation. The first was the introduction of Jessica ... [Continue Story]
- A Landmark Reimagined: The Revival of Easton’s Waterfowl Building
- Founded in Gratitude: Celebrating 20 Years of Plein Air Easton
- A Personal Look at the Wyeth Family of Artists: A Conversation with Victoria Wyeth
- Easton Art Galleries Host Plein Air Shows by Steve Parks
- Mid-Shore Arts: The Factory Takes on A Streetcar Named Desire for Plein Air
- David Faleris Appointed New Full-Time Executive Director of Chesapeake Music
- Mystery Artist: Who Knows Anything about this Mid-Shore Painting and Painter
- Virtuoso Cellist Sterling Elliott to Perform at the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival By James Carder
- Concert Review: Chestertown’s National Festival by Steve Parks
- Concert Review: Chamber Music Fest Opening Night, by Steve Parks
- From CPA to Creative Leader: Bernard Dellario Ignites a New Era of Art Education at the AAM
- Dar Williams & Friend Together in Song at the Avalon by Steve Parks
Looking at the Masters with Beverly Smith
Looking at the masters: autumn in Europe
“Autumn Frost” (1874) (18”x22”), by Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley (1830-1899), is a depiction of what French travel advisors describe as “one of ... [Continue Story]
- Looking At The Masters: American Autumn
- Looking at the Masters: Sonia Terk Delaunay
- Looking At The Masters: Gustav Klimt
- Looking at the Masters: Max Liebermann
- Looking at the Masters: Hebe
- Looking at the Masters: Black Figure Vases
- Looking at the Masters: Mycenae
- Looking at the Masters: Knossos, Crete
- Looking at the Masters: Orpheus
- Looking at the Masters: Audrey Flack
Design with Jenn Martella
My first introduction to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum was during a visit to my sister over the July 4th weekend in 2003. We joined the throng ... [Continue Story]
- Design with Jenn Martella: A Visit to Wings and Whitetail Farm
- Design with Jenn Martella: A Classic Cape Cod Cottage in Chestertown
- Design with Jenn Martella: 105 Cannon St. After the Work is Done
- Design with Jenn Martella: A Study in Scarlet
- Design with Jenn Martella: Modern Meets Rancher
- Design with Jenn Martella: Haven on High Street
Weather Report with Cece Storm
The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for September 30 to October 1 “Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all ... [Continue Story]
Delmarva Review
Delmarva Review: Dry Eye by Jean McDonough
Editor’s Note: Jean McDonough’s personal essay, Dry Eye, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction and was selected for inclusion in the ... [Continue Story]
- Delmarva Review: Cadence by K. Alma Peterson
- Delmarva Review: You Learn Transaction, Before Anything Else by Marlowe Jones
- Delmarva Review: Now Dimming by Mercedes Lawry
- Delmarva Review: Un Bouquet de Debra, a Story by Curt Saltzman
- Delmarva Review: Last Swim Class by Pam Crow
- Delmarva Review: Petrarch’s Cat a story by John J. McKeon
- Delmarva Review: Revision by Kathy Nelson
- Delmarva Review: On Making Marmalade by Erin Rose Belair
- Delmarva Review: Staging a Plantation Home by Susan Bucci Mockler
- Delmarva Review: Hydrangeas by Elly Meeks
Chesapeake Lens
Chesapeake Lens: “Icons” By Tim Mangus
A Skipjack and a Buy Boat; twin icons of the Chesapeake Bay and its oystering past. ... [Continue Story]
Arts Notes
“My Home is Nowhere”, a new play by Robert Earl Price, presented as a table reading, Oct 18 & 19.
In the winter of 2024, the Kent Cultural Alliance commissioned playwright Robert Earl Price to write a new play on the theme of Home. The KCA ... [Continue Story]
- Bookplate Author Event: Anthony D. Fredericks’ “In Search of the Old Ones: An Odyssey Among Ancient Trees”
- Tred Avon Players announces auditions for PLAZA SUITE
- Third annual Plein Air Adkins is Nov. 2 at Adkins Arboretum
- Jazz Pianist Dick Durham returns to The Mainstay for his much awaited annual concert
- Working Artists Forum to showcase at 2024 Waterfowl Festival
- Cast chosen for Ride The Cyclone at Church Hill Theatre
- Kent Cultural Alliance launches 2025 project grant cycle for arts and culture initiatives
- Studio B Art Gallery to Showcase Workshop Artists and New Works by Master Jove Wang
- The Garfield to present The SOBs, Yale’s Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, Friday, October 18th.
- October Bookplate Events!