BDN advances chamber music program
The Bangor Daily News published a feature article on musician and teacher Laurie Smukler ahead of her all-Bartok program at 3 p.m. Feb. 7 at the University of Maine’s Minsky Recital Hall. Smukler, who is on the faculty of The Juilliard School in New York City, will perform on violin with pianist Robert McDonald. The program will include Bela Bartok’s Rhapsody No. 1, Deuxieme Sonata and Premiere Sonata for violin and piano, according to the article. Smukler has taught at Purchase College Conservatory of Music and Bard College Conservatory of Music, both in New York, and for years she has worked in Maine, returning to Blue Hill each summer to teach at Kneisel Hall, the article states.