Comment on Rockport Chamber Music Festival puts focus on the future

It wouldn’t be fair to say that Barry Shiffman cares more about what happens offstage than he does onstage.The Rockport Music artistic director does care what happens onstage. You can see that in an instant, with his first summer festival about to begin, and performers like the Emerson, Dover and Brentano string quartets, sensational young singers like Davóne Tines and Samantha Hankey, soloists like Yekwon Sunwoo, Colin Carr, Stephen Prutsman - almost two dozen [...]