Moo Kim

Music nonprofit LiveConnections' 2017-18 concert series, which features collaborative concerts especially for adventurous music-lovers, dares to ask a bold question: Can music build community?

Music nonprofit LiveConnections' 2017-18 concert series, which features collaborative concerts especially for adventurous music-lovers, dares to ask a bold question: Can music build community?

LiveConnections, the Philadelphia-based organization that creates unique programs which inspire learning and build community through collaborative music-making, will honor Youngmoo Kim, director of Drexel University's ExCITe Center, with the 3rd annual Connector Award at this year's Big Hurrah.

Music nonprofit LiveConnections' 2017-18 concert series, which features collaborative concerts especially for adventurous music-lovers, dares to ask a bold question: Can music build community?

LiveConnections, the Philadelphia-based organization that creates unique programs which inspire learning and build community through collaborative music-making, will honor Youngmoo Kim, director of Drexel University's ExCITe Center, with the 3rd annual Connector Award at this year's Big Hurrah.

Former Opera Philadelphia Composer in Residence Lembit Beecher debuts his latest work, Sophia's Forest, this September. This inventive chamber opera scored for five voices, custom-built sound sculptures, string quartet and percussion will premiere September 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. in the Black Box Theater at the URBN Center Annex at Drexel University, 3401 Filbert Street. Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch wrote the libretto. Tickets cost $25 for General Admission and $15 for Students and Seniors. Tickets and more information are available at: lembitbeecher.com/treeofsound/.

On Monday and Tuesday, January 11 and 12, the worlds of ballet, modern, contemporary, tap, jazz, and Broadway converged on the stage of Cedar Lake for Dance from the Heart | MEN, a four performance / two day festival of dance benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS (DRA) a fundraising program of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS.

Led by dancer, choreographer, singer, and artistic director Janis Brenner, the seven-member Janis Brenner & Dancers conveys a myriad of stories through movement in 5 Decades - an evening of both retrospection and celebration that reconnects generations past with the present.

Led by dancer, choreographer, singer, and artistic director Janis Brenner, the seven-member Janis Brenner & Dancers conveys a myriad of stories through movement in 5 Decades - an evening of both retrospection and celebration that reconnects generations past with the present.

Led by dancer, choreographer, singer, and artistic director Janis Brenner, the seven-member Janis Brenner & Dancers conveys a myriad of stories through movement in 5 Decades - an evening of both retrospection and celebration that reconnects generations past with the present.

Led by dancer, choreographer, singer, and artistic director Janis Brenner, the seven-member Janis Brenner & Dancers conveys a myriad of stories through movement in 5 Decades - an evening of both retrospection and celebration that reconnects generations past with the present.