CAP UCLA Presents Nadia Sirota: Living Music Live! With Wild Up by BWW News Desk
- December 06, 2018 UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Nadia Sirota: Living Music LIVE! with Wild Up featuring Andrew Norman and Caroline Shaw on Saturday, Jan. 12, at 8 p.m. at The Theatre at Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles. Tickets for $29–$59 are available now at cap.ucla.edu and theatre.acehotel.com, 310-825-2101 and The Theatre at Ace Hotel box office.
Pittance Chamber Music Presents Piano Quartets With Robert Thies At Pasadena Conservatory Of Music by BWW News Desk
- December 05, 2018 Pittance Chamber Music, known for featuring the extraordinary resident artists of the Los Angeles Opera pit and stage, presents Piano Quartets with Robert Thies, the second concert of the 2018/19 season taking place in Barrett Hall at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music on January 20, 2019 at 3:00 p.m.
Tafelmusik Tours US With Tales Of Two Cities by BWW News Desk
- December 03, 2018 At a Time of Worldwide Uncertainty Regarding Immigration, Tales of Two Cities Explores How Cultures Enriched Each Other in 18th Century German & Syrian Coffee Houses
American Composer Gordon Getty To Celebrate 85th Birthday Dec. 20 by BWW News Desk
- November 30, 2018 American composer Gordon Getty celebrates his 85th birthday on December 20, 2018. Mr. Getty's music has been widely performed in North America and Europe in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, London's Royal Festival Hall, Vienna's Brahmssaal, and Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall and Bolshoi Theatre, as well as at the Aspen, Spoleto, and Bad Kissingen Festivals.
Thierry Fischer And Utah Symphony Release First CD Of Three-volume Saint-Saens Recording Cycle On Hyperion Records by BWW News Desk
- November 29, 2018 The Utah Symphony under Music Director Thierry Fischer launches a recording cycle of works by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns on Hyperion Records. This three-volume set will be the first complete, commercial recording of the composer's five symphonies by an American orchestra, as well as the orchestra's first recording project with the independent British label. Volume 1 is released on Friday, December 28 and comprises Symphony No. 3 in C minor (“Organ”), featuring Paul Jacobs; “Danse Bacchanale” from Act III of the composer's opera Samson et Dalila; and Trois tableaux symphoniques d'après La foi, based on the composer's incidental music for a play by Eugène Brieux. Pre-orders are currently available from hyperion-records.co.uk.
New York String Orchestra Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Two Concerts Led by Jaime Laredo by BWW News Desk
- November 28, 2018 Celebrating its 50th year, the New York String Orchestra Seminar (a program of the Mannes School of Music) presents its two annual holiday concerts in December, led by conductor Jaime Laredo, who is concurrently celebrating 26 years with NYSO. This year's orchestra is comprised of 64 musicians (ages 16–23), selected after a rigorous audition process, hailing from more than 20 US states as well as Canada, Australia, China, Korea, and Taiwan. They are joined on stage at Carnegie Hall by notable guest artists and more than 20 NYSO alumni to celebrate and kick off the program's milestone anniversary.
Exclusive Listen: Eric Anthony Lopez's Showstopping Aria From Terrence McNally's MASTER CLASS by BWW News Desk
- November 26, 2018 American Idol's Eric Anthony Lopez, who is currently starring opposite Janet Ulrich Brooks (Chicago Premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience, Divergent,) in Terrence McNally's MASTER CLASS in Chicago, for which he received rave reviews from The ChicagoSunTimes, Chris Jones of The Chicago Tribune, BroadwayWorld & StageCinema Magazine.
Piffaro Presents Holiday Concert A FRENCH NOEL by BWW News Desk
- November 20, 2018 Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, will evoke Christmas Eve in 16th century France in its annual holiday concert, A French Noel. Philadelphia-based vocal ensemble Les Canards Chantants and Washington, DC-based actors Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell join Piffaro's instrumentalists. Concerts take place December 21-22 in Philadelphia and Wilmington. Tickets are $29-$49 (youth & full-time students free with ID) and are available at www.piffaro.org or by calling 215-235-8469.
Artist Series Concerts Rings In The Holidays With Acclaimed All Female Brass Ensemble Seraph Brass by BWW News Desk
- November 16, 2018 Artists Series Concerts of Sarasota rings in the holidays with “Classical Holiday Brass,” featuring Seraph Brass, a quintet made up of America's finest female brass players, Saturday, December 15, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, December 16, 3:00 p.m., at the Historic Asolo Theater, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota. Known for their captivating programming and diverse body of repertoire, the quintet's holiday program will include such holiday favorites as selections from “The Nutcracker,” “Bells of Christmas,” “Joy to the World” and other carols for brass. The program also features Vivaldi's Winter, Movement 1 from “The Four Seasons,” Grieg's “Holberg Suite,” Liszt's “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2,” and more. Tickets are $25 - $45 and are available online at www.artistseriesconcerts.org or by calling 941-306-1202, Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Student tickets for the concert, priced at $10, are available with current student ID at the door.
Young American Pianist Thomas Nickell To Give Solo Recital At SubCulture by BWW News Desk
- November 15, 2018 20-year old pianist Thomas Nickell, an artist with 'an ever-increasing reputation as a player's player and composer' (Litchfield Live, 23 Jul 2017) will perform in solo recital at New York's downtown venue, SubCulture (45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs, New York, NY 10012) today evening, November 15, 2018 at 7:30 pm, presented by Alexander & Buono International. The program, entitled Impromptus and Meditations, will include works by Scriabin, Schubert, Messiaen, and Liszt; Mr. Nickell will also give the premiere of two of his own original compositions.
Alex Roose and Graham Bell Come to Kent Town by BWW News Desk
- November 14, 2018 It has been a glorious season of 2018 Winter and Spring Concerts@KentTown but alas we've now come to the end of this delightful series for this year.
Vancouver's Gospel Choir Brings 'Good Tidings' For 15th Anniversary Season by BWW News Desk
- November 14, 2018 Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir (Good Noise) presents their beloved sell-out holiday concert, Good Tidings! A Good Noise Gospel Christmas, December 14 at 8pm & December 15 at 3pm and 8pm at Christ Church Cathedral. For the second year in a row and by popular demand, Good Noise will be joined by critically acclaimed Canadian jazz singer Maureen Washington in a glorious evening of gospel, soul, and jazz Christmas favourites. With infectious energy and deeply felt arrangements, this Good Noise Gospel Christmas will have audiences dancing in the aisles in joyous celebration of the holidays.
EMV Presents Bach Collegium In Transcendent Concert At Chan Centre by BWW News Desk
- November 14, 2018 Early Music Vancouver presents Bach Collegium Japan (BCJ) - Bach, Handel, Vivaldi on December 9, 2018 at 3pm at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC. Widely recognized as one of the world's leading ensembles specializing in the works of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries, Bach Collegium Japan and acclaimed British soprano Joanne Lunn, led by music director Masaaki Suzuki perform a concert of music by J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, as well as shorter works by Conti, Marcello, and Telemann.
Lunar New Year Concert Features Kahchun Wong in His Philharmonic Debut by BWW News Desk
- November 14, 2018 The New York Philharmonic will celebrate the Lunar New Year, welcoming the Year of the Pig with a Gala and Concert led by Kahchun Wong in his Philharmonic debut on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
New World Symphony Receives $500,000 Gift From Robert And Diane Moss To Establish 'Fund For New Ventures' by BWW News Desk
- November 14, 2018 The Fund for New Ventures will provide the New World Symphony (NWS) with artistic risk capital to fund innovative new programs, projects, productions, and experiments at their earliest stage of development. Long-time supporters of the New World Symphony, Robert and Diane Moss, established the Fund with a generous gift of $500,000 from their donor-advised fund at The Miami Foundation, the Helena Rubinstein Philanthropic Fund.
String Quartet ETHEL Celebrates The Circus At BAM 11/14-17 by BWW News Desk
- November 14, 2018 As part of the string quartet's 20th anniversary season, ETHEL returns to BAM with Circus: Wandering City, a multimedia musical journey into the history of the iconic Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that explores and honors the complex relationship between circus troupes, their performers, and the audiences they inspired.
Explore Poland's Musical Innovation And Heritage At Carnegie Hall, Today by BWW News Desk
- November 14, 2018 The Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera presents the North American premiere of its heralded Voices of the Mountains program at Carnegie Hall in New York in a one-night-only performance on November 14, 2018. Voices of the Mountains is an interactive, multimedia concert featuring projections and inspired by the music of the Polish Highlands. The evening includes works by esteemed Polish composers Wojciech Kilar, Karol Szymanowski, Henryk Miko?aj Górecki, and Mieczys?aw Kar?owicz, in modern arrangements by the young Polish composer Jan Smoczy?ski.
NY Premiere Of Multimedia Version Of Handel's ISRAEL IN EGYPT Comes to Carnegie Hall by BWW News Desk
- November 13, 2018 MasterVoices and its 150 choristers opens its 77th season on Wednesday, November 28 at 8 pm at Carnegie Hall when the ensemble's Artistic Director Ted Sperling leads the New York premiere of a multi-media version of Handel's Israel in Egypt. The timely oratorio of exile and displacement is reflecting the biblical account of the heroic flight of Israelites enslaved in Pharaonic Egypt and their crossing the Red Sea.
RUDY 25th Anniversary Celebration Announced At Microsoft Theater by BWW News Desk
- November 13, 2018 When people say dreams don't come true, tell them about Rudy. CineConcerts announces a once-in-a-lifetime live concert event: the 25th anniversary celebration of Rudy In Concert, live at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on March 30, 2019. Conducted by Justin Freer, the 80-piece Hollywood Chamber Orchestra will perform Oscar? and Emmy?-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith's complete score live while the entire film is projected on a massive 40-foot HD screen. This 1993 American biographical sports film's first live concert premiere will help raise funds for The University of Notre Dame and regional Southern California high schools with support from The CineConcerts Foundation. Special guests including Sean Astin, Rudy Ruettiger, director David Anspaugh, writer Angelo Pizzo, producer Cary Woods and more will take part in a pre-show on-stage panel to discuss the film, music, and the magic of the film and story 25 years later. Tickets go on sale Friday, Nov 16 at 10A PST at AXS.COM.