The Wallis Announces Season of Theater, Dance, Music, Film, Cabaret, Conversation, and Family Entertainment
by Stephi Wild - Jun 1, 2022
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts has announced a robust and distinctive range of performances, programs, and events for the 2022/2023 season, including two world premieres, one U.S. premiere, one West Coast Premiere, and one Los Angeles Premiere, featuring groundbreaking produced and presented works in theater, dance, music, film, cabaret, conversation, and family entertainment.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Announces Fall 2020 Digital Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 22, 2020
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has announced a Fall Season of digital concerts to replace each of the performances originally scheduled for Alice Tully Hall -- Front Row Mainstage, 16 newly-curated concerts drawn from CMS's vast archive of high-quality recordings.
Sarah Gibson World Premiere Plus Beethoven Chamber Works In LACO's In Focus Series
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 30, 2020
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's (LACO) three-program In Focus series explores during the 2019-20 season Beethoven's great chamber works and also includes works by Strauss, Mendelssohn and Schumann, as well as a LACO-commissioned world premiere by composer/pianist Sarah Gibson, a?oea serious talent to watcha?? (Atlanta Journal Constitution), which features the composer on piano and was inspired by Clara Schumann on the 200th anniversary of her birthday. Curated by Concertmaster Margaret Batjer and highlighting an array of LACO artists plus, this season, special guests pianist Andrew von Oeyen and the Miró Quartet, In Focus provides insights into the quintessence of some of the great chamber music repertoire through the lens of LACO artists in an intimate setting with each program presented in back-to-back performances on Thursdays at First Presbyterian of Santa Monica and Fridays at San Marino's The Huntington, at 7:30 pm. Batjer leads Strauss' Metamorphosen for String Septet and Beethoven's Septet for Winds and Strings on February 20 and 21, 2020; von Oeyen, a pianist lauded for his a?oeindisputable gifts and an extravagantly thorough and effortless techniquea?? (Los Angeles Times), is featured on Beethoven's Piano Trio and Schumann's Piano Quintet on a program that also includes the Gibson world premiere on April 2 and 3, 2020; and the Miró Quartet, a?oea marvel of single-minded phrasing and airtight ensemblea?? (Washington Post), performs Beethoven's String Quartet No. 12 and Mendelssohn's String Octet on April 30 and May 1, 2020.
Meet the Cast of WEST SIDE STORY - Now in Previews on Broadway!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 10, 2019
West Side Story is officially in previews on Broadway! The new production is directed by Tony Award winner Ivo van Hove; and for the first time ever in the United States, will feature all-new choreography by the internationally acclaimed Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. West Side Story will begin previews on December 10, 2019 and open February 6th, 2020 at the Broadway Theatre.