Miller Theatre Presents A Composer Portrait Of BRIGHT SHENG, 12/5
by A.A. Cristi
- Nov 4, 2019
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues its 20th season of Composer Portraits with Bright Sheng featuring Curtis 20/21 Ensemble, Thursday, December 5, 2019, 8:00 P.M. at Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street)
Kaufman Music Center Announces 2019-20 Luna Composition Lab Fellows
by A.A. Cristi
- Oct 7, 2019
The 2019-20 Luna Composition Lab Fellows range in age from 13 to 17 and hail from all over the U.S., including Springfield, MO; Louisville, KY; Pasadena, CA; Los Altos, CA; and Fayetteville, NY. They are: Olivia Bennett (age 17), KiMani Bridges (age 17), Madeline Clara Cheng (age 15), Ebunoluwa Oguntola (age 14) and Sage Shurman (age 13). Honorable Mentions were awarded to Nicole Balsirow, Emily DeNucci, Helen Feng, Jordan Millar, and Emily Singleton.
Organist Paul Jacobs To Give Solo Recital At San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall
by Julie Musbach
- Sep 30, 2019
Grammy-award winning American organist Paul Jacobs will return to San Francisco Symphony's Davies Symphony Hall (201 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102) to open the organization's Organ Recital Series, Sunday afternoon, October 20, 2019, at 3 pm. His program will include an array of organ showpieces, from the intricate beauty of J.S. Bach's Passacaglia, Mozart's delightful Fantasia for clockwork organ, to Vierne's grandly scaled Organ Symphony.
Peak Performances Presents Lena Herzog's Immersive Oratorio And Adjacent Panels On Endangered Languages
by A.A. Cristi
- Sep 23, 2019
Peak Performances presents Lena Herzog's Last Whispers, an immersive AV experience dedicated to vanishing languages, accompanied by panel discussions on select days, October 16-20 at the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University. Trained in linguistics and philosophy, Herzog, also as an acclaimed photographer, has taken an ongoing interest in indigenous languages, which are disappearing at an astonishing rate. By 2050, half of roughly 7,000 languages spoken around the world will fall silent. Herzog's a?oehaunting and singulara?? (The New Yorker critic Alex Ross) immersive oratorioa?"situated at the intersection of installation art, music, and filma?"features spoken and sung recordings of more than 40 endangered or lost languages. www.lastwhispers.org
Vivian Girls Share their First Music Video in Eight Years
by Abigail Charpentier
- Sep 10, 2019
Vivian Girls have released video for 'Sludge,' the latest from their new album, Memory, their first in 8 years. The video, which was directed by Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Listen Up Philip), was shot on Hi8 in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.
OneBeat Announces Tour Concert Dates
by A.A. Cristi
- Sep 4, 2019
a??a??a??a??a??a??a??OneBeat, a cultural exchange initiative of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs produced by Bang on a Can's Found Sound Nation, is among the world's leading music diplomacy programs. From September 16 - October 12, 2019, twenty-five innovative and socially engaged musicians from seventeen countries, ranging from Algeria to Cuba to Madagascar to the United States, will participate in an intense month of musical collaboration, public performances, installations, pop-up events and workshops.
James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young and Henry Zaga to Star in THE STAND on CBS All Access
by Kaitlin Milligan
- Aug 2, 2019
CBS All Access, CBS' digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, today announced James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young and Henry Zaga have joined the cast of its original limited event series THE STAND, based on Stephen King's bestselling novel of the same name, and Stephen King will write the last chapter of the series, providing a new coda that won't be found in the book. The announcements were made by Julie McNamara, Executive Vice President of Original Content for CBS All Access, during the service's biannual Television Critics Association presentation.
Peak Performances Announces 2019-2020 Season And WNET/ALL ARTS Partnership
by A.A. Cristi
- Jun 27, 2019
Peak Performances announces its 2019-2020 season, considering the vocabularies of the body, genre and form, artistic practices and legacies, cultures, and language itself-how they persevere, disappear, or shift over time with new influences and perspectives. This season, Peak Performances offers its state-of-the-art platform to artists who work with-and sometimes against-these established vocabularies in the creation of exhilarating new performance works and the reinvigoration of preexisting texts, compositions, and choreographies. All performances take place at the Alexander Kasser Theater (1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ 07043).
Paul Jacobs to Undertake Recital Series of French Organ Music at Three Important NYC Venues
by A.A. Cristi
- Jun 5, 2019
Grammy Award-winning American organist Paul Jacobs-deemed 'a grand New York institution' by James R. Oestreich of The New York Times (February 18, 2018)- will launch the fall season by highlighting the organ on the New York concert scene, performing in a three-recital series for solo organ in September 2019. Although months in the planning, these French programs assumed new meaning the night of April 15 to 16, 2019, when the Grand Organ of Notre-Dame Cathedral survived the devastating inferno in Paris.
Penobscot Theatre Presents MAMMA MIA!
by Stephi Wild
- Jun 4, 2019
Penobscot Theatre Company, the nation's Northeastern-most professional year-round theatre company, closes its 45th Season with the international smash hit, MAMMA MIA!, dazzling audiences from June 13 - July 14. Let's get this party started!
Featured Artists Announced For 7th Resonant Bodies Festival
by A.A. Cristi
- May 29, 2019
'In equal measures intelligent, playful, ambitious and moving, the program illuminated the shape-shifting power of the human voice.' That intoxicating New York Times review of the inaugural Resonant Bodies Festival in 2013 marked its arrival as an immediately valuable contributor to the city's music scene. The festival has since evolved into something akin to New York Fashion Week for the new music set, offering a chance for buck-the-trendsetters to experience the high-energy epicenter of experimental vocal music. The flagship festival returns to Roulette this September 3-5, kicking off the concert season with three fast-paced nights of vocal luminaries and artistic renegades converging in the best 'see and be seen' creative energy New York has to offer.
Lakewood Playhouse Presents THE PRODUCERS
by Julie Musbach
- May 20, 2019
The Lakewood Playhouse is proud to present the FINAL SHOW of our Landmark 80th ANNIVERSARY SEASON: "THE PRODUCERS - A (new) MUSICAL BY MEL BROOKS!"
Toronto International Film Festival Unveils Jury for 2019 Platform Programme
by Kaitlin Milligan
- May 16, 2019
The Toronto International Film Festival is very pleased and honoured to announce that award-winning filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, newly appointed Berlinale Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian, and Variety International Film Critic Jessica Kiang will serve as the jury for the 2019 Toronto Platform Prize, an award of $20,000 CAD presented to the best film in the Festival's Platform programme.
Aly & AJ Release EP 'Sanctuary'
by Kaitlin Milligan
- May 10, 2019
Today, Iconic sister duo Aly & AJ release their five-track record Sanctuary. Their newest efforts see the two touch on themes that push the boundaries of pop, moving past break-ups and focusing on stories of identity, self-reflection and social consciousness, tucking their signature flair for romance and heartbreak on a shelf.
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