Canada's critically acclaimed Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada will mark its Toronto debut with its seminal ballet GHOSTS OF VIOLENCE, described as 'an original full-length multimedia production that puts gender-based violence centre stage. This innovative and inspirational call for awareness, understanding, and action' is on stage at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts' Bluma Appel Theatre, May 25-26, 2012.
Canada's critically acclaimed Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada proudly marks its Toronto debut with its seminal ballet GHOSTS OF VIOLENCE, an original full-length multimedia production that puts gender-based violence centre stage. This innovative and inspirational call for awareness, understanding, and action is on stage at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts' Bluma Appel Theatre, May 25-26, 2012.
On Monday, February 13 at 7:30pm, Premiere Commission will mark its 10th anniversary with a Gala Celebration at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, NYC).
On Monday, February 13 at 7:30pm, Premiere Commission will mark its 10th anniversary with a Gala Celebration at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, NYC).
Esprit Orchestra, heading into its 29th year, is proud to announce details of the 2011/2012 season. "This season, one of discovery and adventures in listening, can best be defined by the suggestive titles," explains founder and conductor Alex Pauk.
In the days following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, NPR listeners wrote that the music within the news broadcasts offered comfort and time for reflection.
'Remembering September 11,' a concert by the Wordless Music Orchestra conducted by Ryan McAdams, will commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday, September 11, 2011, at 3:30 p.m. The hour-long program is free with Museum admission.
In the days following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, NPR listeners wrote that the music within the news broadcasts offered comfort and time for reflection.
The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt, designed by the artist Faith Ringgold and created in collaboration with New York City students ages 8 to 19, will be exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from August 30, 2011 through January 22, 2012, in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education. The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt poignantly conveys the importance of respect, understanding, and communication across cultures and religions to achieve the goal of peace. Comprised of three 72-by-50 inch panels, each with 12 squares on the theme of peace, the quilt will be displayed alongside several of the students' original works of art that inspired its content, as well as related works made this summer by the Museum's high school interns.
The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt, designed by the artist Faith Ringgold and created in collaboration with New York City students ages 8 to 19, will be exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from August 30, 2011 through January 22, 2012, in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education. The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt poignantly conveys the importance of respect, understanding, and communication across cultures and religions to achieve the goal of peace. Comprised of three 72-by-50 inch panels, each with 12 squares on the theme of peace, the quilt will be displayed alongside several of the students' original works of art that inspired its content, as well as related works made this summer by the Museum's high school interns.
'Remembering September 11,' a concert by the Wordless Music Orchestra conducted by Ryan McAdams, will commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday, September 11, 2011, at 3:30 p.m. The hour-long program is free with Museum admission.
Esprit Orchestra, heading into its 29th year, is proud to announce details of the 2011/2012 season. "This season, one of discovery and adventures in listening, can best be defined by the suggestive titles," explains founder and conductor Alex Pauk.
The first Esprit Orchestra concert of 2011 features a wide variety of works, from a small gem to the humorous, to the broad and expansive. The first half of the concert features works all under 10 minutes each: José Evangelista's Symphonie minute; György Ligeti's Lux aeterna, sung by the Elmer Iseler Singers (this work is famous from the Kubrick film '2001: A Space Odyssey';) and Canadian composer Douglas Schmidt's Discouraged Passion, a humorous tale of a guy who's scared of his girlfriend's mother.
