American Composers Orchestra (ACO) announces Volume 3 of Connecting ACO Community, featuring seven commissions to be premiered online on Sundays at 5pm ET between August 2 and October 4, 2020, for a ticketed audience on ACO's YouTube Channel. Each session includes a live conversation with the featured composer and performer(s), hosted by ACO Artistic Director Derek Bermel or ACO President Edward Yim, in addition to the performance.
The Met Chorus Artists Emergency Grant Fundraiser has good news to share. July 31st marks the end of their fundraising campaign and the close of their grant application. All AGMA artists who had contracts at the Met canceled due to COVID-19 and are in need of financial assistance are eligible to apply.
As ArtsQuest gets set to kick off the 37th year of Musikfest, the nonprofit's foundation is asking the community to help it raise $1 million dollars over the next two weeks to support the festival and its year-round arts and education programming for the community.
Judith Clurman commissioned Broadway arranger David Chase to arrange folk music for mixed chorus and violin. Chase, who comes from a long line of West Virginians, combined the Appalachian folk traditions together along with musical elements of Sacred Harp singing in the four-movement work, I This Old Hammer, II Pretty Saro, III Down In A Coalmine, and IV Who Will Come and Go With Me.
Today, July 27, the Broadway Advocacy Coalition is bringing #BwayforBLM back to the foreground of the conversation, this time focusing on challenging the curriculum, policies, and systems in the ways they disproportionately harm Black students with 'The Miseducation.'
Ethan Slater's new EP, Life Is Weird, now anywhere you stream music. All proceeds from the album go to Protect Native Elders and The National Bail Fund.
Magnet Theater presents The (Virtual) New York Musical Improv Festival from July 14-18, 2020 on their virtual stage at twitch.tv/themagnettheater/. Tickets are available for purchase to help keep the festival and the Magnet Theater operating, however, all are welcome to watch every show at no charge.
Tri-Cities Opera (TCO) has launched its first national vocal competition. TCO NEXT: A Virtual Vocal Competition seeks to encourage emerging professional singers by promoting new voices and new music. Singers will compete for cash prizes with a grand prize of $3000 and a contract for a future role in a Tri-Cities Opera production.
On Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 7:30pm, Works & Process at the Guggenheim will present a virtual program featuring premieres of two new works related to composer Lisa Bielawa's ongoing project, Broadcast from Home, a significant new musical work launched by Bielawa in April 2020, which creates community during the isolation of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis by featuring contributions from the public.
Manoa Valley Theatre announces new dates for its 52nd season with a stellar lineup of shows that includes a slew of Hawaii premieres, including comedy, musical comedy, drama and a local-kine Hawaii favorite.
On Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 7:30pm, Works & Process at the Guggenheim will present a virtual program featuring premieres of two new commissions related to composer Lisa Bielawa's ongoing project, Broadcast from Home, a significant new musical work launched by Bielawa in April 2020.
The Homebound Project has announced the lineup for its fourth edition of new online theater benefiting hungry children affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Co-creators Catya McMullen and Jenna Worsham, along with their all-volunteer team, are also pleased to announce that a fifth and final edition will take place August 5-9, 2020.
GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing, led by conductor Donald Nally, today is launching Series 2 of Rising w/ The Crossing: Equinox Lope, the new music ensemble's musical response to the pandemic, isolation, and quarantine.
Next up in the National Theatre at Home series of broadcasts we find a gem of a play coming straight from their archives, Lorraine Hansberry's staggeringly topical Les Blancs. Originally staged in 2016 by director Yaël Farber, it was posthumously completed by Hansberry's former husband Robert Nemiroff for a Broadway run, and then reworked by dramaturge Drew Lichtenberg, Joi Gresham (director of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust), and Farber herself for the production at the National after consulting Hansberry's journals and notes.
The Public Theater announced the world premiere of THE LINE, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen and directed by Blank, to debut on Wednesday, July 8 at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Today, Freeform announced the cast of the limited series event, a?oeLove in the Time of Corona,a?? including Tony® and GRAMMY Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. (a?oeHamiltona??), Nicolette Robinson (a?oeThe Affaira??)
