Houston Symphony Music Director Andres Orozco-Estrada leads the orchestra in Ravel's La valse Jan. 24 and 26 at 8 p.m. and Jan. 27 at 2:30 p.m. at Jones Hall. Written by the composer of the famed Bolero, La valse is Ravel's tribute to a bygone Vienna, opening with a musical depiction of whirling clouds that reveal waltzing couples. The waltz rhythms become increasingly dramatic and urgent, sweeping everything before them by the piece's end.
Irish Arts Center (IAC), a multidisciplinary center dedicated to bringing people of all backgrounds together through the excellence and dynamism of Irish arts and culture, announces its Spring 2019 season a cross-section of the exhilarating theater, music, dance, literature, art, and genre-defying performance coming from Ireland and Irish America, alongside educational events engaging participants with an array of rich traditions. With performances as wide-ranging as Margaret McAuliffe's acclaimed one-woman play The Humours of Bandon, Declan O'Rourke's epic song cycle Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine, and Paul Muldoon's performance adaptation of a 1773 Irish poem, IAC provides an intimate home for artists' boldest visions. As construction on IAC's landmark permanent new home in Hell's Kitchen takes place just beyond the organization's original location, IAC's vast ambition and accomplishment will be on full display, outside and in, throughout Spring 2019.
Rudimental tease the British four-piece's third studio album 'Toast To Our Differences' with a new tune presenting a smooth, bubbling groove 'Scared Of Love' featuring Ray BLK and Stefflon Don. Bursting with classic house flavors, the track lands as a peak-time, feel good jam, elevated by Ray BLK's glistening vocal hooks and Stefflon Don's sharp, rapid-fire verses, spotlighting just how bold, diverse and expansive the Rudimental sound has become. Having already debuted three singles from the new album 'Toast To Our Differences' so far– smash hit UK #1 'These Days' ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen, the biggest-selling record of 2018 in the UK, 'Let Me Live' (prod. with Major Lazer) ft. Anne Marie & Mr. Eazi and 'Walk Alone' ft. Tom Walker – 'Scared Of Love' sees Rudimental pair up with Ray BLK and Stefflon Don on a record for the first time – LISTEN HERE!
Two-time Grammy-nominated and millions-selling progressive music titans Dream Theater have released another song from their recently announced 14th studio album, Distance Over Time. “Fall Into The Light” is the second new song from the album slated for worldwide release on February 22, 2019. The new song builds upon the excitement that the band created in December with the release of the first track from Distance Over Time, “Untethered Angel,” that has been viewed over 1.5 million times in 4 weeks since its release. “Fall Into The Light” is a riff-driven, epic musical experience that takes the listener on a 7-minute emotional journey, something Dream Theater does all too well. The video for “Fall Into The Light” can be seen here!
Artistic Director Chay Yew and Managing Director Erica Daniels announce an addition to the 2018-2019 Victory Gardens season the Chicago Premiere of If I Forget, written by Steven Levenson and directed by Devon de Mayo. If I Forget runs June 7 July 7, 2019, with the press performance on Friday, June 14, 2019 at 7:30pm at Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue.
ODC Theater is pleased to open its 2019 Season, February 14 – 16, with the world premiere of DIVINING, choreographed by Katie Faulkner for little seismic dance company. Created with a quartet of Bay Area dancers, and featuring a commissioned score by Ben Juodvalkis, Divining is a physical investigation of embodied forms of knowing, from prayer to palm reading to water witching. Performances run Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m.
Spring activities for the Centennial, which continues through all of 2019, include a wide range of performances, film screenings, discussions, education initiatives, community programming, and new works by other artists in conversation with Merce Cunningham's work.
In a revival version never before staged on the West Coast, David Henry Hwang's audacious, Tony Award-winning M. BUTTERFLY - inspired by a bizarre true story of illusion, obsession and betrayal - will open at ArtsWest on January 24. Performances will run Thursday through Sunday until February 17.
In the age of iPhones, social media and ever-growing technology it can be easy to forget the immense power of a young child's own imagination. But building a magical world of her own creation doesn't seem to be much of a problem for singer/songwriter Penelope Robin, who's lyrics bring these feelings to light in her latest single and music video “Some Girls”.
Actors' Theatre of Columbus presents its 2019 season, 'Tainted Love.' This season's theme is about all of the mishaps and miseries of love: familial, romantic, human. As Lysander predicted in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, 'The course of true love never did run smooth.'
Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters Swallow The Sun release new track 'Upon The Water'. Listen to 'Upon The Water' HERE. The song is a first glimpse of the band's forthcoming release When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light, which is set for release on January 25th, 2019.
This Past Sunday, December 23rd, 2018 was the perfect Christmas entertainment for so many families, including me, that was filled with fun before, during and after this fabulous show. If you haven't gone to see it, you still have this next weekend to experience a fun-filled pre-show, star-studded filled-with-fun and laughs performances including a special appearance by the one-and-only Kermit The Frog!
It is guaranteed to entertain and satisfy your entire family, especially children. It is the perfect way to enjoy a family outing for the Holidays.
Mary Poppins Returns officially opened in theaters everywhere on December 18! Now that the film is widely available, let's see what the critics are saying!
Award-winning multidisciplinary designer and filmmaker Francesca Molteni is the link between two events taking place on January 21 and 22, 2019 presented by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto (IIC). One of Wallpaper Magazine's "favourite enterprising design women in Milan," Francesca Molteni is the scion of the Molteni furniture empire and founder of the creative lab Muse Factory of Projects. Her film Volevo essere Walt Disney (I wanted to be Walt Disney), an homage to design and architecture giant Alessandro Mendini, will screened at the Design Exchange on January 21 at 6:30 PM. Molteni's curatorial eye, together with that of regular collaborator Maria Cristina Didero, is also behind From A to Zaven, an exhibition by Venice-based design studio Zaven that opens January 22 at 6:30 PM at the IIC. Independent design curator Maria Cristina Didero is known for her expertise in Italian Radical design and has been dubbed "Milan's coolest curator" by Architectural Digest USA.
Newton Faulkner this week announces that he will kick off a year celebrating a decade in music with the release of his new single 'Wish I Could Wake Up' which is released on Friday 14 December across all platforms. Continuing into 2019, his new album 'The Very Best Of Newton Faulkner…So Far' will start an incredible year for Newton which will include a UK tour also announced for Spring 2019. Tickets go on general on sale at 9am on Friday 14 December, with the album available to pre-order here.
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Founding Artistic Director Steven Maler announced the cast of the second production of its 2018-19 Season: Birdy, adapted by Naomi Wallace from the novel by William Wharton, and directed by Steven Maler. The production runs February 27 through March 10 at the Carling-Sorenson Theater at Babson College in Wellesley.
Atlanta hitmaker, K Camp, releases the video for 'Cherish My Dawgs,' a standout single from his recently released RARE Sound album. Directed by BRUME, the vintage black and white visual is a tribute to K Camp's inner circle and the memory of Jeffrey 'Lil Jeff' Warford II.
