David Byrne News

The producers of the new Broadway musical, COME FLY AWAY, announced the cast today for the North American tour of the show, launching at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA, on August 2, 2011.

New York's 'intrepid' Riverside Symphony will celebrate its 30th-anniversary season at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, on Friday June 10, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. with the world premiere of Goldkind, by Anthony Korf, the orchestra's founding Artistic Director and Composer-in-Residence, and Sabina Sciubba, international pop diva/songwriter, best known for her years as frontwoman for the New York cult-band Brazilian Girls. The new work is based on an original fairytale co-penned by Sciubba and Korf. Singing and narrating, Sciubba, a riveting presence, will join Music Director and Conductor George Rothman and his Riverside Symphony musicians in this trail­blazing work, a 21st-century tribute to Prokofiev's timeless Peter and the Wolf, engaging young audiences and mature listeners alike. The collaboration in part stems from the catholic musical interests of Goldkind's creators: Korf, with his lifelong passion for jazz and pop, and Sciubba, who has closely followed classical music since her early training. Korf characterizes the collaborative experience as '...daunting but inspiring, thanks to Sabina's intuitive depth and brilliance as a performer' and also speaks of his challenge to '...incorporate with integrity' while reaching the broadest possible audience. Sciubba offers that 'writing with Anthony Korf was poetically, musically, and humanly very instructive.' She also reveals: 'Goldkind is very much inspired by my childhood, although distorted, of course, for dramatic value. I added some bizarre elements to it, which wouldn't seem credible in an autobiography.'

Lincoln Center Festival will present irrepressible Brazilian artist Tom Ze returns to New York after 12 years with "Studying Tom Ze," featuring songs from the celebrated series of albums Estudando o Samba, Estudando o Pagode, and most recently Estudando a Bossa.

The new Broadway musical, COME FLY AWAY, conceived, choreographed, and directed by Tony Award-winner Twyla Tharp and featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra, will make its Connecticut premiere at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford May 29-June 3, 2012, as part of The Bushnell's 2011-2012 Broadway Series.

Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director, Tim Sanford; Managing Director, Leslie Marcus) and New York Theatre Workshop (Artistic Director, James C. Nicola; Managing Director, William Russo) have announced that in connection with their co-production of the musical THE SHAGGS: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD, the original 1969 recording 'Philosophy of the World' by The Shaggs has been remastered and reissued on CD.

The new Broadway musical, COME FLY AWAY, conceived, choreographed, and directed by Tony Award-winner Twyla Tharp and featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra, will make its Connecticut premiere at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford May 29-June 3, 2012, as part of The Bushnell's 2011-2012 Broadway Series.

The Bengsons at Mercury Lounge 217 East Houston Street Sunday, May 8th

Celebrated by The New York Times as 'a gifted vocalist' and by The Los Angeles Times as 'one of the important and original new jazz singers of the decade,' Filipino pride Charmaine Clamor, the Queen of Jazzipino, makes her Michigan debut at the Dirty Dog Jazz Café, in Grosse Pointe Farms May 25 - 28.

The Bengsons at Mercury Lounge 217 East Houston Street Sunday, May 8th

New York's 'intrepid' Riverside Symphony will celebrate its 30th-anniversary season at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, on Friday June 10, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. with the world premiere of Goldkind, by Anthony Korf, the orchestra's founding Artistic Director and Composer-in-Residence, and Sabina Sciubba, international pop diva/songwriter, best known for her years as frontwoman for the New York cult-band Brazilian Girls. The new work is based on an original fairytale co-penned by Sciubba and Korf. Singing and narrating, Sciubba, a riveting presence, will join Music Director and Conductor George Rothman and his Riverside Symphony musicians in this trail­blazing work, a 21st-century tribute to Prokofiev's timeless Peter and the Wolf, engaging young audiences and mature listeners alike. The collaboration in part stems from the catholic musical interests of Goldkind's creators: Korf, with his lifelong passion for jazz and pop, and Sciubba, who has closely followed classical music since her early training. Korf characterizes the collaborative experience as '...daunting but inspiring, thanks to Sabina's intuitive depth and brilliance as a performer' and also speaks of his challenge to '...incorporate with integrity' while reaching the broadest possible audience. Sciubba offers that 'writing with Anthony Korf was poetically, musically, and humanly very instructive.' She also reveals: 'Goldkind is very much inspired by my childhood, although distorted, of course, for dramatic value. I added some bizarre elements to it, which wouldn't seem credible in an autobiography.'

Stars from the stage, and the big and small screen were in attendance at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. on April 30, 2011 and we were there to capture the star studded arrivals!

Frist Fridays, the Frist Center's popular summer concert series, kicks off May 27, 2011, with the Talking Heads tribute band Same As It Ever Was performing live in the Turner Courtyard.

The inaugural performance by Deviant Septet--a new collective of the country's foremost contemporary music players modeled after Igor Stravinsky's favored instrumentation of violin, bass, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, and percussion--will present an eclectic evening centered around the virtuosic piece that inspired their ensemble, Stravinsky's l'Histoire du Soldat (A Soldier's Tale), on May 26th at New York City's Greenwich Music House.

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance.

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists.

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance.

The Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet joins the previously-announced Royal Shakespeare Company and The Cleveland Orchestra, completing the trio of leading performing ensembles coming to New York this summer as part of Lincoln Center Festival 2011. Nigel Redden, Festival Director, today announced the complete Festival schedule, which runs from July 5 through August 14. In a co-presentation with the Metropolitan Opera, the renowned Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet returns to the Festival for eight performances at the Met Opera House, dancing three programs. Highlighting the company's appearance are the U.S. premieres of Anna Karenina and The Little Humpbacked Horse, evening-length ballets by critically-acclaimed choreographer Alexei Ratmansky set to music by leading Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin. A third program pairs Alberto Alonso's Carmen Suite, to Shchedrin's arrangement of Bizet's score, and George Balanchine's neo-classical masterwork Symphony in C, also with music by Bizet. Artistic Director of the Mariinsky, Valery Gergiev will conduct the Mariinsky Orchestra.

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents Cake on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 8:00pm at the Moore Theatre.

Guitarist/keyboardist/producer Jack Petruzzelli is proud to announce a riveting collaboration with multi-platinum artist Joan Osborne -- 'Love and Hate' will premiere at Lincoln Center's Allen Room on February 4th as part of the popular 'American Songbook' series.