Divine News

Trinity Church Wall Street has announced the upcoming fall music season, which will include the return of Bach at One, performances by NOVUS NY, and Handel's Messiah, alongside a new jazz concert series and dynamic collaborations.

Ars Nova has announced details for its 20th Anniversary Season, which introduces the What’s Ars Is Yours: Name Your Price ticket initiative.

BIRDLAND JAZZ CLUB will present Julie Halston – the brilliant Tony Award-winning comedic actress – on Monday, October 17 at 7:00 PM. Ms. Halston returns to the Birdland stage – live and in person – after two-and-a-half years of global pandemic Zoom meetings and green screens.

Following the news last month of her sophomore album Meet Me at the Gloaming, that is due out via Father/Daughter Records (US) / Hand In Hive (UK) and was co-produced by Madeline Kenney, Los Angeles based musician A.O. Gerber offers up another intimately-sublime cut “For” and its visually-arresting video, directed by Seannie Bryan.

The 25th South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival finished with 648 events and a record number of 11,865 artists participating in 585 venues across South Australia.

Among this season's highlights, Adelaide Festival Centre presents the 15th annual OzAsia Festival from 20 October to 6 November under Artistic Director Annette Shun Wah. Australia's leading contemporary arts festival engaging with Asia, this year's program features a bold and exciting lineup of award-winning artists performing dance, theatre, music and more. 

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine’s 2022-23 season of the Great Music in a Great Space concert series will begin with a performance by Artist in Residence David Briggs on Tuesday, September 13 at 7:30pm, preceded by a free pre-concert lecture for all ticket holders at 7pm, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue.

The group has also released '555' featuring Jon Ezzo. The track is off their upcoming album and comes on the heels of several single releases, including “Garden,” “Vancouver,” two additional songs, “Bones” and “it was all in my head,” and their most recognized track, “No (Hard) Feelings.'

The American Classical Orchestra (ACO), New York City's foremost period instrument orchestra, opens its 2022-23 season on Thursday, September 22 at Alice Tully Hall, with the first of four orchestral performances. Conducted by Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford, the concert offers symphonies by Schubert and C.P.E. Bach, in addition to showcasing the dazzling pianist Petra Somlai in one of Beethoven's most demanding concertos.

At a press conference held at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 235 nominations for the 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, which recognize excellence in professional theatre, dance and opera in Toronto.

The Junction BIA will present the dance company CORPUS, now in its 25th year! Every Saturday from September 3 to December 24, 2022, from 2 to 4 PM, CORPUS will feature a series of four FREE unique and engaging street performances at multiple locations along Dundas Street West that combine movement and theatrical imagery with surrealist humour.

Two world premieres – A Nation of Others, a new oratorio for six soloists, chorus and orchestra by Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell with the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall that brings to life one day of immigrants’ arrival at Ellis Island in 1921 (November 15, 2022); and a setting of the Stabat Mater for organ, soloists, chorus, and orchestra by David Briggs at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (March 8, 2023) – are highlights of the 2022-23 season of Kent Tritle.

There used to be an old adage in the publicity business, “any publicity is good publicity”.  However, I’m sure legendary public-relations professional Gary Schweikhart would have much preferred not to be in the headlines himself as an accident victim.  

Cappella Records will release Frank La Rocca’s Mass of the Americas (Misa de las Américas), performed by the Benedict XVI Institute’s Choir and Orchestra, directed by renowned international conductor Richard Sparks on September 23, 2022.

The newest celebrated Hamlet sequel is slated for a world premiere at Bruka Theatre in Reno next March.

On 'Orange Colossus,' 'Mother Sun skip-hop from garage rock jagged edges to swirling string arrangements and back again like Ty Segall sitting in with ELO, or King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard after downing a gallon of lemonade,' wrote storied music journalist Lior Phillips of the band's newest single.

Viral concerns during pre-production mandated another remote rendering of this year's New York Euripides Summer Festival productions of Ion and Orestes. Governed by Apollo and his instrumental function in both plays, Ion and Orestes are presented in the same double bill.

Fulcrum Arts has announced the 2022 Fulcrum Festival program. For over 20 years, Fulcrum Festival (formerly the AxS Festival) has presented a regional celebration exploring the intersections of art and science across Greater Los Angeles.

Timeless Stage & Screen, Amas Musical Theatre and The Amas Musical Theatre Lab will present staged readings of MOZART: HER STORY – THE NEW MUSICAL, with book and lyrics by Tegan Summer and music and additional lyrics by Gregory Nabours.

National Sawdust presents A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING, acclaimed interdisciplinary artist and 2018 National Sawdust Artist-in-Residence JOJO ABOT's immersive and experiential opera, made in collaboration with five-time Grammy winning musician and restorative arts devotee esperanza spalding. In this world premiere work, JOJO ABOT, an Ewe woman from Ghana, West Africa, references indigenous practices in which the feminine is a conduit for the divine.