Michael Barrett, CEO and General Director of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, today announced the lineup for the 2011 Caramoor International Music Festival, which opens on June 25 and offers enormous appeal to all audiences with a rich array of artists and repertoire from the worlds of classical, jazz, Latin, pop and American Roots music. The 66th season of this iconic summer festival - which is held annually at the Center's distinguished 90-acre garden estate in Katonah, New York - will run from June 25 to August 10.
Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook, which explores the best of the golden age of musical standards through to the best in current songwriting, will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song. Week Three is a Grammy Awards fest, as three of the four acts are current and past nominees. On February 2nd one can experience life in the Piedmont hills of the Carolinas via the vibrant sound of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. This three-piece string band plays old-time roots music with virtuoso playing of the banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica, jug and more. Next up is the crown princess of bossa nova, Bebel Gilberto. Gilberto has taken classic bossa nova rhythms and mixed them with modern pop - for a sound that is up for a Grammy this year. On February 4th perennial Grammy nominee Joan Osborne will perform an emotionally-charged work she has written with Jack Petruzzelli: Love and Hate - A Song Cycle. On February 5th, actress/singer Anika Noni Rose, a Tony winner for Caroline, Or Change, will make her eagerly-anticipated solo concert debut.
Virginia's Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre has announced the artistic team behind the upcoming world premiere of the musical comedy And the Curtain Rises (formerly known as Wheatley's Folly), which begins performances on Thursday, March 17, 2011. And the Curtain Rises marks the third production presented as part of Signature's groundbreaking American Musical Voices Project, the largest commissioning program for new musicals in the country, following Michael John LaChiusa's Giant in 2009 and Ricky Ian Gordon's Sycamore Trees last year.
Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook, which explores the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today's most dynamic songwriting, will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song. Week Two starts on January 26th with a tribute to arguably the greatest songwriting team in American Songbook history: the brothers George and Ira Gershwin. Conductor, arranger and pianist (as well as Artistic Director of the Gershwin centenary) Rob Fisher will lead Victoria Clark (Tony winner for Light in the Piazza) and Norm Lewis (Les Miserables, The Little Mermaid) in a night of gorgeous Gershwin. On January 27th singer/songwriter Shara Worden (from the group My Brightest Diamond) performs her unique blend of vocal music that has her pegged as a star to watch. Week Two closes out with gritty veteran John Doe singing 'real' country, with all its understated empathy and rough poetry.
Pfizer is a proud sponsor of Lincoln Center's American Songbook 2011.
Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook, which explores the best of the golden age of musical standards through to the best in current songwriting, will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song.
Join us at Merkin Concert Hall as we explore the fertile terrain between classical and popular genres with artists who are redefining the sound of contemporary music!
Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook, which explores the best of the golden age of musical standards through to the best in current songwriting, will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song. Week Three is a Grammy Awards fest, as three of the four acts are current and past nominees. On February 2nd one can experience life in the Piedmont hills of the Carolinas via the vibrant sound of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. This three-piece string band plays old-time roots music with virtuoso playing of the banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica, jug and more. Next up is the crown princess of bossa nova, Bebel Gilberto. Gilberto has taken classic bossa nova rhythms and mixed them with modern pop - for a sound that is up for a Grammy this year. On February 4th perennial Grammy nominee Joan Osborne will perform an emotionally-charged work she has written with Jack Petruzzelli: Love and Hate - A Song Cycle. On February 5th, actress/singer Anika Noni Rose, a Tony winner for Caroline, Or Change, will make her eagerly-anticipated solo concert debut.
Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook, which explores the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today's most dynamic songwriting, will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song. Week Two starts on January 26th with a tribute to arguably the greatest songwriting team in American Songbook history: the brothers George and Ira Gershwin. Conductor, arranger and pianist (as well as Artistic Director of the Gershwin centenary) Rob Fisher will lead Victoria Clark (Tony winner for Light in the Piazza) and Norm Lewis (Les Miserables, The Little Mermaid) in a night of gorgeous Gershwin. On January 27th singer/songwriter Shara Worden (from the group My Brightest Diamond) performs her unique blend of vocal music that has her pegged as a star to watch. Week Two closes out with gritty veteran John Doe singing 'real' country, with all its understated empathy and rough poetry.
Pfizer is a proud sponsor of Lincoln Center's American Songbook 2011.
NYFOS Next is the latest innovation from the NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS), now in its 23rd season, focusing on contemporary songs that defy easy categorization and redefine the boundaries of the song genre. The inaugural NYFOS Next concert on November 16 at 7 p.m. is co-hosted and co-curated by the dynamic young composer-performer GABRIEL KAHANE, with NYFOS's Steven Blier, Michael Barrett and Benjamin Sosland (program and singers TBA). The second concert in the series will be hosted by composer PHIL KLINE and friends.
Goodman Theatre proudly launches the Playwrights' Unit Unit-a brand new season-long residency program designed to nurture Chicago's most promising playwrights. The four inaugural writers, selected by Artistic Director and Director of New Play Development Robert Falls and the Goodman's artistic staff, are Seth Bockley (Jon, The Twins Would Like to Say; winner of the Goodman's 2009 Ofner Prize), Lisa Dillman (Detail of a Larger Work, Rock Shore), Laura Jacqmin (Ski Dubai, Look, We are Breathing) and Rohina M Malik alik (Yasmina's Necklace, Unveiled). The writers will develop new plays over the course of the residency, culminating in final readings of their works-in-progress in Spring 2011. The Playwrights' Unit is part of the Goodman's ongoing initiatives to commission and develop new plays. This ambitious program has resulted in such plays as the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner Ruined by Lynn Nottage and the upcoming Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl and Mary by Thomas Bradshaw-as well as the New Stages Series (January 14 - 16 and 21 - 23, 2011).
This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe Fri Oct 22nd 9:00PM & 10:30PM- BEN WALTZER QUINTET
(Ben Waltzer, piano; Bill McHenry, tenor saxophone; Duane Eubanks, trumpet; Dwayne Burno, bass; Otis Brown III, drums)
NYFOS Next is the latest innovation from the NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS), now in its 23rd season, focusing on contemporary songs that defy easy categorization and redefine the boundaries of the song genre. The inaugural NYFOS Next concert on November 16 at 7 p.m. is co-hosted and co-curated by the dynamic young composer-performer GABRIEL KAHANE, with NYFOS's Steven Blier, Michael Barrett and Benjamin Sosland (program and singers TBA). The second concert in the series will be hosted by composer PHIL KLINE and friends.
Join us at Merkin Concert Hall as we explore the fertile terrain between classical and popular genres with artists who are redefining the sound of contemporary music!
The LA Phil New Music Group begins the Green Umbrella 2010/11 season with a program featuring music from Bang on a Can composers Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe and David Lang, Tuesday, October 19, at 8 p.m. The program includes Gordon's Weather One, Wolfe's Dark Full Ride and Early That Summer and Lang's 'Heroin' from Songs for Lou Reed (accompanied by video by Doug Aitken) as well as the West Coast premiere of Lang's Pierced. The performance is led by conductor Jeffrey Milarsky and features Grammy award nominee vocalist Theo Bleckmann and LA Phil cellist Gloria Lum performing 'Heroin.'
Cornelia Street Café (29 Cornelia Street, between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village)presents Morrison Motel on Monday, October 18. Look below for a complete listing of this week's events.
The LA Phil New Music Group begins the Green Umbrella 2010/11 season with a program featuring music from Bang on a Can composers Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe and David Lang, Tuesday, October 19, at 8 p.m. The program includes Gordon's Weather One, Wolfe's Dark Full Ride and Early That Summer and Lang's 'Heroin' from Songs for Lou Reed (accompanied by video by Doug Aitken) as well as the West Coast premiere of Lang's Pierced. The performance is led by conductor Jeffrey Milarsky and features Grammy award nominee vocalist Theo Bleckmann and LA Phil cellist Gloria Lum performing 'Heroin.'
NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS) creates intimate concerts that breathe new life into an art form that's rich and emotionally resonant, yet is too often treated as genteel, intellectual, and predictable. Led by founders Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, armed with just two pianos, gorgeous voices, a sense of humor, and a love of words and music-not to mention a deep knowledge of musical culture savvy enough to find the 18th-century gem that speaks to today's sensibilities-NYFOS plunders music's most remote precincts to create evenings of the deepest pleasure.
Jeanine Tesori, the composer of Shrek the Musical and Caroline, or Change, joins Adam Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Joseph Thalken as a newly commissioned composer for Virginia's Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre.
