Electrifying contemporary dance company TU Dance, known for navigating complex themes of social change "with variety and innovation" (Star Tribune) and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, whose "rustic chamber pop with an experimental edge" (Pitchfork) and "hyper-modern balladeering" (The Guardian) has garnered Grammy Awards and significant international acclaim, come together in an unprecedented collaboration of local powerhouses. Taking place in the newly restored Palace Theatre in Saint Paul, in evening performances Thursday-Saturday, April 19-21, 2018, commission features new music from Vernon as well as new choreography from TU Dance's "incredible polyrhythmic genius" (Star Tribune) Uri Sands. Due to popular demand, the SPCO has scheduled a fourth performance on the afternoon of April 21.
Electrifying contemporary dance company TU Dance, known for navigating complex themes of social change with variety and innovation (Star Tribune) and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, whose rustic chamber pop with an experimental edge (Pitchfork) and hyper-modern balladeering (The Guardian) has garnered Grammy Awards and significant international acclaim, come together in an unprecedented collaboration of local powerhouses. Taking place in the breathtaking and newly restored Palace Theatre in Saint Paul, Thursday Saturday, April 19 21, 2018, this evening-length commission features new music from Vernon as well as new choreography from TU Dance's incredible polyrhythmic genius (Star Tribune) Uri Sands.
The stunt performers and coordinators from Wonder Woman and Game of Thrones are this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards honorees for Outstanding Action Performances by Film and Television Stunt Ensembles, it was announced today from the 24th Annual SAG Awards red carpet by SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris and SAG Awards Committee Chair JoBeth Williams.
NYC's longest-running early music series Music Before 1800 continues its 43rd season on Sunday, January 14 at 4PM at Corpus Christi Church with Juilliard415, the school's superb period-instrument ensemble (New York Times), and charismatic harpsichordist and conductor Jonathan Cohen. The program explores the Baroque fascination with the connected realms of madness and enchantment.
On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. at Aria in Minneapolis, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music Series and Walker Art Center present Anna Meredith performing Varmints.
On Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. at Macalester College, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music Series presents Brian Harnetty's Shawnee, Ohio.
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. at Amsterdam Bar & Hall in Saint Paul, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music Series presents Nathalie Joachim with musicians of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performing Fanm d'Ayiti as part of their No Fiction Festival.
NYC's longest-running early music series Music Before 1800 continues its 43rd season on Sunday, January 14 at 4PM at Corpus Christi Church with Juilliard415, the school's superb period-instrument ensemble (New York Times), and charismatic harpsichordist and conductor Jonathan Cohen. The program explores the Baroque fascination with the connected realms of madness and enchantment.
William Christie, artist in residence in Juilliard's Historical Performance program, returns for his annual concert with Juilliard415 on Thursday, October 5, 2017, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall.
Juilliard Historical Performance, the school's graduate-level, full-tuition scholarship program for early music, enters its ninth performance season with a full schedule of concerts, tours, residencies, and master classes anchored by performances from its primary period-instrument ensemble, Juilliard415, and a roster of distinguished guests artists. The 2017-18 season will feature appearances by Harry Bicket, William Christie, Jonathan Cohen, Richard Egarr, Nicholas McGegan, Robert Mealy, Lionel Meunier, Rachel Podger, Shunske Sato, Stephen Stubbs, Masaaki Suzuki, and vocal ensembles Vox Luminis and Yale Schola Cantorum.
Sarah Kirkland Snider's Unremembered, "one of the most significant and harrowing releases of [2015]" (Thought Catalog), explores the fragility and nuance of memories and emotions in an hour-long, 13-part song cycle inspired by poems and illustrations by Nathaniel Bellows.
Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth and sonic experimentalist Nick Zammuto (The Books) assemble a custom-built evening of sound explorations in a world premiere collaboration commissioned by the SPCO's Liquid Music, Walker Art Center and Schubert Club Mix. In addition, the vocal ensemble performs the Minnesota premiere of Partita for 8 Voices, group member Caroline Shaw's mesmerizing Pulitzer Prize-winning composition.
Sarah Kirkland Snider's Unremembered, "one of the most significant and harrowing releases of [2015]" (Thought Catalog), explores the fragility and nuance of memories and emotions in an hour-long, 13-part song cycle inspired by poems and illustrations by Nathaniel Bellows.
Jazz trumpet virtuoso Ambrose Akinmusire joins his "unfurling lines that confound expectation" (Chicago Tribune) with rapper Kool A.D.'s "social consciousness infused irreverence" (Colorlines) to create a brand new chamber music work co-commissioned by Liquid Music and the Ecstatic Music Festival. Guided by Akinmusire's "strong aesthetic compass" (The New York Times), this uniquely explorative and expressive world premiere collaboration will feature the "fearless, precise and forward-looking" (The Chicago Reader) Mivos Quartet alongside pianist Sam Harris and drummer Marcus Gilmore.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts just celebrated its 50th Anniversary Gala, 'Celebrating the Past/Creating the Future,' last night, April 4, 2016, at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall. The gala event was hosted by alumni Alec Baldwin ('94) and Spike Lee ('82). BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the special night below!
The stunt performers and coordinators from “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “Game of Thrones” are this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards honorees for Outstanding Action Performances by Film and Television Stunt Ensembles.
SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard and SAG Awards® Committee Chair JoBeth Williams will announce the honorees for Outstanding Action Performances by Film and Television Stunt Ensembles
Details of the 38th season of Les Arts Florissants, the internationally renowned Baroque music ensemble founded by William Christie, have just been announced and include more than 100 performances of chamber and sacred music, opera, oratorio, dance, and semi-staged presentations at some 20 cities across France, and concerts in 10 countries in Europe and North America, as well as Les Arts Florissants' first season as a resident ensemble of the new Philharmonie de Paris.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ In the 1980s, scientists cracked many of the mysteries behind literacy and how we learn to read. They also pinpointed simple steps that parents could take to help their children become first-rate readers. Tragically, this information still hasn't reached parents, leaving many of them profoundly anxious about their children's reading ability and future, with no idea how to address the problem.
