Matt Smith News

Join in with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Concert Series at the Jewish - Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor on Monday, March 14th at 1:30 pm. Open to listeners of all ages, this hour long concert will feature Primor Sluchin, harp soloist at the A2SO mainstage concert Harp Magic on Saturday, March 12 and Arie Lipsky, A2SO Conductor and Music Director (flute and cello).

February 11, 2016 – Richmond, Virginia Join the Richmond Symphony and Music Director Steven Smith on Sunday, February 21 at 3pm for Beethoven: Symphony No. 1. This concert is part of the Metro Collection Series and will be held in the Blackwell Auditorium on the beautiful campus of Randolph-Macon College. The performance includes selections from Stravinsky, Strauss and Beethoven and features Richmond Symphony principal oboist, Gustav Highstein.

Defunkt Theatre presents BLASTED by Sarah Kane, directed by Paul Angelo, running February 12-March 19 2016 at The Back Door Theater.

Are artists the last magicians? Over 1,000 works of art will premiere at the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object, celebrating the contemporary artist as conjuror.

As BroadwayWorld reported earlier today, GRAMMY and Tony Award-winning musician Duncan Sheik's American Psycho: Original London Cast Recording will be available on March 25, 2016 via Concord Records. The album's release will coincide with the show's U.S. premiere on Broadway, with previews beginning March 24 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater at 236 West 45th Street in New York City.

DENVER – Colorado Ballet Artistic Director Gil Boggs announced the 2016-2017 season, which will feature technically-challenging classical ballets, innovative contemporary works and the 56th annual production of The Nutcracker.

The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra presents the Magical Music of Disney - Around the World with Disney concert on Sunday, March 13 at 4:00pm at the Michigan Theater. The A2SO will showcase some of the greatest Disney classics from the movies: Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, Lion King and Pocahontas.

With just over a month until AMERICAN PSYCHO's first performance on Broadway, it now appears the Duncan Sheik musical will receive not one, but two, cast recordings.

Hey, YOUNGER fans! Let's waste no time with an intro this week — we all know Kelsey, and her imprint, are in hot water after Jade's big reveal. So, let's get right to it! 

Mori Art Museum is pleased to present “Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice” from Saturday, March 26 to Sunday, July 10, 2016.

See our collection come to life with monologues and music by students from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. The performances, presented in the museum's galleries, will be interspersed with music from the Washington National Opera production of Lost in the Stars. On Feb. 10, compositions will be performed by Duke Ellington students, and on Feb. 17, they will be presented by the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists and chorus members.

WALNUT CREEK, CA (February 9, 2016) - The aerialists, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, strongmen and acrobats of Cirque de la Symphonie join the California Symphony and Music Director Donato Cabrera in the Orchestra's annual fundraising special event, Cirque du Symphonie Presented by Steadauto.com, Saturday, June 18 at 7:30 pm at the historic and beautiful Scottish Rite Center in Oakland. For this performance, the Cirque production team and California Symphony have developed a unique program specifically for the Orchestra and the special characteristics of the Scottish Rite Center. The artists of Cirque de la Symphonie will execute their spectacular feats to music ranging from Bizet's Carmen to John Williams (music from Indiana Jones and Superman), Leonard Bernstein's Candide Overture, Arturo Marquez's Danzon No. 2, Debussy's Clair du lune, Offenbach's Can-Can No. 4, and Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 6, and the orchestra plays music from Aaron Copland (Rodeo from Hoe-Down), Richard Rodgers (Carousel Waltz), and Strauss (Emperor Waltz). All proceeds from the event, presented by steadauto.com, support the California Symphony and its music education programs, including Sound Minds, Music in the Schools, and the organization's respected Young American Composer-in-Residence Program.

CHICAGO – Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton, and its Youth, Education and Community Programs department, under the leadership of Kathryn Humphreys, are pleased to offer a professional development opportunity this June introducing attendees to its Adaptive Dance Programs, created for those with Parkinson's disease and young people on the autism spectrum.

Philadelphia, PA (February 9, 2016) — Pennsylvania Ballet's Artistic Director Angel Corella shares his Spanish culture with audiences through his adaptation of Marius Petipa's Don Quixote. Performances, supported by PECO, run March 3-13 at The Academy of Music and are certain to captivate audiences. 

The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra presents Harp Magic on Saturday, March 12 at 8:00pm at the Michigan Theater with special guest Primor Sluchin. Whether you are a life-long music lover, or simply curious about what a live concert can do to add sparkle to your life, Harp Magic will be a concert you'll enjoy. On the program are two Primor Sluchin, trained in the French School of the harp by the greatest names of the instrument, perpetuates a tradition of excellence, virtuosity and poetry. Inspired, rigorous, and ever-exploring new musical fields, she offers the sound of a precise, assertive and sparkling harp.

New York...Beginning February 25, 2016, Luxembourg & Dayan will present In the Making: Artists, Assistants, and Influence, a group exhibition that surveys the field of artistic production through a series of juxtapositions that reveal discrete dialogues between artists and their assistants both current and former. 

TORONTO (February 9, 2016) -  DanceWorks, Toronto's longest running contemporary dance series, proudly presents Sporting Life, newly re-imagined by acclaimed choreographer Julia Sasso of Julia Sasso dances, 20 years after she  first premiered this striking work at Ottawa's prestigious Canada Dance Festival in 1996. DanceWorks then presented it in 1997, earning multiple Dora Award nominations, including Outstanding Choreography. Rigorously physical, technically and emotionally challenging, Sporting Life runs Thursday March 3 to Saturday March 5 nightly at Harbourfront Centre Theatre as part of Next Steps.

Houston, February 8, 2016—Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will present the world premiere of Prince of Players by distinguished American composer Carlisle Floyd on March 5, 11, and 13, 2016. A chamber opera in two acts, Prince of Players is a high-spirited period piece that examines the fluidity of sexuality and gender roles.