Maurice Ravel News

Acorn TV typically delights fans every Christmas with the new season of Canada's long-running, award-winning period drama Murdoch Mysteries. But since shoots were delayed this fall due to COVID-19, Acorn TV and the producers of this series have gifted their fans with a one-of-a-kind event: a one-hour intimate concert special celebrating the evocative music popular during the series' turn of the 20th Century era, including much-loved highlights from the drama's well-revered score along with contemporary pieces by Brahms, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Strauss and more.

BWW reviewer Gary Naylor highlights his favourite theatre productions and performances of 2020.

Bowen McCauley Dance Company an award-winning contemporary dance company with a legacy of community engagement, announces that its 25th Anniversary Season will be its last, culminating with the retirement of Founding Artistic Director, Lucy Bowen McCauley. Performances slated for the season will include four world premieres and reprises of classic BMDC works. These world premieres build on a repertoire of over 100 original dance works choreographed by Lucy Bowen McCauley in the Company's 25 year history. 

CCM's 'stars of tomorrow' are back on stage, and you get the best seats in the house!

Seeing so accomplished and engaging a production as this (VOPERA's first to boot), a genuine question arises - is the socially-distanced, digitally distributed show no longer merely a stopgap, an ersatz simulacrum, but a new art form in itself?

Pacific Opera welcomes live audiences for the first time since March 2020.  The company's new “Live at the Baumann” series presents concerts for small, physically-distanced audiences in an intimate and elegant cabaret setting at the Baumann Centre, 925 Balmoral Road in Victoria. 

The acclaimed Canta Libre Chamber Ensemble will present a virtual concert, performing music for flute, strings and harp, online on Zoom on Friday, November 13 at 7:30 PM, sponsored by Northport Public Library, 151 Laurel Ave. in Northport, NY. This is presented as part of the library's Do-Ing Music Concert Series.

VOPERA: The Virtual Opera Project, announces its inaugural production of Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) under the baton of Lee Reynolds (ROH Linbury Theatre, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Nederlandse Reisopera, Associate Director: National Youth Orchestra), with premiere set for 16 November 2020 at 8pm (UK time).

DACAMERA's Fall 2020 season of online concerts, curated by Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg, continues this month with the debut of a new series, Hearing Color, Seeing Time.

Encore BSO Recitals stream will feature BSO violinist Lucia Lin performing the solo work 'Prayer' from Suite Mestiza by contemporary composer Gabriela Lena Frank and, with cello colleague Owen Young, Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello.

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber-music and jazz concerts, announces its fall season of virtual programming, including livestreamed concerts, a new series with the Menil Collection, premiere broadcast streams of archival DACAMERA concerts with new introductions and more.

Théâtre des Champs-Elysées will present Boris Berezovsky on September 25.

The Santa Barbara Symphony invites the community to discover a reimagined 2020-2021 performance season, one that will be forever remembered as historic.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is pleased to present Encore BSO Recitals, a colorful and eclectic online concert series spotlighting 50 musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in small ensembles and giving viewers a rare opportunity to experience the individual artistry of many of the musicians who make up the world-renowned ensemble.

The Taiwan Philharmonic, together with the National Theater & Concert Hall, Taiwan Public Television Service, and TSMC Education and Culture Foundation (TSMC Foundation), invites world-renowned violinist Ray Chen to give the first livestreamed violin masterclass during the pandemic for global music fans on Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 7:00 PM.

On Tuesday, Sept. 10, tenor Anthony Ciaramitaro joins forces with pianists Miah Im and Louis Lohraseb in a program of Italian songs and American music. Back now for a return engagement is Latonia Moorea??s tremendously popular recital featuring a?oeTatianaa??s Letter Scenea?? from Tchaikovskya??s Eugene Onegin. 

BBC Proms is fast approaching, with the first Prom kicking off on 28 August. 

The Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival is a groundbreaking digital series of audio and video streams featuring newly created content being recorded at Tanglewood's Linde Center in July alongside previously recorded material from Tanglewood being released for the first time.

Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra will kick off its Eid celebration programme by releasing daily videos of their performance of Peter and the Wolf, a famous symphonic fairytale written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 for children.

The Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) will livestream Dance On! An Evening with the Mark Morris Dance Group, an online event premiering four short videodances by Mark Morris, choreographed and rehearsed for the first time entirely via Zoom videoconference. The free event will be streamed Thursday, May 28 at 7:30 pm ET.