Michael Barrett News

Bay Area playwright/producer Tom Bruett of marriageequalityplays.com and BATS Improv, the Bay Area's premiere nonprofit improv theatre company, are busily preparing for a special event featuring new short plays by prominent Bay Area playwrights and an improvised short play by BATS Improv on the theme of marriage equality, to benefit the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER).

On Saturday, June 23, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts opens its 67th annual Summer Music Festival with an evening of Mendelssohn. Celebrated violinist Gil Shaham opens the program with Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64.

Tonight, April 24 at 7:00pm, New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) presents the final offering of this season's two-part contemporary music mini-series NYFOS Next with RUSSELL PLATT & FRIENDS at Mary Flagler Cary Hall in the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Award-winning composer and writer Platt hosts and curates an hour of music showcasing the work of multi-dimensional artists and composers, including Harold Meltzer, Lisa Bielawa, Carla Kihlstedt, Gilda Lyons, and Colin Jacobsen, as well as his own.

The Hartt School of the University of Hartford presents a Collaborative Concert of American Music featuring great American musical treasures, as well as selections from Hartt's newly acquired Jack Elliott Collection, on Friday, April 20, at 7:30 PM in Millard Auditorium. This celebration of American music features the Hartt Symphony Orchestra, along with students from the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, and special guests John Clayton and Hartt alumnus Michael Barrett, as well as remarks by Hartt alumna and Grammy award-winning entertainer Dionne Warwick. Please call the University of Hartford Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587 or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt for tickets and up-to-date scheduling information for all performances. Admission is $20 with discounts for seniors, students, and groups.

We have the rehearsal footage of Harold Arlen's songs included in the NYFOS' OVER THE RAINBOW Gala on April 2 at 7pm at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Watch the video below!

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG announces its spring gala, a beloved evening of extraordinary singing and celebration, OVER THE RAINBOW: A GALA EVENING OF HAROLD ARLEN SONG on Monday, April 2 at 7:00PM in Weill Recital Hallat Carnegie Hall, to be followed by supper at the 21 Club, 21 West 52nd Street.

We have the rehearsal footage of Harold Arlen's songs included in the NYFOS' OVER THE RAINBOW Gala on April 2 at 7pm at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Watch the video below!

The Hartt School of the University of Hartford presents a Collaborative Concert of American Music featuring great American musical treasures, as well as selections from Hartt's newly acquired Jack Elliott Collection, on Friday, April 20, at 7:30 PM in Millard Auditorium. This celebration of American music features the Hartt Symphony Orchestra, along with students from the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, and special guests John Clayton and Hartt alumnus Michael Barrett, as well as remarks by Hartt alumna and Grammy award-winning entertainer Dionne Warwick. Please call the University of Hartford Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587 or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt for tickets and up-to-date scheduling information for all performances. Admission is $20 with discounts for seniors, students, and groups.

Berkshire Theatre Group and Artistic Director/CEO, Kate Maguire have just announced programming for Summer 2012. BTG's Summer of 2012 boasts a full assortment of theatrical productions, concerts, comedy, Friday Series play readings, Musical Mondays, Made in the Berkshires and more.

On Tuesday, April 24 at 7:00pm, New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) presents the final offering of this season's two-part contemporary music mini-series NYFOS Next with RUSSELL PLATT & FRIENDS at Mary Flagler Cary Hall in the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Award-winning composer and writer Platt hosts and curates an hour of music showcasing the work of multi-dimensional artists and composers, including Harold Meltzer, Lisa Bielawa, Carla Kihlstedt, Gilda Lyons, and Colin Jacobsen, as well as his own.

Copland House's musical adventures will help welcome spring with another line-up of concerts at Westchester County's majestic Merestead estate in Mount Kisco, NY.

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG announces its spring gala, a beloved evening of extraordinary singing and celebration, OVER THE RAINBOW: A GALA EVENING OF HAROLD ARLEN SONG on Monday, April 2 at 7:00PM in Weill Recital Hallat Carnegie Hall, to be followed by supper at the 21 Club, 21 West 52nd Street.

After a decade of leadership, Michael Barrett, Chief Executive and General Director of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, will step down at the close of Caramoor's 2012 Summer Festival in August.

Copland House's musical adventures will help welcome spring with another line-up of concerts at Westchester County's majestic Merestead estate in Mount Kisco, NY.

New York Festival of Song will mark its seventh annual co-presentation with Juilliard and its ongoing collaboration with Juilliard choreographer/dance instructor Jeanne Slater with a program titled INVITATION TO THE DANCE to be performed on Wednesday, January 18 at 8:00PM in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Juilliard.

New York Festival of Song will mark its seventh annual co-presentation with Juilliard and its ongoing collaboration with Juilliard choreographer/dance instructor Jeanne Slater with a program titled INVITATION TO THE DANCE to be performed on Wednesday, January 18 at 8:00PM in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Juilliard.

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS) creates intimate concerts that breathe new life into an art form that is rich and emotionally resonant, yet is too often treated as genteel, intellectual, and predictable.