The selection of outstanding plays we have chosen for The Meridian Energy 2016/17 Season give The Court Theatre the opportunity to create some genuinely great theatre and to present our audiences with memories that will be kept alive for a lifetime.
The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Youth Orchestras (CSOYO) open their 2015/16 season on November 9 at 7:30pm at Ringgold High School with a concert performed by the Symphony Orchestra with Gary Wilkes conducting. Also featured in the program is CSOYO alumna Dr. Shannon Thomas (Professor of Violin at Florida State University), and 2nd place winner of the 2015 Concerto Competition, Sasha Hitachi-Kizziah. Other selections to be performed by the Symphony include the final movement of Dvorak's 8th Symphony and the Suite No. 2 from Carmen.
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the success of the premiere concert reading of the first act of DreamWorks Theatricals new stage adaptation of The Prince of Egypt which was part of Bay Street Theater's 24th Annual Summer Gala which took place in Sag Harbor at the Long Wharf on July 11, 2015 to benefit Bay Street's educational and theatrical programs. ThePrince of Egypt features book by Philip LaZebnik (writer of Mulan, Pocahontas) and music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (composer of Wicked,Pippin, Godspell); both creators attended the Gala. Bay Street's Artistic Director Scott Schwartz directed the reading, Dominic Amendum was Musical Director, and casting was by Stewart/Whitley.
Alan Robert Murray and Bob Asman have won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for AMERICAN SNIPER.
The 87th Oscars will be held TONIGHT, Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m., ET/4 p.m., PT. The Oscars, produced by Zadan and Meron, also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you ALL the nominees and winners.
Screenwriter Graham Moore and author Andrew Hodges received the 27th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award for “The Imitation Game.” Selection committee chair Howard Rodman announced the winners at the black-tie event on Saturday, Jan. 31, at USC's historic Doheny Memorial Library.
The nominations for the 2015 GOLDEN REEL AWARDS have been announced. The awards, which are presented by the Motion Picture Sound Editors, recognize the industry's best work in sound editing.
The Richmond Symphony invites you to experience Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, tonight, November 8 at 8pm at the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond CenterStage. This is the second Altria Masterworks Concert of the 2014-2015 season and will be led by Music Director Steven Smith.
The Richmond Symphony invites you to experience Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, on Saturday, November 8 at 8pm at the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond CenterStage. This is the second Altria Masterworks Concert of the 2014-2015 season and will be led by Music Director Steven Smith.
Deputy stage manager for the long-running West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega-hit mega-musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Richard Kingcott, discusses her role in the behind the scenes production of the musical as part of a new interview.
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced today that there have been special additions to the 4th Annual Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival taking place in the heart of Pittsburgh's Downtown Cultural District this summer. The free festival consists of three days of jazz and jazz-influenced musical performances on outdoor stages and attracts more than 20,000 attendees from around the country.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Sonoma State University's Green Music Center today announced The National Brass Ensemble Project, a partnership formed to present a newly created group, the National Brass Ensemble, in a week-long residency taking place June 9 - 14, 2014 in Rohnert Park and San Rafael, California. The Ensemble, a singular collection of musicians from across the United States, features 24 leading brass players and two percussionists from the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland, Detroit Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia and San Francisco Symphony orchestras.
The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its 2014-15 season. Music Director Franz Welser-Möst's programs include Bach's Mass in B minor, and Brahms's Piano Concertos with Yefim Bronfman as soloist. Mr. Welser-Möst continues his long-standing tradition of opera performances at Severance Hall with concert performances of Richard Strauss's rarely heard opera Daphne. Guest artists returning to Severance Hall include Lang Lang, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Mitsuko Uchida, and conductors Charles Dutoit, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and Fabio Luisi. The Orchestra celebrates the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez in three programs conducted by Franz Welser-Möst.
Jack Cooper, production editor at Poets Wear Prada, today announced the official launch of 'Lapidary' a new full-length collection of 'formal verse' by poet Richard Marx Weinraub inspired by gemstones. 'This book has been a long time coming: Richard's previous full-length collection, 'Wonder Bread Hill,' appeared in 2002 - just over a decade ago. Craft continues to precede him; curiosity propels encyclopedic and astral projections of his subject. Natural science, supernatural myth, popular culture, historic events, wit, insight, and chutzpah, with pick, detonation, and loupe, by turns, tease 'Lapidary's uncanny combination of unearthed and unearthly detail into an array of forty-six poetical gems - from amber to zircon - that speak their remarkable stories - and ours. These are poems to read and re-read. They are perfect! 'Lapidary' is singular - on a shelf by itself. Hail, Richard, King of Marx!' said Cooper. Eduardo C. Corral, author of 'Slow Lightning,' winner of the 2012 Yale Younger Poets Prize, called these poems 'beautiful and peculiar.' 'Weinraub cracks open craft to reveal humane interiors. Fixed forms with meter and rhyme, tenderly chiseled, deftly sculpted, pulse with regret, joy and a hundred other sentiments. ... These poems 'forge a new world out of stone,' a landscape populated by jade, garnet, and onyx with time-rich thoughts, blood-rich emotion,' said Corral. Edward Odwitt, Connecticut writer and illustrator, described 'Lapidary' as 'an original and brilliant collection of poems that offers insights into the various states of human nature through the voices of different stones. This book is a must have, and it will be avidly read for years to come.' 'In 'Lapidary' - stones, semi-precious, precious - stones talk to you, skillfully, convincingly and you believe them, you believe them!' said Thomas Lux, acclaimed poet and teacher, and Bourne chair in poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Roxanne Hoffman, publisher, said 'We're delighted to receive such enthusiastic response to the book. The poetry rocks! All the stones are 'precious' here - whether rock crystal or diamond, garnet or ruby, agate or emerald. Richard has taken the 'stodginess' out of 'formal verse'; he employs its fixed and traditional patterns as a master diamond cutter would - to transform a seeming dull gray rock to its inherent sparkling beauty. Bravo!' 'Lapidary' is Weinraub's second book project with Poets Wear Prada. 'Heavenly Bodies,' a limited-edition illustrated chapbook of twelve poems, was released in 2008 by the Hoboken-based press. It included 'Persephone's Dream' which was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart prize. 'Wonder Bread Hill,' his 'sonovella' (a novella written in sonnets), was published by the University of Puerto Rico Press in 2002. A political thriller based on what may be the most explosive event in recent Puerto Rican history - the 1978 murder of two young radicals on Cerro Maravilla (Wonder Hill) and the trial that ensued - Weinraub's 140 sonnets were translated into Spanish by Elidio La Torre Lagares. A Spanish edition, Maravilla Rebanada, was published by Terranova Editores in 2009. Related to the Marx Brothers through his mother, Richard Marx Weinraub was born in New York City in 1949. He was Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico from 1987 through 2010. His poetry has appeared in many journals including 'The Paris Review,' 'Asheville Poetry Review,' 'South Carolina Review,' 'The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review,' 'Green Mountains Review,' 'North American Review,' 'Slate,' and 'River Styx.' Founded in 2006, Poets Wear Prada publishes beautifully designed, well-crafted books of poetry from Sinatra's hometown, Hoboken, the birthplace of professional baseball. 'Lapidary' by Richard Marx Weinraub (Hoboken: Poets Wear Prada, 2013), 70 pages, ISBN- 10: 0615833225, ISBN-13: 978-0615833224, list price: $15.00, is available in paperback from Amazon Books and other popular booksellers.
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust confirmed that Studio Florentijn Hofman's The Rubber Duck Project will begin its departure on Sunday, Oct. 20.
Cleveland Orchestra has announced its concerts and events for October 2013. Details below!
Cleveland Orchestra has announced its concerts and events for October 2013. Details below!
Studio Florentijn Hofman's The Rubber Duck Project has ignited crazes in Hong Kong, Sydney and other international locales and now makes its U.S. debut in Pittsburgh for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's International Festival of Firsts.
Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra present Tchaikovsky's mighty Fifth Symphony on a concert program that features the East Coast premiere of Steven Mackey's Stumble to Grace Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with pianist Orli Shaham. The Orchestra performs the Princeton University professor's concerto as part of the New Jersey Roots Project, which celebrates the music of composers whose artistic identity has been influenced by their time in the Garden State.
Friday through Sunday, April 26-28, Millersville University will present; a university theatre production of Behind the Eye by Carson Kreitzer, an annual spring concert by the university's Flute Choir and Guitar Ensemble, and "Dueling Harpsichords" which will feature the university's Anita Renfroe and guest harpsichordist Sonia Lee.
