Symphony Space News

On February 24 Symphony Space's Selected Shorts Literature in Performance series presents The Sixties.

To celebrate and complement BAM's Opera Festival, Fort Greene's American Opera Projects, in association with the Manhattan School of Music, presents a staged workshop of Act Two of Paul's Case, the opera-in-progress by Gregory Spears, based on the story by Willa Cather.

On Monday evening Feb 22, at 7PM, Cliff Korman coordinates and leads a program on improvisation in Brazilian Popular Music, specifically in the musical universe of Hermeto Pascoal.

Japan Society kicks off its Spring 2010 Performing Arts season with a reading of thecontemporary Japanese play Women in a Holy Mess, by celebrated playwright Ai Nagai, in a newEnglish translation. Featuring a cast of New York-based American actors led by award-winning director Cynthia Croot, Women in a Holy Mess takes place on Monday, February 22 at 7:30 PM.

The weeklong Composers Now celebration launches February 22 at the festival's hub, Symphony Space, to provide a citywide platform for unprecedented recognition of living composers through concerts and activities at a diverse array of performance spaces.

On Monday evening Feb 22, at 7PM, Cliff Korman coordinates and leads a program on improvisation in Brazilian Popular Music, specifically in the musical universe of Hermeto Pascoal.

In conjunction with the New York premiere production of The Hidden Sky, Prospect Theater Company will host an afternoon symposium featuring scholars and artists, including the show's creators. The discussion will focus on the relationship between mathematics and music, the historical conflict between science and religion, and other ideas explored in this new musical.

Ralph Covert, the Grammy-nominated kid's music rockstar, brings his high-energy Ralph's World show once again to The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space as part of the Just Kidding music series for families. The concerts are on Saturday, February 20th, 2010, at 11:00am and 2pm.

The Thalia Follies: A Political Cabaret continues its sixth hilarious season at Symphony Space with Which Way, America?, with its final performance slated for Feb. 20, 2010.

On Friday, February 19, 2010 at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South, NYC), a gala evening will be held to benefit the Center For Contemporary Opera (CCO). The evening, hosted by WQXR radio host Midge Woolsey, celebrates the success of CCO's 2009-2010 season, which concludes on June 15 with the world premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a fully staged opera by John Eaton at Symphony Space.

Four-time Tony nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning actress Tovah Feldshuh has been announced to return as the host of The Broadway Beauty Pageant, Broadway's forth annual beauty contest, set for Monday evening, April 19th, 8p.m., at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th St.).

Japan Society kicks off its Spring 2010 Performing Arts season with a reading of thecontemporary Japanese play Women in a Holy Mess, by celebrated playwright Ai Nagai, in a newEnglish translation. Featuring a cast of New York-based American actors led by award-winning director Cynthia Croot, Women in a Holy Mess takes place on Monday, February 22 at 7:30 PM.

WORKS IN PROGRESS the songs of Burkell & Loesel will play Monday, March 1st at 7:00pm at The Triad located at 158 West 72nd St - 2nd Floor (between Broadway & Columbus).

On Sunday, March 7 at 2:00pm pianist Adam Golka will make his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Youth Symphony conducted by Ryan McAdams in Rachmanioff's Concerto No .3

The Thalia Follies: A Political Cabaret continues its sixth hilarious season at Symphony Space with Which Way, America?, February 18-20.

Symphony Space has invited Gina Gibney and David Parker to weave together an evening of dances at Peter Norton Symphony Space from March 5-6, 2010, thus inaugurating Symphony Space's Short Form Weave Series.

KEIGWIN + COMPANY (K+C) announces the company's first solo week of performances at The Joyce Theater from March 16-21, 2010, including the World Premiere of Bird Watching.

In conjunction with the New York premiere production of The Hidden Sky, Prospect Theater Company will host an afternoon symposium featuring scholars and artists, including the show's creators. The discussion will focus on the relationship between mathematics and music, the historical conflict between science and religion, and other ideas explored in this new musical.

Tony Award® nominee and Emmy Award® winner Liz Callaway (Cats, Merrily We Roll Along, Baby, Miss Saigon, The Look of Love), leads an ensemble that includes Doug Kreeger (Les Miserables, Rooms: A Rock Romance), Liz McCartney (South Pacific, Mamma Mia, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Phantom of the Opera), and Jennifer DiNoia (Wicked) as Dreamlight Theatre Company kicks off its 2010 Bright Lights concert series by celebrating the work Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel This one-night event will showcase work from both of their full length musicals (Ella Minnow Pea, The Extraordinary Ordinary) as well as a host of new material.

Two striking interpretations of the classic myth of Orpheus - one modern-day setting in the vein of the great Paul Hindemith, one Celtic-influenced work featuring the Grammy Award-winning Richard Stoltzman - come together in Orfeo in Idaho, a groundbreaking program presented by The New York Virtuoso Singers under the baton of conductor Harold Rosenbaum on Saturday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. in Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street in New York City.