mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, today revealed the categories and nominees for the “2014 mtvU Woodie Awards,” the 10th annual musical moment of truth that honors the music college students love
Accomplished performer and formidable composer and arranger, saxophonist Brian McCarthy celebrates the release of his latest album, This Just In, in a concert at Middlebury's Town Hall Theater on Saturday, February 22. Along with trumpet veteran Ray Vega, and Quincy Jones Presents artist Justin Kauflin on piano, plus Evan Gregor on bass and drummer Quinn Blanford, the quintet comprises top jazz musicians from Vermont, New York, Virginia and New Jersey.
Bergen Performance Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey presents Kashmir, The Led Zeppelin Show, tonight, January 25th, 2014 at 8 PM. Tickets are $40 & $25 and available at www.ticketmaster.com or www.bergenpac.org or Box Office (201) 227 1030.
Arizona Onstage Productions' FOREVER PLAID is a magical, delicious pastiche, a banana split with extra hot fudge, nuts and cherries on top. It is a thinly-plotted revue of songs from the day when men's four part harmony ruled the airwaves and halls from grange to Carnegie.
Bergen Performance Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey presents Kashmir, The Led Zeppelin Show, on Saturday January 25th, 2014 at 8 PM. Tickets are $40 & $25 and available at www.ticketmaster.com or www.bergenpac.org or Box Office (201) 227 1030.
Who's throwing a Timbre Tantrum? Throughout the first week of December, Composers Concordance ('enterprising new music organization' -NYTimes) presents its 3rd annual festival, entitled 'Timbre Tantrum,' as each concert will focus on specific timbres. For example, the opening concert, 'ArtBeat,' to be held at DiMenna Center on December 1st, will feature percussion instruments only, on a program with 4-time Grammy winner Glen Velez, as well as the acclaimed Lukas Ligeti and Peter Jarvis (Moonrise Kingdom, Boardwalk Empire.) This concert will also include original sculpture-percussion by Gorazd Poposki, and a repeat of the program will be held at William Paterson University on December 2nd. Next up, the all-piano event 'Three's Keys, ' featuring Taka Kigawa ('extraordinary pianist' -NYTimes,) as well as Inna Faliks, and Carlton Holmes ('Inventive' -Jazziz,) hosted by Klavierhaus on December 4th. For this program, composers Dan Cooper, Sean Hickey, Debra Kaye, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker have composed a triple-piano suite, which will performed on Klavierhaus' antique instruments, including a 19th-Century Pleyel. On December 6th, an 'E-nstallation' will be presented at the innovative Gallery MC in Hell's Kitchen. This event will feature the electronic music of Lynn Bechtold, Svjetlana Bukvich, David Morneau, and Daniel Palkowski, among others, plus contemporary fashion designs by Vicky Vale and Patrick Kavanaugh. On December 7th, the CompCord String Orchestra (CCSO,) conducted by Thomas Carlo Bo, will take the stage of West Park Presbyterian Church on Manhattan's upper west side for the program 'Legends,' featuring music by Dan Cooper, Otto Luening, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, Dave Soldi er, and Randy Woolf. Guest artists include Tongo Eisen-Martin, Keve Wilson, and Publiquartet. Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, whose influence will be heard in Soldier's 'Bambaataa Variations,' will be honored with a Legends award, to be received by a member of Bambaataa's Zulu Nation. On Sunday, December 8th, the festival week will wrap up at Drom NYC with a 'Fretathon,' a 3-hour program featuring fretted instruments, performed by no fewer than twenty-six of NYC's cutting-edge composers. Each of the 'Timbre Tantrum' events will include a brief reception.
On Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 8:00pm, Kashmir, the live Led Zeppelin Tribute Band will be performing in the Wayne YMCA's Rosen Theater. Tickets are $22 in advance and $25 at the door.
What brings people of different ages, from their early twenties through their seventies, together in meaningful personal interactions? How is it that individuals with little or no college education can easily forge close bonds working together with others who hold advanced degrees?
The Players Guild of Leonia, like most community theater groups, often refers to its members as 'family.' However, when it presents the hilarious musical, 'I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change,' beginning tonight, October 18th, the production literally will be a family affair. Meet the cast and creative team below!
The Players Guild of Leonia, like most community theater groups, often refers to its members as 'family.' However, when it presents the hilarious musical, 'I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change,' beginning October 18th, the production literally will be a family affair. Meet the cast and creative team below!
Bruce Williams Quintet will perform tonight, September 20 & Saturday, September 21 with 8pm & 10pm sets at Twins Jazz Club.
Bruce Williams Quintet will performon Friday, September 20 & Saturday, September 21 with 8pm & 10pm sets at Twins Jazz Club.
'The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal. I contemplate how this photograph will be seen in the future when the subject matter no longer endures. Taking a picture is, indeed, stopping the world.'
Author Carlos Carbajal carefully pens a deeply meaningful and heartwarming volume that teaches readers how to become positive and resilient in life even if the circumstances are adverse in Fight for Your Hopes and Dreams.
Spectrum has announced Retes, a new collaborative series on the first Today of each month at 7pm, beginning July 7th. Curated by composer and choreographic pianist, Eleonor Sandresky, the series will feature collaborations with fellow composer/performers.
Spectrum has announced Rétes, a new collaborative series on the first Sunday of each month at 7pm, beginning July 7th. Curated by composer and choreographic pianist, Eleonor Sandresky, the series will feature collaborations with fellow composer/performers.
Bergen County resident and acclaimed playwright Stephen Kaplan is the winner of the Ninth Annual New Jersey Playwrights Contest for his play Exquisite Potential. Directed by Edward Matthews, Exquisite Potentialopens this Thursday, April 4 and runs most weekends through April 28 at Hunziker Black Box Theatre at William Paterson University.
Luna Stage initiates a new tradition in the Valley Arts District when it brings electric jazz and big band rock to its stages for the last weekend this month. Fans of arena rock, bebop, big bands and jam bands are all welcome to join some of New York's busiest studio musicians, composers, and teachers for two days of futuristic nostalgia. Afternoon events are free and each evening event is $20 for adults, $15 for students with ID.
When tenor Ernest Revell and soprano Lori Fredrics come together to share the stage at the Enrico Caruso Room in Grotta Azzurra Ristorante, 177 Mulberry Street, in Little Italy tonight, July 17, at 8 PM, they will have taken very different paths to arrive at the same destination at the very same time.
Luna Stage initiates a new tradition in the Valley Arts District when it brings electric jazz and big band rock to its stages for the last weekend in July. Fans of arena rock, bebop, big bands and jam bands are all welcome to join some of New York's busiest studio musicians, composers, and teachers for two days of futuristic nostalgia. Afternoon events are free and each evening event is $20 for adults, $15 for students with ID.
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