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Shakespeare & Company Cancels Season
Schedule Shifted to 2021
By: - Apr 14th, 2020Shakespeare & Company is postponing its 2020 Summer Season to next summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic (coronavirus).
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Pauline Oliveros' Tuning Meditations
Music on the Rebound Gives New Meaning to Cinq a Sept
By: - Apr 12th, 2020Tuning Meditation is presented by Ione, who lived with the composer, and Music on the Rebound. Participants from 30 countries joined on Zoom to listen for their own notes and others. Find a pitch that no one else is sounding. Tod Machover, America's most wired composer, was there. So too, quietly, piano and composing phenom Conrad Tao. The celebrated and willing joined together in unique sounds.
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Orli Shaham Has MidWeek Mozart
Offerings to the Housebound and Health Workers
By: - Apr 10th, 2020The gifted Mozart-specialist Orli Shaham is offering excerpts from her soon to be released album of Mozart Sonatas. She and her husband, conductor David Robertson, perform Clapping for the Health Workers. The New York Phil chimes in with Bolera and Heartbeat Opera off Bernstein's "Let Your Garden Grow." What a gift basket.
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American Symphony Orchestra
Program to Stream Past Performances
By: - Apr 09th, 2020The internet is full of wonderful concerts and operas, some streamed-live and others are reprisals of deserving performances you'll want to hear if you missed them live or appreciate an opportunity for a reprise.
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Steinberg/ATCA Finalists Named
Lauded New Work in the Spotlight
By: - Apr 09th, 2020Critics Association's new play committee has picked six finalists for new play award. The top prize is $25,000, while runners-up receive $7,500 each. The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) began honoring new plays since 1977. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has funded the Steinberg/ATCA honor since 2000. Past honorees have included playwrights such as August Wilson and Arthur Miller.
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Yin and Yang
Facing Fear and Uncertainty
By: - Apr 09th, 2020There is a line from the movie “Tombstone,” spoken by Doc Holliday to Wyatt Earp: “There is no normal life, Wyatt. There is just life.”
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Words and Images Allan Rohan Crite 1910 – 2007
A Virtual Visit to St. Botolph Club Exhibition
By: - Apr 08th, 2020Shortly after the exhibition Words & Images Allan Rohan Crite 1910 – 2007 opened the private St. Botolph Club was closed because of the pandemic. There is however a link to a video that provides a virtual tour of the exhibition. Crite is regarded as a leading Boston artist of his generation. He was a graduate of the Museum School. The Museum of Fine Arts is remiss in not planning a major exhibition of this remarkable and widely influential artist.
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Jeremy Denk on Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
Preludes and Fugues Revealed
By: - Apr 08th, 2020The pleasures of streaming music are revealed in this delightful meeting with Jeremy Denk in his country home. He focuses on the C sharp Prelude and Fugue and dips into two others. What a joy!
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New Music Virtual Town Hall
Our Digital Present and Future Explored
By: - Apr 07th, 2020Many of us sense that coming out of lockdown we will find ourselves in a very different world. Ideas that have emerged from isolation suggest ways in which a wider group of people, worldwide, can connect. Music is a universal language. Organizations like the International Contemporary Ensemble have led the way into a musical future unimaginable before the most recent technology revolution. Gathered to discuss subjects like how to make an audience out of disparate listeners and platforms available for cooperation and sharing, many other organizations offered insights.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Goes Audible
Response to Pandemic Challenge for 2020
By: - Apr 07th, 2020“This virus might get to tell us what we cannot do but it does not get to dictate what we can do,” Mandy Greenfield said. “The voices of these artists will be heard. Through this alliance with Audible, we keep artists and the generative artistic process centered and steady through this unspeakably difficult moment when public gathering simply isn’t possible"
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Provincetown Arts Magazine
Needs Help for 35th Anniversary
By: - Apr 05th, 2020The 35th annual issue of Provincetown Arts Magazine is ready to go to press. The pandemic, however, has created uncertainty about the coming season. There may not be enough crucial advertising revenue to publish the issue. This is an appeal for support.
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MFA Cancels Programming
Suspended Through August 31
By: - Apr 04th, 2020Responding to the pandemic the MFA has issued this letter to its patrons.
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Berkshire Artist Ricky Darell Barton
Rethinking Real Eyes and Three Other 2020 Exhibitions
By: - Apr 04th, 2020This was to be the breakout season for Berkshire artist Ricky Darell Barton. This week was to be the launch of a solo exhibition at Real Eyes Gallery in Adams. Three other solo and group shows by Barton are scheduled to follow throuth the summer. Social distancing, which is likely to extend for the coming months, changes everything. For now a single painting by Barton is displayed in the window of the gallery with more work available for on line viewing on the Real Eyes website.
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Intimacy Direction/Choreography
A Relatively New but Growing Discipline in Theater
By: - Apr 04th, 2020An Intimacy Director/Choreographer is responsible for creating and setting moments of intimacy onstage in a convincing, safe manner. The relatively new theatrical field of Intimacy Direction/Choreography is growing. Some see the field as vital in a post-pandemic world. South Florida theater companies are among those nationwide employing Intimacy Directors/Choreographers.
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Update from Shakespeare & Company
Letter from Allyn Burrows
By: - Apr 03rd, 2020Shakespeare saw the theatres closed two times in as many years due to the plague, and he subsequently must have viewed the world through the lens of what the epidemic wrought.
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On the Fly
At La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Apr 02nd, 2020The latest La Jolla Playhouse production “Fly” is a new, visually stunning musical reimagining of J.M. Barrie’s “Peter and Wendy”, the popular and enduring children’s fantasy story about adventures in a dream filled place called ‘Neverland’ where children never grow up into adulthood where each has the ability to fly (with caveats, however, that must be observed).
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Documentaries on Art and Design
What to Stream When Home Alone
By: - Apr 02nd, 2020Most of us are now hunkered down and isolated, inundated by 24/7 news coverage of depressing medical and economic conditions, compounded by failed White House leadership. To lighten our burden, just a bit, here is a list, with thumbnail reviews, of nine excellent documentary films about architecture and design.
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La Mama Presents Pananadem
Philippino Act of Remembering Dramatized in Dance and Music
By: - Apr 01st, 2020Full of color and a driving beat, this special Philippine dance group presents Pananadem. The term means “remembering” in the language of the Meranao people (Philippines). It is a way of looking back across time, to gain inspiration and perspective from one’s ancestors.
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Berkshire Theatre Group to Open in August
Revising plans for Summer 2020
By: - Apr 01st, 2020This week Jacob's Pillow cancelled its coming season. Can Tanglewood be far behind? Today Williamstown Theatre Festival pulled back from selling tickets with a note for further review of seasonal plans. Berkshire Theatre Group announces the launch of its season on August 1. We have yet to hear updates from Shakespeare & Company, Barrngton Stage Company or other regional theatres. As non essential business Berkshire museums are closed with no time line for resumed programming.
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Mannes is Music
Luisa Muhr Presents Women Between Arts
By: - Mar 31st, 2020The richness of music programming at the Mannes School, now a division of The New School for Social Research, is clear day to day. Women Between Arts (WBA) is New York’s leading interdisciplinary women and non-binary artists series, created and curated by multi- and interdisciplinary artist Luisa Muhr. Programming revolves around the question: "How do we make new art?"
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White Blacks: The Saga of an American Family
Melanie Maria Goodreaux Writes and Directs
By: - Mar 31st, 2020We begin as the guests at a black debutante ball in New Orleans. White staircase, be-gowned young women, stiffly poised young-men stand on the threshold of their presentation to society. Step by step we see the painstaking bows and courtesies of a society steeped in the mores of color and class that are expressions of the history of that city.
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Jacob's Pillow Cancels 2020 Season
Response to Pandemic
By: - Mar 31st, 2020For the first time in its 88-year history, the Jacob’s Pillow Board of Trustees and Executive Leadership have made the decision to cancel the 2020 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, previously scheduled for June 24-August 30 along with its annual gala scheduled for June 20.
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Rafael Mahdavi: Corona Chronicles
Pandemic News from France
By: - Mar 30th, 2020During a time of confinement we reach out to family and friends by phone and e mail. From France my artist friend, Rafael Mahdavi, wrote a wonderful detailed note. He also sent a remarkable new work that inspired this piece. Art represents hope and salvation through the darkest moments of human condition.
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Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra Streams Stravinsky
Multi Media Rhythmic Extravaganza Delights
By: - Mar 29th, 2020Stravinsky composed La History del Soldado, a multi media piece, in 1914. Using speech, mime and dance accompanied by a seven piece band, we hear ragtime, tango, and other modern musical idioms combined in a series of highly infectious instrumental movements. Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra performed the piece, with an updated libretto they commissioned. It is delightful to hear, even long distance.
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MFA Director Matthew Teitelbaum
A 1993 Interview with the Acting Director of the ICA
By: - Mar 29th, 2020A native of Toronto, Matthew Teitelbaum, departed Boston in 1993 to take a curatorial position at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In this interview he was acting director of the Institute of Contemporary Art. Then 37, it provides insights of his curatorial vision and process. He went on to be director of the AGO. In 2015 he returned to Boston as director of the Museum of Fine Arts.
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