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Christmas Theatre in Connecticut
Tons of Fun
By: - Dec 04th, 2021There's lots of fun for the whole family on stage in Connecticut. Here's a cheat sheet.
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Jeremy Denk Performs The Well Tempered Clavier
Bach is Still Full of Joy at 300
By: - Dec 06th, 2021Jeremy Denk performed “The Old Testament of Keyboard Music,” Bach’ s Well Tempered Clavier (WTC) , at the 92nd Street Y in New York. The artist selects works to which he can bring new insights. Bach, he sensed, was trapped by the Glenn Gould performances in the mid-20th century. Audiences found the neuroses Gould implanted in Bach suitable for the century’s mood. They also appreciated the humming he added to the piano notes. Other performers flatten the work to sound more like a harpsichord, sewiwgmachine style.
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Be Bamboo
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Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol
Miami's City Theatre
By: - Dec 10th, 2021In Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, playwright Tom Mula tells the familiar tale, but from Jacob Marley's perspective. City Theatre in Miami has mounted an engaging production that runs through Dec. 19. Long-time British Actor Colin McPhillamy plays 18 characters in this minimalist production.
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TON Orchestra at the Metropolitan Museum
The Piano Explored
By: - Dec 10th, 2021It comes as no surprise that the oldest piano in the world, created in 1720 by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) of Padua, is now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An earlier instrument was recorded in the inventory of the Medici family in 1700, but the Met’s piano is the oldest to survive today. It has hammers and dampers, two keyboards, and a range of four octaves, C–c”’ The instrument was on view for concertgoers, who enjoyed a talk by Leon Botstein om the development of the instrument. He focused on Beethoven's response to more notes with a wider dynamic range, The Orchestra Now performed the Emperor Concerto, Shai Wosner at the modern Steinway and Leon Botstein conducting.
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Miss Bennet – Christmas at Pemberley.
Playhouse on Park in West Hartford
By: - Dec 11th, 2021The play is set two years after Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have married and settled at his home. The family is arriving to celebrate Christmas.
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Pianist Inna Faliks Finds Kindred Spirits
The Schmanns, Beethoven and Ravel Explored
By: - Dec 13th, 2021Inna Faliks is a superb concert pianist, who also heads the piano studies department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her recordings are devoted to revealing kindred spirits. Husband and wife, Robert and Clara Schumann, are offered together in The Schumann Project. Their entwined influence is suggested. Her interpretations of Beethoven will be presented as part of a Barge Concert in New York on December 16.
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Unpacking NFTs
Art or Scam
By: - Dec 15th, 2021NFT art is a new way of categorizing digital artworks that enables artists to monetize their creations. A pertinent question: how does valuing a physical artwork compare to valuing a virtual work of art? It turns out that the value of NFTs and crypto art is based on the value of cryptocurrency. NFTs are sold on the basis of Ether or Ethereum. The Ethereum is translated into monetary value. For example, if an NFT sells for 2 Ethereum, that would translate at the moment into about $2,255 dollars. If the speculative value of the Ethereum drops, then so does the value of the artwork.
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Conrad Tao at the 92nd Street Y
Melody in Sound Clouds
By: - Dec 21st, 2021Conrad Tao is a special pianist. He is a master of technique and so much more. He performs as a listener, always hearing the harmonics of a note he strikes (or even plucks). In his own compositions and in his interpretation of the work of others, he calls our attention to the richness of a tone, colored by many notes, in geometric order above the note struck.
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The Play That Goes Wrong
And That's the Truth
By: - Dec 22nd, 2021The premise of the play that actually goes wrong is introduced by Chris Bean, president of the Cornley University Drama Society (played by Matt Mueller). The drama society is staging the play The Murder at Haversham Manor in the USA, a production made possible, the program notes, by the British-American Cultural Exchange Program.
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Inna Faliks at The Barge
Generational Response Moves Beautiful Music to the Present
By: - Dec 22nd, 2021A new work by George Meyer and commissions by Inna Falik are performed in New York. This program took place on The Barge, one of New York’s most charming venues. You rock on the boat as you watch perfumers reflected in the boat’s windows. Boats pass by outside, traveling up and down the East River. The Wall Street skyline shimmers in the background. A welcome way to end a difficult year. Live music.
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Kinky Boots
Slow Burn Theatre Company in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Dec 25th, 2021Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of "Kinky Boots" raises us up. The Ft. Lauderdale company's production runs through Jan. 2. Kinky Boots is based on a film of the same name, which, in turn, is based on a true story.
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Joe Papp at the Ballroom
A World Premiere by GableStage
By: - Dec 27th, 2021Joe Papp at the Ballroom attempts to recreate the theater legend's public concert in 1978. GableStage, together with Yiddishkayt Initiative (https://yilovejewish.org). The production runs through Dec. 31 at the award-winning Coral Gables professional, nonprofit theater company.
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Becoming Dr. Ruth with Tovah Feldshuh
A remarkable life at Museum of Jewish Heritage
By: - Dec 26th, 2021Mark St. Germain has crafted a moving and funny portrait of the great radio and television sex-pert, Dr. Ruth Westheimer. It plays at the Safra Hall in the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Scott Schwartz directs. Dr. Ruth triumphs over Hitler.
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Hairspray
A New Non-Equity Touring Production
By: - Jan 02nd, 2022A new non-equity touring production of the musical-comedy hit, Hairspray, is touring the country. The production, which achieves mixed results, recently played Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center, but some performances were cancelled due to positive COVID tests within the company. The next tour stop is Cincinnati's Aronoff Center from Jan. 4-9.
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Remaking West Side Story
Screenwriter Tony Kushner and director Stephen Spielberg
By: - Jan 05th, 2022The original film of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story was released in 1957. Why mess with a masterpiece? Now we have a remake collaboration by living legends screenwriter Tony Kushner and director Stephen Spielberg. While arguably not better it certainly is different and relevant for a new generation of viewers. Look for the fabulous 89-year-old Rita Moreno (Academy Award winner for her 1961 portrayal of Anita) as Valentina, the widow of the store owner ‘Doc.”
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Why Casablanca is an Iconic Film
TCM Encores Jan. 23 and 26
By: - Jan 06th, 2022When the movie “Casablanca” merged the powerful elements of love, war, and destiny in 1942, the film and its producers never saw the phenomenal appeal or its success coming until it won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1943. Eighty years later it still deserves a shout-out for American filmmaking exceptionalism.
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Lincoln Center's Flying Over Sunset.
Musical About Early Acid Trips
By: - Jan 08th, 2022In the late ‘50s-early ‘60s, LSD (before Dr. Timothy Leary) was a trendy drug used by both psychiatrists and other to help individuals explore their past and their subconscious. Among the well-known people who experimented with the drug was actor Cary Grant, novelist Aldous Huxley and playwright/journalist/diplomat Clare Boothe Luce.
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Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris
Production Transfers to Broadway
By: - Jan 09th, 2022Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by Robert O'Hara, brings us abruptly into sexual fantasies played out by three interracial couples in the ante-bellum South. This is not what might have happened in the South before or during Jim Crow. No, it is the processing of feelings which will re-invigorate the Black partner’s sexual desire. In the second Act, Processing, we get into the nitty grity of race feelings, which range wider and tougher than the first act’s insight that cantaloupe has white skin and no taste
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Tomm El-Saieh at Clark Art Institute
Year Long Exhibition
By: - Jan 12th, 2022El-Saieh (b. 1984, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; lives and works in Miami) creates paintings that dazzle with dense, all-over compositions of compact marks—achieved through painting, erasing, and abrading—often accompanied by atmospheric washes of bold color. His pictures test the limits of abstraction and perception with parts that resemble patterns, symbols, or even language, and a whole in which larger figures appear to coalesce, advance, or recede. Haitian vodou traditions inform his distinctive visual style, which also reflects influences from Abstract Expressionism and Surrealist automatism.
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Mass MoCA Events
Through April
By: - Jan 12th, 2022Mass MoCa has a busy schedule of exhibitions and special events through April. Check this out and bookmark.
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Igor Levit at Carnegie Hall
An Invitation to Listen
By: - Jan 14th, 2022Igor Levit performed Beethoven, Fred Hersch, Wagner and Liszt in a compelling musical evening at Carnegie Hall in New York. The Hall, vaccinated and boosted, was packed for the occasion.
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Holding the Center Still by Debra Weisberg
At Boston's Piano Craft Gallery
By: - Jan 14th, 2022The work of Debra Weisberg will be featured in a new exhibit, Holding the Center Still, at the Piano Craft Gallery in Boston from March 4 – March 27, 2022. The exhibit comprises collaged paper works and a large scale floor installation. In the opening and closing receptions Vermont choreographer, Paula Higa, will premier a short piece created in response to Weisberg’s work.
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America’s Critic Terry Teachout Was 65
Wrote for Wall Street Journal
By: - Jan 15th, 2022The author of several biographies, plays and opera librettos, Terry Teachout had an expansive interest in the arts. Few of his generation were more prolific. In an age of decline in arts journalism he was the only major critic who regularly covered regional theatre. We saw him several times each season in the Berkshires.
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Gypsy: A Musical Fable
The Wick Theatre & Costume Museum in South Florida
By: - Jan 18th, 2022The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton has mounted an impressive production of the classic musical, Gypsy. The production runs through Feb. 13. Laura Hodos as Mama Rose and the rest of the cast shine.
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