Music
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2024 Boston Pops season, May 10–June 8
Under Baton of Keith Lockhart
By: - Feb 14th, 2024The Boston Pops’ 138th season opens on May 10 and 11 with one of the great entertainers of our time, Harry Connick Jr., singing American Songbook classics. Returning to the Pops for the first time since 2001, Connick performs in what will be the 35th anniversary year of the release of the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack that earned him his first Grammy Award and went multi-platinum. He joins Maestro Lockhart, who is in his 29th year leading the Pops, making him its second longest-serving conductor since the Pops was founded in 1885, after Arthur Fiedler.
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Anatevka at Komische Oper, Berlin
Better known as Fiddler on the Roof
By: - Feb 17th, 2024Most people know the story of Tevye, the milkman, as 'Fiddler on the Roof.' What started in the1960's as a sensational Broadway musical by Jerome Robbins, has kept all of its allure. 'Anatevka,' here named after the location of the action, is still the wonderful same.
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Corpus Evita
West Bay Opera Performs 2006 Grammy Nominee
By: - Feb 17th, 2024The composer and librettist both grew up in Argentina during Juan Peron's return to power and his third wife Isabel's ascension to the presidency on his death. Employing magical realism, the ghost of Evita, Juan's second wife beloved by the people, looms over Isabel, who fails to capture a similar relationship, despite the machinations of her advisor, Ministro. Lush neo-romantic music and Argentina's dramatic political events in the last half of the 20th century drive this beautifully produced rendition.
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Rigoletto
Opera San Jose's Powerful Production of Verdi Masterpiece
By: - Feb 15th, 2024The jester Rigoletto's life is dedicated to the care and safety of his daughter, Gilda. When she is kidnapped and compromised by his employer, the Duke of Mantua, he plans revenge but is also cursed by the father of another victim of the Duke's lechery. His plans backfire catastrophically. The glorious opera receives a powerful treatment.
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Berkshire Opera Festival Announces Season
Mark Your Calendars
By: - Feb 21st, 2024Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) announces its 2024 season in Great Barrington, MA and New York City. The only company of its kind in the Berkshire region, BOF produces opera at the highest level under the vision of esteemed co-founders Brian Garman (Artistic Director) and Jonathan Loy ((Director of Production).
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Swing into Spring
Jazz in the Berkshires
By: - Mar 01st, 2024Spring fast approaches, with good news from our friends at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, and the opening of the box office for our own Pittsfield CityJazz Festival.
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La Jolla Playhouse Presents Redwood
Is Living in a Forest Canopy the Answer
By: - Mar 03rd, 2024Redwood, a musical drama conceived and written by Tina Landau and Idina Menzel, is currently playing at the La Jolla Playhouse. Composer Kate Diaz provides the expansive score with lyrics by Diaz and Landau. Redwood tells the story of Jesse (played by Idina Menzel), a hard-charging, no-holds-barred New Yorker who is struggling to find purpose in her life following the death of her young adult son.
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Million Dollar Quartet
At ACT-CT
By: - Mar 04th, 2024Hunter Foster, who played Sam Philips in the original Broadway cast, directs this production with a fine hand. His experience with the show reveals itself in the nuances and choices he makes. The scenic design by Josh Smith shows us the studio of Sun Records in Memphis in the 1950s. The founder of the studio, Phillips helped put rock ‘n roll on the charts.
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Popular Artists at Tanglewood
New Names Added
By: - Mar 07th, 2024New additions to the Popular Artist Series at the Tanglewood Music Festival bring a parade of classic rock, contemporary pop, and R&B stars to the Koussevitzky Music Shed between June 20 and Independence Day, supplementing several more previously announced dates in July and August. New additions to the Shed lineup include Roger Daltrey with KT Tunstall, Brandi Carlile, and Jon Batiste, as well as John Fogerty and George Thorogood on tour together and Jason Mraz with the Boston Pops conducted by Sean O’Loughlin.
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Castalian Quartet at the 92nd Street Y
Sir Stephen Hough Pianist and Composer
By: - Mar 12th, 2024The brash and lively Castalian String Quartet and man-for-all-seasons Sir Stephen Hough performed at the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y in New York.
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American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie
Continuingto look at weimar and its Repercussions
By: - Mar 15th, 2024The American Composers Orchestra joined Carnegie Hall’s musical exploration of the Weimar Republic. Central to the evening’s presentation were two pieces: One, ‘Pirate Jenny’ from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera. The other ‘Clans’ from Lowok Shoppola of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma.
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Carnegie Hall Supports Young Musicians
Nezet-Seguin Conducts the National Youth Orchestra of the USA-Alumni
By: - Mar 18th, 2024The National Youth Orchestra-USA Alumni performed works by George Gershwin and Dmitri Shostakovich at Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducted. Daniil Trifonov performed Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F with flair, flash and deep feeling.
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Berkshire Jazz Festival
Tickets on Sale
By: - Mar 18th, 2024Starting with an open jam session and ending with a jazz brunch at Dottie’s, the events include the popular Jazz Crawl, a swing dance, the jazz prodigy concert introducing two (!) young musicians to Berkshires audiences, and headline concerts featuring Brandon Goldberg and Marcus Roberts. The box office is open, and you can find a link at the end of this newsletter.
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Dead Outlaw at the Minetta Lane Theatre
The Crew from Band's Visit Reunites
By: - Mar 29th, 2024Dead Outlaw is Audible’s latest production at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York. The band is central on stage from start to finish. We enter the world of a rocking hoe-down celebrating life after death.
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Pal Joey
Rodgers and Hart's Greatest Cad
By: - Apr 01st, 2024Nightclub entertainer Joey Evans attracts a patroness, Vera, who stakes him to a club of his own. But she is older, domineering, married, and hot for him. He's a footloose schemer with the morals of an alley cat. What could possibly go wrong? Happily, the clashes of nightclub life are revealed with liberal doses of the beautiful tune "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered."
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Gatsby the Musical
American Repertory Theatre
By: - Apr 02nd, 2024Gatsby is directed by Tony Award-winning director Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Moby-Dick) with choreography by Tony Award winner Sonya Tayeh (Moulin Rouge!). The production features an original score by international rock star Florence Welch (Florence + The Machine) and Oscar and Grammy Award nominee Thomas Bartlett (Doveman), and a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok (Cost of Living). Keenan Tyler Oliphant is associate director and Camden Gonzales is associate choreographer. Casting will be announced at a later date.
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General Manager of Met Opera Competes with Trump
Preivew of John Adams' El Nino at Works & Process
By: - Apr 04th, 2024John Adams’ masterpiece Oratorio, El Nino, is being given a full production at the Metropolitan Opera this spring. The work premiered at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in 2000. Kent Nagano conducted. Luxury casting included Dawn Upshaw, Lorrraine Hunt Lieberson and Willard White
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TEETH: When Men Attack, Her Body Bites Back
A Pop/Horror Musical at Playwrights Horizons
By: - Apr 05th, 2024Drawing inspiration from the 2007 cult-horror film by Mitchell Lichtenstein, this energetic show satirizes purity culture and sexual desire while tossing in a bit of biting commentary on misogyny.
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Birds and Balls
Two Lively One-Act Operas From Innovative Opera Parallèle
By: - Apr 07th, 2024Imagine one opera about the heralded 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match and another about an obscure Belgian bird singing competition. How would they be packaged in a program? Of course, by framing them as broadcasts from ABC's Wide World of Sports, with Howard Cosell at the mic. Innovative production techniques lift these already interesting little gems.
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Tanglewood Popular Artists
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Singer/Songwriter Carsie Blanton
Returns to Next Stage Arts in Putney Vermont
By: - Apr 10th, 2024Carsie Blanton is a songwriter with hooks, chutzpah, and revolutionary optimism. Inspired by artist-activists including Nina Simone and Woody Guthrie, her catalog careens through American popular song from folk and swing to pop-punk protest anthems.
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Julie Benko in Standby, Me
Stage Performer Ready To Stand-in For A Principal Unable To Go On
By: - Apr 16th, 2024In an engaging cabaret entertainment, Julie Benko recalled her experience as all manner of stand-in performer with beautifully crafted songs from those shows and witty vignettes. She's also made it to the top, having played Fanny Brice, the lead in "Funny Girl," on Broadway over 180 times.
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Lempicka: The Bi-Sexual Baroness with a Brush
At New York’s Longacre Theater
By: - Apr 17th, 2024While the authors tell us that the play is “inspired” by the artist’s personal and political life, unfortunately, all of the “real-life” characters are so hastily established and sketchily drawn, that what we’re left with is a lack of realism and emotional vulnerability. All the characters in this play are like wooden sticks, there is no depth to any of them.
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Tiergarten, a New York Carbaret
Carnegie Hall on the Lower East Side
By: - Apr 21st, 2024Tiergarten, a cabaret, opened for three nights in the Grand Hall of St Mary’s Church on the lower East Side of Manhattan. A participant in Carnegie Hall’s deep gaze at the music of the Weimar Republic, hot impresario Andrew Ousley gathered together a group of top-notch performers and a talented design crew to create an ageless event. When the doors close, a mad spirit is unleashed in Willkommen.
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Florencia en el Amazonas
Magical Realism Receives Exquisite Treatment By Opera San Jose
By: - Apr 22nd, 2024This 1996 work was a breakthrough for Spanish language operas. Florencia, an opera singer, is returning to Manaus in the Amazon by boat and to great anticipation. In addition to performing there, she hopes to find her lost lover, a butterfly hunter, who disappeared into the jungle 20 years previous. Traveling incognito, she finds a passenger who has been collecting information for her biography and, unbeknownst to her, a spirit person who bridges the worlds of reality and magic.
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