Music
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Connick Romps at Tanglewood
Rips the Roof Off the Shed Ending Season
By: - Sep 05th, 2015The last time Harry Connick, Jr. performed at Tanglewood there was a monsoon. Last night was a picture perfect evening as Connick and his nine piece band tore the roof off of the shed in a barn burner to close out the season during Labor Day weekend.
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Harry Connick, Jr. at Tanglewood
Returns to Berkshires Septrember 4
By: - Sep 03rd, 2015After a two year hiatus, Harry Connick, Jr returns to the stage at Tanglewood for a much anticipated Labor Day show on Friday evening, September 4th. Connick is a crowd favorite that hails from the 'Crescent City' (New Orleans).
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NY Fringe 2015: Ideas Not Theories
Boston's Reynaliz Herrera Finds the Beat Everywhere
By: - Aug 23rd, 2015In nooks and crannies all over New York, talent is busting out in the 19th New York International Fringe Festival. Herrera is a percussionist who finds the beat wherever she is. In her entrancing concept of a kid in a warehouse music factory, buckets and bikes found lying on the floor offer opportunities for novel and instant sounds. They are even better than chocolate.
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Cirque de la Symphonie at Tanglewood
Three Rings for Pops
By: - Aug 23rd, 2015The circus came to town joining the Pops for perhaps the most fun and entertaining evening of summer at Tanglewood.
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Mostly Mozart Presents Emerging Talent
Cape Cod Chamber Music, Met Opera Baritone Plus Bard Pianist
By: - Aug 18th, 2015Mostly Mozart. adding a soupçon of musical interest for its audiences and a splendid opportunity for rising young talent to perform in important venues, offers a concert pre-concert, in which you might even hear Emmanuel Ax. Avery FIsher Hall, configured for the Festival, is an acoustically satisfying, intimate experience.
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Tanglewood Update
BSO Departs Early to Launch European Tour
By: - Aug 18th, 2015By all accounts from the audience to musicians and critics the BSO has never sounded better than under its young artistic director Andris Nelsons. The BSO has departed Tanglewood earlier than usual to start a European tour on August 22 through September 5. The BSO opens its fall season in October.
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Hubbard Hall Opera Theater
Takes Verdi’s Rigoletto by Storm
By: - Aug 18th, 2015Verdi's Rigoletto is a tragic masterpiece and one of the top ten most performed operas in the world. It can exist on a grand scale, but at Hubbard Hall you will witness the human side of this production. The audience can feel the moving power that sometimes is only delivered in the most intimate of spaces as an exquisite pianissimo whisper.
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George Benjamin Conducts ICE at Lincoln Center
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Ligeti's Favorite, is Stunning
By: - Aug 16th, 2015Mostly Mozart is committed to pushing the envelope. In engaging George Benjamin as composer-in-residence they have had him on hand for stage and full productions of his two operas. He has also conducted the work of other composers whose influence he imbibed. Claire Chase and the International Contemporary Ensemble show their stuff in two pieces by composers who influenced Benjamin and in Benjamin's chamber opera Into the Little Hill.
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Mostly Mozart Premier's Benjamin's Written on Skin
Gory and Beautiful, the Opera Succeeds Bartok and Berg
By: - Aug 13th, 2015After its smashing success at Aix-en-Provence, Written on Skin has been produced in London and Berlin and other European cities. Now it arrives in New York with 60 percent of the original cast, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra which originally performed under the composer. Alan Gilbert takes the podium and brings forth an at once daring and lovely performance.
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El Exigente Botstein Brings Mexico to Bard
Revueltas, Chavez and de Falla Staged
By: - Aug 10th, 2015Leon Botstein calls our attention to the music and art of Mexico. Mexico is under-represented in symphony halls across the world. Botstein, who heads Bard and extraordinary music programs, is introducing extensive important Mexican compositions of the last century. While Carlos Chavez is less well known than Silvestre Revueltas, he was the center of Mexico's music life during his lifetime and is its lynchpin.
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Boston Midsummer Opera Does "Martha"
Once Popular Opera by Friedrich von Flotow
By: - Aug 06th, 2015"Martha" is famous for two numbers, one of which, "The Last Rose of Summer," is actually an Irish folk song. But most contemporary opera lovers have not heard the entire work. Midsummer Opera's production suggests although the work has its pleasures, it is not soon to become an opera house staple.
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Tanglewood on Parade 2015
Andris Nelsons Subs for John Williams
By: - Aug 05th, 2015A highlight of the Berkshire season is the annual day long event Tanglewood On Parade culminating in a concert in the Shed. A perennial participant, composer/ conductor John Williams, was unable to travel from his home in LA. His music was heard including a Tanglewood debut of Andris Nelsons as a substitute conductor of the Pops. A good time was had by all.
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The Blue Moon Roof Top Party in Pittsfield
Event for the Farmers Market
By: - Aug 03rd, 2015Jessica Conzo, market manager for Downtown Pittsfield's Farmers Market, hosted the second annual 'Blue Moon Roof Top' celebration on Friday night, July 31st, on top of the Greystone Building, located at 446 North Street. The event was a sell-out.
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Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers
Botstein Conducts at Bard's Summerscape
By: - Aug 03rd, 2015Ethel Smyth is the only female composer whose work has been produced by the Metropolitan Opera. An admirer of Wagner, Berlioz and Brahms, she in turn was admired by Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Thomas Beecham and Virginia Woolf. The Wreckers is her best known opera and Leon Botstein, ever on the alert for deserving but underexposed works, presented it in concert form in 2007. Now he gives us the full treatment at Bard.
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Unknown Soldier at Williamstown Theatre Festival
World Premiere Musical by Michael Freidman and Daniel Goldstein
By: - Aug 02nd, 2015This is the 10th WTF season for Michael Friedman, and 6th for Daniel Goldstein. They have created the world premiere of a musical Unknown Soldier which is one of the bright and promising productions this summer in Williamstown. The project was initiated through a commission from former artistic director Nicholas Martin. It has been brought to fruition by Mandy Greenfield .
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This Week at Tanglewood: August 2nd-6th
Tanglewood On Parade Featured on Tuesday
By: - Aug 02nd, 2015The week of August 2nd to 6thh is one of the most exciting weeks at Tanglewood,located in Lenox, Massachusetts. If you are a fan of conductor Andris Nelsons and Yo-Yo Ma, this is your week of enjoyment.
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Side by Side by Sondheim
North Coast Repertory Theatre through August 16
By: - Jul 28th, 2015The North Coast Repertory Theatre production of “Side By Side By Sondheim”, does Mr. Sondheim proud! That enormous canon is selectively and lovingly brought to life by four gifted and talented singer/actors in a 90 minute free flowing tribute to his genius under the inspired direction of North Coast artistic director David Ellenstein.
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Girlfriend at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
World Premiere Musical by Todd Almond & Matthew Sweet
By: - Jul 28th, 2015Todd Almond’s new rock musical “Girlfriend” with music and lyrics by Matthew Sweet is a vanguard production that addresses the issues of understanding, acceptance, as well as the hopes and dreams of two gay teenage boys who discover one another in rural Nebraska in the summer of 1993.
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Paul Natkin Superstars
Exhibition at Ed Paschke Art Center in Jefferson Park.
By: - Jul 28th, 2015Paul Natkin told an attentive audience about shooting Bruce Springsteen in Minneapolis on his Born in the USA tour for a Newsweek cover. That shoot was described in a story about Natkin in the Chicago Sun-Times. "That's when my family believed I was a real photographer," he said. That publicity also led to five years as the staff photographer for the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Tommy
Having a Silver Ball
By: - Jul 27th, 2015To get up for the gig, The Who, we dropped acid. From the front row Ronnie and I were blown away by Tommy.
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Opera Is Coming to Cambrige, NY
Rigoletto and Old Maid & the Thief at Hubbard Hall
By: - Jul 25th, 2015Hubbard Hall Opera Theater offers up something for everyone with their summer season.
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Chicago Exhibition of Jazz and Art
At Museum of Contemportary Art
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015The newly opened exhibit, The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Chicago's experimental jazz collective, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), which continues to expand the boundaries of jazz.
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Blue Moon Roof Top Party in Pittsfield
July 31 Benefit to Support Pittsfield Farmers Market
By: - Jul 22nd, 2015Dance drink and enjoy the stars from the Blue Moon Rooftop in downtown Pittsfield. It's a benefit for the Farmers Market.
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Daphne with The Cleveland Orchestra
Welser-Möst Realizes the First of the Last Great Works of Strauss
By: - Jul 19th, 2015Daphne, a one act opera, is more tone poem than drama. Each character has a signature in notes. Particularly Daphne, Apollo and Leukippos are shaped and defined by Strauss. Strauss' new librettist Joseph Gregor finally produced a satisfactory text with a lot of help from Strauss' friends. Daphne was Pauline, Strauss' wife, favorite. A noted soprano in her own right, Pauline recognized the extraordinary musical character Strauss created for sopranos. Regine Hangler took full advantage.
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Audra Mcdonald in Concert at Tanglewood
Tony winner plays Ozawa Hall on Sunday, July 19th
By: - Jul 18th, 2015Known for her recent role as Billie Holiday, multiple Tony award winning actress and singer, Audra Mcdonald takes center stage at Tanglewood on July 19.
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