Straz Center Appoints Matthew Wolf As COO
Straz Center President and CEO Greg Holland has announced the appointment of Matthew Wolf as chief operating officer of Tampa's David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts.
Hoff-Barthelson Music School Artist Series Presents A Dazzling Evening Of Mozart, Poulenc, Honegger, Milhaud, And More
Hoff-Barthelson Music School will present the second faculty concert in the HB Artist Series, a captivating evening of classical music that promises to enchant and inspire audiences. The concert will be held on Friday, October 27, 2023, at 7:30 pm in the School's Joan Behrens Bergman Auditorium, 25 School Lane, Scarsdale, New York.
Kravis Center Names Phillip Bergmann As Artistic Advisor For Classical Music
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts today announced that Phillip Bergmann has been named Artistic Advisor for Classical Music at Palm Beach County's largest not-for-profit performing arts center. This includes the popular Regional Arts Classical Concert Series that started its 47th season last week, and the Young Artists Series, which presents its first concert of the season this week.
Apollo's Fire Brings Monteverdi's L'Orfeo To Ann Arbor, Berkeley And Sonoma In April 2018
After a critically acclaimed East Coast Tour last month which included a Carnegie Hall debut on March 22, Apollo's Fire launches a new production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (Orpheus in the Underworld) starting on April 13 in Cleveland. Conducted by founding artistic director Jeannette Sorrell and directed by British stage director Sophie Daneman, the semi-staged production will include a historically reconstructed version of the work's original ending, as well as period dancers, digital scenic projections, and a stellar cast of singers. Apollo's Fire will present Monteverdi's L'Orfeo on tour at three leading American performing arts institutions; return visits to University Musical Society in Ann Arbor on April 15 and Cal Performances in Berkeley on April 20, and a debut at Green Music Center in Sonoma on April 22.
Apollo's Fire to Make Carnegie Hall Debut; Join Boston Early Music Festival Series
Apollo's Fire continues their busy 2017/2018 season with a 5-city tour of their celebrated A Night at Bach's Coffeehouse program, including the ensemble's debut at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, March 22. Conceived and conducted by the ensemble's founding artistic director, conductor/harpsichordist Jeannette Sorrell, A Night at Bach's Coffeehouse is inspired by the coffeehouse concerts led by J.S. Bach in Leipzig during the 18th century and features music by Bach and his contemporaries, including Telemann, Handel, and Vivaldi. The tour begins at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury, VT on March 20 and concludes at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA on March 27.
Jeannette Sorrell Makes National Symphony Orchestra Debut With Handel's MESSIAH
Jeannette Sorrell, recognized as one of today's most creative early music conductors, will make her subscription debut conducting the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) with four performances of Handel's Messiah, December 14 through December 17. Joined by four gifted soloists and the University of Maryland Concert Choir under the direction of Edward Maclary, Sorrell will lead the NSO in her fresh perspective that highlights the theatrical, spiritual, and musical storytelling of Handel's classic oratorio.
Opera Singer Louis Roney Passes Away at 96
Legendary tenor and arts advocate Louis Roney passed away this past Sunday. All of us at Opera Orlando are greatly saddened to lose him; he was a great supporter of ours and brought energy and passion to our project- even in his mid-nineties.
Schimmel Center presents NYTB's UPTOWN/DOWNTOWN/DANCE
The Uptown/Downtown/Dance program will include an as-yet-untitled World Premiere from Martin Lawrance and the World Premiere of Painted Within by Zhong-Jing Fang, as well as a restaging of former NYTB resident choreographer Edward Henkel's ReVision, created in 1986, with music by Edvard Grieg, Holberg Suite op. 40 (1884). A 2013 NYTB commission, Short Memory by Pam Tanowitz, is set to live music by Lou Harrison and Henry Cowell and helps set up Ms. Tanowitz's brilliant use of stage space. The evenings include two more pieces by Ms. Tanowtiz: Light Moving, set to music by David Lang, and Double Andante, a 13-minute ballet for ten dancers set to the Andante movement of Beethoven's Sonata in D Major #15, which will be played live on piano two times at different tempos. Tickets are $29 and are available at SchimmelCenter.org.