Norm Lewis, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Skylar Astin Join Sondheim Celebration At Hollywood Bowl
by A.A. Cristi - May 26, 2023
Broadway stars Skylar Astin, Norm Lewis and Brian Stokes Mitchell will complete the glittering cast of Broadway luminaries for Everybody Rise! A Sondheim Celebration on Sunday, July 30, 2023, at the Hollywood Bowl. They are joined by previously announced three-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone, Sierra Boggess and Sutton Foster for this unforgettable concert program curated by Robert Longbottom and Kevin Stites and conducted by Stites.
The 2023 George London Award Winners Are Announced; Five Young Opera Singers Win $12,000 Prize
by Blair Ingenthron - Feb 18, 2023
The winners of the 51st George and Nora London Foundation Competition for young American and Canadian opera singers, one of the opera world's oldest and most prestigious competitions, were announced at the conclusion of the competition's final round this evening, which took place at Gilder Lehrman Hall at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. The event took place before an in-person audience for the first time since 2020, and was also livestreamed.
Andre Raphel Conducts the BSO in Subscription Series Debut
by Stephi Wild - Feb 14, 2023
Conductor André Raphel conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra making his BSO Subscription series debut on March 3, 4 and 5, 2023. He will be leading the opening program in the “Voices of Loss, Reckoning and Hope” Festival, a festival exploring complex social issues.
JoAnn Falletta Will Conduct Three World Premiere Performances With the Buffalo Philharmonic
by Stephi Wild - Mar 23, 2022
Kenneth Fuchs's Point of Tranquility (Sat. Mar. 19 & Sun. Mar. 20), inspired by abstract expressionism; Russell Platt's Symphony in Three Movements (For Clyfford Still), (Sat. Apr. 23 & Sun. Apr. 24), a musical interpretation of abstract impressionist works by Still that hang in Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Wang Jie's The Winter that United Us (Sat. June 11).
JoAnn Falletta Will Conduct Kennedy Center 50th Anniversary Celebration
by Stephi Wild - Aug 28, 2021
Echoing “An American Pageant for the Arts,” the 1962 fundraising telecast for the National Cultural Center hosted by Leonard Bernstein, one of Falletta’s early teachers, this special celebration will be hosted by Tony Award® winner Audra McDonald with special guest Caroline Kennedy. Falletta will share the podium with conductors Steven Reineke and Thomas Wilkins.
Phoenix Poet Judith Wolf Releases New Book Of Poetry
by A.A. Cristi - May 14, 2020
With her trademark sensitivity, humor and power of observation, Phoenix based poet Judith G. Wolf has released her newest collection of poetry, I Hate Being in Love Alone. I Hate Being in Love Alone is available now in paperback and Kindle through Amazon.
Phoenix Based Poet Judith G. Wolf To Be Honored With Top Award
by Stephi Wild - Feb 26, 2020
Following her 2019 Grammy winning collaboration with composer Kenneth Fuchs for Poems for Life, local poet Dr. Judith G. Wolf will now be recognized with the Arizona Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters top honor, the Medallion of Merit. Dr. Wolf is being honored for her contributions to the arts including developing young visual and performing artists and showcasing their work to inspire confidence, promote expression and achieve recognition from the community-at-large.
Sono Luminus Releases Violinist Janet Sung's 'Edge of Youth'
by Kaitlin Milligan - Mar 14, 2019
Sono Luminus announces the April 26, 2019 worldwide release of Edge of Youth, the first album on the label from violinist Janet Sung, hailed by The Washington Post for her “riveting” playing and “exquisite tone.” Edge of Youth, with pianist William Wolfram, includes music for solo violin and violin and piano by Georges Enescu, Missy Mazzoli, Benjamin Britten, Dan Visconti, and Gabriel Prokofiev. The album was produced by Dan Merceruio and recorded, mixed and mastered by Daniel Shores, at Sono Luminus' world-class studio, located in a former church in Boyce, Virginia.