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Daisy Press Sings Hildegard Von Bingen
Angel's Share and Green-Wood Present
By: - Sep 12th, 2022Death of Classical keeps classical music alive in unusual and inviting locations and attracts the curious who often are unfamiliar with this form of music. Collaborating with the Green-Wood Cemetery in the Angel’s Share series, the audience walked through the beautiful Brooklyn graveyard to its Catacombs for a mesmerizing presentation of songs by a twelfth century composer, herbalist and politician, Hildegard Von Bingen.
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Deutsche Oper Presents Turnage
Greek Outdoors in KoolAide Colors
By: - Sep 06th, 2022Mark Anthony Turnage was very young when composer Hans Werner Henze asked him to create an opera for the first Munich Biennale Summer Festival. Turnage, already attracting attention for his musical language which draws on Miles Davis, Janácek and Stravinsky, had caught Henze’s ear. Henze’s own work ranges in reference from serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition.
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Ancram Opera House in Ancram, NY.
2022 Fall Season
By: - Sep 07th, 2022Co-Directors Jeffrey Mousseau and Paul Ricciardi are proud to announce the 2022 fall season at the Ancram Opera House in Ancram, NY. “We are excited to welcome audiences back to the Opera House for our fall season which includes a highly anticipated revival of Emily Mann’s Obie Award-winning documentary play, Still Life,” says Paul Ricciardi; with Jeffrey Mousseau adding, “the project extends an examination of war and its impact on all of us which we initiated last season with our acclaimed production of An Iliad.”
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Free Concert at the Clark
Sunday September 11 at 4PM
By: - Sep 08th, 2022Sunday, September 11, the Clark Art Institute continues its Locals at the Lunder Center series with a free concert by two-guitar duo Elkhorn, followed by local musical group Sound For. Presented in partnership with Belltower Records (North Adams, Massachusetts), the performance kicks off an upcoming series of live music events that feature new experimentations in sound, in conjunction with the changing of the seasons. The concert takes place at 4:15 pm on the Lunder Center’s Moltz Terrace. In the event of inclement weather, the event moves to the Clark’s auditorium.
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Arnold Printworks of North Adams
Dolls Faithfully Reproduced by Ralph Brill Gallery
By: - Sep 03rd, 2022Celia Smith and her sister-in-law Charity Smith had been sending letters to the Arnold Print Works requesting a meeting for their New Idea – Printed Cloth Dolls. They never received a reply, so with a Sample Doll in hand, they made the trip to North Adams in 1890, but were turned away at the door. Initially the dolls were hand made with cloth scraps. They caught on and sold well. Arnold Print Works agreed to Buy the Partners’ Patented Designs. Royalties were10 Cents per Printed Fabric Yard. In the 1892 Holiday Season, 200,000 Doll Sheets were Sold.
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Les Automatistes, de la période de 1939 à 1955
Le Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal
By: - Sep 06th, 2022The group comprised 16 artists of whom nine were men and seven women. They were Magdeleine Arbour, Marcel Barbeau, Paul-Émile Borduas, Bruno Cormier, Marcelle Ferron, Claude Gauvreau, Pierre Gauvreau, Muriel Guilbault, Fernand Leduc, Françoise Lespérance-Riopelle, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Maurice Perron, Louise Renaud, Thérèse Renaud, Jean Paul Riopelle, and Françoise Sullivan.
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Picking Grapes in Alsace
Memories of France in the 1970s
By: - Sep 04th, 2022Charles Giuliano's sister Pip's youthful travels in Asia bring back memories of France in the 70's and my interface with Weltschmer
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Xanadu the Musical
Produced by San Jose Playhouse
By: - Sep 01st, 2022What makes “Xanadu” fun is its light-heartedness and tongue-in-cheek humor based on ridiculously unrealistic happenings. It’s camp. It’s kitschy. It’ll make you smile a lot and laugh out loud
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Ed Stitt: Larz and the City
Gallery Naga
By: - Sep 01st, 2022Ed Stitt lives close to Larz Anderson Park, a landscaped and wooded 64-acre parkland in Brookline and it has lately become his personal playground. Stitt’s new painting exhibition trumpets the exquisite sweeping slopes, expansive lawns, and magnificent trees that comprise the park. As if this weren’t enough, it also offers expansive views of downtown Boston.
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Dance in August, Berlin
34th International Dance Festival
By: - Aug 29th, 2022The 34th edition of the International Dance Festival in Berlin has drawn to a close. From August 5th-27th, 2022, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) showcased in 10 locations throughout Berlin and with 21 productions what is good, new, and exciting in contemporary dance worldwide.
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4000 Miles by Amy Herzog
Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Sep 01st, 2022The play by Amy Herzog focuses on the relationship between a nonagenarian grandmother and her adult grandson. Neither fits the stereotypical mold. Then director David Kennedy selected Mia Dillon to play the grandmother and Clay Singer, the grandson. Almost perfect.
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Fire and Ice Sculpture by Natalie Tyler
Berkshire Artist-in-Residence at Chesterwood
By: - Aug 30th, 2022In the historic apple orchard there will be a free artist's talk and reception on Friday, September 2nd from 5:00 to 7:00pm at Chesterwood, 4 Williamsville Road, Stockbridge, MA.
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Duplin’s Grape Stomp
Returns After Two Year Hiatus
By: - Aug 31st, 2022Duplin’s Grape Stomp returns after a two-year hiatus -- bigger than ever! A jamming concert, plenty of wine from the world’s largest muscadine winery and a chance to taste the family-owned winery’s new, top-secret Christmas wine are just some of the reasons to attend.
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Chopin in Paris by Hershey Felder
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Aug 27th, 2022Hershey Felder currently plays “Chopin in Paris.” The great 19th century Romantic composer and pianist may hold special significance to the current imitator, as the living one is also of Polish extraction, though via Canada. The presentation holds to Felder’s usual high standards and wins praise from audiences.
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Waiting for Godot at Barrington Stage
Waiting and Waiting and Waiting
By: - Aug 25th, 2022We waited for two and a half hours but Godot never showed up. Barrington Stage has gamely taken on an avant-garde masterpiece with mixed success.
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Oklahoma
At the Golden Gate Theatre,
By: - Aug 25th, 2022Broadway saw this musical revitalized in an edgy form in 2019. That production, directed by Daniel Fish, won a Tony for “Best Revival of a Musical” and is currently touring. The production is noted for other departures from the past. In keeping with the edginess of the new look, Act 2 opens like an acid rock concert. With a thick manufactured fog covering the stage, an instrumental medley blasts with deafening, dissonant distortion leading into the famous dream sequence dance.
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Manfred Honeck Conducts at Elbphilharmonie
Pittsburgh Symphony Shimmers
By: - Aug 26th, 2022Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony have developed a specialty: revealing the texture of sound. In a concert at Elbphilharmonie, an event in the orchestra’s 75th year of touring, they displayed daring and diverse sounds not often heard. The Maestro and the musicians find buried clues to the balanced mix of rhythms, dynamics in detailed performance directions.
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M Butterfly at Santa Fe Opera a World Premiere
Libretto by David Henry Hwang and Music by Huang Ruo
By: - Aug 22nd, 2022"M. Butterfly" is composed in the modern operatic style without the lush melodies and memorable arias of old. Yet, it is fitting. Western mode dominates Ruo's score, but Asian motifs are also introduced. Conventional western instruments comprise the orchestra, but when needed, Ruo extracts Asian ornamentation through use of 5-tone scales.
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Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner
Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 22nd, 2022The invariable element of this opera is its formidable music. Premiered in 1865, Wagner's heroic love story presented difficulty in orchestration and near insurmountable vocal challenges. The composer led the musical world to the brink of atonalism with uncommon chord structures and harmonies never heard before, that were largely unappreciated at the time.
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Slavery Remembrance Day in the US
Dealing with Past Atrocities
By: - Aug 22nd, 2022On July 27, 2022, a bill creating a Slavery Remembrance Day, introduceed by Congressman Al Green of Houston, Texas, passed in Congress. August 20th was the date in 1619 White Lion ship with 20 “and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony Point Comfort in Virginia.
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Anne of Green Gables at Goodspeed
A Work in Progress
By: - Aug 21st, 2022Overall, the performances are good. Juliette Redden as Anne has a strong voice and a winning personality. What is best is this Anne is a great role model – she’s creative, strong-minded, determined, optimistic and cheerful. If she has any doubts, they are well hidden. Though we do know she is seeking a family and acceptance.
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Georges Bizet’s Carmen
Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 19th, 2022As the title character, Isabel Leonard's voice is well suited - a warm, throaty, and resonant melodiousness. She excels in all of Carmen's famous arias like the Habañera “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” (Love is a rebellious bird) and the equally memorable Seguidilla “Près des ramparts de Sévilla” (Near the walls of Seville).
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Beth Galston at Chesterwood Stockbridge MA
Ice Forest Installation at Woodland Gallery
By: - Aug 16th, 2022On opening day, August 12, we went on one of our Berkshire country drives to South County to celebrate Beth Galston and her installation, 'Ice Forest.'
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Secondo by Jacques Lamarre
Theatre Works World Premiere
By: - Aug 17th, 2022Secondo is a sequel to playwright Jacques Lamarre’s adaptation of the book I Loved, I Laughed, I Made Spaghetti by Giulia Melucci. In the original book, Melucci told of her many romantic adventures with disastrously wrong men for whom she often cooked Italian food or for herself after a breakup.
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Sound at Wu Tsai Hall
Evaluating Acoustics at the New York Philharmonic
By: - Aug 16th, 2022In the whirlwind of announcements about the re-opening of David Geffen Hall, anti stain concert hall, Wu Tsai, we actually heard only one sound from the Hall, a single blast from a trumpeter in a hard hat. The Oklahoma State Univeristy orchestra will take up its residency and open the fall season on September 23rd. This may be the sound check.
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