Downtown Urban Arts Festival Announces Finalists For 2019 Season
by Stephi Wild - November 30, 2018 In Spring 2019, the Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF) will return for its much-anticipated 17th annual season. Reg E. Gaines, Tony-nominated for Bring in da Noise Bring in da Funk, is back as the Artistic Director of the festival. After his evaluation of scripts that were received from across the...
Houston Chamber Choir Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 25, 2019 Houston Chamber Choir's has been nominated for a 2020 GRAMMY® Award for 'Best Choral Performance' for its Signum Records recording of 'Duruflé: Complete Choral Works,' a performance of music by 20th century French composer Maurice Duruflé. The recording was also part of a second GRAMMY® nomination: ...
Julia Wolfe's “Fire In My Mouth” Now Available For Pre-Order On Decca Gold
by A.A. Cristi - August 16, 2019 The New York Philharmonic and Music Director Jaap van Zweden's World Premiere performances of Julia Wolfe's Fire in my mouth will be released in digital formats on August 30, 2019, and in physical format on October 4, 2019, on Decca Gold, Universal Music Group's newly established US classical music ...
Love Is Celebrated In Times Square On Valentine's Day
by A.A. Cristi - February 11, 2019 The Times Square Alliance will be hosting a full day celebration of love and romance on Valentine's Day. Love birds will flock to the Crossroads of the World and share fairy tale moments from weddings to surprise proposals, and finally culminating in a large vow renewal ceremony on February 14th on ...
Quantic Releases New Single YOU USED TO LOVE ME feat. Dinitia
by Tori Hartshorn - May 07, 2019 World-renowned British producer Quantic has released a third single, “You Used To Love Me feat. Denitia' today, the third track from his upcoming, highly anticipated new album, Atlantic Oscillations, due to arrive June 21 on Tru Thoughts – share via YouTube. The New York-based singer, songwriter, g...
Philip Glass Ensemble Gives Philadelphia Premiere Of MUSIC IN TWELVE PARTS
by A.A. Cristi - February 03, 2020 The Philip Glass Ensemble (PGE) will give the Philadelphia premiere of Philip Glass's monumental work Music in Twelve Parts presented by the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, University of Pennsylvania on Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 6pm. Music in Twelve Parts runs five hours, with two int...
The Crossing Performs World Premiere Of Thomas Lloyd's IN THE LIGHT
by Julie Musbach - February 26, 2019 On Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. at The Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, The Crossing and conductor Donald Nally present the world premiere of Thomas Lloyd's In the Light, a choral-theater work for 20 voices, clarinet, cello, and piano....
2019 Kaufman Music Center Gala To Honor Cathy White O'Rourke And The Morris And Alma Schapiro Fund
by A.A. Cristi - May 15, 2019 Kaufman Music Center's 2019 Gala will honor Kaufman Board President Cathy White O'Rourke, a distinguished business leader, classically trained pianist, and devoted advocate for music education. Kaufman Music Center is also proud to honor The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund, a generous champion of educ...
The Crossing Presents The World Premiere Of A NATIVE HILL
by Julie Musbach - September 04, 2019 Grammy-winning new-music choir The Crossing presents the world premiere of English composer Gavin Bryars'substantial new evening-length a cappella work, A Native Hill, on Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 5pm at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia....
The Crossing Releases THE ARC IN THE SKY By Kile Smith On Navona Records
by Julie Musbach - July 12, 2019 Grammy-winning new-music choir, The Crossing, releases its latest album, THE ARC IN THE SKY, today, Friday, July 12, 2019, on Navona Records. Kile Smith's 2018 setting of journal entries and poems by Robert Lax (1915–2000), THE ARC IN THE SKY is an epic, hour-long tour de force of thought and feelin...
LIFE METAL By Sunn O))) Streaming Now On NPR's First Listen
by Tori Hartshorn - April 19, 2019 Following the Record Store Day release of Life Metal last Saturday, Sunn O))) are thrilled to stream the album via NPR's First Listen. Additionally,Southern Lord are proud to make the album available on CD and LP formats via their stores today, ahead of the official digital, LP and CD release date ...
THE SIGNALMAN By Charles Dickens is Coming to the Old Red Lion Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 11, 2019 A signalman is haunted by a mysterious figure standing at the mouth of a train tunnel. He's sure it's a warning - but what is it warning against? The Signalman was Charles Dickens' final completed work, written after the writer himself had survived a train crash. This adaptation by Martin Malcolm ('...
The Annenberg Center Presents The Crossing @ Christmas
by Stephi Wild - December 11, 2019 The Annenberg Center presents a?oeAmerica's most astonishing choira?? (New York Times), acclaimed Grammy Award-winning new music choir The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally, in The Crossing @ Christmas, Friday, December 20, at 7:30 PM, at The Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square, 1904 Wa...
Pond Shares New Video and Tour Dates
by Tori Hartshorn - July 29, 2019 POND have today shared details of their upcoming Autumn tour of the United States. Beginning with a performance on September 21st in Brooklyn at Warsaw, the tour goes on to hit venues in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and San Francisco before culminating in a show at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles...
RATINGS: NBC Holds Off Competition with THE VOICE on Monday
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 16, 2019 NBC (6.382 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.1, #1) held off the competition on Monday with new episodes of 'The Voice' (7.589 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.3, #1) and 'The Enemy Within' (3.970 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T7)....
RATINGS: FOX, NBC Share Adults 18-49 Crown on Monday
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 23, 2019 NBC (6.338 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.0, #T1) was the top draw on Monday thanks to new episodes of 'The Voice' (7.488 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.2, #T1) and 'The Enemy Within' (4.037 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T7)....
BWW Review: Countertenor JAKUB JOZEF ORLINSKI Goes for Baroque at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall Debut
by Richard Sasanow - February 04, 2019 It wasn't so long ago that countertenors were still considered an oddity; today, you can't turn around without tripping over one, or more. Last year, for instance, when the English Concert did Handel's RINALDO at Carnegie Hall there were, indeed, three countertenors. One of them was the young Polish...
PRIDE & JOY, The Marvin Gaye Musical, Comes to The National Theatre
by Stephi Wild - April 30, 2019 PRIDE & JOY - THE MARVIN GAYE MUSICAL comes to the National Theatre from May 1-12, 2019....
Ballet Preljocaj Presents LA FRESQUE At The Soraya
by A.A. Cristi - March 28, 2019 French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj is one of the world's busiest dance-makers, known for his collaborations across many fields - fashion, design, and literature. He is also known for evocative renderings of fairy tales and LA audiences have seen his works, Snow White and Julie Taymor's Grendel a...
The Crossing Gives World Premiere Performances of Julia Wolfe's FIRE IN MY MOUTH in New York Philharmonic Debut
by Julie Musbach - December 12, 2018 Winner of the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, The Crossing makes its New York Philharmonic debut in world premiere performances of Julia Wolfe's Fire in my mouth on Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 25, 2019 at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 8:00 p...
Playwright and Screenwriter Celeste Yim Receives 2019 Canadian Women Artists' Award
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 21, 2019 The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced playwright and screenwriter Celeste Yim as its 2019 Canadian Women Artists' Award recipient. The $5,000 award is supported by funding granted to NYFA by the Canadian Women's Club (CWC) of New York as a way to continue its philanthropic work w...
The Annenberg Center Will Present The Crossing In New Production Of KNEE PLAYS By Philip Glass And David Byrne
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 27, 2020 The Annenberg Center will present Grammya"?-winning new-music choir The Crossing in the premiere of a newly staged theatrical production, Knee Plays, on Friday, February 21, 2020 at 8pm and Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 8pm at the Harold Prince Theatre. The program, part of the Center's #GLASSFEST ...
BWW Review: HOW NOT TO DROWN, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - September 12, 2019 In 2002, in the turmoil after the end of the Kosovan War, Dritan is sent on the notoriously perilous journey across the Adriatic with a gang of people smugglers to a new life in Europe. He relies on his young wit and charm to make it to the UK. But the fight for survival continues as he clings to hi...
The Annenberg Center Presents #GLASSFEST, A Three-Week Festival Celebrating Composer Philip Glass
by Stephi Wild - February 06, 2020 The Annenberg Center celebrates the career and impact of Philip Glass, one of our nation's most significant modern composers, with a three-week festival, #GLASSFEST, February 21 a?" March 14. Visit AnnenbergCenter.org for ticket information....
'Sessions' by POND Officially Out Nov. 8
by Abigail Charpentier - September 09, 2019 Today, POND are announcing Sessions, an album of live studio performances composed of songs from across their discography. The long player was recorded while on tour in the EU this Spring. The digital and vinyl release is officially out Novermber 8, 2019 on Spinning Top/Interscope, however, those wh... |