 If
you missed them in New York at APAP, or you just can't get enough and want to
experience them again, click here for a wonderful new video of violinist
Dmitri Berlinsky and the International Chamber Soloists performing
Piazzolla's Summer from The Seasons of Buenos Aires.
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 Ensemble
Galilei & NPR's Neal Conan have released a short video about their
third show First Person: Seeing America. A fascinating window
into their creative process and a segment featuring James
Agee's "Knoxville: Summer 1915" with images from the Metropolitan Museum
of Art photography collection. Link... |
 
Now Available: The new collaborative project featuring photographs from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, narration by NPR's 'Talk of the Nation' host Neal
Conan and actress Lily Knight, and music by Ensemble Galilei. Following their
brilliant production First Person: Stories From the Edge of the World,
Ensemble Galilei and Neal Conan will bring to the stage the writings of
Langston Hughes, Carson McCullers, John Muir, James Baldwin, and others with
photographs from the collection that includes the iconic works of Evans,
Curtis, Stieglitz, Strand, and Eakins. The soundtrack is the music of Ensemble
Galilei – Bach, traditional music from Scotland and Ireland, and new
compositions featuring fiddles, harp, viola da gamba, banjo, percussion
and oboe. First Person: Seeing America. More...
This photo: Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975), Alabama Tenant Farmer, 1936.
Gelatin silver print, 23.6 x 18.7 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.). The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2000
(2000.329) © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Guitarist Jason Vieaux opened the Chautauqua
Symphony's summer season with conductor
Stefan Sanderling. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette notes "Ardent fans filed
into the amphitheater Friday, nearly filling its 5,000 seats... [Vieaux] plays
in an unaffected style, never overdoing it even when playing virtuosically."
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Musici de Montréal will showcase Mussorgsky's exciting "Pictures at an
Exhibition" with it's award-winning film in Pittsburgh at the
Performing Arts Exchange. The film was chosen for the 2010 Cannes Independent
Film Festival is "an uninterrupted suite of delight" (La Presse) and
paired with the music is “a truly artistic meeting of art forms”
(Birmingham News) September 30th at 8:10
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Enchantment Theatre Company
premieres Scheherazade
with the Cleveland Orchestra, tours with the New Jersey Symphony. The company
evokes the Rimsky-Korsakov score using masks, puppets, magic and movement.
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 The
Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio will premiere a new work at the National Gallery of
Art in Washington -- by one of its own: Noted composer (and cellist of the trio)
Clancy Newman is putting the finishing touches on the piece, titled "Juxt-opposition" this summer.
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