By Jane Ramseyer Miller, One Voice Mixed Chorus I just spent the morning working with students at Gordon Park High School (University Ave in St. Paul) in preparation for One Voice concerts there next month. This first rehearsal was a little chaotic. When I announced that I conduct a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight allies chorus, [...]
By One Voice Mixed Chorus On Thursday, April 19, OVation (the portable version of One Voice Mixed Chorus) performed at the Twin Cities Annual Yom Hashoah Commemoration service at Congregation Beth Jacob in Mendota Heights, MN. Yom Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as a worldwide day of commemoration for the approximately six million [...]
By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer From Bellini to Delius – and counting Prokofiev’s ballet and Bernstein’s West Side Story – the lovers of Verona have been an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Svendsen, Stenhammar and Nino Rota are only some of the composers who fell under the spell of Shakespeare’s immortal play. [...]
This weekend, a Miami landmark takes an important step into the digital future of film. The Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts is hosting a benefit concert Saturday, bringing together local leaders and talent as part of its new campaign to digitally upgrade the 86-year-old theater. The effort is part of an overall [...]
In 2009, Hidden City Philadelphia launched a 5-week site-specific arts festival that activated 9 buildings in neighborhoods around Philadelphia. Now with the help of a Knight Arts Grant, Hidden City Philadelphia is currently planning for its 2013 Hidden City Philadelphia Festival to begin May 2013. Twenty prospective sites have been selected from communities around Philadelphia, [...]
This weekend coming up is a good one for music, as a large chamber music festival gets under way Sunday, the same day a children’s choir performs a remarkable opera that is at once an anti-bullying statement and a poignant reminder of the Holocaust. The Mainly Mozart Festival, now in its 19th year, is situated [...]
MoNA Gallery is a funky, eclectic place to experience local handmade art. MoNA — which is short for Museum of Neighborhood Art — is comfortable and inviting while still having a gallery feel. MoNA’s mission is to promote the works of local and regional emerging and established artists through monthly exhibitions, special events, classes and [...]
For one of its sparser shows in recent memory, the ever-surprising Knight Arts grantee Vox Populi has an exhibition which showcases a mere four artists, most with only one work apiece — far less than its usual fare. Each artist presents individual pieces of wildly different styles, any of which could almost be a standalone [...]
As the sun sets on Miami this Thursday and the crescent moon rises, the Miami Dance Festival will open on the grounds of the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens, where a choreography of movement by the Florida Dance Theatre will take shape under
By Vincent Geels, The Philadelphia Orchestra The goal of any successful web program, application, or piece of technology is for the end-user’s experience to be seamless when interacting with the technology. When your web browser starts to get choppy or grinds to a halt, it’s almost as if you snap out of a trance: The [...]
