Last spring, unless you acted fast, you likely missed out on seeing Penumbra Theatre’s premiere staging of “I Wish You Love.” Tickets sold out quickly to playwright Dominic Taylor’s musical portrait of ‘50s crooner turned television pioneer, Nat “King” Cole. If you were one of those, like me, who missed out on tickets for the [...]
Marissa Alma Nick dares you to show your face and follow (or un-follow) your shadow to “The Shadow Projects,” a site-specific experimental performance inspired by Carl Jung’s shadow theory. Jung’s shadow theory posits the idea that the shadow contains “the disowned qualities of the conscious
Of the more than 1,000 pieces that Franz Schubert composed before his early death at the age of 31, around 600 of them are songs. He was the supreme master of the German Lied in the first decades of the 19th century, and while there are many individual treasures in his vast catalog, he’s particularly [...]
Thousands of people from around the country will descend upon St. Paul’s vast downtown RiverCentre complex this weekend for the 36th annual Hmong New Year celebration. A significant majority of the more than 66,000 Hmong Americans who call Minnesota home live in the Twin Cities, making ours the largest urban Hmong population in the world. [...]
Hard to believe that Thanksgiving is this Thursday. In addition to the food consumption, it might mean you start humming Christmas tunes or other holiday music. There are so many ways to celebrate this season, but music is often a common shared experience. Memories associated with music around this time of year are strongly rooted [...]
One of the more exciting musicological discoveries of 2010 comes to life this weekend when a Miami-based Baroque flutist performs a long-lost concerto by Antonio Vivaldi. The concerto, called “Il Gran Mogol,” apparently was written in the late 1720s as part of a collection of four flute concerti honoring various potentates; this one would have [...]
… is bursting at the coastline with an almost overwhelming supply of art and cultural events to experience. This is a great thing, so long as one has a plan. Here are a few tips on what to see around town this weekend and the coming
“Opera is accused of being a ‘museum’ art form, so world premieres are a big deal — there just aren’t that many of them these days,” says the American correspondent for “Opera News,” speaking at the press meet-and-greet before the final dress rehearsal of Minnesota Opera’s newly commissioned production, “Silent Night,” which opened this weekend. [...]
Inkub8‘s monthly Inkub8r Open-Studio Series continued last Saturday with a “wet” and “dry” performance of “To Do or Not To Do,” a multimedia, multidisciplinary collaboration with performer and choreographer Carlota Pradera and experimental electronic
It’s a weekend for the slightly unusual, beginning with Florida Grand Opera’s first-ever mounting of a zarzuela, and a quirky recital program Sunday that features a beautiful instrument that hardly anyone plays. Zarzuela is Spanish operetta, meaning that it features spoken dialogue between musical numbers, much like the American musical (which itself descends from Viennese [...]
