The viola is not an instrument that gets a whole lot of love when it comes to musicians looking for a solo career. The violin and cello usually get more interest, in part because there’s a much bigger repertoire for those instruments, not just in chamber works such as sonatas, but concertos, too. But Martha [...]
Regardless of what the calendar says, it sure doesn’t feel much like spring in the Twin Cities yet. If, like me, you’ve been poring over seed catalogs and dreaming of warmer days since February, the coming weekend’s “Spring Fling” at Como Zoo and Conservatory will be a welcome tonic for the mid-March blast of snows and sub-zero [...]
The Cherry Blossom Street Party is one of the biggest events of the annual festival. With four live acts taking the stage, this year’s street party promises to have something for everyone. Headlining the event will be the multi-platinum-selling band 38 Special. The group is best known for their hit singles “Hold on Loosely,” Caught [...]
“Unexpected Opera in Unexpected Places,” recipient of a Knight Arts Challenge grant, is a new three-year program developed by the Florida Grand Opera (FGO) to expose lesser-known operas to the South Florida community by staging them in unorthodox spaces. Thursday night, FGO opens its first performance at The Stage,
“Love, love, the clouds went/up the tower of the sky/like triumphant washerwomen, and it all/glowed in blue, all like a single star….” —Pablo Neruda The Cleveland Orchestra is astonishing, but after seeing Joshua Bell play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in January and Berlioz’s masterful performance
Tonight, the Cleveland Orchestra opens a series of three concerts that celebrate love between two humans as well as the love of humanity in general. The love story of composer Peter Lieberson and his wife, mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, is told in the Neruda Songs, which Lieberson based on five of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s [...]
In case you missed “The Intimate Bach, Part I” from Apollo’s Fire, a Knight Arts grantee, here’s your chance to redeem yourself, for the celebrated Baroque orchestra will be coming again to appear at Fairlawn Lutheran Church on Thursday evening. This performance has the subtitle “with his friend Telemann,” referring to Georg Philipp Telemann, who [...]
Saturday night’s performance by the Macon Symphony Orchestra, a Knight Arts grantee, was tempered with a bit of sadness. Less than two weeks prior, The Telegraph reported that MSO’s new conductor, Ward Stare, will be leaving at the end of the season. He was hired less than one year ago, so this season will be [...]
Some new music is coming to the Sunday Afternoons of Music series this weekend with a recital by the fine Canadian violinist Lara St. John, who will play a fresh-off-the-stocks work by the New Zealand composer John Psathas. The son of Greek immigrants, Psathas wrote music for the Athens Olympics of 2004 and has evoked [...]
FUNDarte and Miami Light Project open the 6th Global Cuba Fest, a month-long festival of performances that celebrates the contemporary music and artists of Cuba and the Caribbean Diaspora, with a historic first-ever U.S. performance
