“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
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Macon’s International Cherry Blossom Festival is the city’s largest festival and tourist event of the year. Locals enjoy Cherry Blossom as much as visitors, who travel from as far away as France, Taiwan and Japan to see the Yoshino Cherry trees blooming in the “Cherry Blossom Capital of the World.” The 2013 festival began on [...]
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“It’s been a hard year,” said Penumbra Theatre founder Lou Bellamy as he thanked the well-heeled crowd of stalwart supporters and theater fans who turned out for the opening night of “Spunk” last Thursday. The play they all came to see is a blues-soaked adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Three Tales” by George C. Wolfe. [...]
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By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer For the Argentine director José María Condemi, the equation María de Buenos Aires + Tango + Florida Grand Opera + Miami results in a tempting mercurial crossroads that widens and multiplies according to Astor Piazzolla’s magical music and his poet Horacio Ferrer. In his debut with the FGO, [...]
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We like to mix our art with some parties; it goes a long way to explain why Art Basel Miami Beach is here. And Saturday night is no exception: ArtCenter/South Florida (a multiple Knight Arts grant winner) is throwing its annual fundraiser and raffle, winningArt. What’s always great about this event is that it is so reasonably [...]
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Heinz Poll, who co-founded and directed the Ohio Ballet for nearly 30 years, received posthumous honors recently. Verb Ballets paid tribute to the late company director with a performance titled “Honoring Heinz Poll” at the Akron Civic Theatre (a Knight Arts grantee). Poll’s Ohio Ballet had significant impact on the arts in the Akron area, and on contemporary dance nationwide, as the [...]
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In just one week, on March 25, we’ll start accepting applications for the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit. This year, we’ll be giving away up to $3 million to arts and cultural projects that engage and enrich the city. The deadline is April 22. Get Detroit Arts Email Updates Email (required) First Name Last Name [...]
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Tigertail Productions always brings innovative, cutting-edge performing artists to Miami that challenge our preconceived notions of what performance art is and can be. These artists push the conceptual
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There are few issues in Detroit more politically or emotionally fraught than the state of the Detriot Public School system. In this regard, Detroit is perhaps an extreme example, but by no means the sole instance of breakdown of the concept and execution of public education. As of this Saturday, March 16, 2739 Edwin Gallery in Hamtramck [...]
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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 [...]
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