Operas by AAPI Composers You Should Know
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Make Music Day festival is coming to dozens of US cities
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 50 U.S. cities will be hosting Make Music Day, a free one-day outdoor festival celebrating music and music-making. The annual event is June 21, the summer solstice. Highlights of Make Music Day in the U.S. will include Sousapaloozas in Chicago; Cleveland; Madison, Wisconsin; Minneapolis-St. Paul; New York; and San Jose, California. Part of Make ...
This Split Screen Performance of Bach’s St. John Passion is the Most Metal Thing You’ll Hear All Day
What’s more metal than Bach’s driving bass line, chromatic suspensions, and florid inner voices?
Video: Pianist Vassily Primakov Plays Chopin and Rachmaninoff
The Pregnant Buffalo Lounge, a subterranean space at the Chopin Theatre was home to the second WFMT Cabaret.
James Levine Named Ravinia Conductor Laureate
James Levine, recently retired music director of the Metropolitan Opera, has been named conductor laureate of the Ravinia Festival.
2017 Pulitzer winners and finalists in journalism and arts
The 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists: JOURNALISM Public Service New York Daily News and ProPublica for uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities. Also nominated as finalists: The Chicago Tribune for reporting on prescription drug dispensing; and the Houston ...
Winners of London’s 2017 Olivier stage awards
LONDON (AP) — The winners of the 2017 Olivier Awards, honoring achievement in London theater, opera and dance: New Play: “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” New Musical: “Groundhog Day” New Comedy: “Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour” Entertainment and Family Show: “The Red Shoes” Revival: “Yerma” Musical Revival: “Jesus Christ Superstar” Actress-Play: Billie Piper, “Yerma” Actor-Play: Jamie Parker, “Harry Potter ...
Forget Coffee: This Afternoon Raga Is Exactly What You Need to Get You Through Your Midday Slump
Sitarist Gaurv Mazumdar has been making music since he was a child, though first as a singer and violinist. Later, he began studying sitar with Pandit Ravi Shankar. Since, he has collaborated with some of the greatest musicians from different traditions, from internationally acclaimed veena player Jayanthi Kumaresh to legendary composer Philip Glass. In 2004, Mazumdar was nominated for a ...
Meet CSO Solti Conducting Apprentice Erina Yashima
For ten weeks each year, Erina Yashima works directly with Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti and leads the Civic Orchestra.
Chicago Opera Theater Announces 17-18 Season Including World Premiere by Pulitzer-Winning Team
Chicago Opera Theater announced its 2017-18 season: three operas, including a world-premiere co-production with Opera Philadelphia, to be staged at the newly-renovated Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building.
Chicago Sinfonietta’s 30th Anniversary Season Showcases ‘Full Spectrum of Voices and Identities’
The Chicago Sinfonietta recently announced its 30th season line-up, as well as the launch of its Commissions by Women Composers Project, a season-long effort to close music’s gender equality gap by commissioning, performing, and recording, works by women composers.
