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Zoe Lewis’ Cabaret in Provincetown
Bootleggers Rock Monday at The Mews
By: - May 07th, 2018To our surprise, a Monday night at Provincetown's The Mews, in early May, the joint was jumping. It was packed to the gills for a fabulous night of cabaret with pianist/ singer/ raconteur Zoe Lewis and the Bootleggers. It was the absolute highllight of a pre season week on the Cape.
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Buddy Holly on Stage in Chicago
February 3 the Day the Music Died
By: - May 06th, 2018Playwright Janes is an English writer and producer who works in TV, film, radio and stage. Buddy—The Buddy Holly his best-known work and ran for 14 years in London’s West End and toured in the U.K. for 17 years. Buddy has also been on Broadway, toured the U.S., Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
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2018 AM-DOCS Film Festival
Annual Program in Palm Springs
By: - May 06th, 2018Seven years ago, AM-DOCS Film Festival founder Teddy Grouya, felt that filmmakers of documentaries needed a proper festival of their own to display their diverse and wide-ranging, special subject-matter films. Accordinglt, the documentary film genre has been presented a festival format with all the trimmings.
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Anna Christie at Lyric Stage
Revival of O’Neill’s 1921 Pulitzer Winner
By: - May 06th, 2018With judicious tweaking, cuts, and color blind casting director/ adapter, Scott Edmiston, mounted a stunning producton of Anna Christie at Boston's Lyric Stage. The 1921 drama by Eugene O'Neill won a Pulitzer Prize. He would go on to earn three more Pulitzers including for a posthumous production of the autobiographical family epic A Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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Honeck Conducts New York Philharmonic
By: - May 06th, 2018Manfred Honeck, who was narrowly beaten out by Jaap van Zweden for the job of music director of the New York Philharmonic returned to the podium of America's oldest orchestra this week. He brought an ambitious program, featuring two of his own arrangements of orchestral music by Dvorak and Tchaikovsky, each drawn from fairy tale works by those great Romantic composers, and the evergreen Sibelius Violin Concerto as an ample and satisfying makeweight.
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Rick Harlow's The Landscape of Energy
Statent by a Berkshire Artist
By: - May 05th, 2018Through the end of May The Eclipse Mill Gallery launches its 2018 season with the first Berkshire solo show of abstract paintings by resident artist, Rick Harlow. In an artist's statement Harlow provides a context for what he describes as The Landscape of Energy. On May 26 in the gallery at 243 Union Street, North Adams, the group Aluna will create improvised music inspired by the paintings.
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Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra
Carnegie Hall Celebrates Maestro's Birthday
By: - May 05th, 2018Mariss Jansons started his program with the presumed warhorse, The Wiliam Tell Overture. He brings freshness to the work. In his customary attention to detail, which is then swept up into the greater whole, we hear a symphony, which begins with a beautiful cello solo and expands finally to a rip-snorting conclusion. All sections of the orchestra have a chance to shine in ensemble or solo performance.
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The Cake at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
Chicago's Equity Theater Produces Works by Women
By: - May 05th, 2018Bekah Brunstetter’s play shines in giving us insights on the thinking behind a baker’s refusal to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. Brunstetter helps us understand the thinking on both sides; this is not a leftwing harangue.
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Karl Marx in Soho with Bob Weick
Howard Zinn's Engaging and Apt Drama
By: - May 04th, 2018Howard Zinn’s celebrated play comes “home” to the Soho Playhouse, starring Bob Weick as Karl Marx. The theorist of communism engages in a passionate, funny and moving commentary about contemporary American politics and society. Come celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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Umbria's Sagrantino Wines
Prepare for Cool Nights And Hot Days
By: - May 04th, 2018In the 1960's, after nearly extinction, the Sagrantino varietal was revived and has come back and is known as one of Italy's finest grapes. Montefalco, in Umbria, is where this bold,concentrated grape thrives. Huge tannins take years to cool down. With daytime summer temperatures near 100F, cool nights are needed for this grape to survive. And it has.
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Gerald Finley and Julius Drake at Alice Tully Hall
Among Lincoln Center's Great Performers
By: - May 03rd, 2018Gerald Finley, in announcing his program at Alice Tully Hall, said that he and his collaborator on the piano, Julius Drake, had selected songs they loved. It is a measure of this consummate bass-baritone and superb piano partner that the songs were also among the most difficult in the literature. These masters of the form did not struggle as they displayed pyrotechnics on the keyboard and a wide-spreading musical and emotional range in the voice.
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Dudamel in New York
Old Stalin's Ghost
By: - May 01st, 2018The arrival of the sensational conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic is always a cause for celebration at Lincoln Center. Dudamel remains the leading musical export of Venezuela, the proof that that country's El Sistema program is an entirely successful social experiment in producing quality musicians under difficult circumstances.
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Antica Wines Of Napa Family Owned
The Antinoris of Tuscany Founded Antica Wines in 1986
By: - May 01st, 2018Antinori Winery from Tuscany is the oldest, active, wine producer in the world. In 1986, the company bought property in Napa Valley and founded the Antica Winery. After 30 years, the winery is well known for wines that maintain the same high quality as the wines from Antinori have done for their entire existence.
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Miner Winery A Napa Favorite
A Family Story
By: - May 01st, 2018The Miner Family Winery in Oakville, California, part of Napa Valley, is a true family winery in existence for the past twenty years. Dave Miner and his wife, Emily, founded the winery-possibly as an escape from the software life Dave Miner was living in the 1990s.. Two decades later, the winery has a cult following for its signature Oracle wine.
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Queen of Basel in Miami Beach
World Premiere of Miss Julie Adaptation
By: - Apr 30th, 2018Queen of Basel transports Miss Julie from late 19th century Sweden to present-day Miami Beach. The Hilary Bettis play is a feminist take on August Strindberg's 1888 naturalistic tragedy. Technical elements are top notch
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Carmen at Opera Philadelphia
New Production Sizzles at the Academy of Music
By: - Apr 30th, 2018Carmen has arrived in all her glory at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Heralded by digital billboard signs on the highways and byways around the city, and topping off the PECO Building in downtown Philadelphia, the news is being broadcast. The Academy has been packed. This new production by Opera Philadelphia and its partners in Seattle and Ireland, is smashing.
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London’s Fourth Plinth in Central London
The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist Transformative Public Art.
By: - Apr 28th, 2018For the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square, Artist Michael Rakowitz has recreated the Lamassu. This winged bull and protective deity guarded the entrance to Nergal Gate of Nineveh (near modern day Mosul) from 700 BC until it was barbarically destroyed by ISIS in 2015. This wonderful reconstruction is made from recycled packaging from 10,500 empty Iraqi date syrup cans. This represents a once-renowned Iraqi industry now decimated by war. The piece's inscription is written in Cuneiform. Rebuilding the Lamassu in Trafalgar Square means it can continue to guard the people who live, visit and work in London. It is a layered artwork full of myth and tragic reality.
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Welser-Möst Conducts Tristan and Isolde
Nina Stemme and Gerhard Siegel Shine in Title Roles
By: - Apr 27th, 2018Tristan und Isolde is not an ordinary opera. Wagner's work stripped almost all the action and plot away from the legend of the medieval knight and the Irish queen and their illicit affair. Aside from one sword-thrust, there is very little action. Everything is internal in this mysterious opera, with turbulent swirls of chromatic orchestration bringing the psychological inner life of the characters to vivid life. In other words, as the Cleveland Orchestra proved on Thursday night, this is a perfect opera for the concert hall.
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John Holiday at a Crypt Session
Ranging from Handel to Jazz
By: - Apr 27th, 2018John Holiday, Andrew Ousley’s latest pick as an artist to perform in his Crypt Session series, sounds like an angel and looks like a linebacker. It’s more apt to note that while Holiday is billed as a counter tenor, he is truly a soprano, comfortable in the very unusual upper registers usually associated with the female voice. His is not a falsetto.
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Lucien Albrecht Wines From Alsace
Great Cremants And Still Wines
By: - Apr 25th, 2018Wines from Alsace, an area that was French and German have history on their side. The regions culture and traditions have been preserved for centuries, just as the wines from Lucien Albrecht, who, started in 1425.
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Lawrence Brownlee At Carnegie
Schumann and Tyshawn Sorey Revealed
By: - Apr 25th, 2018Lawrence Brownlee is a world class bel canto singer. He is also a daring artist who is moving out of his comfort zone to tell new truths in song. The New York premiere of Cycles of My Being by Tyshawn Sorey, was presented at Carnegie Hall.
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Fun Home in Miami
South Florida Premiere of Pulitzer Finalist
By: - Apr 23rd, 2018Fun Home is a relatable, relevant, touching and funny piece. The prize-winning musical featured the first all female writing team to win a Tony award.
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Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar at Carnegie
Pacific Symphony Stunning
By: - Apr 22nd, 2018Philip Glass holds the Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall for this season. A concert honoring his work was performed by the splendid Pacific Symphony. Carl St. Clair conducted. He has been the music director of this symphony for decades. The performance made the benefits of consistent leadership over time clear
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Mozart and Bruchner at New York Philharmonic
Christoph Eschenbach Conducts
By: - Apr 22nd, 2018A good idea is a good idea. That might be the rationale between this weeks New York Philharmonic program which pairs Mozart’s charming Piano Concerto No. 22 with Anton Bruckner’s sprawling, ambitious and ultimately unfinished Symphony No. 9 under the baton of guest conductor Christopher Eschenbach. For New York’s Bruckner enthusiasts, this concert evoked memories of January 2017. Back then Daniel Barenboim led the Berlin Staatskapelle in a cycle of Bruckner symphonies at Carnegie Hall, pairing the shorter works with the major Mozart piano concertos. (Barenboim paired the Ninth with Piano Concerto No. 23.)
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Cendrillon with Joyce DiDonato
End of the Season Treat at the Metropolitan Opera
By: - Apr 22nd, 2018Cendrillon is Massenet's fourteenth opera, written at the apex of his popularity as the last acknowledged master of the French romantic style. As conducted here by Bertrand de Billy, its score has the weight of fairy cake, high in sugary melodies and whipped by conductor Bertrand de Billy into an airy soufflé of sound. It's hard to believe it, but this run marked the Metropolitan Opera debut for an enchanting work.
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