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Concert Review: BOCCHERINI & RACHMANINOFF (Pacific Symphony / Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall / Costa Mesa)
FROM STAGE TO SOUL Valentina Peleggi leads an evening that journeys from operatic spectacle to intimate confession Valentina Peleggi conducts opera for a living. She built her reputation in the pit, leading Rossini and Verdi in houses from Trieste to Seattle, and she walked onto the Segerstrom stage Friday carrying that instinct with her. The…
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News: THOR STEINGRABER TO LEAD NEWLY REBRANDED VIVO PERFORMING ARTS, BOSTON
FROM THE SORAYA TO BOSTON: THOR STEINGRABER’S NEXT ACT After transforming The Soraya at California State University, Northridge into one of the nation’s most adventurous and respected presenting organizations, Thor Steingraber is heading east. For Boston, it represents an exciting new beginning. For Los Angeles, it is the departure of one of the region’s most…
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Event Coverage: BUBBLING BROWN SUGAR 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT (Amas Musical Theatre 58th Anniversary Gala Event)
BUBBLING OVER WITH NOSTALGIA Amas celebrates a milestone with a joyful reminder of the music that put the company on the map Amas Musical Theatre sure knows how to throw a party. Held in a penthouse with a wraparound terrace, the company’s 58th Anniversary Gala Benefit found guests happily mingling over hors d’oeuvres, conversation, and…
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Theater Review: HANDELIAN HEROES (Les Talens Lyriques / Colburn School / Los Angeles)
A COUNTERTENOR WHO KNOWS WHERE THE POWER LIVES Key’mon Murrah and Les Talens Lyriques turn familiar Handel into something freshly urgent The program announced the obvious: nine arias from Giulio Cesare, Serse, Ariodante, and Rinaldo. The Handel greatest hits, the ones every countertenor records and every audience already knows. Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques…
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Concert Review: STING 3.0 (Wolf Trap / Virginia)
COLD RAIN, HOT CLASSICS Sting ignites Wolf Trap’s summer season Sting opened the summer season with a 3-night stay at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap. On Friday, May 22, his performance easily overcame the evening’s cold and rain. If the weather threatened to dampen spirits, Sting’s two-hour Sting 3.0 set quickly warmed the crowd….
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Theater Review: THEATER OF THE MIND (Goodman Theatre at the Reid Murdoch Building)
A THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE FOR THE SCIENCE-MINDED Theater of the Mind created by David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar and directed by Andrew Scoville is an interactive neuroscience experiment tied together with storytelling that takes you inside the mind of an audience surrogate, David, who I assume is based on the creator. We begin as guests at…
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Concert Review: LOUIS ARMSTRONG, A CELEBRATION OF THE FATHER OF JAZZ (Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College)
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Hunter College’s American Voices series salutes the musician who changed the sound of America When it comes to American music few artists are as iconic and representative as Louis Armstrong, the famous trumpeter and vocalist whose career spanned five decades and influenced many genres including jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock…
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Concert Review: CONCERT OF THE CENTURY (Carnegie Hall / New York City)
FIFTY YEARS LATER, STILL MAKING HISTORY A glittering lineup of musical giants turned Carnegie Hall’s anniversary celebration into an overwhelming tribute to artistic endurance Move over MET Gala: Carnegie Hall has just celebrated its Concert of the Century with another once-in-a-lifetime summoning of all-stars. Organized 50 years ago by Isaac Stern, the original event brought…
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Concert Review: THE SOLDIER’S TALE (Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Symphony Hall)
FIDDLER, DEVIL, AND A DEAL GONE WRONG Beautifully realized, with narration and music in sync—The Soldier’s Tale is devilishly surprising, if a bit abrupt at the finish Igor Stravinsky composed L’Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) in the waning days of World War I, when resources were scarce. Working with a Swiss writer named C….
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Theater Review: TEEN BEAT LIVE | 80s MOVIE MIXTAPE (CineVita, Inglewood)
I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE A high-energy 80s mixtape that actually leaves you wanting more For The Record has built a reputation on remixing cinematic nostalgia into immersive, high-octane theatrical events—but with Teen Beat Live | 80s Movie Mixtape, they may have finally cracked the code. Easily one of the most successful entries in their long…
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Event Preview: MARC SHAIMAN / NEVER MIND THE HAPPY BOOK TOUR (In Conversation with Michael Bublé at The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles)
FROM BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD— AND BACK AGAIN A showbiz raconteur brings stories, songs, and Michael Bublé to L.A. There are memoirs—and then there are memoirs written by Marc Shaiman, who has spent decades at the center of Broadway, film, and pop culture, collecting stories the rest of us only hear secondhand. On Tuesday, May 5,…
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Event Preview: FUNDRAISER FOR SENATOR JON OSSOFF (Lin-Manuel Miranda Hosts Virtual Fundraiser)
BROADWAY GOES POLITICAL A starry virtual event blends music, activism, and marquee names If you’re going to tune into a political fundraiser, it might as well come with a Broadway-caliber lineup. On Thursday, May 7, Lin-Manuel Miranda hosts a one-night-only virtual event supporting Senator Jon Ossoff’s re-election campaign—bringing together an eclectic mix of performers and…
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Music Review: BACK TO OZ (MUSE/IQUE at Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles)
FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD—AGAIN A richly curated concert that celebrates Oz across generations MUSE/IQUE’s Back to Oz concert event, presented in partnership with Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum, brings together music spanning more than a century of storytelling inspired by L. Frank Baum’s beloved world. Led by Artistic & Music Director…
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Theater Preview: 43RD ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS: NOMINATIONS & CEREMONY (Boston Theater Critics Association, The Huntington)
The Boston Theater Critics Association has announced nominations for the 43rd Annual Elliot Norton Awards, a wide-ranging snapshot of the current theater season in Greater Boston. The ceremony, set for June 1 at the Huntington Theatre, includes more than 130 nominations across acting, directing, design, and production categories, along with several honors for visiting work….
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Concert Review: LISE DAVIDSEN & FREDDIE DE TOMMASO (BroadStage, Santa Monica)
TWO VOICES, ONE VOLTAGE An evening of operatic power finds its charge in connection, not just scale BroadStage does not often present evenings of this ambition. A sold-out house, a freelance orchestra under Iván López Reynoso, and two singers at or near the summit of their respective careers: Lise Davidsen, the Norwegian soprano who has…
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Concert Review: STANDARD TIME WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN—ON THE TOWN (Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall)
THE SONGBOOK LIVES ON Feinstein’s Carnegie Hall “On the Town” concert celebrates classic songs and those who wrote and performed them with style, wit, and swing Like a party that keeps going and on, the granddaddy concert auditorium in Carnegie Hall and its in-house smaller “cousin,” Zankel Hall, are having a ball this calendar year…
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Theater & Concert Preview: MY FAIR LADY IN CONCERT (Pacific Symphony in Costa Mesa)
THE RAIN IN SPAIN, UNRESTRAINED At full symphonic scale, My Fair Lady finally sounds the way it was written to be heard George Bernard Shaw got what he deserved. He spent decades refusing to let anyone set Pygmalion to music, having been burned once already by an operetta adaptation of Arms and the Man that…
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Theater Review: THEATER OF THE MIND (Goodman Theatre at the Reid Murdoch Building)
MEMORY PLAYS TRICKS— AND SO DOES EVERYTHING ELSE An immersive maze where perception falters and certainty slips through your fingers Unreliable narrators everywhere—but not the ones you think. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí is one of the most famous paintings in the world, so iconic that even if you do not know its…
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Music Review: LANG LANG PLAYS BEETHOVEN (Pacific Symphony)
FATE AND THE NEW WORLD Beethoven’s Egmont Overture was still settling into the air above Segerstrom Concert Hall when it became clear that Monday evening March 23 was going to demand more than the usual pleasant surrender to familiar music competently played. Carl St.Clair opened the Pacific Symphony’s program with the Egmont, followed by Dvorak’s…
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QUINCY’S WORLD: THE NEW FOUNDING FATHER OF AMERICAN MUSIC (MUSE/IQUE at The Wallis)
A THRILLER OF A CONCERT MUSE/IQUE’s vibrant tribute traces the extraordinary career of one of America’s greatest musical innovators Quincy Jones changed the face of music as a bold, brave, multi-hyphenate music mogul whose storied legacy is unlike anyone else’s—as a record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger, and cultural force. Over a career spanning more…
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