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Music/Event: 2021 GALA (Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles)
CARSON KRESSLEY TO HOST GMCLA’S 2021 GALA Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA), one of the country’s longest-running and largest LGBTQ arts organizations, will hold its annual gala fundraiser on Saturday, August 14 at 8:00 pm. The event will be streamed live from the Toluca Lake home of GMCLA Board Members Greg Weaver and…
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Music Concerts: CAMERATA PACIFICA (2021-22 Season)
CAMERATA PACIFICA’S 32ND SEASON OF CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS RESUMES IN OCTOBER, 2021 Of all the discoveries my husband and I have made in the last year watching Zoom presentations and YouTube videos, we realized that we missed live music the most. Especially So Cal’s own Camerata Pacifica, a presenter of the most exquisite chamber music…
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Opera: SAN DIEGO OPERA’S 2021-22 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT
San Diego Opera Announces 2021-2022 Season For subscription and tickets, visit SD Opera. San Diego Opera’s season’s Fall Concert Series begins on Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 7:30 with a special concert by mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe. Stephanie will draw from her vast repertoire of opera and Broadway to present a concert of arias and art…
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Concerts: KOOL & THE GANG; VIOLA DAVIS; CHRISTINE AGUILERA; KAMASI WASHINGTON (The Hollywood Bowl, 2021)
BACK TO THE BOWL Finally. The Hollywood Bowl resumes performances. And the line-up from the Los Angeles Philharmonic is stellar. The sense of community will be more than palpable as we all come together not just to watch these amazing entertainers, but to celebrate the return of live performers in an atmosphere of joyful freedom….
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Virtual Music Concert: ALONE TOGETHER (Jennifer Koh)
JENNIFER KOH PERFORMS WORKS FROM HER ALONE TOGETHER SERIES FOR IDAGIO’S GLOBAL CONCERT HALL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GBH The dynamic and innovative violinist Jennifer Koh performs a selection of works from her Alone Together series, created in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the financial hardship it has placed on many in the arts community, to be…
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Jazz Album: IN HARMONY (Roy Hargrove and Mulgrew Miller)
Resonance Records, the award-winning label home of acclaimed archival releases by Nat King Cole, Bob James, Charles Lloyd, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery and more, is thrilled to announce the release of In Harmony, a stunning set of live performances by Roy Hargrove on trumpet and Mulgrew Miller on piano, available on a limited-edition 180-gram 2-LP July 17, 2021 at…
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Opera: THE ELIXIR OF LOVE / AS ONE (Opera Maine)
Opera Maine presents a New Production of The Elixir of Love on July 28 & 30 Opera Maine will celebrate a return to live opera with two performances Wednesday, July 28 and Friday, July 30 at 7:30 p.m. The opera will be sung in Italian, with English supertitles. Pre-performance talks at 6:30 p.m. will be…
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Opera Season Announced: CHICAGO OPERA THEATER (2021-22)
Fresh on the heels of a high-stakes digital season, Chicago Opera Theater returns with in-person performances for its 2021-22 Season. The company’s commitment to showcasing new voices, fresh takes, and different styles of opera will be on full display in a varied season of premieres and high-profile debuts. ####################################### CARMEN Music by Georges Bizét; libretto…
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Concert/Opera/Music Preview: WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (50th Anniversary Season)
BOTH THE ANNIVERSARY AND THE LINE-UP ARE GOLDEN Just in time for the 50th anniversary season at Wolf Trap National Park, here come the first live music performances since December 2019. Concerts are populating quicker than Stage and Cinema can keep up with them. As always, the line-up is amazing, so check out this summer’s calendar for concerts,…
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Album Review: GET YOURSELF SOME HAPPY! (Lillias White)
Awesome Broadway fave Lillias White releases her first Solo Studio Album: Get Yourself Some Happy! Here she is, boys! The great Lillias White is releasing her first solo studio album, Get Yourself Some Happy!, out July 23, 2021. I caught Ms. White in a cabaret just before the pandemic shutdown, and that evening stays with…
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Opera Review: DON PROCOPIO (Pacific Opera Project in L.A.)
SILLY PROCOPIO LEFT ME IN OSTRITCHES Well, last Sunday night, courtesy of Pacific Opera Project’s presentation of Don Procopio, I had my first foray to a live production since the pandemic put a pause on live performances (and as long as I’m alliterating, we packed a pleasant picnic perfect for piggery). While I had attended…
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Music | Dance | Theater: CAL PERFORMANCES (2021-22 Season)
SUPERCALILINEUP Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley’s Cal Performances has announced its 2021–22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well before the pandemic shut everything down. The world’s greatest artists in jazz, classical, opera, pop, dance, theater, and more are heading to Berkeley, leaving you…
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Film: THE BEST BIOPICS EVER MADE ABOUT MUSICIANS AND BANDS
There have been many movies based around real and fictional musicians and bands. Movies such as Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Featuring country and bluegrass musicians on the run. Other fictional movies that have found success include The Commitments, Purple Rain, Almost Famous, and Walk Hard. Musicians such as Johnny Cash have provided rich source…
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Album Review (Jazz): AFRIKA LOVE (Alchemy Sound Project)
A JUICY JOURNEY IN JAZZ How awesome is this?! To me, this is what fusion really means: Afrika Love, the sonically adventurous third album by Alchemy Sound Project — which formed in 2014 — takes many different styles of music and melds them together in a jazzy, grooving, funkalicious delight. I get Carl Stalling (composer…
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Virtual Opera: CIRCUS DAYS AND NIGHTS (World Premiere by Philip Glass, David Henry Hwang & Tilde Björfors; Streaming LIVE)
COME JOIN THE CIRCUS AS A METAPHOR FOR LIFE It’s here! The world premiere of a new opera by Philip Glass which will take place on Malmö Opera‘s main stage with live music to a live audience and livestreamed worldwide May 29 thru June 13, 2021. Librettists David Henry Hwang and circus director Tilde Björfors…
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Album Preview: HARD UP (The Bamboos)
FUNK ME HARD (UP) After more than twenty years performing together, The Bamboos have refined their craft of finding the sweetest spot between soul and funk to its finest point yet. On their tenth studio album, Hard Up, the nine piece band–founded and led by guitarist, producer and songwriter Lance Ferguson and featuring the vocals of the…
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Music Study: THE VIOLYMPICS (Nathan Cole)
THE VIOLYMPICS, A VIRTUAL 12-WEEK PROGRAM FOR VIOLINISTS AND VIOLISTS AT ANY LEVEL, HAS AS GUEST ARTISTS THE GREATEST VIOLINISTS IN THE WORLD Nathan Cole, our very own First Associate Concertmaster for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will launch the second installment of The Violympics on June 14, 2021. A series of 6 two-week training events,…
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Opera: LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO’S 2021|22 SEASON
Tickets now on sale for Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2021|22 Season Call 312-827-5600 or visit lyricopera.org Here are the shows: NEW PRODUCTION Verdi MACBETH Sung in Italian with projected English texts September 17, 23m, 30, October 3m, 6m, 9, 2021 Lyric’s riveting season-opener is the inaugural production of Music Director Enrique Mazzola’s tenure, and a brand-new…
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Virtual Opera: DESERT IN (Boston Lyric Opera)
AN OPERATIC OASIS WHERE ANYTHING IS DONE TO KEEP LOVE SAFE Lost souls are found, love is rekindled, and secrets are exposed at a mysterious motor lodge in the American West. There’s an extraordinarily impressive team behind Boston Lyric Opera’s new operatic miniseries desert in, which premieres June 3, 2021 on operabox.tv streaming service. Anthony Michael Lopez…
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Jazz Album Pick of the Week: MENDÒ (Alex Cuba)
WELL, FUNK ME HARD Just one listen, and this Latin-flavored funk jazz party had me hooked. “Again, again!” my party-depleted inner child screamed. “Mendó,” as performer, arranger, producer, composer, instrumentalist, Cuban Canadian Alex Cuba writes, “is the substance of the soul.” And this produced-during-pandemic soulfest proves that. Afro-Cuban, Flamenco, pile-driving big band — it’s a…
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