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Song Review: GEORGIA ON MY MIND (Broadway for Georgia)
THIS SHOULD BE ON EVERYBODY’S MIND Georgia is on a lot of people’s minds today, as official voting begins for the January 5th Georgia Senate runoff elections. Stage and Cinema supports this amazing video of the beloved song “Georgia On My Mind” by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell, produced by Seth Rudetsky, James Wesley and Audra…
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Film and Zoom Event: THE BOWMAKERS (Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra)
BOWMAKERS, TAKE A BOW Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) is currently hosting the Midwest premiere of the new, feature-length documentary The Bowmakers, through December 6, 2020, only. Ward Serrill’s film has at its center Charles Espey — considered the most important bowmaker of his generation — so we can learn about the bow from start to…
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MUSIC PREVIEW: CMS: FRONT ROW (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and The Soraya)
FROM NEW YORK TO L.A. TO THE WORLD The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) created a new digital initiative this year so that local chamber music venues could bring its digital chamber music concerts, CMS: FRONT ROW, to audiences around the country. Yes, it was created in the age of COVID, but now local presenters can stay in touch with their audiences while…
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Concert: ARTURO SANDOVAL LIVE (The Broad Stage)
ARTURO SANDOVAL’S BRAND NEW CONCERT AVAILABLE FROM THE BROAD STAGE He moves easily across many varieties of jazz and instruments ’” using his trumpet to produce a fiery assortment of resonances, interchangeably stately, amusing and starry-eyed. The mighty, vibrant, effervescent Cuban trumpet player, big band leader, and composer Arturo Sandoval ’” a protégé of Dizzy…
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Music Review: 2AM CHRISTMAS EVE (White Owl Red)
ALL ABOUT 2AM CHRISTMAS EVE Sometimes with new Christmas music, I feel stuck between the old-fashioned, the gloopy and the irritating (anything that sounds like Disney Radio). We’ll always have the greats (Ella, Frank, Bing, Bette, Babs) singing the greats (the most popular Christmas music was written by Jewish men), but as with so much…
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Music: APPALACHIAN SPRING (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra)
SPRING INTO LACO Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra continues its digital season with Aaron Copeland’s masterwork Appalachian Spring. The chamber version, originally commissioned by choreographer Martha Graham as a ballet, provides a superb showcase for LACO’s artistry. Conducted by Music Director Jaime Martín with LACO Conductor Laureate Jeffrey Kahane on piano in their first joint appearance,…
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Album Review: DAVID KOREVAAR: (Luigi Perrachio’s Nine Little Poems and 25 Preludi)
CAPRICIOUS CHROMATICS FROM KOREVAAR CATAPULT TO CLOUD NINE What a find this new album is — and the composer had better be a household name after this. The prolific David Korevaar’s world premiere recording of piano music by Italian impressionist composer Luigi Perrachio (1883-1966) is now available. The two works on the album, recorded for…
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Opera Preview: RIMSKY REBOOTED (Chicago Opera Theater)
RIMSKY TO THE RESCUE As COVID-19 restrictions continue to evolve, Chicago Opera Theater is pivoting its November show digitally in order to honor commitments to artists while protecting the community. Instead of the previously announced Kashchej the Immortal, COT will now offer Rimsky Rebooted on Saturday November 21, at 7:30pm CST. a recital featuring singers from…
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Album Review: SOUL OF THE SPANISH GUITAR (Pablo Sáinz-Villegas)
THE SOUL OF A NATION So, at first I thought “another Andrés Segovia for Brunch-like album”? Not that that’s a bad thing, but Pablo Sáinz-Villegas truly surprised me. He makes his guitar sing like an orchestra. Even the plucks go from a tinkle to a pounding. When supreme virtuosity is coupled with lightness of touch,…
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Album Review: DRUNK TANK PINK (shame)
PUNK FOR ALL For those who know the band shame, then you know the UK members spent their entire adult life touring as riotous post-punkers (they’re first album 2018’s Songs Of Praise is a hoot). But what of those who like their punk adventurous, but without the feeling that an overripe drunk is distorting the…
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Concert Preview: THE SORTING ROOM SESSIONS (Six-Event series from The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
EASY TO SORT THIS ONE OUT One of the benefits of events being streamed during COVID is that we get to partake in film festivals and events from around the world. And then there are programs that ARE local, but always sell-out. Such is the case with The Sorting Room Sessions, a nightclub series presented…
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Theater & Music: 50 YEARS IN THE GROOVE (A Rhythm Revue Salute to Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre)
SALUTING FIVE DECADES OF NEW AMERICAN THEATER WITH GROOVIN’ MUSIC New York’s beloved radio hosts Felix Hernandez (WBGO’s Rhythm Revue Dance Party) and G. Keith Alexander (WBLS from 1973-2017) are teaming up to bring you 50 Years in the Groove, a Rhythm Revue salute to Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre (NFT). It’ll be an…
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Album Review: LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (Official Soundtrack for the HBO Series)
A NEW COUNTRY Lovecraft Country premiered on August 16, 2020, on HBO and consists of ten episodes. Based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he meets up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) and his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) to embark on a road trip across…
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Music Preview: THANKFUL: A BENEFIT ALBUM FOR JERAD BORTZ (The Music and Lyrics of Steven Skeels)
THE THANKFUL PROJECT Two years ago, Wicked’s Jerad Bortz and husband Steven Skeels were in a tragic car accident that left Bortz paralyzed from the chest down. Now, the best of Broadway have participated in an album, THANKFUL: A Benefit Album for Jerad Bortz, which will be available for pre-order beginning Friday, October 23. The album…
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Music Preview: CHARLEY PRIDE (The 54th Annual CMA Awards)
TAKING PRIDE The Country Music Association has revealed its 2020 Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award recipient’”trailblazing country music star Charley Pride. Pride will accept the honor during The 54th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker, broadcasting live from Nashville Wednesday, Nov. 11 (8:00-11:00 PM/EST) on ABC. “Charley Pride is the epitome of a…
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Music Review: JORDAN MOORE (“Hard at Quittin'”)
HARD, INDEED OK, this guy’s new single “Hard at Quittin’” is hot, hot, hot. And so, coincidentally, is he. Find out more at Jordan Moore. More Moore, please. Hard At Quittin’ – Jordan Moore
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Music Preview: 19TH ANNUAL JOHN JARRARD FOUNDATION SONGWRITING SHOW (Bluebird Café in Nashville)
HERE COME THE BLUEBIRDS OF HAPPINESS One of the very few blessings arising from COVID-19 is that concerts that are only seen by a privileged few can now be seen virtually around the globe. Tonight, Friday, Oct. 23 at 8pm ET, the 19th Annual John Jarrard Foundation Songwriter Show will be livestreamed from the Bluebird…
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Opera Preview: THE ANONYMOUS LOVER (LA Opera/Colburn)
ANONYMOUS NEGLECTED NO MORE L.A.’s Colburn School and LA Opera will stage and stream the company premiere of The Anonymous Lover (L’Amant Anonyme), a charming and unjustly neglected 1780 opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), a contemporary of Mozart who is widely regarded as the first Black classical composer known to history. Performed in…
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Concert Reviews: THE FORD (presented by the LA Phil)
FREE CONCERTS FROM THE FORD From The Ford revisits past performances captured live on The Ford’s amphitheater stage by Los Angeles television station LA36. Each installation includes a curated selection of archival footage and newly created artist introductions providing additional insight into the work. From The Ford will be released weekly on Facebook Premiere. Also,…
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Album Review: TRIOS FOR ONE (Josh Lee, Bear Machine Records)
TRIOS FOR ONE AND FOR ALL “What started as an experiment ended up as a necessity,” said Josh Lee of his latest release, which consists of Viola Da Gamba trios. Josh Lee joins Josh Lee and Josh Lee for this positively engaging concoction of English madrigals from the 16th and 17th centuries. “Recording these pieces…
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