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Music Preview: MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL (Virtual 2020 festival September 25-27)
Monterey Jazz Festival Presents Virtual 2020 Festival September 25-27, Featuring Historic Archival and Exclusive New Content Last year’s Monterey Jazz Festival was spectacular, not just offering name talent but showcasing the great players of tomorrow. Sadly, the concert was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, MJF announced that it will present a virtual version…
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Music Feature: SAVE OUR STAGES (National Independent Venue Association)
SAVE OUR STAGES Contact Congress Tell Congress to #SaveOurStages Your local independent music venues are in trouble. You can help #saveourstages by supporting the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) – an organization of nearly 2000 music venues and promoters who have joined together to fight for the survival of the independent music business. Independent music venues provide…
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Music Preview: MUSICAL THEATER DECADES – THE 1960’s (Tenor Brian Cheney & Pianist Cathy Venable on Stageit)
CELEBRATE ’60’S MUSICALS WITH BRIAN CHENEY The 1960’s may have been one of the most turbulent decades in history, but it also gave a boost to the arts in their many forms. Music and theater thrived individually, but together they gave us some of the best musicals Broadway has ever known. In fact, from Cabaret…
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Cabaret Feature: FULL MOON FRIDAYS (Live Cabaret Series from 42nd Street Moon in San Francisco)
COME TO THIS CABARET Let’s face it folks. Not every Broadway musical is a winner. Yet even the biggest flops have songs that are revelations to those who never heard them. Discover some of these jewels this Friday with San Francisco’s 42nd Street Moon as they continue their “Full Moon Fridays: Live Cabaret” series on…
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Music Preview: YOLA NATIONAL AT HOME (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
BRING IT HOME The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association introduces YOLA National at Home, a series of open-source courses, masterclasses with LA Phil musicians, project-based learning, and keynote addresses from Gustavo Dudamel and Thomas Wilkins that will be offered from July 10-31, 2020, via Zoom and YouTube Live. YOLA National at Home was developed following the…
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Concert Preview: THE OAK RIDGE BOYS (Grand Ole Opry)
OAK RIDGE BOYS AT GRAND OLE OPRY JULY 4 Catch The Oak Ridge Boys co-hosting TBN’s July 4th weekend special performing multiple songs, along with guests Nicole C. Mullen and Lee Greenwood. TBN’s Independence Day Weekend Celebration, which premieres July 3, 2020, will be available to stream on Facebook LIVE on TBN, Expect timeless hits…
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Music Review “After Party” (The Habits)
ALT POP DUO THE HABITS RELEASE 90’S INSPIRED NOSTALGIA-FILLED MUSIC VIDEO FOR “AFTER PARTY” This L.A. alternative/pop duo takes the sights, sounds and fashions of 1990s for inspiration behind their latest music video “After Party.” And it is WAY fun. The riffs are fun. The harmonies are fun. There playful faces are fun. Meet The…
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Opera Preview: CELEBRATING THE SUMMER SEASON (San Francisco Opera)
CELEBRATING THE SUMMER SEASON San Francisco Opera will present its first virtual event, Celebrating the Summer Season, on Friday, July 10 at sfopera.com. The three-part, 90-minute program will honor the artists and operas’”Verdi’s Ernani, Handel’s Partenope and Mason Bates and Mark Campbell’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’”from the Company’s 2020 Summer Season which was canceled due to the pandemic. Celebrating the…
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Music Preview: DAVID RYAN HARRIS WITH FULL BAND (Streaming Live From the Hotel Café)
DAVID RYAN HARRIS WITH FULL BAND WEDNESDAY JUNE 24 AT 6PM PST With Covid-19 shuttering doors and disconnecting us from our friends and family, deep racial injustices finally and rightfully being brought to the forefront, and the world taking to the streets in protest for equality, the past several months have been enormously significant and…
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Music Preview: MOVIE MUSICALS II (Tenor Brian Cheney & Pianist Cathy Venable on Stageit)
LET’S ALL GO TO THE MOVIE MUSICALS The brilliant American Tenor Brian Cheney has been giving thirty-minute recitals from his home since the quarantine began. The completely different shows — which moved from Saturdays to Thursdays at 7pm EST (4pm PST) — offer a thoroughly winning program each week. One mini-concert showcased the lush and…
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Album Preview: BLACKBIRDS (Bettye LaVette and “Strange Fruit”)
A MOMENT TO MOURN AND RENEW In 1999, Time magazine named “Strange Fruit” — a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism — the “song of the century.” Some may know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a photograph of two lynched black men*, but did you know he was a white…
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Music Feature: ASCAP BEGINS PAID INTERNSHIPS FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED IN HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (HBCU)
ASCAP BEGINS PAID INTERNSHIPS FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED IN HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (HBCU) Leading PRO will seek to empower the next generation of Black leaders with real-world music industry experience ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, today announced the launch of This summer, the PRO will offer five HBCU students the opportunity…
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Music Preview: UCLA SUMMER GLOBAL JAZZ INTENSIVE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (Hancock Institute of Jazz)
Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance Fellows to teach at UCLA Summer Global Jazz Intensive for high school studentsNOW ONLINE Program Dates: June 22–27, 2020 Apply by June 5 Scholarships Available Ongoing Conversations: The Summer Global Jazz Intensive Online at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is a weeklong online summer intensive program designed for high school students…
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Theater Extra: SEASONS OF LOVE (San Diego Musical Theatre)
REASONS FOR LOVE Covering the arts nationwide means that Stage and Cinema has received hundreds and hundreds of virtual entertainments, from classical and jazz to theater and art, all with basically the same purpose: to entertain you at home and try to raise money for struggling organizations. But nothing in the past two months has…
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Music Preview: LISTEN LOCAL: NEW YORK CITY (Spotify)
ONE WAY TO ENSURE THAT THE CITY NEVER SLEEPS With the news that Broadway will remain shuttered until at least Labor Day, New Yorkers and those who visit the city to enjoy the life now have a way to get your Big Apple fix during quarantine through an exclusive content hub on Spotify: Listen Local:…
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Music Preview: TENOR BRIAN CHENEY (Weekly Shows on Stageit)
BACK ON THE CHENEY GANG I originally caught tenor Brian Cheney in Pacific Opera Project’s Tosca, and I was awestruck. Playing the brave painter Cavaradossi, Cheney really blew me away. With nary a glitch, and equally authoritative throughout his range, Cheney has that terrific tenor sound: the power, richness, and vocal color of a high…
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Film Feature: SOME AWESOME MUSIC DOCUMENTARIES (Red Bull Music Academy)
FUN, FIERCE AND FREE I gotta tell you, folks, since the lockdown from COVID-19, the amount of streaming dreck that has come before me is embarrassing. so it’s a pleasure to share with you some awesome music documentaries I’ve encountered. Many different lengths, many types of music, all fascinating. Some are great to watch on…
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Music Preview: AT HOME WITH GUSTAVO (LA Phil)
KEEPING US TOGETHER WHILE WE’RE APART For some, sitting at home can during our long shut-in can be crazy-making, but not because there isn’t enough to stream. It’s just that so much of it is blather. Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel believes a major ingredient missing during these trying times is…
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Music Preview: JOHN WILLIAMS: MAESTRO OF THE MOVIES (and more from Pacific Symphony)
SOME OFFERINGS FROM PACIFIC SYMPHONY Introducing the Virtual “Symphony Mixer” Symphony Mixer is a new virtual social series hosted by Symphony Principal Flutist Ben Smolen, each virtual happy hour will feature live performances, interviews with artists, musical anecdotes and stories from behind-the-scenes. “John Williams: Maestro of the Movies” Pacific Symphony has produced its first-ever virtual…
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Music Review: LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO (Royce Hall UCLA)
PRESERVING THE SPIRIT For the last live performance I may see for a long, long time, I attended a near-empty Royce Hall for the recording of a concert by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The group — best known for their astounding chorale rhythms on Paul Simon’s Graceland — had cancelled a previous date due to the…
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