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Here is the scenario. A cricket in Connecticut gets a whiff of some food in a picnic basket and ends up in a busy Times Square subway station where he becomes a sensation for his musical talents. How do you translate this to the stage? Well…. you commission a second generation world class musician to [...]
It is a rare and valuable moment when music brings out a collective emotional experience. When it goes beyond something that’s pleasing to the ear, to touching something deep inside our humanity, “Underground Railroad: A Spiritual Journey” was just that – a journey through a musical time period, characterized by the deep longing of a [...]
Echoing out of 1920′s Berlin, songstress Ute Lemper brought the songs and history of her homeland to the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue this past Saturday. Singing the songs of Weill and Brecht, as well as other period classics, the German-born Lemper wove a tale of memories, evoked and brought to life through music. Her [...]
To help celebrate the bicentennial of Verdi’s birth, The Lyric Opera Baltimore is presenting his tragic opera Rigoletto as the final selection for their season. If you are familiar with the design of The Lyric, you will know that the names of famous classical composers are etched magnificently on the top portions of the walls surrounding the [...]
The current popularity of composer Stephen Schwartz begins and ends with Wicked, so a National Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert saluting him at the Kennedy Center does so as well. Conductor Steven Reineke began with a medley of themes from the Oz derived musical marking its 10th anniversary and he ended with Jennifer Laura Thompson and Julia [...]
In the Washington Ballet’s latest, Septime Webre sets Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises as a vintage silent film. Its high production values, underwritten entirely by local dance mega-donors Bill and Eve Lilly, and excellent casting make the show a shoe-in for any audience. With boxing matches, can-can dancers, and a guest appearance from NPR White [...]
Hearing the great Tony Award winning Broadway baritone Brian Stokes Mitchell sing some of Broadway’s most famous songs is one of today’s great pleasures. Add to that The Choral Arts Society Chorus made up of 175 plus vocalists, conducted by Scott Tucker, and you have something truly memorable. This Mother’s Day concert entitled Broadway’s Show-Stoppers [...]
Michael Feinstein, the Gershwins, and dessert, “Who could ask for anything more?” On Thursday at The Patricia & Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric, Michael Feinstein was the featured artist at the spring fundraiser for the Myberberg Center which offers a variety of cultural, educational, and wellness programs for mature adults. Mr. Feinstein [...]
Adam Pascal’s career as a performer is twofold. He has been seen on Broadway in Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida, Cabaret, the original cast of Rent and is currently playing Billy Flynn in the long running revival of Chicago. That is one side of Pascal’s talent. The other is that he is a very [...]
Following the successes of the BSO’s presentations of The Gold Rush and City Lights, Marin Alsop and the BSO return to pay tribute to Charlie Chaplin by presenting his 1936 film Modern Times, a brilliant, biting satire on the mechanical age. The BSO accompanies this cinematic masterpiece, performing Chaplin’s own original score. Modern Times was ahead of its time when it [...]
On a beautiful spring evening in April, the audience at Strathmore was treated to an incredible performance by a new vocal group that is bringing back timeless musical entertainment. Under the Streetlamp is a quartet of extremely talented vocalists — all former cast members of the wildly successful Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. Christopher Kale [...]
What do you consider to be some of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time? There is no right or wrong answer to this question, but if you go with composer/producer Neil Berg’s way of thinking, the answer is the big blockbuster British import variety of musical. This is one of the problems with Neil [...]
“Resulting in both juncture and separation,” the dance performance Cardinal Points explored intersections of multiple minds and bodies. And it was fittingly so, as the production from Rebollar Dance was performed as a part of the Atlas Intersections Festival that is dedicated to innovation and connectivity within the arts. Founded in 2003 by Madrid native [...]
American soprano Angela Meade has embodied Bellini’s Norma before, in concert settings along her prize-winning ascension into opera’s spotlight. But the new Washington National Opera production of the opera allows her to fully embody the role for the first time in the kind of vocal performance that will blow back your hair. Bel canto was [...]
