We like to that think music is easy as pie. Composers hear it in their heads, write it down, have…
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When trumpeter Terell Stafford conducts the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia the stellar big jazz band he founded, he picks up…
Director: Michael Mayer; Designer: Christine Jones; Costumes: Susan Hilferty: Conductor: Yannick Neet-Seguin; Chorus Master: Michael Palumbo; with Diana Damrau, Juan…
Trumpeter Terell Stafford founded The Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia in 2014 and in five years they have covered a lot…
Laurie Anderson–composer, musician, multimedia artist, filmmaker, poster child for hipster Baby Boomers–just presented five one-of-a-kind performances, four at Miner Auditorium…
Politics is everywhere these days. Make one “false” step and you’re tarred and feathered without getting even a nanosecond to…
What do we expect when we go to hear two repertory pieces played live, and is that expectation heightened when…
No, Hansel and Gretel is not a children’s opera per se, but it is an opera, and a production, you…
You’re alone in your room and hear music.You’re sitting in a room with other people and hear this same music….
We love to put people in boxes. She’s progressive, he’s conservative. This music is twelve-tone, that music is minimalist. But…
How do they do it? The Joffrey Ballet has two simultaneous gigs in LA: the Gluck opera, “Orpheus and Eurydice,”…
Philip Glass @ 80ish When “Music With Changing Parts” premiered in New York in1970 it was at once revolutionary, persistent,…
