Guest conductor, symphony perform sleek, elegant concert featuring romantic ...
Guest conductor, symphony perform sleek, elegant concert featuring romantic ...Kansas City StarBy TIMOTHY L. McDONALD The Kansas City Symphony returned to the stage of Helzberg Hall on Friday night, demonstrating that great orchestral music is not simply relegated to late 19th- and 20th-century composers like Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Brahms.
Music review: Andreas Delfs, Nelson Freire and the National Symphony Orchestra
Music review: Andreas Delfs, Nelson Freire and the National Symphony OrchestraWashington PostStorm, indeed, was a leitmotif of the evening, as all three works presented a cloudy, darkened front. But the two symphonies on the program — the Haydn was followed by Kurt Weill's Symphony No. 2, from 1933 — offered a mellifluous take on storminess, ...and more »
Look & Listen Festival at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
Look & Listen Festival at Pratt Manhattan GalleryNew York Times... at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery on Monday evening focused mostly on composers who also perform and performers who compose. Until the early decades of the 20th century, it was the norm for musicians to do both, if not necessarily with equal success.
A summit of Chicago jazz for NATO weekend
A summit of Chicago jazz for NATO weekendChicago TribuneThis week's NATO meeting may have put a chill on attendance Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase, but it didn't turn down the temperature on the music making a bit. So even if the all-star group of Chicago musicians played to a smallish audience, ...and more »
Writers Fink, Hoffman, Karageorge, Shmailo in Greenwich Village Saturday ...
Writers Fink, Hoffman, Karageorge, Shmailo in Greenwich Village Saturday ...PR.com (press release)The Greek-American Writers' Association presents four poets, Tom Fink, Roxanne Hoffman, Penelope Karageorge & Larissa Shmailo, Saturday evening May 19th, at The Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village. New York, NY, May 18, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The ...