On Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 10 PM CT | 8 PM PT, pianist Sarah Cahill will perform an evening-length program with selections from her project The Future is Female. Presented by the Mills College Music Department and Center for Contemporary Music’s Mills Music Now series, Cahill’s repertoire focuses on composers who have been students […]
The Lewis Prize for Music has teamed up with Save The Music Foundation to host youth-led weekly conversations with today’s music leaders starting on Mondays, October 18, 2021 through December 20, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 3 PM PT Music Monday LIVE is an exciting opportunity for youth across the United States to connect with music industry […]
The exuberant string orchestra, ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra), teams up with pianist Shai Wosner for “Bach Plus,” an innovative program that interweaves music by J. S. Bach with contemporary composers Andrew Norman, Brett Dean, and Michi Wiancko. Wosner’s “keen musical mind and deep musical soul” (NPR’s All Things Considered) are sure to complement ECCO’s […]
Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen (Metamorphoses) is a memorial to all those that perished in World War II. Kevin Puts’s (a BandQuest composer) tone poem The Brightness of Light is inspired by the tender words and images revealed in the letters of the iconic American writer Georgia O’Keeffe to her husband and accomplished photographer Alfred Stieglitz. The impassioned multi-media journey paints […]
In 2018, Marvel Studios’ Black Panther quickly became a global sensation and cultural phenomenon, showing a new dimension of what Super Hero films could be. Rolling Stone raved, “The film lights up the screen with a full-throttle blast of action and fun. That’s to be expected. But what sneaks up and floors you is the film’s racial conscience and […]
In partnership with the Alexandria Film Festival, the ASO presents Homegrown: American Stories in Music and Film. The concert incorporates music from the Americana tradition with original film shorts, including Copland’s Our Town and John Henry, Griffes’ Clouds and William Grant Still’s Manhattan Skyline. The program culminates with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Immediately following Saturday’s performance, stay for an interactive talkback […]
In partnership with the Alexandria Film Festival, the ASO presents Homegrown: American Stories in Music and Film. The concert incorporates music from the Americana tradition with original film shorts, including Copland’s Our Town and John Henry, Griffes’ Clouds and William Grant Still’s Manhattan Skyline. The program culminates with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Immediately following Saturday’s performance, stay for an interactive talkback […]
In 2018, Marvel Studios’ Black Panther quickly became a global sensation and cultural phenomenon, showing a new dimension of what Super Hero films could be. Rolling Stone raved, “The film lights up the screen with a full-throttle blast of action and fun. That’s to be expected. But what sneaks up and floors you is the film’s racial conscience and […]
The Fifth makes you feel, vividly – drama, despair, hope, joy – contained in melodies that’ll sweep you off your feet, and that has made this work a favorite of audiences around the world. Plus – enjoy the immense talents of superstar pianist Hélène Grimaud and a program of Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and Valerie Coleman (a BandQuest […]
Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen (Metamorphoses) is a memorial to all those that perished in World War II. Kevin Puts’s (a BandQuest composer) tone poem The Brightness of Light is inspired by the tender words and images revealed in the letters of the iconic American writer Georgia O’Keeffe to her husband and accomplished photographer Alfred Stieglitz. The impassioned multi-media journey paints […]
The Lewis Prize for Music has teamed up with Save The Music Foundation to host youth-led weekly conversations with today’s music leaders starting on Mondays, October 18, 2021 through December 20, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 3 PM PT Music Monday LIVE is an exciting opportunity for youth across the United States to connect with music industry […]
“A star in the making” (Seattle Pi), Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak is an outstanding artist of passion, energy and authenticity in the recital and chamber music arenas. A Sphinx MPower Artist Grant Recipient and a top laureate of the 2020 Sphinx Competition, Bak is also a winner and Audience Prize recipient of the 2019 Concert […]