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‘It’s breathtaking’ 300 high school choir students perform with Omaha Symphony
300 concert choir students from high schools across the metro breathed new life into classical art, performing right alongside the professionals Sunday at the Holland Performing Arts Center.Students from Abraham Lincoln, Bellevue West, Bennington, Creighton Prep, Millard South and Omaha North sang in Brahms’ German Requiem with the professional orchestra of the Omaha Symphony.”A master…
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‘A Christmas Carol’ Returns to Syracuse Stage, Reimagined as a Music-Filled Celebration Featuring the Magical 2 Ring Circus
Syracuse Stage, in association with the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Drama, continues Syracuse Stage’s 50th Anniversary season—and the tradition of heart-warming, family-friendly holiday shows—with “A Christmas Carol,” the classic novel by Charles Dickens, here adapted by Richard Hellesen, with music by David de Berry, and orchestrations by Gregg Coffin. The production…
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REX’s Perelman Performing Arts Centre sits as a dynamic muted monolith in Manhattan
Lifted 21 feet above the street and resting over four levels of city infrastructure, which includes a subway and an access ramp for a port authority structure, the final public element to New York’s World Trade Centre site sees the opening of the Perelman Performing Arts Centre (PAC NYC) as a muted cubic volume. The…
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Arrow Street Arts plans to pack in performers during a community launch festival in March
Sunday, November 12, 2023 Arrow Street Arts’ black box theater under construction in January. (Photo: Robert Torres) A weeklong festival will open the Arrow Street Arts theater venue in Harvard Square in late March. The organization wants to pack its renovated 4,500 square-foot black box theater and new 1,100 square-foot street-front studio with talent and…
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CAST Kidz Unleash Magic at the Anniston Performing Arts Center: ‘James & the Giant Peach, Jr. in Anniston
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A Festive Fiesta: Merry-Achi Christmas Coming to Oxford Performing Arts Center
Oxford, AL – On Sunday, November 19th, at 7:00 pm, the Oxford Performing Arts Center will come alive with the vibrant sounds of mariachi music as Maestro José Hernández and his acclaimed ensemble, Mariachi Sol de México, present “A Merry-Achi Christmas.” This Latin Grammy-nominated group is set to kick off their annual holiday tour, captivating…
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‘The Nutcracker’ to be performed at Wallace State Nov. 17-19
Dancers perform during the 2022 production of “The Nutcracker” at Wallace State Community College. This year’s showings will be on Nov. 17-18 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. in the Betty Leeth Haynes Theatre of the Garlan E. Gudger Student Center. (WSCC) HANCEVILLE, Ala. – Wallace State Community College’s Allegro Dance Theatre…
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Youth to perform ‘Nutcracker’ reimagined
When Bridget Townsend took her 5-year-old daughter to see “The Nutcracker Suite” for the first time, the child was not impressed. “She’s watching the ballet and she’s going, ‘Is anybody going to say something?’” She says it just like that,” Towsend said, laughing at the memory. “She said, ’Is anybody going to talk?’ And then…
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The Ailey/Fordham Dance BFA Turns 25
The story took flight with a chance encounter at the 60th Street post office in Manhattan. It was the mid-’90s and Denise Jefferson, then head of The Ailey School, and Edward Bristow, then dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center, would often bump into each other in the neighborhood. At that point, both schools were…
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Review: Dallas Symphony supplies brilliant Strauss, challenging new Ukrainian works
One could hardly overlook the tragic political undertow of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Saturday night program. Led by a Ukrainian guest conductor, Kirill Karabits, it included new war-born works by two Ukrainian composers, and, in Inbal Segev, an Israeli-born cellist. Two Richard Strauss showpieces — Don Juan and a Rosenkavalier Suite — were rather awkward…