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St. Louis community remembering the Central Visual Performing Arts High School shooting
More Videos Classes have been cancelled at the CVPA High School to honor the lives lost and forever changed from the active shooter situation last year. Author: wqad.com Published: 11:07 AM CDT October 24, 2023 Updated: 11:07 AM CDT October 24, 2023
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‘A Chanticleer Christmas’ set for Robinson Grand Performing Arts Center
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — The Grammy award winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer is putting on a Christmas show in downtown Clarksburg at 7 p.m. Nov. 26 at the Robinson Grand Performing Arts Center, sponsored by the Barbara B. Highland Fund for the Arts. “The Cultural Foundation is thrilled to host this exciting holiday performance that…
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BalletMet Artistic Director Edwaard Liang to depart after 11 seasons
BalletMet Artistic Director Edwaard Liang is accustomed to choreographing movement on stages, but it’s the move he’s about to make that is sure to surprise the central Ohio arts community. After more than a decade at the helm of the ballet company, Liang will leave the position at the end of the present 2023-24 season,…
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Review: Houston Grand Opera premieres Jake Heggie’s new opera
HOUSTON — Originally an aristocratic diversion, opera in the 19th century became popular entertainment, and in the 20th — especially in Europe — intellectual challenge. That’s oversimplification, of course, especially as there’s been a parallel 20th- and 21st-century thread of populist operas. The most successful American operatic populist today — successor to Aaron Copland, Samuel…
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The Atlanta Opera performs, sings new score to classic ‘Frankenstein’ film
The Atlanta Opera celebrates the Halloween season in a big way on Saturday, with a special one-night-only showing of the 1931 film classic Frankenstein at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The film will be accompanied by an acclaimed new musical score by Michael Shapiro, performed live by The Atlanta Opera Orchestra and the young…
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New director of GSU Center for Performing Arts focuses on diversity in effort ‘to make this place essential’
At face value, one of Scott Sowinski’s recent career aspirations might best be described as idiosyncratic. “I want us to fail,” the 45-year-old director of Governor’s State University’s Center for Performing Arts said from a perch in the middle of the center’s 1,200 seat theater. “If we don’t fail, how do we grow? Advertisement “We…
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An Ambassador for UMD’s Performing Arts, Israel Studies
Joseph B. Gildenhorn ’51, a lawyer, real estate developer and former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland who generously supported the performing arts at the University of Maryland and established its Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, died on Saturday. He was 94 years old. Gildenhorn and his wife, Alma G. Gildenhorn ’53, have been…
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University of Alabama moves forward with $50 million performing arts center
The University of Alabama is one step closer to developing its new performing arts academic center. UA faculty, students and alumni gathered Friday to celebrate the development of the Smith Family Center for Performing Arts. More:‘A diamond in the rough’: University of Alabama has high hopes for performing arts center The Smith Family Center for Performing Arts…
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Devil has the best tunes in double-bill dance show depicting heaven and hell
Britain’s Hofesh Shechter Company returns to Hong Kong for the first time since 2014 with the much-heralded double-bill programme “Double Murder”. The programme, part of the New Vision Arts Festival, pairs two dance pieces designed to portray visions of hell and heaven, respectively. In this case, it’s the devil who has all the best tunes.…
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Boscombe community theatre launches play about county lines
Jon Beal/Talbot Village Trust A community theatre group that helps people in recovery from substance abuse is launching a play about county lines and knife crime. Vita Nova, based in Boscombe, Dorset, runs creative workshops to help support people with their recovery programmes. The performance, The Wasps Nest, will debut at Black Cherry Theatre on…