The Summerville Orchestra is the 2023 winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance in the community division. The orchestra, with Wojciech Milewski as music director, was selected from applications reviewed from across the country. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the performing…

South Orange Performing Arts Center Executive Director Stephen Beaudoin is leaving his position with SOPAC in January 2024 to accept a new job as President and CEO of The Music School of Delaware. Beaudoin was announced as the SOPAC Executive Director in September 2022. From The South Orange Performing Arts Center: The South Orange Performing…

Friday will be the 1st of December, and even though there’s probably still some leftover turkey and pie in the refrigerator, Thanksgiving has most certainly come and gone. December is when the major holiday shows – even some with the formerly un-PC word “Christmas” in the title – come out to play. And it’s joy…

Vernon singer/songwriter Andrew Allen will ring in the yuletide season with a series of concerts. Allen will perform Christmas favourites Friday at The Circle at Predator Ridge Friday, 4:30-7 p.m. Tickets for the Winter Warm Up concert are $30 per person plus fees and include a holiday beverage. Kids 12 and under are free. The…

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On a recent evening, Renée Fleming joined the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra to sing some Strauss — one of her favorite things to do. The acclaimed soprano and 2023 Kennedy Center honoree has recorded Richard Strauss’s “Four Last Songs” twice, and she has performed them countless times. But carried along atop maestro Christopher Zimmerman’s deeply engaged…

Earlier this month, a group of 14 musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra traveled to China, embedding themselves in orchestras in Beijing and Suzhou, performing chamber music at the Shanghai Children’s Palace, leading master classes, and reconnecting with a country that — more than any other besides the U.S. — has been central to the orchestra’s…

For the uninitiated, an invitation to The Theater Bug’s annual Bug Ball may conjure images of tykes in homespun costumes belting Broadway tunes in a junior musical. But after an evening with the passionate, creative and wildly talented cast of The Theater Bug, it would seem the theater world has been turned on its ear.…