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Angel of the Amazon opens in NYC
Cincinnatian Evan Mack’s opera, opening Friday in New York, is based on the life of Sister Dorothy Stang, a Dayton-born nun who worked with the farm people of the Brazilian rain forest to protect their way of life. An antagonist of local landowners and...
Posted: 5/3/2011 9:49 AM in Arts in Focus
Opera Idol auditions this weekend
Attention opera star-wannabes, it’s time to whip up those arias that sound so great in the shower. Cincinnati Opera announces its third annual Opera Idol Auditions, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Music Hall. The winner will receive a $3,500 contract with...
Posted: 5/2/2011 2:47 PM in Arts in Focus
Locals sing Great American Songbook with KSO on Friday
Look for Zach Stewart and Chloe Williamson among Indiana University’s Broadway Cabaret troupe joining their prof Terry LaBolt and Kentucky Symphony Orchestra at Florence Baptist Church at Mt. Zion for a musical tribute to the Great American Songbook....
Posted: 5/2/2011 1:01 PM in Theater Buzz
Classical news
Yo-Yo Ma is back on Tuesday to perform with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Music Hall for the first time in 25 years. (And yes, it seems he did play a recital in Music Hall 20 years ago, too.) Here’s the interview. Neil Sedaka was at the Pops. Here’s...
Posted: 5/2/2011 10:18 AM in Arts in Focus
The National to re-issue Cherry Tree on vinyl
As reported earlier today by Consequence of Sound, The National are doing yet another re-issue of an old item, on vinyl. After re-issuing their first two releases from their time with Brassland, the Ohio natives are set to re-issue 2004′s Cherry Tree...
Posted: 4/29/2011 4:47 PM in Each Note Secure
A touch of class at Royal Wedding
In case you wondered about the beautiful music played during the wedding ceremony of Prince William and Catherine Middleton this morning, it was a tasteful selection of classical music drawing from English tradition, and several new pieces with distinctly...
Posted: 4/29/2011 12:50 PM in Arts in Focus
World Choir Games on a roll
The first eight choirs have signed up for the 2012 World Choir Games, taking place in Cincinnati. Here’s the story. Be sure to check out the photo gallery. And here’s Lauren Bishop’s story about the Fairfield Choraliers. Yesterday, Lori Lobsiger, director...
Posted: 4/29/2011 12:06 PM in Arts in Focus
Music Hall parking shuttle — Saturday and Tuesday
Because the Cincinnati Pops’ Saturday night show with Neil Sedaka is expected to draw a big crowd, and Tuesday’s Yo-Yo Ma concert is sold-out, complimentary parking shuttles will operate before and after the performance. Starting at 6 p.m., shuttles will...
Posted: 4/29/2011 11:38 AM in Arts in Focus
Catch Broadway’s “Memphis” in limited performances starting tonight on area screens
Broadway is joining the ranks of the Metropolitan Opera and London’s National Theatre — maybe. Tony Award winner “Memphis” – becomes the first Broadway musical to be filmed live and released across the U.S. while still running in New York, albeit for...
Posted: 4/28/2011 2:24 PM in Theater Buzz
The Walkmen with The New Pornagraphers – Live @ Bogarts
At several points throughout the New Pornographers’ show Tuesday night, lead singer Carl Newman commented, bemused, to keyboardist Kathryn Calder how surprised he was that they had never played in Cincinnati before. When Calder suggested that maybe they...
Posted: 4/28/2011 9:38 AM in Each Note Secure
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