Archive for May, 2010

Ahn Trio Broadcast June 23rd by WHYY-TV of Philadelphia

At 8 pm on Wednesday June 23rd the trio’s recent performance at Longwood Gardens will be broadcast as part of WHYY-TV’s Emmy Award winning series “On Canvas.” The Juilliard-trained sisters, Maria, Lucia and Angella, are redefining the art and form of chamber music by infusing their classical instrumentation with DJs, dance companies, hip-hop and Czech [...]

Monica Hugett Soars through Bach’s Four Orchestral Suites

In his review of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, special to the Oregonian on May 15, 2010, James McQuillen writes: “A great performance offers music as you’ve never heard it before. Unless you’ve listened to Ensemble Sonnerie’s Grammy-nominated recording of J.S. Bach’s four Orchestral Suites, Portland Baroque Orchestra’s concert Friday night at First Baptist Church did [...]

Mezzo-Soprano Ruby Hinds Depicts Marian Anderson

This review by music critic Ted Ayala was published on May 17th in Glendale, CA. “The second part of the concert was devoted entirely to See There in the Distance, a one woman drama by singer Ruby Hinds depicting scenes from the life of the contralto Marian Anderson. Anderson was not only one of America’s [...]

Soprano Julianne Baird Performs at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

(An excerpt from a New York Times music review “Baroque Collection…Handel’s Sacred Arias, Intimate and Affirming Top of Form” by Anthony Tommasini originally published December 21, 2008.) “The program included: six of Handel’s Nine Arias for Soprano, Violin and Continuo, settings of household devotional texts by the 18th-century German religious poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes. “Thanks [...]

Leon Bates Plays in the British Virgin Islands

Leon Bates performed on Saturday May 8th on the H. Lavity Stoutt concert series in the British Virgin Islands, where he was heralded as “a world-recognized classical concert pianist” who has been called “fiercely talented and powerful” by the Los Angeles Times, “…his performances often setting the standards of classical concert artistic perfection. Bates has [...]

A LEAP BEYOND for Koresh Dance Company

Merilyn Jackson, for The Philadelphia Inquirer, writes, “Those of us who critique the arts go wild with delight when an artist we’ve been watching for many years creates a work that transcends all he has done before. Thursday night Koresh Dance Company opened its spring season at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre with artistic director Ronen [...]