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Karen Slack, Julia Bullock, Caroline Shaw, Ian Bostridge Headline 92NY’s 2024-25 Tisch Music Season

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(Kia Caldwell Photography) The 92nd Street Y in New York City has announced its 2024-25 Tisch Music Season. Here is a rundown of the classical vocal performances. Vocalist and composer Caroline Shaw headlines “Rectangles and Circumstance” alongside Alica Olatuka and So Percussion. Performance Date: Oct. 23, 2024 Soprano Julia Bullock and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment present “The Golden {…}

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The Crossing @ Christmas to Feature World Premiere of Caroline Shaw’s ‘Ochre’

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Grammy Award-winning ensemble The Crossing Choir will make the world premiere of  Caroline Shaw’s “Ochre” at its annual Crossing @ Christmas concert. Donald Nally will conduct Shaw’s new work and Mason Bates’s “Mass Transmission” for organ and electronics. Scott Dettra joins on the organ. In The Crossing tradition, these holiday concerts explore relationships, humanity, sorrow, treatment of the earth, and {…}

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Renée Fleming, Caroline Shaw, Aundi Marie Moore Headline Fortas Chamber Music Concerts’ 2022-23 Season

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The Kenned Center’s Fortas Chamber Music Concerts has announced its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. Vocalist Caroline Shaw will join So Percussion for music by Angélica Negrón, Julia Wolfe, and Caroline Shaw. Performance Date: Jan. 30, 2023 The Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, under Tito Muñoz, will perform alongside the EXIGENCE {…}

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Jeanine Tesori & Dawn Upshaw Join Yale Faculty of Arts & Sciences

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Jeannine Tesori and Dawn Upshaw have joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), as professors in the practice. Both joined the faculty in July and will each teach one course per semester. Both are appointed in the Department of Music and Tesori also holds a fully joint appointment in Theater, Dance and Performance Studies. In a statement, Marc Robinson, {…}

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‘Juilliard at Zankel Hall’ Series Kicks off With Celebration of Works by Shaw, Ives, Montgomery & Aucoin

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The Juilliard School has announced a new partnership with Carnegie Hall titled “Juilliard at Zankel Hall.” The series will kick off on Monday, March 24, 2025  and April 3, 2025 with two programs. The first is dedicated to new works and premieres while the latter celebrates the music of Meredith Monk. The March 24 showcase will feature a wide range {…}

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John Holiday to Headline Tyshawn Sorey’s ‘Save the Boys’ on Opera Philadelphia Channel

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Opera Philadelphia is set to present Tyshawn Sorey’s “Save the Boys” on Feb. 12, 2021. The showcase will feature countertenor John Holiday, who in addition to a heralded operatic career, has recently made major headlines by his star turn on NBC’s “The Voice.” “Save the Boys” was inspired by an 1887 poem of the same name by Frances Ellen Watkins {…}

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Choral Arts to Present ‘In Search of Home’

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Choral Arts will open its 2026-27 season with “In Search of Home” on Oct. 25 at the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C. Artistic Director Marie Bucoy-Calavan will conduct the performance, which includes staged elements for the first time in a Choral Arts program. The showcase will feature organist Matthew Steynor, countertenor Ian Pathak, the Choral Arts Symphonic Chorus, {…}

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Q & A: Suzanne Nance on Becoming Wexford Festival Opera’s New CEO

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(Photo: AJ Coots) When I was asked to interview Wexford Festival Opera’s new CEO, Suzanne Nance, my thoughts immediately turned to balance sheets, profit forecasts, marketing campaigns, contracts, fundraising and staffing issues. I must admit that it did little to set the pulse racing. However, it turned out be a very different experience than expected. While such issues were touched {…}

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Davóne Tines To Headline ‘Concerto No. 2: ANTHEM’ at Carnegie Hall

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Bass-baritone Davóne Tines will present the New York premiere of his “Concerto No. 2: ANTHEM” at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium on Oct. 28 at 8 p.m., with the Columbus Symphony under Music Director Rossen Milanov. The performance marks the orchestra’s first appearance at Carnegie Hall since 2001 and is part of its 75th anniversary season. Tines and the Columbus Symphony {…}