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Shana Oshiro & Judy Yannini Headline Classical Movements’ March & April 2022 Slate

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Virginia-based Classical Movements has announced its March and April slate of performances. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. Soprano Shana Oshiro will join forces with cellist Jodi Beder and pianist Brian Bartoldus for an “Out of Eden: A Journey Through Art Song. The concert will be dedicated to music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, {…}

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Maria Brea, LaToya Lain, Bo Shimmin, Shana Oshiro, Hailey McAvoy Headline songSLAM Festival 2022

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Sparks & Wiry Cries has announced the 2022 songSLAM Festival. The showcase will kick off on Jan. 13, 2022 with “Songs of Identity. The virtual recital will feature performances by Bo Shimmin, Shana Oshiro, Hailey McAvoy, and Paulina Swierczek as they are accompanied by Natalie Sherer, Brian Bartoldus, Bethany Pietroniro, and Ania Vu. Streaming Date: Jan. 13, 2022 Next up {…}

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IN Series Set for ‘Passion Plays’ This March & April

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Washington, D.C.-based IN Series is set to “Passion Plays,” this March and April. The festival opens with “Only the Air,” featuring music by J.S. Bach with new text by playwrights Joshua Borths and Shana Oshiro. Directed by Timothy Nelson with musical direction by Joy Schreier, the production reimagines Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” with newly spoken text alongside the oratorio’s famed {…}

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IN Series to Honor Peter Sellars at May 2 Gala

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(Credit: Ruth Walz) IN Series has announced that it will honor director Peter Sellars during its 2024 Gala. The famed opera director will receive the first-ever June Jordan Award on May 2. The Award recognizes “living creative voices whose body of work reflects the poetic principles exuding the many writings, workings, wonderings of luminary poet and activist June Jordan.” Sellars {…}

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IN Series Opera & Mexican Cultural Institute to Present ‘Las Místicas de México’

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IN Series Opera is teaming up with the Mexican Cultural Institute to present “Las Místicas de México.” The experience, which is slated for March 9-10 at Dupont Underground, March 15-16 at the Mexican Cultural Institute, and March 23-24 at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Baltimore, will feature a new rendition of a 12th century chant opera by Anna Deeny Morales. {…}

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IN Series to Present John Adams’ ‘I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky’

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IN Series is set to present John Adams’ “I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky” starting on April 14, 2023. Written by June Jordan, the work presents “events of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake with its searing, compassionate, and prescient exploration of broken justice and migration systems, police violence against young Black men, family border separation and {…}

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Classical Movements Announces Spring and Summer 2022 Secret Garden Concerts

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Alexandria, Virginia-based Classical Movements has announced their spring and summer 2022 Secret Garden Concerts featuring several vocal performances ranging from art song to zarzuela. For this article, our focus is on scheduled vocal performances. Here’s what’s in store for audiences. Soprano Shana Oshiro, along with pianist Brian Bartoldus and cellist Jodi Beder, will present “Out of Eden: A Journey Through {…}