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Louisville Orchestra Announces 2024-25 Season

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The Louisville Orchestra has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances on offer. Teddy Abrams conducts Orff’s “Carmina Burana” with the Louisville Chamber Choir. The program also includes Michael Tilson Thomas’s “Meditations on Rilke.” Performance Date: Oct. 19, 2024 Teddy Abrams conducts Viktor Ullmann’s chamber opera, “Der Kaiser von Atlantis” in a staged production. Performance Date: Jan. {…}

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Book Review: Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis

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The world of what is considered recognized literature and art has come a long way since the days of completely disregarding dime comics snatched from the spinner rack at the corner candy store, all set to be instantly disposable. And — oh the lucky few who preserved those “classics,” featuring caped heroes, now worth not-so-small fortunes. No, with advent of {…}

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Music of Remembrance Presents ‘Art From Ashes’ to Commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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(Photo credit: Ben Van Houten) Music of Remembrance will present “Art From Ashes,” on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 22. Mezzo-soprano Karen Early Evans performs Bruce Rosenblum’s arrangement of “Pre-war melody: Auschwitz Tango,” by 12-year-old Irka Janowski and “Jozef Kropinski: Zál Tango,” which was written in Buchenwald concentration camp. The Northwest Boychoir and Seattle Girls Choir offer Viktor Ullmann’s “Yiddish {…}

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‘The Shoah Songbook’ to be Performed on Holocaust Remembrance Day

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On International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27, 2024), the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company and the Committee for Yiddish will present the final installment of Likht Ensemble’s “The Shoah Songbook” series. The final performance in the series will include favorite selections from prior “Shoah Songbook” concerts interspersed with new narrative elements recited by Ben Heppner. The new material includes Yiddish {…}

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Young Concert Artists Unveils 2023-24 Season

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Young Concert Artists (YCA) revealed its 2023-2024 season, including debuts of four new artists in New York and a co-presentation with the New York Festival of Song. The season will feature YCA Auditions and a Winners Concert, both live-streamed, four noontime performances, and a grand finale at Carnegie Hall. Four YCA artists will also showcase their talent at the Kennedy {…}

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Carnegie Hall 2023 Review: SongStudio’s Young Artist Recital

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Photo : Jennifer Taylor Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall was filled with the wondrous sounds of a talented group of young artists in recital, each of whom had taken part in the 2023 SongStudio. The concert was the culmination of a weeklong series of workshops and masterclasses taught by renowned vocalists Golda Schultz, Hartmut Höll (pianist), and Jamie Barton. Under the {…}

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Biennial Heidelberger Frühling Wettbewerb ‘Das Lied’ Returns March 2023

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After a four-year hiatus, the biennial Heidelberger Frühling Wettbewerb “Das Lied” is back from March 1-5, 2023, at the Alter Saal of Theater Heidelberg. Tickets are available now. The Competition will also be livestreamed worldwide. Founded in 2009 by Thomas Quasthoff, the Competition comes with a sizeable prize of €40, 000, along with concert and festival opportunities and more for {…}

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National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Announces 2022-23 Season

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Ostrava’s National Moravian-Silesian Theatre has announced its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the premieres for the season. Marek Šedivý conducts Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride” in a new production by Jiří Nekvasil. Performance Dates: Dec. 15, 2022-May 23, 2023 Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” will feature conductor Jiří Habart leading the new production by Jiří Nekvasil. Performance Dates: Feb. 9-May {…}

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BBC Symphony Orchestra Announces ‘Total Immersion: Music for the End of Time’

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The BBC Symphony Orchestra is set to present its program “Total Immersion: Music for the End of Time” on Jan. 23, 2022 in Barbican Hall. Events for Total Immersion Day will begin that morning at 10:30 a.m. with the showing of the film “The Music of Terezín.” The first concert starts at 1:30 p.m. featuring “The Theresienstadt Orchestra,” followed by {…}