Aspen Music Festival Partners with Apple Music Classical, Carnegie Hall+ & medici.tv

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The Aspen Music Festival is teaming up with medici.tv, Apple Music Classical, and Carnegie Hall+ for its 75th anniversary season this summer. As part of the partnership, medici.tv will webcast five events between July 10 through 14, including a concert featuring mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor as she takes on “Neruda Songs” by Peter Liebersen. Meanwhile, Apple Music Classical will curate playlists {…}

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Les Arts Florissants to Tour North America

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(Photo credit: ©Julien Gazeau) This summer, Les Arts Florissants tours its semi-stage production of Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen” throughout North America. William Christie leads Les Arts Florissants and Le Jardin des Voix on the tour. Soloists include soprano Paulina Francisco, mezzo-sopranos Georgia Burashko, Rebecca Leggett, and Juliette Mey, tenor Ilja Aksionov and Rodrigo Carreto, baritone Hugo Herman-Wilson, and bass-baritone Benjamin {…}

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Metropolis Ensemble to Perform ‘Canto Ostinato’ at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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Metropolis Ensemble, Sandbox Percussion, and musician/composer Erik Hall team up this summer to create a large-scale arrangement of Simeon ten Holt’s minimalism work “Canto Ostinato,” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The event entitled “Biophony: Solstice” takes place on the summer solstice, with over 30 percussionists, 4 keyboards, and 16 strings and saxophones. The dual sunrise and sunset performances will culminate {…}

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Renée Fleming, Isabel Leonard & Miah Persson Lead New York Philharmonic’s 2024-25 Season

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The New York Philharmonic has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances. Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Miah Persson lead a performance of music by Sibelius, Julia Wolfe, and R. Strauss. Performance Dates: Nov. 7-12, 2024 Ton Koopman conducts Händel’s “Messiah” with soloists Maya Kherani, Maarten Engeltjes, and Klaus Mertens. Performance Dates: Dec. 11-14, 2024 Kevin John Edusei and Isabel {…}

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Renée Fleming Hosts the LA County’s Annual Arts and Health Week Summit With LA Opera

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(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles) LA Opera holds the LA County Annual Arts and Health Week Summit with soprano Renée Fleming as advisor, advocate, and host. LA Opera’ is collaborating with Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, First District; the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; and Healing Arts, an initiative of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab {…}

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Judith Lynn Stillman’s ‘Remembrance, Resilience and Renewal: Genocide Awareness through the Art’ Takes Stage This April

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Rhode Island College’s Artist-in-Residence, Artistic Director, pianist, and curator Judith Lynn Stillman presents “Remembrance, Resilience and Renewal: Genocide Awareness through the Arts” on April 28. In commemoration of Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month Stillman and 15 diverse multinational artists team together in hopes to “raise awareness about, and in condemnation of, the atrocity of genocide; to remember and honor those {…}

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Karen Slack to Perform Two Recitals in Detroit

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(Credit: Kia Caldwell Photography) Karen Slack is set to perform in two Detroit concerts in October. The first concert will be on Oct. 14 with the renowned Pacifica Quartet at Michigan’s Seligman Performing Arts Center/ The program will include new work by Baltimore-based composer James Lee III, written for the quartet and Slack through a co-commission from Carnegie Hall, Shriver Hall, {…}

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The Kennedy Center Launches a National Month-Long Campaign For Arts Education

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The Kennedy Center, in partnership with AMC Theatres, has released a public service announcement featuring Academy Award®–winning actor, singer, and dancer Ariana DeBose promoting arts education and encourages public to “thank an art teacher.” Coinciding with the National Arts in Education week (Sept. 10–16), the campaign will be shown at AMC Theatre locations across the country from Aug. 25 through {…}

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Opera Memphis Names New Music Director

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Opera Memphis has announced that Jonathan King will be the new Music Director. King will join the company in August. He recently completed two seasons as Associate Conductor with The Washington Chorus and has served as adjunct faculty at The Peabody Institute, where he coached with Peabody Opera Theatre. King is a doctoral candidate at The University of Maryland and holds {…}

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Aspen Music Festival Partners with Apple Music Classical, Carnegie Hall+ & medici.tv

Les Arts Florissants to Tour North America

Metropolis Ensemble to Perform ‘Canto Ostinato’ at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Renée Fleming, Isabel Leonard & Miah Persson Lead New York Philharmonic’s 2024-25 Season

Renée Fleming Hosts the LA County’s Annual Arts and Health Week Summit With LA Opera

Judith Lynn Stillman’s ‘Remembrance, Resilience and Renewal: Genocide Awareness through the Art’ Takes Stage This April

Karen Slack to Perform Two Recitals in Detroit

The Kennedy Center Launches a National Month-Long Campaign For Arts Education

Opera Memphis Names New Music Director