Month: March 2013

San Francisco’s Alonzo King LINES Ballet rounds off its 30th Anniversary Season this month with a world premiere collaboration between the Company’s visionary choreographer, Alonzo King, and Edgar Meyer – Grammy® award-winning bassist and composer.  The set is by Academy Award winning designer, Jim Doyle, one of the world’s leading creators of water feature designs.…

  This year, both The Concertgebouw of Amsterdam  and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra  celebrate their joint 125th anniversary.  On Wednesday, 10th April, the eve of the hall’s ‘official’ birthday, a combined celebration will take the form of a Star Jubilee performance, at which guest soloists Janine Jansen, Thomas Hampson and Lang Lang will join the…

What better way to launch a new website dedicated to the performing arts than the commemoration on April 1st of the 140th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninov.  One of the last great composers of the Romantic era in Russian classical music, he was also one of the finest pianists of his day. To…