Tag: Maurice Ravel
Review: ‘Holiday Cheer!’ at National Chamber Ensemble
The National Chamber Ensemble’s Holiday Cheer! on December 16 was a celebration of great music. The charming and witty Artistic Director and leading violinist,...
Review: World Premiere of ‘The Wake World’ by Opera Philadelphia
Inside a museum dedicated to art from the past, the O17 Festival has brought a new opera which celebrates musical and literary styles from...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Room 21’ by Jace Clayton at...
The 2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival celebrated its official launch at the Barnes Foundation on Friday evening with an extraordinary one-night-only sold-out event in the...
Review: Pianist Veronika Böhmová at the Czech Embassy in the Embassy...
The Czech Republic is a small country with a big impact on music. It’s a good thing they don’t just churn out mere virtuosos,...
Pianist Martin Kasik with the Embassy Series at the Czech Embassy
Czech pianist Martin Kasik has an important historic connection with Washington despite relatively infrequent visits here. He was a 1999 winner of the Young...
‘Haydn and Ravel’ with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Strathmore
You can’t get a much pithier title of a composition than Maurice Ravel’s La Valse. You also can’t get a much more misleading one,...
Pianist Einav Yarden at The Phillips Collection
A packed house at the Phillips Collection could have been forgiven if they thought that pianist Einav Yarden had magically switched out Steinway grand...
The Ariel Quartet at the Israeli Embassy
How much do you re-interpret music that was written 100 or 200 years ago? This eternal question has an unequivocal answer in the hands...
‘Chéri’ at The Kennedy Center
Revisiting Chéri – and a Baltimore visionary
The venerable Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts turned avant-garde last night with the return of modern dance...
National Symphony Orchestra Eighty-Fourth Season Opening Ball Concert at The Kennedy...
Last night the National Symphony Orchestra debuted its eighty-forth season in The Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall, one of the most anticipated musical events of...
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company at George Mason University’s Center for the...
According to Jackson Pollock, “Art isn’t finished until someone sees it.” Similarly, Lar Lubovitch expressed verbally and through choreography that “Dance doesn’t find meaning...
Baltimore Symphony at Strathmore: ‘Scheherazade & 1812 Overture’ by Jane Coyne
Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra were given a rock star welcome by a packed house of devoted fans as they returned home...
‘Passion’ by GöteborgsOperans Danskompani at Nordic Cool 2013 at The Kennedy...
Passion, as performed by the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, transformed the Eisenhower Theatre at The Kennedy Center as part of Nordic Cool 2013. An amazing performance...