Emanuel Ax’s Brahms project
Emanuel Ax, a marvelous interpreter of Johannes Brahms, has embarked on a project that explores Brahms’s piano music in its original forms but also takes his music further by commissioning...
View ArticlePictures as dance
Hartmann Exhibition Anton Hartmann’s paintings inspired Modest Mussorgsky to write his Pictures at an Exhibition and, in turn, that work inspired Cem Catbas, Artistic Director and...
View ArticleIt’s Not Always Good To Be The King
Spotlighters Theatre is presenting Jonas David Grey’s adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II through June 22. Though both the original script and the historical events it chronicles date back...
View ArticleLet Me See It
James Magruder has been a translator, a dramaturg, a playwright, a teacher, and a fiction writer. He has just published his first collection of short stories, and came to talk about...
View ArticleAnd so it begins …
The Shriver Hall 2014-2015 season opens this month! Their President, Stephen Jacobsohn, came to talk about what’s in store....
View ArticleThe best laid plans …
The final page of Contrapunctus XIV from Bach’s Art of Fugue There had to be some fast foot work over at the Shriver Hall Concert Series after Hélène Grimaud was obliged to...
View Article10-6-14 Annapolis Chorale Performs Carmina Burana!
This Saturday J. Ernest Green and the Annapolis Chorale and Chamber Orchestra will perform Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Not only will they present this perennial favorite but they will also be opening...
View ArticleA musical hot spot in Roland Park
Douglas Buchanan is the new Director of Music Ministries at St. David’s in Roland Park, and has big plans for the new music season, which starts this weekend. He came in to...
View ArticleThe Mozart Flute
BSO Principal Flute, Emily Skala, is stepping to the front of the Meyerhoff stage to play a Mozart concerto this weekend. It was my pleasure to speak with her about it....
View ArticleArts and Crafts in Washington
The 27th Annual Washington Craft Show is taking place this weekend. One of the participants, Stephany Greene, came in to talk about what’s in store....
View ArticleDiscovering young artists
The young, California based Calidore String Quartet will open the SHCS Discovery Series on Saturday, November 8th. The Shriver Hall Concert Series President, Stephen Jacobsohn, came in to talk about...
View ArticleThe Art of Song
Australian born American soprano, Danielle de Niese, with Cameron Stowe, piano, will be giving a diverse program for the Shriver Hall Concert Series on November 16th. Here is the series President,...
View ArticleGidon Kremer makes rare appearance
Image of Gidon Kremer courtesy the Shriver Hall Concert Series The Latvian violinist, Gidon Kremer, will be sharing the stage with Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov and Lithuanian...
View ArticleFascinating play at FPCT
The 2011 award winning play by Jon Robin Baitz (The West Wing, Brothers & Sisters) is being presented at Fells Point Corner Theatre through this weekend. Director, Michael Byrne Semarel, came to...
View ArticleHistoric day for the BSO
Ten years ago today, February 5th 2005, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra celebrated its first concert at the Music Center at Strathmore with a program featuring Yo Yo Ma and then Music Director, Yuri...
View ArticleThe BMA’s new American Wing
The new American Wing at the Baltimore Museum of Art is a wonderful place to lose yourself. It is the vision, largely, of the BMA’s Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and...
View ArticleWorld premiere at StillPointe Theatre
A cross between science fiction and a love story is how Kimberley Lynne describes her new play. She came to the studio to talk about it....
View ArticleA debut for Shriver
The young Jerusalem Quartet is making its debut on the Shriver Hall Concert Series this weekend with works by Haydn, Schulhoff, and Schubert. The series President, Stephen Jacobsohn talks...
View ArticleHonoring Two Great Ladies of Music
In honor of Black History Month, Baltimore Concert Opera is presenting This Little Light of Mine: The Stories of Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price. Commissioned by Cincinnatti Opera, this one-woman...
View ArticleFret Fest
Peabody is presenting its 6th annual Fret Festival. Guitarist and organizer, Zane Forshee, came to talk about it. http://www.wbjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015-Fret-Festival.mp3
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