You're Invited to the Free Wednesday Concert Series' LAVC Faculty Recital (Los Angeles Valley College)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Nov 2016
(Source. Los Angeles Valley College). Come to the LAVC Faculty Recital featuring Kerrie Caldwell, soprano, and Bradley Smith, piano, on November 16 at 1 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. Admission is free ... The LAVC Music Department is presenting its Free Wednesday Concert Series during the Fall 2016 semester ... All concerts begin promptly at 1 p.m ... DuselForty58 (saxophone and string quartet) on Wednesday, October 5 at 1 p.m ... Dr ... Posted by ... (noodl....

‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ Broadway Review: Josh Groban Makes Epic Debut

Edit The Wrap 15 Nov 2016
The triple threat is rare in the theater, and for good reason. An adventurous Dave Malloy gives us the quadruple threat with his musical “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” which opened Monday at the Imperial Theatre after a long run Off Broadway ... As a composer, he borrows from everybody ... Groban’s lovely, soft-grained baritone should never be forced to deliver one of those caterwauling Bolton high notes....

MOT's 'Silent Night' production rises to level of Pulitzer-winning opera

Edit Detroit Free Press 15 Nov 2016
The Michigan Opera Theatre rehearse Silent night at the Detroit Opera House. (Photo. Mitty Carter) ... The opera opens with a cleverly structured prologue that introduces the major characters and their backstories — all singing in their own languages ... On Saturday, baritone Phillip Addis as Audebert brought a warm and understated beauty to this scene, and the MOT Orchestra, led by David Charles Abell, floated ethereally through the score....

Electronic musical instruments lower hurdles

Edit The Japan News 14 Nov 2016
The saxophone-shaped device works on AA cell batteries and can reproduce the sounds of 40 different musical instruments, such as the saxophone, clarinet, violin and shakuhachi bamboo flute. At a recital in early September, saxophone player Masahiko Fujimoto said ... I’d recommend it for not only saxophone players but also novice learners.”. Normal saxophones are typically priced from ¥100,000 less than ¥300,000....

Small Ensemble Fall Concert (Georgia College & State University)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Nov 2016
(Source. Georgia College & State University) ... 21 ... Maureen Horgan, a GC music professor ... It is always a piece I looked forward to playing,' Horgan said ... The concert also features the Georgia College flute choir, woodwind ensemble, saxophone quartet, tuba quartet, string chamber ensemble and double bass quartet ... 1,' Eric Ewazen's 'Rhapsody for Saxophone Quartet,' Henri Mancini's 'Elephant Walk' and and the Dixie-sounding 'Tuba Tiger Rag.'....

Victor Bailey, 56, Weather Report bassist who battled ALS

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 14 Nov 2016
11, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS ... Mr ... The group, formed in 1970, featured keyboards, saxophone, bass, drums, and percussion. ....

George Takei is giving 70 years of his belongings to a museum. Here's a sneak peek

Edit The Los Angeles Times 14 Nov 2016
 . “Let’s see, what’s here?” Takei says in that familiar, deep baritone as he orbits the table....

World on stage

Edit The Telegraph India 14 Nov 2016
... Statehood Day from November 15, Thiyam, 68, chatted with t2 in his famous baritone about his vision for theatre and the arts, his inspirations and what keeps him going.  ....

At Lyric, Berlioz’s ‘Les Troyens’ as parable for our times

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 14 Nov 2016
But Cassandra (the lush-voiced soprano Christine Goerke), daughter of Troy’s King Priam, and the prophetess no one will believe, senses something is very wrong, and tries to convince her fiance, Chorebus (powerful baritone Lucas Meachem), to flee ... In the midst of it all, the ghost of the slaughtered hero, Hector (fine work by bass-baritone Bradley Smoak), tells Aeneas to escape and establish a new Troy in Italy....

‘Barber of Seville’ is a thriller of an opera in San Jose

Edit The Mercury News 14 Nov 2016
There are strange parallels in the lives of Gioachino Rossini and Michael Jackson. In their respective lifetimes, they were musical heroes of the masses, kings of the popular song ... Make no mistake ... Beginning with baritone Brian James Myer as Figaro, the title character, I have rarely seen an actor of such charisma and agility ... As Bartolo, bass-baritone Valerian Ruminski commanded respect while being the funniest character of the evening....

La Boheme Shines With A Young Cast at Opera in the Heights

Edit Houston Press 14 Nov 2016
baritone Blas Canedo-Gonzalez, as painter Marcello, who hasn't gotten over slutty Musetta (feisty soprano Natalie Polito); ardent tenor Thomas Gunther, as musician Schaunard; and deep-dish voiced bass Benjamin LeClair, as philosopher Colline, who sells his beloved coat to pay for Mimi's doctor bills ... baritone Cesar Torruella, as comic Alcindoro, ......

Jazz Band to perform at UW-Stevens Point (University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Nov 2016
(Source. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point). An upcoming Jazz Band concert at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will feature favorites by legendary composers from the 1940s to present day. The concert will be held Tuesday, Nov ... It includes a traditional big band setting of five saxophones, five trombones (with the occasional tuba), four trumpets and a rhythm section with piano, bass, vibraphone and drums ... if not sold out....

Obituary: Bobby Wellins, saxophonist who played alongside some of the greats of British jazz

Edit Scotsman 14 Nov 2016
His wish was that his son would apprentice in the craft, but the lessons he had given young Bobby in music from the age of 12 in alto saxophone and piano had fired a passion in the boy ... Now playing the tenor saxophone, the instrument on which he made his name, Wellins played in Palais bands around his home city, then finally made the move to London ......
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