Brilliant Arts & Entertainment
The season has heated up and we are in the midst of a cultural cornucopia of arts with ballet, plays, concerts and much more. Here are just a few events that you won’t want to miss.
WHAT: ROMEO AND JULIET BOSTON BALLET
WHERE: OPERA HOUSE HOUSE
WHEN: NOVEMBER 3-13
TICKETS: www.bostonballet.org/ 617.695.6955
INFO:
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen’s presents John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet. This presentation of Cranko’s masterpiece love story is the second time in the company’s history that this version has been performed. Romeo and Juliet is staged by Jane Bourne.
“Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet is the most satisfying telling of Shakespeare’s story as a ballet,” said Nissinen. “The choreography is a perfect match for Prokofiev’s score and provides all the drama, passion and tragedy of this timeless tale. I know the company will excel in this stunning production and audiences will be swept away by production’s music and choreography.”
Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet premiered in 1962 with the Stuttgart Ballet. Cranko’s exquisitely rendered ballet, set to Sergei Prokofiev’s score, is an inspired realization of William Shakespeare’s tale. While Prokofiev’s original composition initially faced heavy criticism, it has become one of the most popular of all ballet compositions.
When the Stuttgart Ballet danced the American premiere of John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet in 1969, Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times that this staging of Prokofiev’s score “is, quite simply, the best of a surprisingly distinguished bunch. Many choreographers have attempted the score, but it has been left to Cranko to give the work its complete fulfillment.” With Romeo and Juliet, Cranko masterfully wove choreography and drama into a seamless whole.
When Boston Ballet premiered the production in 2008, The Boston Globe wrote, “the company’s splendid new production hits jackpot. This one is the whole package – elegant dancing, eye-popping pageantry, and vivid storytelling.” This is the third full-length masterpiece by Cranko in Boston Ballet’s repertoire. The Company danced Onegin in 2002, 1994 and 1997, and The Taming of the Shrew in 2004.
Cranko (1927-1973) choreographed his first production of Romeo and Juliet for La Scala Ballet in 1958, with Carla Fracci as Juliet. In 1962, he restaged and revised the piece for Stuttgart Ballet, where he had been appointed director a year earlier, with Marcia Haydée was Juliet. Other companies that have danced Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet include the National Ballet of Canada, The Australian Ballet, and Paris Opera Ballet (1983). In 1978, the Joffrey Ballet became the first American company to stage the production.
Cranko was born in Rustenberg, South Africa in 1927. He trained at the Cape Town University Ballet School and choreographed his first ballet there in 1945, to the suite from Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale. In 1946, he moved to London to study at the Sadler’s Wells School, and was soon offered a place at Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet, the precursor of The Royal Ballet. Although Cranko originally joined the company as a dancer, he was named company choreographer within four years, after displaying remarkable talent in the art.
Cranko choreographed ballets for both the Sadler’s Wells and the newly formed Royal Ballet throughout the 1950s. He had become internationally recognized and was in high demand, creating works for the New York City Ballet, the Rambert Company, Paris Opéra Ballet and La Scala in Milan. In 1961 he was appointed director of Stuttgart Ballet.
In 1973, John Cranko died unexpectedly at the age of 46. His brilliant career was cut short at its height. He left behind a repertory of dramatic classical ballets which are now performed internationally.
WHAT: LUCKY STIFF
WHERE: SOMERVILLE THEATRE
WHEN: STARTING NOV 4
TICKETS: www.moonboxproductions.org
INFO: Lucky Stiff, a rollicking musical comedy, comes to the Somerville Theatre for six performances, beginning November 4. From the Tony-Award-winning writing team of Ahrens and Flaherty (Ragtime, Seussical! The Musical and My Favorite Year), Lucky Stiff follows the madcap adventures of hapless shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon, who has inherited a fortune from his long-lost Uncle Tony. The one catch: to collect the money, he has to take his uncle’s corpse on a last spree to Monte Carlo, fighting off a myopic mobster, a mysterious Italian, a furious optometrist, and a dog-loving activist along the way.
Lucky Stiff is the second offering of Cambridge-based Moonbox Productions, which made its debut with Godspell at the Brattle Theatre in April. Boston Herald theater critic Daniel Gewertz called that production, under the direction of Allison Choat, “a minor theatrical miracle,” and a “gutsy” staging that “deserved an ‘Amen.’” Choat, who has worked with the Santa Fe Opera, Oberlin Conservatory, Boston Opera Collaborative, and Boston Stage Company, returns as director for Lucky Stiff.
The spirited cast includes Matthew Zahnzinger, Joelle Kross, Ryan Edlinger, Sierra Kagen and Equity Actor Robert D. Murphy, as well as a talented ensemble of stuffy solicitors, evil landladies, showgirls, lepers, nuns, and last but not least, the corpse of Uncle Tony. With slamming doors, mistaken identities and toe-tapping hilarity, Lucky Stiff has and flaunts it all. Kudos for the play include a Richard Rodgers Award and a Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical.
WHAT: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
WHERE: SHUBERT THEATRE
WHEN: DECEMBER 5-18
TICKETS: (866)523-7469
INFO: Jerry Herman out did himself with La Cage. It was recently revived on Broadway with Kelsey Grammer. This musical stands up no matter how you produce it. The songs “I AM WHAT I AM,” “SONG ON THE SAND,” and “THE BEST OF TIMES IS NOW,”
has one hit after another.
The ever-tanned George Hamilton plays George in La Cage Aux Folles.
The show tells the story of Georges (Hamilton) the owner of a glitzy nightclub in lovely Saint-Tropez, and his partner Albin (Sieber), who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. When Georges’ son brings his fiancée’s conservative parents home to meet the flashy pair, the bonds of family are put to the test as the feather boas fly! LA CAGE AUX FOLLES is a tuneful and touching tale of one family’s struggle to stay together… stay fabulous… and above all else, stay true to themselves!
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES recently made Tony Awards history as the first show to ever win the Tony Award three times for best production. The classic musical comedy by Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein originally won six Tony Awards in 1984, including Best Musical. A Broadway revival won two 2005 Tony Awards including the Best Revival of a Musical prize. The new, freshly reconceived
LA CAGE won three 2010 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Director of a Musical (Terry Johnson).
The production is also the winner of three Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical and Outstanding Director of a Musical (Terry Johnson) and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Revival of a Musical.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the play by Jean Poiret.
Shorter, Jr., Trevor Downey, Logan Keslar, Terry Lavell, Todd Thurston, Todd Lattimore, Christophe Caballerro, and SuEllen Estey.
WHAT: PETER PAN
WHERE:THE 360 THEATRE on CITY HALL PLAZA
WHEN:OCTOBER 18-DECEMBER 30
TICKETS: Tickets are available online at www.peterpantheshow.com/boston by phone at 888-PPANTIX (1-888-772-6849) and at the box office on City Hall Plaza
INFO:
More than 500,000 people on two continents have enjoyed this theatrical experience. Conceived by an award-winning creative team and featuring 23 actors, stunning puppets, epic music, dazzling flying sequences performed in the world’s first 360-degree CGI theater set, PETER PAN is an extraordinary experience. The Boston engagement of the timeless masterpiece is presented by threesixty° entertainment.
One of the most striking elements of this new production is the setting in which it is presented. The threesixty° Theatre, a 1,300 seat theater tent, allows for performance “in the round” and stands on City Hall Plaza, Boston.
The entire interior of the tent is lit with more than 15,000 square feet of Hi-Resolution video – three times the size of Imax screens – so that both cast and audience are immersed in a CGI Neverland. When Peter and Wendy fly to Neverland, the audience flies with them over 400 square miles of virtual London and beyond.
threesixty° entertainment, a theatrical production company based in London with Charlie Burnell, Matthew Churchill, and Robert Butters as principals, commissioned a first class creative team to develop this production of PETER PAN. The cast of PETER PAN features members of the original London production joined by American actors, making it a truly international company.
PETER PAN, directed by Ben Harrison and designed by William Dudley, is adapted by Tanya Ronder from the Barrie story, with music composed by Benjamin Wallfisch. Dudley has received more theatre awards and accolades in the United Kingdom than any theatre artist save Judi Dench. Choreography is by Fleur Darkin, sound design by Gregory Clarke, lighting design by Mark Henderson, fight direction by Nicholas Hall, puppetry design by Sue Buckmaster and illusions by Paul Kieve.
About this production of PETER PAN:
12 projectors, delivering 360 degree projection
10 million pixels
15,000 square feet of CGI
400 square miles of virtual London circa 1904 were rendered
The largest surround CGI venue in the world
The world’s first fully 360-degree projected movie for live theater performance
The tent, which stands 100 feet high, was shipped via boat, 6,000 miles from London to San Francisco.
200 computers took four weeks to create the images – it would have taken eight years for a single computer to render
What: Kathleen Turner in HIGH
Where: Cutler Majestic Theatre Boston
When: Dec 6-11
Tickets: (617)824-8000
Psst for a discount, use this code: HIGH20
Here’s a heads up for December. For one week only, Kathleen Turner will be appearing at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in HIGH. The story centers around Sister Jamison Connelly (Turner), who agrees to sponsor a 19 year old drug-user in order to help him deal with his demons. In doing so, Sister Connelly has to face her own. High explores the universal themes of truth, forgiveness and redemption. High contains strong language, mature themes and full male nudity.
BTW, the NewRep did an outstanding job with their last two–woman play “Collected Stories.” Bobbie Steinbach and Liz Hayes give wonderful performances as the mentor and mentee and the dilemma faced when that balance shifts. The NewReps next production is “Three Viewings” by Jeffrey Hatcher November 27-December 18.h
WHAT: ITZAK PERLMAN, VIOLIN
WHERE: SYMPHONY HALL
WHEN: NOVEMBER 20 at 3 PM
TICKETS: www.celebrityseries.org, by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661
INFO:
Celebrity Series of Boston will present violinist Itzhak Perlman in recital.
This marks Itzhak Perlman’s 23rd performance with the Celebrity Series of Boston, with the most recent in 2007. Born in Israel in 1945, violinist Itzhak Perlman completed his initial training at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He came to New York and began his career with an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. Following his studies at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay, Perlman won the Leventritt Competition in 1964. In November of 1987 he joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for concerts in Warsaw and Budapest, representing the first performances by this orchestra and soloist in Eastern bloc countries. He then joined the Israel Philharmonic for its first visit to the Soviet Union in April/May of 1990 and in December of 1994 he joined them again for their first visits to China and India. In December 1990, Perlman visited Russia for the second time to participate in a gala performance in Leningrad celebrating the 150th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s birth. In December 1993, Perlman visited the city of Prague in the Czech Republic to perform in a Dvorák gala concert with
Yo-Yo Ma, Frederica von Stade, Rudolf Firkusny and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
Perlman has appeared as conductor / soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Toronto symphonies, at the Ravinia and OK Mozart festivals, with the St. Paul and New York chamber orchestras, and with the Israel Philharmonic and the English Chamber Orchestra. He was Music Advisor of the St. Louis Symphony from 2002 to 2004, and he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit Symphony from 2001 to 2005. He also participates each summer in the Perlman Music Program and teaches at the Juilliard School, where he holds the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair.
In fall of 2011, he joins the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall under Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas in a gala concert to open their centennial season, and returns to the same orchestra in April 2012 on a play/conduct program. In October 2011, Mr. Perlman will travel to Asia for recitals in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau with pianist and frequent collaborator, Rohan De Silva. Other highlights of his 2011-12 season include the gala opening of the new Kaufman Center in Kansas City, Missouri with the Kansas City Symphony, a play/conduct performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and recitals across North America including Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego and Washington, DC.
Mr. Perlman has been recognized with numerous awards, including four Emmy Awards and
15 Grammy awards. President Reagan granted him a “Medal of Liberty” in 1986, and President Clinton awarded him the “National Medal of Arts” in December 2000. He also took part in the inauguration of President Barack Obama and in May 2007, he performed at the State Dinner for Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, hosted by President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush at the White House. He was awarded an honorary doctorate and a centennial medal on the occasion of Julliard’s 100th commencement ceremony in 2005.
The program for Itzhak Perlman’s performance is to be determined.
WHAT: APHRODITE & THE GODS OF LOVE
WHERE: MFA BOSTON
WHEN: OCTOBER 26-FEBRUARY 20
TICKETS: www.mfa.org or call 617.267.9300.
INFO:
Ancient worshipers had to travel to Mount Olympus in
Greece or to temples in Cyprus to pay homage to Aphrodite, the goddess of love and
beauty, but today, devotees can admire the beguiling divinity closer to home at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), in Aphrodite and the Gods of Love.
it is the first museum exhibition of classical
works devoted solely to Aphrodite (known as Venus to the Romans) and her realm—one
that celebrates her likeness as the first female nude in western art history. It features
some 160 extraordinary works from the MFA’s Greek and Roman collection, among the
finest holdings in the United States, and includes 13 important loans—nine from Rome
and Naples.
The museum is a great destination. Make it a habit, you will be glad you did.
once.
Brilliant Arts & Entertainment
The season has heated up and we are in the midst of a cultural cornucopia of arts with ballet, plays, concerts and much more. Here are just a few events that you won’t want to miss.
WHAT: ROMEO AND JULIET BOSTON BALLET
WHERE: OPERA HOUSE HOUSE
WHEN: NOVEMBER 3-13
TICKETS: www.bostonballet.org/ 617.695.6955
INFO:
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen’s presents John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet. This presentation of Cranko’s masterpiece love story is the second time in the company’s history that this version has been performed. Romeo and Juliet is staged by Jane Bourne.
“Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet is the most satisfying telling of Shakespeare’s story as a ballet,” said Nissinen. “The choreography is a perfect match for Prokofiev’s score and provides all the drama, passion and tragedy of this timeless tale. I know the company will excel in this stunning production and audiences will be swept away by production’s music and choreography.”
Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet premiered in 1962 with the Stuttgart Ballet. Cranko’s exquisitely rendered ballet, set to Sergei Prokofiev’s score, is an inspired realization of William Shakespeare’s tale. While Prokofiev’s original composition initially faced heavy criticism, it has become one of the most popular of all ballet compositions.
When the Stuttgart Ballet danced the American premiere of John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet in 1969, Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times that this staging of Prokofiev’s score “is, quite simply, the best of a surprisingly distinguished bunch. Many choreographers have attempted the score, but it has been left to Cranko to give the work its complete fulfillment.” With Romeo and Juliet, Cranko masterfully wove choreography and drama into a seamless whole.
When Boston Ballet premiered the production in 2008, The Boston Globe wrote, “the company’s splendid new production hits jackpot. This one is the whole package – elegant dancing, eye-popping pageantry, and vivid storytelling.” This is the third full-length masterpiece by Cranko in Boston Ballet’s repertoire. The Company danced Onegin in 2002, 1994 and 1997, and The Taming of the Shrew in 2004.
Cranko (1927-1973) choreographed his first production of Romeo and Juliet for La Scala Ballet in 1958, with Carla Fracci as Juliet. In 1962, he restaged and revised the piece for Stuttgart Ballet, where he had been appointed director a year earlier, with Marcia Haydée was Juliet. Other companies that have danced Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet include the National Ballet of Canada, The Australian Ballet, and Paris Opera Ballet (1983). In 1978, the Joffrey Ballet became the first American company to stage the production.
Cranko was born in Rustenberg, South Africa in 1927. He trained at the Cape Town University Ballet School and choreographed his first ballet there in 1945, to the suite from Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale. In 1946, he moved to London to study at the Sadler’s Wells School, and was soon offered a place at Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet, the precursor of The Royal Ballet. Although Cranko originally joined the company as a dancer, he was named company choreographer within four years, after displaying remarkable talent in the art.
Cranko choreographed ballets for both the Sadler’s Wells and the newly formed Royal Ballet throughout the 1950s. He had become internationally recognized and was in high demand, creating works for the New York City Ballet, the Rambert Company, Paris Opéra Ballet and La Scala in Milan. In 1961 he was appointed director of Stuttgart Ballet.
In 1973, John Cranko died unexpectedly at the age of 46. His brilliant career was cut short at its height. He left behind a repertory of dramatic classical ballets which are now performed internationally.
WHAT: LUCKY STIFF
WHERE: SOMERVILLE THEATRE
WHEN: STARTING NOV 4
TICKETS: www.moonboxproductions.org
INFO: Lucky Stiff, a rollicking musical comedy, comes to the Somerville Theatre for six performances, beginning November 4. From the Tony-Award-winning writing team of Ahrens and Flaherty (Ragtime, Seussical! The Musical and My Favorite Year), Lucky Stiff follows the madcap adventures of hapless shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon, who has inherited a fortune from his long-lost Uncle Tony. The one catch: to collect the money, he has to take his uncle’s corpse on a last spree to Monte Carlo, fighting off a myopic mobster, a mysterious Italian, a furious optometrist, and a dog-loving activist along the way.
Lucky Stiff is the second offering of Cambridge-based Moonbox Productions, which made its debut with Godspell at the Brattle Theatre in April. Boston Herald theater critic Daniel Gewertz called that production, under the direction of Allison Choat, “a minor theatrical miracle,” and a “gutsy” staging that “deserved an ‘Amen.’” Choat, who has worked with the Santa Fe Opera, Oberlin Conservatory, Boston Opera Collaborative, and Boston Stage Company, returns as director for Lucky Stiff.
The spirited cast includes Matthew Zahnzinger, Joelle Kross, Ryan Edlinger, Sierra Kagen and Equity Actor Robert D. Murphy, as well as a talented ensemble of stuffy solicitors, evil landladies, showgirls, lepers, nuns, and last but not least, the corpse of Uncle Tony. With slamming doors, mistaken identities and toe-tapping hilarity, Lucky Stiff has and flaunts it all. Kudos for the play include a Richard Rodgers Award and a Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical.
WHAT: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
WHERE: SHUBERT THEATRE
WHEN: DECEMBER 5-18
TICKETS: (866)523-7469
INFO: Jerry Herman out did himself with La Cage. It was recently revived on Broadway with Kelsey Grammer. This musical stands up no matter how you produce it. The songs “I AM WHAT I AM,” “SONG ON THE SAND,” and “THE BEST OF TIMES IS NOW,”
has one hit after another.
The ever-tanned George Hamilton plays George in La Cage Aux Folles.
The show tells the story of Georges (Hamilton) the owner of a glitzy nightclub in lovely Saint-Tropez, and his partner Albin (Sieber), who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. When Georges’ son brings his fiancée’s conservative parents home to meet the flashy pair, the bonds of family are put to the test as the feather boas fly! LA CAGE AUX FOLLES is a tuneful and touching tale of one family’s struggle to stay together… stay fabulous… and above all else, stay true to themselves!
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES recently made Tony Awards history as the first show to ever win the Tony Award three times for best production. The classic musical comedy by Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein originally won six Tony Awards in 1984, including Best Musical. A Broadway revival won two 2005 Tony Awards including the Best Revival of a Musical prize. The new, freshly reconceived
LA CAGE won three 2010 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Director of a Musical (Terry Johnson).
The production is also the winner of three Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical and Outstanding Director of a Musical (Terry Johnson) and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Revival of a Musical.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the play by Jean Poiret.
Shorter, Jr., Trevor Downey, Logan Keslar, Terry Lavell, Todd Thurston, Todd Lattimore, Christophe Caballerro, and SuEllen Estey.
WHAT: PETER PAN
WHERE:THE 360 THEATRE on CITY HALL PLAZA
WHEN:OCTOBER 18-DECEMBER 30
TICKETS: Tickets are available online at www.peterpantheshow.com/boston by phone at 888-PPANTIX (1-888-772-6849) and at the box office on City Hall Plaza
INFO:
More than 500,000 people on two continents have enjoyed this theatrical experience. Conceived by an award-winning creative team and featuring 23 actors, stunning puppets, epic music, dazzling flying sequences performed in the world’s first 360-degree CGI theater set, PETER PAN is an extraordinary experience. The Boston engagement of the timeless masterpiece is presented by threesixty° entertainment.
One of the most striking elements of this new production is the setting in which it is presented. The threesixty° Theatre, a 1,300 seat theater tent, allows for performance “in the round” and stands on City Hall Plaza, Boston.
The entire interior of the tent is lit with more than 15,000 square feet of Hi-Resolution video – three times the size of Imax screens – so that both cast and audience are immersed in a CGI Neverland. When Peter and Wendy fly to Neverland, the audience flies with them over 400 square miles of virtual London and beyond.
threesixty° entertainment, a theatrical production company based in London with Charlie Burnell, Matthew Churchill, and Robert Butters as principals, commissioned a first class creative team to develop this production of PETER PAN. The cast of PETER PAN features members of the original London production joined by American actors, making it a truly international company.
PETER PAN, directed by Ben Harrison and designed by William Dudley, is adapted by Tanya Ronder from the Barrie story, with music composed by Benjamin Wallfisch. Dudley has received more theatre awards and accolades in the United Kingdom than any theatre artist save Judi Dench. Choreography is by Fleur Darkin, sound design by Gregory Clarke, lighting design by Mark Henderson, fight direction by Nicholas Hall, puppetry design by Sue Buckmaster and illusions by Paul Kieve.
About this production of PETER PAN:
12 projectors, delivering 360 degree projection
10 million pixels
15,000 square feet of CGI
400 square miles of virtual London circa 1904 were rendered
The largest surround CGI venue in the world
The world’s first fully 360-degree projected movie for live theater performance
The tent, which stands 100 feet high, was shipped via boat, 6,000 miles from London to San Francisco.
200 computers took four weeks to create the images – it would have taken eight years for a single computer to render
What: Kathleen Turner in HIGH
Where: Cutler Majestic Theatre Boston
When: Dec 6-11
Tickets: (617)824-8000
Psst for a discount, use this code: HIGH20
Here’s a heads up for December. For one week only, Kathleen Turner will be appearing at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in HIGH. The story centers around Sister Jamison Connelly (Turner), who agrees to sponsor a 19 year old drug-user in order to help him deal with his demons. In doing so, Sister Connelly has to face her own. High explores the universal themes of truth, forgiveness and redemption. High contains strong language, mature themes and full male nudity.
BTW, the NewRep did an outstanding job with their last two–woman play “Collected Stories.” Bobbie Steinbach and Liz Hayes give wonderful performances as the mentor and mentee and the dilemma faced when that balance shifts. The NewReps next production is “Three Viewings” by Jeffrey Hatcher November 27-December 18.h
WHAT: ITZAK PERLMAN, VIOLIN
WHERE: SYMPHONY HALL
WHEN: NOVEMBER 20 at 3 PM
TICKETS: www.celebrityseries.org, by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661
INFO:
Celebrity Series of Boston will present violinist Itzhak Perlman in recital.
This marks Itzhak Perlman’s 23rd performance with the Celebrity Series of Boston, with the most recent in 2007. Born in Israel in 1945, violinist Itzhak Perlman completed his initial training at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He came to New York and began his career with an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. Following his studies at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay, Perlman won the Leventritt Competition in 1964. In November of 1987 he joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for concerts in Warsaw and Budapest, representing the first performances by this orchestra and soloist in Eastern bloc countries. He then joined the Israel Philharmonic for its first visit to the Soviet Union in April/May of 1990 and in December of 1994 he joined them again for their first visits to China and India. In December 1990, Perlman visited Russia for the second time to participate in a gala performance in Leningrad celebrating the 150th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s birth. In December 1993, Perlman visited the city of Prague in the Czech Republic to perform in a Dvorák gala concert with
Yo-Yo Ma, Frederica von Stade, Rudolf Firkusny and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
Perlman has appeared as conductor / soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Toronto symphonies, at the Ravinia and OK Mozart festivals, with the St. Paul and New York chamber orchestras, and with the Israel Philharmonic and the English Chamber Orchestra. He was Music Advisor of the St. Louis Symphony from 2002 to 2004, and he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit Symphony from 2001 to 2005. He also participates each summer in the Perlman Music Program and teaches at the Juilliard School, where he holds the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair.
In fall of 2011, he joins the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall under Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas in a gala concert to open their centennial season, and returns to the same orchestra in April 2012 on a play/conduct program. In October 2011, Mr. Perlman will travel to Asia for recitals in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau with pianist and frequent collaborator, Rohan De Silva. Other highlights of his 2011-12 season include the gala opening of the new Kaufman Center in Kansas City, Missouri with the Kansas City Symphony, a play/conduct performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and recitals across North America including Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego and Washington, DC.
Mr. Perlman has been recognized with numerous awards, including four Emmy Awards and
15 Grammy awards. President Reagan granted him a “Medal of Liberty” in 1986, and President Clinton awarded him the “National Medal of Arts” in December 2000. He also took part in the inauguration of President Barack Obama and in May 2007, he performed at the State Dinner for Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, hosted by President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush at the White House. He was awarded an honorary doctorate and a centennial medal on the occasion of Julliard’s 100th commencement ceremony in 2005.
The program for Itzhak Perlman’s performance is to be determined.
WHAT: APHRODITE & THE GODS OF LOVE
WHERE: MFA BOSTON
WHEN: OCTOBER 26-FEBRUARY 20
TICKETS: www.mfa.org or call 617.267.9300.
INFO:
Ancient worshipers had to travel to Mount Olympus in
Greece or to temples in Cyprus to pay homage to Aphrodite, the goddess of love and
beauty, but today, devotees can admire the beguiling divinity closer to home at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), in Aphrodite and the Gods of Love.
it is the first museum exhibition of classical
works devoted solely to Aphrodite (known as Venus to the Romans) and her realm—one
that celebrates her likeness as the first female nude in western art history. It features
some 160 extraordinary works from the MFA’s Greek and Roman collection, among the
finest holdings in the United States, and includes 13 important loans—nine from Rome
and Naples.
The museum is a great destination. Make it a habit, you will be glad you did.
once.