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Danse Lumière presents a Conversation with Sidra Bell on April 8, 2022 at 7:00pm at the Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune Street, NYC. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5372130, by phone at 1-800-838-3006, or in person at the Martha Graham Studio Theater Box Office on the day of the event.

This April, the English National Opera's (ENO) Artistic Director Annilese Miskimmon will make her company directorial debut with a powerful new production of Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale. Based on Margaret Atwood's seminal novel, this outstandingly relevant work was last staged at the London Coliseum in 2003 when it received its first English language debut. 

Danse Lumière will present a Conversation with Sidra Bell on April 8, 2022 at 7:00pm at the Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune Street, NYC.

Plus: Kaysoul comes through, and the queen of Brazilian jazz unleashes her incredible voice for the first time in 15 years

The Chronicle’s guide to notable arts and entertainment events includes Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’ screenings, Berkeley Symphony and more.

 

Musings on what has emerged in 2021 and what hasn't.

Marin Alsop made history when she took the baton at Baltimore Symphony. She exits now with pride — and many frustrations. Baltimore Sun 1 hr ago Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun © Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s three-week Marin Festival, which wraps up June 19 with an online gala featuring soprano Renee Fleming, is classical music’s equivalent of a farewell tour. Marin Alsop is taking her victory lap. The Baltimore Symphony Orches...

In addition to the musical rewards provided for the audience in S.F., this event left one eager to hear what will be happening in Berkeley in the coming years.

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic...