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Housing and Development Newsletter The 2021 Summer School and Festival will feature exceptional faculty, guest artists, and unique collaborations that will impact the community through performance and learning opportunities. The fellow experience online and in person will include seminars with professionals who influence music and society, and private lessons with faculty and Mosher guest artists. As part of a multi-year partnership, London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) musicians will coach remotely, with the option for orchestral instrumentalists to audition for the opportunity to perform with th...

5 Questions to Paola Prestini (Co-Founder and Artistic Director, National Sawdust) on February 9, 2021 at 6:00 am Though Google Maps currently marks Brooklyn’s National Sawdust venue as closed, this fertile ground for artistic exploration is anything but in hibernation. Opened in 2015 thanks to the efforts of attorney and organist Kevin Dolan and composer Paola Prestini, the former sawdust-factory-turned-contemporary-music-haven has just announced its Winter/Spring 2021 season, featuring a cornucopia of creative work from a stylistically rich cohort of composers, choreographers, poets, ins...

Beth Morrison. Photo: Michal Fattal One of the world's foremost, most adventurous female producers of contemporary opera, and a tireless champion of diverse voices, opera-theatre producer Beth Morrison unequivocally embraces her seemingly limitless drive. As President and Creative Producer of Beth Morrison Projects, initiated in 2006, Morrison recently was named one of Musical America's four Artists of the Year/Agents of Change. Through her pioneering annual winter PROTOTYPE Festival, in collaboration with the HERE Arts Center, she has worked with prominent contemporary opera composers and ot...

Forced online, an opera festival searches for intimacy Alexi Murdoch in “Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists,” part of the Prototype Festival. The Under the Radar, Prototype and Exponential festivals are ready to open our minds with experimental work, even if their doors are shut. Pierre-Alain Giraud via The New York Times. by Zachary Woolfe (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- The annual Prototype festival of new opera and music theater thrives on intimacy. Its chamber-scale offerings — often politically charged, emotionally brutal and just plain loud — vibrate the viscera. Prototype has become known for s...

Theater to Stream: Festivals, Festivals, Festivals The Under the Radar, Prototype and Exponential festivals are ready to open our minds with experimental work, even if their doors are shut. Alexi Murdoch in “Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists,” part of the Prototype Festival.Credit...Pierre-Alain Giraud Set dates for previews, openings and closings. Fall and spring seasons. Heck: turning up somewhere on time! Until the pandemic occurred in 2020, many of us perhaps did not realize how much theater relies on appointments. Now that most of them have vanished, with theater — and time itself �...