Page 27 - String Quintet News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Show more Dublin-born artist Sean Scully is known worldwide for his abstract paintings of blocks and stripes of bold colour. You can see his work in the Tate, the Guggenheim, and the National Gallery of Ireland, among many other prestigious collections. He was brought up in what he describes as “abject poverty” and his paintings now fetch more than a million pounds; he and his wife and son fly back and forth between two homes, one south of Munich and one in New York. In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Sean looks back at his post-war childhood. His Irish father was a d...

Credit:Disney+ This time around, The Muppet Show comes with a caveat: a viewer advisory which is now carried on some episodes – 18 in total – which warns of “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures”. The advisory plays for 12 seconds and cannot be skipped using the remote control. “These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now,” the statement from US studio Disney reads. “Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it, and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together. Di...

12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels to learn excerpts of the work; Dance for PD classes appropriate for anyone with mobility concerns. V...

ONLINE: WCO Winter Chamber Series Jan 22, 2021 7:30 PM Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra filming January's Winter Concert Series installment. The Winter Chamber Series from Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra kicks off with a wide-ranging program featuring works by composers canonical (Gabrieli, Schubert) to current (Valerie Coleman, of Imani Winds), plus a side of 20th century sounds (Alec Wilder). Find tickets here, and note that each concert in this series will only be available for 72 hours after the premiere. The WCO has also launched a Musician Relief Fund drive; donate here. press release: As it nea...

CSO Presents Digital Performance Of Dvorak And Ravel Friday, January 22, 2021 The next installment of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera’s First Horizon Foundation Instrumental Series will be a digital presentation of Dvorák and Ravel, featuring chamber ensembles performing Ravel's lush String Quartet in F Major, the exciting opening movement of Dvorák's String Quintet No. 2, and the Adagio of Elgar's Quintet in A minor, featuring CSO Principal Keyboard Alan Nichols on piano. To ensure the safety of musicians and audience members in the face of rising COVID-19 cases in the community, ...