The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is an annual celebration of local music and culture held at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz Fest attracts thousands of visitors to New Orleans each year. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc., as it is officially named, was established in 1970 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (NPO). The Foundation is the original organizer of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell Oil Company, a corporate financial sponsor. The Foundation was established primarily to redistribute the funds generated by Jazz Fest into the local community. As an NPO, their mission further states that the Foundation "promotes, preserves, perpetuates and encourages the music, culture and heritage of communities in Louisiana through festivals, programs and other cultural, educational, civic and economic activities". The founders of the organization included pianist and promoter George Wein, producer Quint Davis and the late Allison Miner.
Anton Emil Kuerti, OC is an Austrian-born Canadian pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor. He has developed international recognition as a solo pianist.
The Newport Music Festival is an annual chamber music-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1969. The festival consists of dozens of concerts each year, held in a variety of historic sites around town. The festival has hosted over 2,500 concerts featuring nearly 150 artists making their American debuts.
Melissa Errico is an American actress, singer, recording artist and writer. She is known for her Broadway musical roles such as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, and Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus, as well as her recordings of musical theater classics, including albums of songs by Stephen Sondheim and Michel Legrand. In recent years she has also become a contributing writer to The New York Times.
Joe's Pub, one of the six performance spaces within The Public Theater, is a music venue and restaurant that hosts live performances across genres and arts, ranging from cabaret to modern dance to world music. Joe's Pub is located at 425 Lafayette Street near Astor Place in Manhattan, New York City. It is named after Joseph Papp, the theatrical producer who established the New York Shakespeare Festival, The Public Theater and the free Shakespeare in the Park program in Central Park.
Ralph Farris is an American violist, violinist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor, best known as a founding member and artistic director of the ensemble ETHEL. Farris is an electric string player with a lengthy career that spans the gamut of musical genres from rock and jazz to Broadway. His instruments are outfitted with a piezoelectric pickup which allows him to play amplified. Amplification was initially adopted early in Farris's career in order to facilitate the playing of various "contemporary classical" pieces that involve electronic components. It continues to be integral to his signature sound.
Laura Ann Osnes is an American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage. She has played starring roles in Grease as Sandy, South Pacific as Nellie Forbush, Anything Goes as Hope Harcourt, and Bonnie and Clyde as Bonnie Parker, for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. She also starred in the title role of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway, for which she received a Drama Desk Award and her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.
The Woodstock Mozart Festival was a summer music festival in Woodstock, Illinois that presented classical music concerts, primarily of Mozart's music, by the Woodstock Mozart Festival Orchestra and guest artists.
Music from Angel Fire, (MFAF) is the first chamber music festival in New Mexico designed to serve the artistic needs of rural northern New Mexico communities. This touring summer chamber music festival currently produces 15 outstanding concerts in Angel Fire, Taos, Raton, and Las Vegas, NM mid-August through the day before Labor Day. The Festival's mission is to bring to these communities the highest standard of artistic excellence in the classical chamber music repertoire presented by world class artists with emerging and established careers. Music from Angel Fire concerts are broadcast by American Public Media, Performance Today, throughout the United States.
The New York City Master Chorale (NYCMC) is a 60-person non-profit chorus founded in 2005 by Dr. Thea Kano. Starting with the 2019-2020 season, the Chorale's Artistic Director and conductor is Dusty Francis. with the mission “to connect people through chorale music by presenting high-quality concerts inspired by the distinct energy, diversity, and talent of New York City.”
The Cutting Room is a music venue in New York City that was open at 19 West 24th Street from late 1999 through January 2009 for music of all varieties and reopened at the beginning of 2013 in a new location at 44 East 32nd Street. It was co-owned since its founding by actor Chris Noth and Berklee College of Music alumnus Steve Walter.
Joshua Anthony Charlton Henry is a American-Canadian actor and singer of stage and screen. He is best known for portraying Haywood Patterson in Kander and Ebb's 2010 musical The Scottsboro Boys, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He portrayed the lead role of Aaron Burr in the first U.S. tour of Hamilton, previously playing the role in the Chicago production that began performances in late September 2016. After Hamilton, Henry portrayed the lead role of Billy Bigelow in a Broadway revival of Carousel.
The National Youth Orchestra of Canada is a Canadian youth orchestra located in Toronto. The orchestra has given concert tours in every major Canadian city as well as trips to other countries, including the United States, Japan, China and countries in Europe. More than 40% of the professional musicians in Canadian orchestras have previously played in the NYOC.
Bellissima Opera is an Oak Park, Illinois based initiative of the not-for-profit organization Working In Concert. Co-founder Christine Steyer serves as Bellissima Opera's current artistic director.
Kim David Smith (born 1982/1983 is an Australian Helpmann Award-nominated singer and cabaret performer, known for performing Weimar-era inspired works that juxtapose authentic musical material with stylistic takes on current popular tunes. His recordings include electropop albums Nova and Supernova, written by Charlie Mason, and released by Ninthwave Records. Smith's solo cabaret program Morphium Kabarett enjoyed an acclaimed 2016 residency at Pangea in the East Village, Manhattan. Smith's debut cabaret album, Kim David Smith Live at Joe's Pub, was released Friday, July 17, 2020.
The Woodsman is a 2012 American stage play with music composed by Edward W. Hardy, lyrics by Jennifer Loring, and book by James Ortiz. It focuses on the story of the Tin Woodman character from L. Frank Baum's series of books set in the fictional Land of Oz, notably Baum's 1918 book The Tin Woodman of Oz. The production employs live performers, puppets, music, and very few spoken words.
Edward W. Hardy is an American composer, music director, violinist and violist. He is known as the composer, co-conceiver, music director, and violinist of the Off-Broadway show The Woodsman and is the owner of The Black Violin.
BroadwayWorld is a theatre news website based in New York City covering Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and international theatre productions. The website publishes theatre news, interviews, reviews, and other coverage related to theater. The site includes an anonymous online message board for theater fans that Patti Murin in 2016 called "a cesspool of ignorance and negativity".
The 74th Annual Tony Awards will be held on September 26, 2021, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2019–20 season. After being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the ceremony was rescheduled to occur on September 26, 2021 at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Evolution for solo violin, written by Edward W. Hardy in 2016, was originally composed and performed for the Congressional Black Caucus at The Howard Theatre and was a part of the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It follows the typical cadenza musical structure.
