Thursday, October 26, 2023
Hays Street Hart at Smoke Jazz Club presented tunes from their Bridges Record Release tonight. As I sat in the sold-out performance the sounds I heard reminded me of the incredible importanc…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:10PM[SHARE]Conrad Herwig and The Latin Side All-Stars at The Django brought forth classic, expressive jazz. Herwig enriched it with the syncopation, excitement, and complexity of Latin rhythm, the path…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Nightmare Dollhouse was a spooky, creepy, doll-themed event that sent shivers down spines, horrible horripilations indeed! The event was staged in an old building in New York's Lower East Si…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:05PM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2023
Jay Campbell, cello, and Conor Hanick, piano, performed at the prestigious 92nd Street Y in New York. With a large contingency in attendance, the duo opened with Claude Debussy's Cello Sonat…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:55PM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2023
The Michael Davis Hip-Bone Big Band shook the rafters tonight at New York City's Birdland Jazz Club with one great number after another. Tonight was a celebration of their new album, Open Ci…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:38PM[SHARE]Tonight's special program, Musica Sacra Presents SurRound, was set in the magnificent Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, New York City. The audience was treated to a m…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2023
Exorcistic is a rock 'n roll, hubris-free, hilarious take-off of the 1972 film The Exorcist. The music is thumping, toe-tapping, and diverse. Solos and harmonies fit magically within the sto…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Twisted was outrageously funny from beginning to end. A mélange of chortling-provoking antics, the show delved into areas where laughs can't help but bubble up in a brew of hilarity. A tale…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:58AM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2023
This amalgamation of 19th century protestant hymnody and Greek myths begins with its musical exploration of the legend of Icarus, son of Daedalus (creator of the Labryinth) who flew too clos…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:37PM[SHARE]Friday, September 15, 2023
The concert featured sopranos Sherezade Panthaki and Corrine Byrne, mezzo-soprano Sylvia Leith, countertenor Daniel Moody, tenors Brian Giebler and Lawrence Jones, and bass-baritones Edmund …
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:29PM[SHARE]In the Ensemble for the Romantic Century's audio drama about Tchaikovsky, Steven Fry, Vanessa Redgrave, and the music are sublime.
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2023
Two-time Tony Award nominee Josie de Guzman performed her show "Back Where I Started" and enthralled listeners at The Green Room 42.The enchanting and vivacious de Guzman performed a musical…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:55PM[SHARE]Monday, September 11, 2023
The conductor and music director of the ASO, Maestro Leon Botstein, came to the stage. Building anticipation for the concert, he explained that tonight's program featured musical works of Am…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 22, 2023
The actors' droll and elegant linguistic patter sliced into the backdrop of the city's hubbub of engines, horns, and sirens. The virtual world they drew us into was a topsy-turvy pastiche of…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Tonight at Smoke Jazz Club featuring vocalist Mary Stallings with Emmet Cohen - piano, Peter Washington - bass, and Joe Farnsworth - drums, was a true jazz event with ample chance to hear ea…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:32AM[SHARE]Tonight's Opera in the Garden On Site Opera production of Mozart's The Magic Flute was a night of magical enchantment, charismatic strains, and sublime artistry. Moreover, the characters roa…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Tonight's Juneteenth Celebration at New York's Lincoln Center was a reflective, fresh, and vibrant source of inspiration for all participants. This nonpareil venue inspired artistic expressi…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 14, 2023
This auspicious event was the fruit of an esteemed collaboration between the Kaufman Music Center and the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony. Gifted young artists competed for the opportunity to g…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:11PM[SHARE]Monday, June 5, 2023
From a bottomless pit of prison and despair, Stevens mustered sobriety and hope powered by a renewed, unwavering determination, self-worth, confidence, and passion for his craft. His life be…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:29AM[SHARE]Monday, May 22, 2023
Performed by the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony at today's two concerts was Sergei Prokofiev's delightful Peter and the Wolf featuring WQXR evening host and luminary Terrance McKnight. In this…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:18AM[SHARE]The American Classical Orchestra ascended to the stage before a packed house in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Under the baton of conductor Thomas Crawford, the concert began with Gioac…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:39AM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2023
This was an evening of superlatives by the Cathedral Choir and Rose of the Compass at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine offered a transformative musical experience for listeners an…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Soloists in the ON SITE Opera production of Puccini's Il Tabarro were consistently marvelous and presented a thrilling performance of a seminal artwork with the support of a splendid chorus,…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Kent Tritle and The Oratorio Society ensured that the ineffable rapture of Bach's Mass in B minor was ably expressed while articulating the vision, technique, Affektenlehre, and unparalleled…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2023
The Theater for the New City presented Bliss Street, a blockbuster musical production based on the life and times of New York rocker Charlie Sub (played by Blaize Adler-Ivanbroo) and his uni…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 11:26AM[SHARE]Friday, May 5, 2023
This production of Iolanthe by MasterVoices at Carnegie Hall portrayed the essence of superlative artistry coupled with modern technological tools. Audience members were masterfully delivere…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2023
The Art Bath Salon Series program was 21st century-multimedia at its finest, but with the intimacy of the Parisian salons made famous by the likes of Gertrude Stein, Gustave Courbet, and Fra…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 29, 2023
The Singing Sphere was entertaining, intellectually engaging, imaginative, provocative, and introspective. It seemed, after all, that one might evolve to a better state. We enjoyed a sojourn…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:53PM[SHARE]Friday, April 28, 2023
Schwartz is a raconteur extraordinaire. From the onset, her repartee was confident and, at times, adapted to prompt audience interaction. One could hardly resist her gentle, enchanting coaxi…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2023
Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra have once again brought important musical works to the forefront in an opulent setting with superb artists. Tritle's conducting was expressive and precise, while…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 19, 2023
This was a celebration and reminder of Kent Tritle, a gifted musical artist of epic importance to the world of performing arts in New York and beyond. Tritle's ubiquitous, multi-dimensional …
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