On Sunday, Pegasus Early Music will present “Harmony of the Spheres,” a concert celebrating the connection between music and astronomy that features the music of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Henry Purcell. Among the most interesting works on an already intriguing program are lute compositions written by Vincenzo and Michelagnolo Galilei, prominent musicians of their day who […]
Daniel J. Kushner
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Whatever strikes his fancy
Pianist and “From the Top” host Christopher O’Riley to perform with RPO this week.
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CLASSICAL | Jerusalem Quartet
The 2015-16 Eastman-Ranlet Concert Series opens on Sunday, October 18, with a performance by the Jerusalem Quartet. Individually, cellist Kyril Zlotnikov, violist Ori Kam, and violinists Alexander Pavlovksy and Sergei Bresler have had full and accomplished careers as orchestral soloists, chamber musicians, and teachers. Together, they form an award-winning quartet lauded for their interpretation of […]
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CLASSICAL | Seaman conducts Brahms 4
As Conductor Laureate, Christopher Seaman has typically made his return visits to Rochester in the spring. This concert season, audiences will find a much earlier arrival when the cherished long-time RPO music director leads the orchestra on Thursday, October 15, and Saturday, October 17. While Brahms’s imposing, magisterial masterpiece “Symphony No. 4” gets top billing, […]
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Theater Review: Pittsford Musicals’ “Cabaret”
Cabaret before the storm
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Mikaela Davis gets out of her own head
Rochester native and local favorite Mikaela Davis has been one busy musician: living in Brooklyn, touring nationwide, even playing with Watkins Family Hour and laying down harp tracks for two songs on Sara Watkins’s next solo album. On Saturday, October 10, the singer-songwriter returns home for a show at Anthology with Joywave, plus Grace Mitchell […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: “KDNY: A Compilation”
Various artists “KDNY: A Compilation” Self-released kdny.bandcamp.com “KDNY: A Compilation” — self-released on September 10 — is the brainchild of Buffalo Sex Change’s Phil Pierce, who produced the album as a fundraiser to offset the cost of his sister’s recent kidney transplant. “KDNY” is a wide-ranging, 16-track smorgasbord of mostly heretofore unreleased material featuring mainly […]
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ImageOut 2015
A detailed look at 10 important films from this year’s Rochester LGBT Film & Video Festival
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Classical Review: Principal Brass Quintet at Kilbourn Hall
The Principal Brass Quintet on Sunday gave an attentive audience at Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall a taste of the New York Philharmonic with an engaging program that was accessible yet sophisticated. The group, comprised entirely of principals from that historic orchestra, did not disappoint. From the outset, the afternoon was all about the […]
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Daniel reviews “Wasteland” and “Bach Without Boundaries”
Thursday evening found me at the School of the Arts’ Black Box Theatre, where I took in two very different performances each designed for two performers. The play “Wasteland” — put on here by unMasqued Theatre in a touring production directed Jeffrey Schmidt — is an intense, claustrophobic drama about two American soldiers imprisoned by […]
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Daniel reviews “BIO/DANCE & Social Justice”
On Tuesday night, local dance company BIODANCE presented “BIO/DANCE & Social Justice” at Geva Theatre Center’s Fielding Nextstage in a program devoted to works that highlighted the struggle against inequality on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, and more. The opening piece by Donna Davenport, “Lined Up for Injustice,” began with the dancers speaking […]
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Classical Review: The RPO season opener
To open the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s 93rd season and his first full season as music director, Ward Stare selected four popular works that nevertheless seem as though they are not performed often enough. None of these compositions feature a soloist, but that did not prevent their success with the listeners at the RPO’s season opener […]
