Showing posts with label Celebrity Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Celebrity Series. Show all posts

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Play Me, I'm Yours is Page 1 news ...

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"The 'Play Me I’m Yours' public art project comes to Boston
this week as Celebrity Series of Boston places 75 pianos around the city to
celebrate its 75th anniversary. The first pianos were installed
Wednesday, with the full project starting Friday and running through Oct. 14"


Find a piano, upload and image or a movie, read about Play Me, I'm Yours: www.streetpianosboston.com

Check out our 75th Anniversary Season: www.celebrityseries.org.



Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Not "just playing, but making things..." Vijay Iyer gets a MacArthur Grant

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Pianist Vijay Iyer is on this year's list of MacArthur Fellows; rarified air, indeed. Howard Reich talked to Iyer regarding his award for the Chicago Tribune:

"'I'm really inspired by the composer-pianists of the last century,
particularly (Duke) Ellington and (Thelonious) Monk and people in that
lineage who aren't just playing, but they're making things,' says Iyer,
speaking by phone from his home in New York and adding such names as
piano innovators Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner and Bud Powell."

Read the full story.

If you live in Boston or Cambridge, you can see and hear Iyer with poet Robert Pinsky on March 14 at Sanders Theatre as part of the Celebrity Series of Boston's 75th Anniversary Season.

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The 2013 MacArthur Fellows


Monday, September 23, 2013

Boston's Street Piano locations are online!


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The pianos are not on the street, yet, but the listings are! A map of all the locations of all 75 pianos in the Street Pianos Boston Festival, plus artists and host info are available online at: www.streetpianosboston.com.

Another small step in a season filled with 75th anniversary activities - learn more at www.celebrityseries.org!


Monday, September 16, 2013

Check our our new YouTube channel!



Our new YouTube channel is up and running! In honor of our 75th Anniversary Season we are featuring special messages from Celebrity Series of Boston performers. Our first posting is from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater artistic director Robert Battle.

Celebrity Series of Boston on YouTube


Thursday, September 12, 2013

Play Me I'm Yours, the 1000th piano






In honor of our 75th anniversary, Celebrity Series of Boston is presenting Play Me, I'm Yours, the Boston street piano festival from September 27 to October 14. The event places 75 pianos on streets all over Boston for the public to play at any time.

Boston is not the first city to host Luke Jerram's remarkable project, but among the unique aspects of Boston's festival is that we will host the 1000th Play Me, I'm Yours piano. The video above shows, in just under 8 minutes, the handiwork of  Frank Casazza (Eyeformation) and Michael Crockett (Hazel Eyes Studio) as they turn a baby grand into a work of visual art. The 1000th piano will be available for the public to play on City Hall Plaza during the fesitval.

Street Pianos Boston

Play Me, I'm Yours Celebrity Series page

Celebrity Series of Boston



Thursday, August 22, 2013

Wayne Shorter: Jazz means 'I dare you'

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Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter

"The six years I was with Miles, we never talked about music. We never had a rehearsal. Jazz shouldn’t have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that’s required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'" —Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter makes his Celebrity Series debut as part of the Wayne Shorter 80th Birthday Celebration (which will also feature John Patitucci, Danilo Perez, Brian Blade, Dave Douglas, Joe Lovano, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, Geri Allen, Lawrence Fields, Linda Oh, and Joey Barron).

Tip of the cap to Jason Crane and Destinationout.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Masterclass with Spellbound dancers

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Spellbound Dance Company dancers Maria Cosso (center) and Giacomo Todeschi (left) lead a masterclass at  Rindge & Latin High School in Cambridge on April 4, 2013. The class was part of Celebrity Series' Arts for All! program.


 


Complete 2013-14 season is now on sale at www.celebrityseries.org - take a look!



Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Celebrity Series 2013-14 subscriptions on sale April 18, 2013

Subscriptions for our 2013-14 season (our 75th season) go on sale April 18, 2013. Some performances may be announced in advance of that date, but all performances begin subscription sales on April 18. Check this blog or www.celebrityseries.org for more details as they become available.

Complete season is now on sale at www.celebrityseries.org - take a look!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Karita Mattila recital is cancelled

Karita Mattila's concert, scheduled for this evening, has ben cancelled. Ticket holders please visit performance page for options.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Clarinetist Anthony McGill demonstrates creating an embouchure & first note



Metropolitan Opera principal clarinetist Anthony McGill demonstrates creating an embouchure & first note. McGill performs a sold out Celebrity Series concert with the Pacifica Quartet at Pickman Hall at the Longy School of Music of Bard College on October 24. This video is part of series of shorts from MusicInReach.com.


 



Chick Corea & Gary Burton talk about "Hot House" project (video)



Chick Corea and Gary Burton's "Hot House" comes to Celebrity Series and Symphony Hall this Sunday at 5pm.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Pianist Daniil Trifonov's Celebrity Series recital streamed live!


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The much anticipated Boston debut performance by pianist Daniil Trifonov at Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music at Bard College in Cambridge is sold out, but you can watch it live. The recital will be simulcast on ConcertWindow in HD with no commercials tonight at 8pm. Click on the link below and follow instructions on the page:


Trifonov video broadcast


Tonight's performance marks the launch of the Debut Series, a series of 5 performances by the next generation of the world's outstanding artists, presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston.



Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Tickets for all performances on sale September 10!

Tickets for the over 45 events in the 2012-13 Celebrity Series season go on sale this Monday, September 10 at 9am!

Tickets for David Sedaris, Renee Fleming, London Philharmonic, Bobby McFerrin, Barbara Cook, Chick Corea, Savion Glover, Terry Gross, Evgeny Kissin, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Midori and many more available! Some performances have sold out on subscription so don't delay!

Check out our web site for complete listings:



www.celebrityseries.org

Extended box office hours 9am to 5pm
Regular box office hours 10am to 4pm



Lar Lubovitch Dance Company: tickets now on sale


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Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
October 19 & 20
Friday, 7:30pm
Saturday, 8pm
Citi Shubert Theatre


 


“… one of the ten best choreographers in the world.”

– The New York Times
Program:

North Star (1978)

Choreography: Lar Lubovitch

Music: Philip Glass, “North Star”



Little Rhapsodies (2007)

Choreography: Lar Lubovitch

Music: Robert Schumann, “Symphonic Etudes,” Opus 13


Crisis Variations (2011)

Choreography: Lar Lubovitch

Music: Yevgeniy Sharlat (“Crisis Variations” is a
suite for five players based on Franz Liszt’s “Transcendental Etudes”
for piano)


The Legend of Ten (2010)

Choreography: Lar Lubovitch

Music: Johannes Brahms, “Quintet for Piano and Strings in F Minor, Opus 34,” Movements I & IV

Presented by Celebrity Series of Boston.

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Tickets now on sale: Frank Rich and Fran Lebowitz, Oct 10, Sanders Theatre


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A State of the Union Conversation:


An Evening with Frank Rich & Fran Lebowitz

Wed., October 10, 8pm
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA

Two of our foremost cultural and political observers engage in a live,
onstage conversation around current themes of the presidential election
that will be just weeks away – discussing what is at stake and much
more.



Author, journalist and social observer, Fran Lebowitz is the subject of the HBO documentary, Public Speaking,
directed by Martin Scorsese. Former Chief Drama Critic and Op-Ed
columnist for The New York Times, Frank Rich is currently
Writer-at-Large for New York magazine.

Tickets are on sale now for this performance: Buy Tickets.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Too late to subscribe to Celebrity Series? Are you kidding?

Someone recently asked if it is too late to subscribe to the Celebrity Series for the 2012-13 season. Nothing could be further from the truth. Call it subscribing or call it getting good seats at a great price, if you buy 3 events or more before August 10 you can get an especially good value: the perfect blend of quality seats to great performances and great savings - THE SWEET SPOT!

Sweet Spot Pricing is available until August 10, 2012, so order today!
It only takes 3 events to get great seats at great savings and get great value!

Choose from 60 great performances! Visit Celebrityseries.org to purchase your seats.

You must order tickets to a minimum of 3 events to get Sweet Spot Pricing. Sweet Spot tickets will be assigned in sections 2-3 based on availability. Child tickets do not count toward 3 event total. Tickets sales to the general public for single events begin September 10.