Concert Performance
Wonder of Weird
The 40th Anniversary Tour
by The Residents
Co-presented by
World Music/CRASHarts
and ICA/Boston
at the ICA
(Institute of Contemporary Art)
Boston, MA
A stop on the 40th anniversary tour for this idiosyncratic, iconoclastic, prankster-punk band, a masked trio that blends incantation and recollection within an evocative framework of electronic buzz, rhythmic beats and narrative performance.
Concerts
Marry Me A Little
Musical Revue (1981)
Music and Lyrics
by Stephen Sondheim
Conceived and Developed
by Craig Lucas and Norman Rene
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 6 – 27, 2013
A delightful, compact repackaging of a collection of Sondheim songs that almost made it into various of his shows.
Dave Brubeck (1920 – 2012)
In Memoriam
Dave Brubeck
Jazz Pianist
December 6, 1920 –
December 5, 2012
The Pianist of Willesden Lane
Play, with music (2012)
Adapted and directed by
Hershey Felder
With Mona Golabek
ArtsEmerson
Boston, MA
November 23 – December 16, 2012
A riveting account of the real-life experience of the talented pianist Lisa Jura – the mother of the performer, Mona Golabek – who grew up in Vienna and was saved from the Nazis in 1938 by means of the kindertransport which at the eleventh hour spirited 10,000 Jewish children abroad.
Boston Philharmonic: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 2 with George Li, Shostakovich Symphony 5
Concert
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
Benjamin Zander, Music Director
Sanders Theater, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
The piano prodigy, George Li, now in his later teens, shows his amazing technique, and the BPO gives an heroic rendition of the great Shostakovich classic.