2022-2023 Impact Report
May 02, 2024
IlluminArts presents: Love’s Magic
Join IlluminArts and “golden-toned baritone” (NY Times) Jesse Blumberg for Love's Magic, a mesmerizing musical exploration of the beauty and mystery of love. From the joy of new love to the melancholy of love lost, this program highlights the power that music has to unearth the deepest human emotions. This program is centered around selections… Read more »
May 02, 2024
IlluminArts presents: Love’s Magic
Join IlluminArts and “golden-toned baritone” (NY Times) Jesse Blumberg for Love's Magic, a mesmerizing musical exploration of the beauty and mystery of love. From the joy of new love to the melancholy of love lost, this program highlights the power that music has to unearth the deepest human emotions. This program is centered around selections… Read more »
May 02, 2024
Lincoln Center Debut with Pathos Trio and Friends
As we near the end of our 2023-24 Season, we wanted to take the time to invite all of our close friends, family, supporters and community to our big Lincoln Center Debut Concert we're having on Friday, May 24th, 2024 at 7:30pm ET. This concert had been a long time coming for our group and… Read more »
May 02, 2024
Gimme Gimme Disco Aboard The Liberty Belle
Celebrate GIMME GIMME DISCO—ON A BOAT!!! Set sail for a 2 1/2-hour tour through NY Harbor, dancing under the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges. You can bump, jump, groove, and hustle as we loop around the Statue of Liberty, take in the gorgeous views of the iconic NYC skyline, and bask in the fresh breeze… Read more »
May 01, 2024
Musical Instrument Museum
Barcelona-born guitarist, arranger, composer, and bandleader Oscar Peñas has created a singular body of work that weaves elements of jazz, Spanish folk music, and the European classical tradition. But his music does not simply blend disparate influences. It ties them with an internal emotional logic that crosses genres. His capacious musical imagination embodies the limitless… Read more »
May 01, 2024
41st San Francisco Jazz Festival
A successful performance, characterized by Oscar Peñas' masterful guitar solos and the band's infectious energy, sold out in 2022. This impressive feat has earned him an invitation to return and perform at the prestigious Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival (Jun 5 – 16), which is celebrating its 41st anniversary this year. Peñas is thrilled to… Read more »
May 01, 2024
Entropics
Closing night performance of music-drama, Entropics 2050: A reporter gets an unprecedented opportunity to tour the top-secret inner workings of Collective Comrades International-the company responsible for bringing the world back from nuclear devastation and environmental collapse. She never leaves. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R., Entropics is a 1950’s science fiction that explores a… Read more »
May 01, 2024
Entropics
Opening night of new music-drama, Entropics 2050: A reporter gets an unprecedented opportunity to tour the top-secret inner workings of Collective Comrades International-the company responsible for bringing the world back from nuclear devastation and environmental collapse. She never leaves. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R., Entropics is a 1950’s science fiction that explores a… Read more »
May 01, 2024
Entropics
Performance of new Music-Drama, Entropics 2050: A reporter gets an unprecedented opportunity to tour the top-secret inner workings of Collective Comrades International-the company responsible for bringing the world back from nuclear devastation and environmental collapse. She never leaves. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R., Entropics is a 1950’s science fiction that explores a future… Read more »
May 01, 2024
Entropics Preview
Preview of performances of Entropics. 2050: A reporter gets an unprecedented opportunity to tour the top-secret inner workings of Collective Comrades International-the company responsible for bringing the world back from nuclear devastation and environmental collapse. She never leaves. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R., Entropics is a 1950’s science fiction that explores a future… Read more »
May 01, 2024
Taylor’s Version Aboard The Liberty Belle
LPR presents Taylor's Version: Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard The Liberty Belle on June 14th, 2024. This summer, Taylor’s Version is setting sail around the NY harbor! Dance and sing your favorite Taylor anthems with us as we cruise under the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg bridges. We’ll circle around the Statue of Liberty as we… Read more »
May 01, 2024
Emo Night Brooklyn Aboard The Liberty Belle
LPR presents Emo Night Brooklyn: Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard The Liberty Belle on July 12th, 2024
May 01, 2024
Emo Night Brooklyn Aboard The Liberty Belle
LPR presents Emo Night Brooklyn: Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard The Liberty Belle on July 12th, 2024
May 01, 2024
Birmingham New Music Festival 2024: THE NEXT MOMENT
THE NEXT MOMENT Starting at 5PM on Saturday 5/11 at East Village Arts (7611 1st Ave N, Birmingham, Alabama) is an event featuring free improvisation and compositions with improvisatory elements. Performing are Birmingham's leading improvisor Ladonna Smith, cellist Craig Hultgren, pianists Michael Coleman and Joshua David Davis, banjoist Holland Hopson, and guest composer/vocalist Robert Voisey.… Read more »
Apr 30, 2024
Birmingham New Music Festival 2024: ESTHER & HOLLAND
ESTHER & HOLLAND On Monday 5/13, 7PM, at East Village Arts, Birmingham, Alabama, fiddler Esther Morgan-Ellis and banjoist Holland Hopson present original tunes that push the boundaries of old-time music. Georgia-based Morgan-Ellis and Hopson embrace the tradition of ‘crooked’ tunes with a set of their own works that stretch the soundworld of southern Appalachian music.… Read more »
Apr 30, 2024
Birmingham New Music Festival 2024: AROUND STRAVINSKY
AROUND STRAVINSKY The concert on Friday 5/10, 7:30PM, in Samford University's Brock Recital Hall, centers on Igor Stravinsky's Septet – a landmark composition that reflects the shift in his music from neoclassic to serialist. The BAMA Players (clarinetist Brad Whitfield, bassoonist Cameron Bonner, hornist Valerie Sly, violinist Sarah Nordlund Dennis, violist Chris Lowry, cellist Peter… Read more »
Apr 30, 2024
Birmingham New Music Festival 2024: AU NATUREL
AU NATUREL Themes of nature characterize this afternoon program of piano solos and art songs on Saturday 5/11, 2PM, at UAB's Hulsey Recital Hall. Kenneth Kuhn begins the concert with Overture to The Revelation of Nature, a piano realization of the opening movement of his large-scale orchestral work. Pensacola composer/pianist Michael Coleman performs his poco… Read more »
Apr 30, 2024
Birmingham New Music Festival 2024: SOUNDSCAPES
SOUNDSCAPES In UAB's Hulsey Recital Hall at 7PM is the Tuesday 5/7 concert SOUNDSCAPES, a program of electroacoustic music performed in real time. This concert is dedicated to the memory of Joe L. Alexander, an active BAMA member during the first decade of the organization before securing teaching positions in Louisiana and Mississippi. Opening the… Read more »
Apr 30, 2024
Birmingham New Music Festival 2024: IN MEDIA RES
IN MEDIAS RES On Monday 5/6, 7PM, in Hulsey Recital Hall on the UAB campus, the BAMA Players (violinist Sarah Nordlund Dennis, violist Meredith Treaster, cellist Samuel Nordlund, and pianist Ken Watson) and Vuorovesi Trio (flutist Diane Boyd Schultz, oboist Mary Lindsay Bailey, and clarinetist Osiris J. Molina) present IN MEDIAS RES, a concert of… Read more »
