New York Philharmonic's Lead Fiddler Rests His Bow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHU82TvSB_o Most people who attend symphony performances can spot the concertmaster. That's the first chair violinist who enters before the conductor and helps tune the...
View ArticleLabor Conflict May Lock Out Met Opera Workers
The clock is ticking for the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The world's largest opera company may be headed for a shutdown. Most of the union contracts for the Met expire in a week. Yesterday, Met...
View ArticleMet Opera Tentatively Settles With 2 Major Unions
A labor crisis threatening to shut down New York's Metropolitan Opera — the largest opera house in the world — appears to have been averted. Two of the major unions announced a tentative settlement...
View ArticleNonesuch At 50: A Record Label Without Borders
Sometimes good things come in small packages. Nonesuch Records, which started as a tiny independent budget classical label in 1964, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with three weeks of concerts at...
View ArticleSeeing Neurological Patients As Characters, Not Case Studies
Peter Brook is truly the grand old man of world theater. He became famous with his productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early 1960s; wrote the seminal theater text The Empty Space ; and...
View ArticleOratorio Tackles The Issue Of Leaks From 'The Source'
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View ArticleHow Broadway Is Losing Its 'Middle Ground'
Broadway is New York's biggest tourist attraction and brought in $1.3 billion in ticket sales last season. But it's also a high-stakes gamble for producers, since only 1 in 4 Broadway shows turns a...
View Article'Fun Home,' 'Curious Incident' Take Home Top Tony Honors
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Broadway has been having a boom. The past year has brought record attendance and the best ticket sales ever. That provided a nice backdrop...
View ArticleA Hip-Hop Soundtrack For A Musical About Alexander Hamilton? Sure, Why Not?
By now, you may have heard about the new Broadway musical Hamilton . When it opened off-Broadway in February, it earned almost unanimous raves and awards for blending history and hip-hop. Its sold-out...
View ArticleSong From Broadway Musical 'Hamilton' Celebrates Founding Mothers
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The smash hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" mixes hip-hop with American history and features a multiracial cast. A lot's been...
View Article'Ghost' Soprano Marni Nixon, Who Voiced Blockbuster Musicals, Dies At 86
You might not know Marni Nixon's name, but you've probably heard her. The singer dubbed the voices for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady...
View ArticleProlific Conductor Neville Marriner Has Died
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View ArticleBringing A Christmas Classic To Wonderful Life — On Stage
Christmas is coming, and soon TV screens everywhere will light up with that 1946 holiday classic, It's a Wonderful Life . But the same story is coming a little early to the stage of the Houston Grand...
View ArticleSome Rockettes At Odds With Management Over Inauguration Performance
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The inauguration of President Trump is a couple weeks away, and his team has been scrambling to find performers. One group that signed on is...
View ArticleBroadway's Getting A New Theater, Which Is Also Its Oldest
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For decades, there have been exactly 40 Broadway theaters all between 41st and 65th Streets in Manhattan. Tonight, a new theater opens that...
View ArticleComposer Tim Minchin Brings 'Groundhog Day' To Broadway
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Tonight a musical adaptation of the popular film "Groundhog Day" opens on Broadway. It's the story of a cynical weatherman who's forced to...
View Article2 Stars Share The Stage, And The Roles, In 'Little Foxes'
Lillian Hellman's 1939 melodrama The Little Foxes has two great roles for actresses over the age of 40. Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon fill those roles in a new revival on Broadway ... but with one big...
View ArticlePlaywright Edward Albee's Incomplete Works May Never See The Light Of Day
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has been in the news a lot lately. Albee died in 2016 , and since then his estate has turned down a multi-racial production of Who's Afraid of Virginia...
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