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Marie Taglioni: The Revolutionary Sylphide
Marie Taglioni was practically fated to be an artist. Born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1804 to Italian choreographer Fillipo Taglioni and Swedish ballet dancer Sophie Karsten, she came from a family that included other dancers and choreographers as well as at least one opera singer. The family moved to Vienna when Marie was very young […]
Avila Home Care shares the power of music with senior citizens
Avila Music Makers offers a concert series of internationally acclaimed classical and jazz musicians to Senior Living Communities in the Baltimore-Annapolis areas. I invited Gretchen Maneval, Director of External Affairs at Avila Home Care, to tell me more. For more information about Avila Home Care and its Avila Music Makers programming, […]
Music From Movies 04-26-26
7:00 PM Mikis Theodorakis Zorba the Greek: Zorba’s Dance Silva 5006 COND Nic Raine ORCH City of Prague Philharmonic 4:21 C 2 10-10 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:06 PM 51316 Andre Previn Elmer Gantry: Selections Ryko 10732 COND Andre Previn AHN dray PREH vihn ORCH Studio Orchestra 15:50 C 1 0-0 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:23 PM 28795 Frederick Loewe Gigi: […]
Story Fest 26 puts community out front
With its third-annual festival landing at Theatre Project May 1-3, Baltimore Story Fest’s 2026 incarnation offers a new twist on their usual routine. Rather than simply showcase the finished work of accomplished local storytellers, Creative Director Phill Branch has decided to open up the process and the results directly to the community at large. The […]
Toccata listings for 4/26/26
On tonight’s program,a trio sonata by Bach, a sonata for 2 pianos by soldier/poet/composer Mark Maarder, and a piano concerto by well known conductor Evegeny Svetlanov. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 539 Johann Sebastian Bach Trio Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat BWV 525 Nimbus 5280 SOLO Kevin Bowyer, organ 13:24 C 1 6-8 […]
Shriver Concerts’ 60th season draws to a close
I have so enjoyed meeting up with Shriver Hall Concert Series Executive Director, Catherine Cochran, from time to time this season to look back on the six decades that the series has been bringing great artists to Baltimore. You can hear our sixth and last episode here:
Steven Isserlis closes Shriver’s 60th subscription season
British cellist Steven Isserlis and his long-time collaborator Connie Shih perform a program of Beethoven, Schumann, Kabalevsky, and Vítězslava Kaprálová to close out the subscription season of Shriver Hall Concert Series‘ 60th anniversary. I spoke with him by phone from New York.
Ballet Theatre of Maryland revives rare Romantic treasure
When is a revival also a premiere? When the piece in question is a landmark classic of the Romantic ballet repertoire that has rarely been seen on European or American stages in more than a century. Such is the case with Ballet Theatre of Maryland’s current production of La Esmeralda, an action-packed but also sweetly […]
Beloved novel takes center stage
Louis Sachar’s stage adaptation of his own crowd-pleasing, critically celebrated young adult novel Holes digs in at Baltimore Center Stage through May 10th, in a production directed by Baltimore-area director Johanna Gruenhut and featuring several locally based cast members. Holes follows a diverse band of misfit youngsters thrown together willy-nilly under the punishing desert sun and […]
Music From Movies 04-19-26
7:00 PM Alan Silvestri Back to the Future Telarc 80146 COND Erich Kunzel Erik KUN zl ORCH Cincinnati Pops Orchestra 3:18 C 1 2-2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:05 PM 36065 Miklos Rozsa Spellbound:Dream Sequence/Mountain LodgeTelarc 80708 COND Erich Kunzel Erik KUN zl ORCH Cincinnati Pops Orchestra 7:16 C 1 3-3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:14 PM 54796 Dave Grusin The […]
