REVIEW: Karina Canellakis Leads MN Orchestra to Exciting Close (Orchestra Hall) Arts Music by Basil Considine - August 30, 2021August 31, 2021 The Minnesota Orchestra closed its summer programming this weekend with a thrilling program led by guest conductor Karina Canellakis. The evening included a movement from a symphony by William Grant Still, two excerpts from a Mozart piano concerto, and a Tchaikovsky symphony. For some season planners, the archetypical summer classical music
NEWS: Minnesota State Fair, Day 1 Attendance Arts Lifestyle Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 27, 2021August 29, 2021 A selection of cakes await judging at the Minnesota State Fair, which runs through September 6, 2021 in St. Paul, MN. Photo courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair. The Minnesota State Fair is back this year, but on Day 1, at least, the crowds were not. The State Fair kicked off
NEWS: Springboard for the Arts Announces Rural Regenerator Fellow Cohort Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 The inaugural cohort in Springboard for the Arts' Rural Regenerator Fellowship. Springboard for the Arts announced today its inaugural cohort of Rural Regenerator Fellows. Springboard for the Arts has selected 11 Rural Regenerator Fellows for 2021. All fellows live or work in communities of at most 50,000 people, located across the
REVIEW: Harmony Plunges Into the Ives of Summer (Seagle Festival/Schroon Lake, NY) Arts Music Opera by Basil Considine - August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 Victoria Erickson (as Harmony Twitchell), Joel Clemens (as Charles Ives), and Jake Goz (as Dr. David Twitchell) in the Seagle Festival's premiere of Harmony by Robert Carl & Russell Banks. How does the oldest summer singer training program in the country respond to a pandemic? When you're the Seagle Festival – a
NEWS: Live Performance COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements Spreading Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 13, 2021August 14, 2021 A transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-sections through the viral genome, seen as black dots. Image courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and generated by Hannah A.
REVIEW: Stirring American Musical Heroes (Minnesota Orchestra) Arts Music by Basil Considine - July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. Photo by George Heinrich Photography. The Minnesota Orchestra is getting its flirt on. No, not some sort of brass-woodwinds or string-percussion imbroglio – flirting with the audience. The ensemble's American Musical Heroes program, playing this weekend, is a grand tease, leaving the audience wanting more of just about every
REVIEW: Musically Impressive Islander (Theatre Elision) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Deidre Cochran and Christine Wade in Theatre Elision's production of Islander by Amy Draper, Finn Anderson, and Stewart Melton, playing through July 31 at the Elision Playhouse in Crystal, MN. Photo by Jessica Holleque. If you're hesitant about returning to live theatre attendance, Theatre Elision is rolling out the red carpet treatment
PREVIEW: Opera on the Lake Strikes Back Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 It's summer in Minnesota, which means it's officially Lake Time. By the lake, in the lake, on the lake – we're not the Land of 10,000 Lakes for nothing. This makes the return of the Opera on the Lake festival to Lake Como this week as natural as sweet corn at
NEWS: Minnesotans Represent in NET Virtual Exchanges Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 26, 2021July 27, 2021 It's no surprise that Minnesotans can overcome all sorts of inclement weather to connect in deepest winter. So, too, have they been connecting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Six individuals and entities in Minnesota have been awarded Virtual Exploration Grants by the Network of Ensemble Theatres to build theatrical connections with
REVIEW: John Fogerty Rocks the 4th of July (Mystic Lake) Arts Music by Brian Bix - July 5, 2021July 5, 2021 John Fogerty (photo by Myriam Santos) performed at the Mystic Lake Casino & Hotel on July 4, 2021. Music fans of a certain age know John Fogerty’s story starts as the lead singer of Creedence Clearwater Revival. For two years, at the end of the 1960s, CCR dominated the American scene.