CD ANNOUNCEMENT: VocalEssence’s Nordic Christmas Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - September 12, 2015September 12, 2015 Minneapolis-based choir VocalEssence has a new CD coming out on October 11. The disc, entitled Nordic Nativity, features traditional holiday music from Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. This live album includes the trademark voices and Nordic fiddling by Sara Pajunen of Aallotar. (Pajunen studied violin in Minneapolis and Helsinki.) The 18 tracks on Nordic Nativity include
REVIEW: Twin Cities Fringe Opera’s Don Giovanni Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - September 12, 2015September 12, 2015 In the composer Hector Berlioz's memoirs, he recounts traveling through Germany in the mid-19th century. Away from the refinement of Paris, he saw countless performances where the orchestra was fortified by the local military band, or a traveling opera company joined by members of the local music society in the pit. While
The Ivey Awards: What’s Growing at the State Theatre Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - September 10, 2015September 12, 2015 When the State Theatre opened on February 5, 1921, it was the largest theatre in Minneapolis – and, local journalists trumpeted, the most technologically advanced in the country. It featured a state-of-the-art air conditioning system (something the audience wouldn’t test out for several months, and were probably less excited after
10 Scene-Stealing Theatre Performances from 2014-2015 Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - September 9, 2015September 12, 2015 We asked the Twin Cities Daily Planet's Resident Classical Music and Drama Critic Basil Considine for a retrospective top 10 list of favorite shows from the 2014-2015 theatre season in the Twin Cities. Basil refused to play favorites, but offered this list of 10 scene-stealing performances, loosely construed and in no
Upcoming: The Twin Cities Marathon Lifestyle by Twin Cities Arts Reader - September 4, 2015September 12, 2015 The Twin Cities Marathon, which describes itself as the most beautiful urban marathon in America, is one month away from filling the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul with crowd barriers and thousands of runners. But what is this local tradition? First off, the full name of this event is the
Announcing the Twin Cities Arts Reader Arts Lifestyle by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 1, 2015November 2, 2015 The Twin Cities Arts Reader is a new online newspaper magazine devoted to detailed, informed, and incisive coverage of arts and lifestyle events in the greater Twin Cities metro region. TCAR is under the leadership of editor Hanne Appelbaum and publisher Leif Andrews Rissanen. It is currently in soft launch, with a growing body of
BLAST FROM THE PAST: MCAD Featured in The Onion Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 26, 2015November 16, 2015 Two years ago today, the Minneapolis College of Arts and Design (MCAD) was featured in the satirical newspaper The Onion. Here's the link: http://www.theonion.com/article/school-of-the-arts-aims-to-transform-boys-and-girl-33274