Toby Keith: We Need Cowboys to Clean Things Up
Toby Keith ended his 2019 tour, entitled That's Country Bro!, right here in Tucson. The concert, at the Casino del Sol AVA amphitheatre, was a sold-out lively affair with...
World Premiere in Esperanto
It may not be a unique event, but certainly the premiere of a choral work for symphony orchestra in the Esperanto language is a great rarity. To have such...
Brahms, Goethe and Beethoven
True Concord offered rarely performed work by Johannes Brahms, Alto Rhapsody, at a recent concert in Tucson. It was book-ended by two Beethoven pieces, the controversial Mass in C...
Music for Leonardo da Vinci’s 500th Anniversary
To mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, a multimedia symphony by Jocelyn Hagen is being performed across the United States this year. This audio-visual...
A Critique of Modern Music
Whenever I wonder how to interpret reality, I always begin by referring to Shakespeare. As his wisdom was above even the gods, the Shakespearean prism is bound to yield...
Beethoven X2
The latest offering by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra came with a world premiere: Imagining the Dance by Dan Coleman, the symphony's composer in residence. For this concert, held at...
Beethoven on Nature
“All art constantly aspires to the condition of music.” So said the literary and art critic Walter Pater in 1888. But according to Beethoven, his 6th Symphony is “more...
The Shadow of Beethoven
Even as he was about to play Concerto No. 2 for Piano by Saint-Saens, pianist Sean Chen spoke in some awe of Ludwig von Beethoven.
“After Beethoven died in 1827...
The Foundations of American Music
The Great American Songbook is usually regarded as the sine qua non of American music, but as True Concord shows on their latest Tucson concert, it is just one...
Benefit for Tucson’s Artist Relief Fund on Nov. 21
Songs for a New World
REIMAGINED THEATRICAL SONG CYCLE, EMPHASISING HOPE FOR A NEW DAY,
DONATES PROCEEDS TO TUCSON’S “ARTISTS RELIEF FUND”
PERFORMANCES STREAMED AT 2:00 P.M. AND 6:00 P.M.
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
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Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo
“Our goal is to be a world-class zoo,” said Reid Park Zoo’s Deborah Carr, director of marketing and events. As she gave the Sun...
World Premiere in Tucson
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Gretchen Wirges brought her one-woman show to the Invisible Theatre this week, marking its world premiere. Entitled...
Arizona in Space
A 2-room exhibit at the Arizona History Museum, entitled Ready To Launch, is designed to show Arizona’s place in space.
While it has elements of...
