Today on Buckmaster - Greg Patterson, of Espresso Pundit, who talks about the winners and losers in the dust-up over redistricting. Susan Basford, administrator for the Reid Park Zoo, discusses the latest in the controversy over the zoo’s two aging elephants. Plus, the conductor and general manager of the Civic Orchestra of Tucson talk about COT’s holiday offerings.... Read more»
This weekend’s Music + Festival at the University of Arizona will feature live performances of works by Béla Bartók, György Ligeti and Robert Beaser, discussions of their music and two Stanley Kubrick films which used Bartók’s and Ligeti’s music in their soundtracks... Read more»
Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, has gained global notoriety as the most murderous city on the planet with a stunning 3,075 homicides last year. But this week, it has thankfully gained some media attention for a lighter side: opera.... Read more»
Tucson-area events marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11 include discussions, film screenings, theater productions, art exhibits, prayer services and tributes.... Read more»
For $5, you can hear what the future will sound like. The Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s Young Composers Project will host two nights of informal concerts, May 6 and 7, featuring 25 new compositions by students.... Read more»
The Kronos Quartet is famous for electrifying classical music. Literally. Their use of sound augmentation, pre-recorded tapes, and guest musicians while adapting music by Jimi Hendrix, Thelonious Monk and a world-wide cadre of composers creates classical music that is both cool and modern.... Read more»
Coming back from a near-death experience last year, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, led by George Hanson, gave a life-affirming performance of Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony.... Read more»
It’s not exactly TV’s Undercover Boss, but Hanson, starting his fifteenth year as conductor and musical director with the TSO, is renewing kinship with his musicians after budget cuts.... Read more»
The Czech Nonet displayed superb musicianship and control when they performed the first concert of the season for the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on Wednesday. The performance featured the premiere of UA composer Daniel Asia’s latest work.... Read more»1
One of the longest running chamber ensembles in the world, the Czech Nonet, will perform the latest work by Tucson composer Daniel Asia on Wednesday.... Read more»
Frederic Chopin never painted a mural, never sang jazz, rapped or even wrote an opera. But organizers of this year’s celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of his birth are using all of those elements to bring to life Poland’s greatest composer.... Read more»
The MOCA Sounds/ Defining Music season will end Thursday with a lecture and performance by composer and sound artist David Dunn.... Read more»
Conductor Missak Baghboudarian is leading the effort to bring classical music to Syria, and even if he has to throw in some Arabic sounds to engage his audience, it looks as though he’s succeeding.... Read more»
Perhaps you are the sort for whom a hike in this heat sounds like a fate worse than death. If so, here are three options for each weekend day to keep you cool.... Read more»
The launch of 2nd Saturdays Downtown is Saturday from 5-10 p.m., and features live music at several venues, an outdoor stage, and out on the thoroughfare. Does this new event have the formula for resurrecting a downtown tradition?... Read more»
Gabriel Sullivan is one of the hardest-working musicians in Tucson. If you have seen local live music in the last year or so, chances are good you have seen Sullivan onstage. Now, he prepares to debut his composition for string quartet at Chamberlab I.... Read more»
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