http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/category/classical classical news from TucsonSentinel.com - Tucson's independent nonprofit online news en Copyright 2012 2012-02-04T07:23:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/120611_buckmaster/buckmaster-split-opinions-separation-reid-park-elephants/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/120611_buckmaster/buckmaster-split-opinions-separation-reid-park-elephants/ 19:13:00Z Buckmaster Show 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. 2011-12-06T19:13:16+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/102011_uamusicfestivalpreview/ua-music-festival-features-rarely-performed-classical-works/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/102011_uamusicfestivalpreview/ua-music-festival-features-rarely-performed-classical-works/ 07:03:00Z Dave Irwin 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 2011-10-20T07:03:09+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/101111_mexico_opera/mexicos-murder-city-opera/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/101111_mexico_opera/mexicos-murder-city-opera/ 19:58:00Z Ioan Grillo 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. 2011-10-11T19:58:54+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090711_911_events_sked/tucson-events-mark-10th-anniversary-9-11/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090711_911_events_sked/tucson-events-mark-10th-anniversary-9-11/#When: 23:02:000 Janet Rose Jackman Updated: Tucson-area events marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11 include discussions, film screenings, theater productions, art exhibits, prayer services and tributes. %2011-%09-%11GMT%05:%02:%00%Q http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/050211_composersconcert/tucson-symphony-brings-dreams-young-composers-life/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/050211_composersconcert/tucson-symphony-brings-dreams-young-composers-life/ 13:20:00Z Dave Irwin 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. 2011-05-03T13:20:27+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/040111_kronospreview/kronos-quartet-makes-21st-century-classical-music/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/040111_kronospreview/kronos-quartet-makes-21st-century-classical-music/#When: 16:28:000 Dave Irwin Updated: 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. %2011-%04-%01GMT%22:%28:%00%Q http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/102610_symphonyopenreview/tucson-symphony-digs-deep-hits-high-note/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/102610_symphonyopenreview/tucson-symphony-digs-deep-hits-high-note/ 15:22:00Z Dave Irwin 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. 2010-10-26T15:22:01+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/191010_symphonyopening/mozart-concerto-will-give-conductor-double-workout/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/191010_symphonyopening/mozart-concerto-will-give-conductor-double-workout/ 16:10:00Z Dave Irwin 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. 2010-10-19T16:10:26+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/141010_chamberreview/czech-group-brings-euro-cool-classical-music-premiere/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/141010_chamberreview/czech-group-brings-euro-cool-classical-music-premiere/ 22:18:00Z Dave Irwin 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. 2010-10-14T22:18:12+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/101210_asia_classical_preview/uas-daniel-asia-offers-new-nonet-classical-repertoire/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/101210_asia_classical_preview/uas-daniel-asia-offers-new-nonet-classical-repertoire/ 18:39:00Z Dave Irwin 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. 2010-10-12T18:39:00+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/082710_poland_chopin/poland-pays-homage-its-elvis-chopin/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/082710_poland_chopin/poland-pays-homage-its-elvis-chopin/ 21:18:00Z Jan Cienski 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. 2010-08-27T21:18:33+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/051210_dunn/moca-sounds-defining-music-ends-season-thursday/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/051210_dunn/moca-sounds-defining-music-ends-season-thursday/ 23:54:00Z Maggie Golston The MOCA Sounds/ Defining Music season will end Thursday with a lecture and performance by composer and sound artist David Dunn. 2010-05-12T23:54:03+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/051110_syrianorchestra/classical-music-with-syrian-twist/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/051110_syrianorchestra/classical-music-with-syrian-twist/ 20:02:00Z Theodore May 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. 2010-05-11T20:02:09+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/050710_weekend/weekend-preview-good-things-come-threes/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/050710_weekend/weekend-preview-good-things-come-threes/ 17:44:00Z Maggie Golston 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. 2010-05-07T17:44:41+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/050610_2ndsaturdays/second-chance-downtown-saturdays/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/050610_2ndsaturdays/second-chance-downtown-saturdays/ 23:12:00Z Dylan Smith 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? 2010-05-06T23:12:45+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/050610_under_sullivan/under-influence-gabriel-sullivan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/050610_under_sullivan/under-influence-gabriel-sullivan/ 19:38:00Z Maggie Golston 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. 2010-05-06T19:38:42+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/041510_weekend/weekend-preview-called-by-muses/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/041510_weekend/weekend-preview-called-by-muses/ 22:10:00Z Maggie Golston Spring is in full force, and despite all the blooming and birth around you, perhaps you feel a bit uninspired. Never fear. These ten weekend events are at least as likely to locate your inner muse as your GPS is. 2010-04-15T22:10:20+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/041210_pulitzer/pulitzer-winners-include-ex-citizen-photog-online-news-site-propublica/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/041210_pulitzer/pulitzer-winners-include-ex-citizen-photog-online-news-site-propublica/ 03:16:00Z Maggie Golston The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism categories and arts and letters were announced today.The most surprising recipient was Sheri Fink, a writer for nonprofit online news site and Sentinel wire service ProPublica.org, who won the Pulitzer for investigative reporting for her series of articles about a hospital in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. 2010-04-13T03:16:38+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/041210_artscrisis/tucson-arts-groups-advised-increase-private-funding/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/041210_artscrisis/tucson-arts-groups-advised-increase-private-funding/ 17:40:00Z Maggie Golston Michael W. Kaiser, president of The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts told Tucson arts leaders Monday that groups that all arts nonprofits, and particularly ethnically diverse groups, need to increase private funding. 2010-04-12T17:40:08+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/040610_growden/musician-mark-growden-finds-his-bearings/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/040610_growden/musician-mark-growden-finds-his-bearings/ 21:00:00Z Maggie Golston On the heels of his newest and finest release to date, “Saint Judas,” musician Mark Growden arrived in Tucson to practice new songs with a Tucson ensemble, and to play a pair of shows at The Screening Room this weekend. They are simply not to be missed, by longtime fans or uninitiated music buffs. 2010-04-06T21:00:07+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/040510_under_amor/under-influence-naim-amor/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/040510_under_amor/under-influence-naim-amor/ 19:33:00Z Maggie Golston In a land where he arrived in the mid 90s without a complete command of the language, Naim Amor has always found it easiest to express himself through music, even now, when his English is terrific and he is an official American. 2010-04-05T19:33:55+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/040210_chamber/turkish-american-composer-kamran-inces-far-variations/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/040210_chamber/turkish-american-composer-kamran-inces-far-variations/ 16:55:00Z Dave Irwin What is the sound of distance? International composer Kamran Ince gave an articulate answer to that zen-like question in the world-premier of his latest work, “Far Variations” for piano quartet. 2010-04-02T16:55:52+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/032010_beethoven/beethovens-ninth-may-swan-song-tso-chorus/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/032010_beethoven/beethovens-ninth-may-swan-song-tso-chorus/ 01:13:00Z Dave Irwin After this weekend’s formidable performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the TSO Chorus will be dissolved for the foreseeable future, except for two performances of Handel’s Messiah on December 4. 2010-03-21T01:13:09+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/031810_weekend/9-beethoven-weekend-arts-preview/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/031810_weekend/9-beethoven-weekend-arts-preview/ 19:27:00Z Maggie Golston Looking to avoid the street fair in favor of some culture? We have some ideas. 2010-03-18T19:27:26+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/031110_uapresents/uapresents-unveils-2010-11-offerings/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/031110_uapresents/uapresents-unveils-2010-11-offerings/ 21:31:00Z Maggie Golston UApresents announced their 2010-11 season’s offerings Wednesday evening on their website. The slate of acts coming to Centennial Hall is formidable, including Liza Minnelli, Joshua Bell, Blue Man Group and Savion Glover. 2010-03-11T21:31:27+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/031110_weekend/capital-vices-seven-deadly-awesome-weekend-events/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/031110_weekend/capital-vices-seven-deadly-awesome-weekend-events/ 20:26:00Z Maggie Golston It would be a sin to miss this weekend’s events in Tucson. Below find seven promising options. 2010-03-11T20:26:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/031010_chamberupdate/tucson-winter-chamber-music-festival-inside-and-out/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/031010_chamberupdate/tucson-winter-chamber-music-festival-inside-and-out/ 17:18:00Z Dave Irwin The Tucson Chamber Music Festival offers free open rehearsals on the mornings of concerts. It’s an opportunity to watch seasoned professionals practice their craft in ways that are not always obvious in concerts alone. 2010-03-10T17:18:26+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/030210_chamber/tucson-winter-chamber-music-festival-starts-march-7/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/030210_chamber/tucson-winter-chamber-music-festival-starts-march-7/ 03:30:00Z Maggie Golston The Arizona Friends of Chamber Music’s 17th winter festival, running March 7-14, proffers music that truly runs the gamut of chamber works. 2010-03-03T03:30:11+00:00