A Harrowing Plane Ride, Images Carved In Stone, And A Haunting Native Flute Are The Stuff Of Legends.
By Margaret Regan
WHEN MICHAEL UTHOFF came West seven years ago to become
artistic director of Ballet Arizona, he pledged to make dances
inspired by his new environment; or as he puts it, to try
to subjugate my artistry to the nature and culture that surrounds
us. That s how he found himself in trouble in a tiny airplane on
a dark night in Canyon de Chelly a few years back. He and composer
Brent Michael Davids, a Mohican transplanted to Arizona, were
The Albuquerque Film Office and the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center are collaborating to promote film opportunities for Indigenous filmmakers in New Mexico. The two-day virtual workshop will take place from…
Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled
Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s
Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s
Sibylline Prophecies
2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents
Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising
Vom Pagen und der Königstochter Op. 140,
Des Sängers Fluch Op. 139,
Requiem für Mignon Op. 98b, and
Nachtlied Op. 108. View here.
2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Wigmore Hall’s 120th anniversary sees the Hall’s Associate Ensemble joined by soprano Mary Bevan for Fauré’s
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s
Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four
Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic of the clarinet in terms of range, technical prowess, tone color, and expressiveness. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
The healing efforts of Indian Country
On this weekend edition of Indian Country Today, we hear from Native leaders who sum up COViD responses, as well as repatriation efforts in California. Plus how creativity heals in a pandemic.
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A slice of our Indigenous world
The Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma is lending a hand to help with the COVID-19 pandemic in India.
A church in Oregon gives back land to the original tribal owners.
New York city Public schools will celebrate Indigenous Peoples and Christopher Columbus.
Indigenous lawmakers have made a lot happen in the first 100 days of Biden’s presidency.