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Crepuscule with Savion

Tap dance phenom Savion Glover will help Jazz at Lincoln Center to celebrate jazz legend Thelonious Monk's birthday on October 28 and 29 with two performances of Jazz in Motion: Tappin' Into Monk. Glover will tap dance to Monk's music in the two evening performances. At noon and 2pm on the same dates, school age children will get a chance to perform with Glover in a program called Jazz For Young People, Jazz in Motion: Tappin’ Into Monk featuring Savion Glover. All performances will take place at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall.

Savion Glover brings his Classical Savion® program to Symphony Hall on Sunday, October 16. The performance is co-presented by Bank of America Celebrity Series and CRASHarts.

"We must take pleasure in life, which can be short..."

Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli talks with Bill Richardson of Vancouver's Georgia Strait about her Rolex collection, singing for the new Pope, and digging through archives to unearth the music on her new CD, Opera Proibita:

“The Handel,” she says, “was not so difficult to locate and select, as they were all published. But the others no, and not to be found in Italy. We discovered the Caldara in Vienna, and the Scarlatti in Cambridge. It’s very hard work…"

Read the complete article.

Soprano Deborah Voigt announces Symphony Hall program

Deborah Voigt has announced her November 13 Symphony Hall recital program (her Celebrity Series debut). The renowned soprano will sing works by Amy Beach, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Charles Ives, Ben Moore, William Bolcom and Stephen Sondheim.



View Ms. Voigt's complete November 13 program.

Tap genius Savion Glover gives Boston its first look at his new program, Classical Savion, on Sunday, October 16 at Symphony Hall.

Village Voice dance critic, Deborah Jowitt, reviewed Classical Savion at New York's Joyce Theater in January:

"Never straining for effect or dazzle, always musical, Glover dances as if he'd been born breathing rhythms."

Read Deborah's complete review.

"Ma Captures Bach's Range of Emotions"

The Boston Globe's Richard Dyer on Yo-Yo Ma's recital on Sunday night:

"This one man in the chair managed to communicate more nuance and passion than do some assemblies of 100 orchestral musicians."

Read the complete text of Richard Dyer's review of Yo-Yo Ma on Boston.com

Yo-Yo Ma Symphony Hall encores

Yo-Yo Ma opened the Celebrity Series season with a splendid solo cello recital for a packed house at Symphony Hall last night. Naturally, we have had many inquiries regarding the encore selections. So, for the record, they were as follows, in order:

1. Mark O'Connor, Appalachia Waltz
(available on the recording Appalachia Waltz)

2. Mongolian Folk Song, Summer in the High Grassland
(available on the recording Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon)

3. J.S. Bach, Suite No. 1, S. 1007 In G Major: Prelude
(available on the recording Bach: Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites)

"A Most Suite Sound"

Keith Powers of The Boston Herald reviewed Yo-Yo Ma's Bach solo cello suites performance last night at Symphony Hall:

"Just a single chair, empty at center stage, when we enter Symphony Hall yesterday afternoon. Yet when Yo-Yo Ma comes out from the wings to begin the 2005-'06 Celebrity Series season, the room instantly filled.

"Filled with music. Filled with emotion. Filled with the sense that human beings have accomplished great things. And filled with the sense that one great artist can make a difference."

Read the full review

Wynton Marsalis, The Rolling Stone Interview

Wynton Marsalis talks with David Fricke of Rolling Stone about Pigeon Town, poverty, music, and the future of New Orleans. article

Cecilia Bartoli's "Opera Proibita" is No. 1

Opera Proibita, the latest release from mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, debuted on the Billboard Classical Chart this week in the number one position... article

Ms. Bartoli returns to the Celebrity Series on October 23 at Symphony Hall.

New Either/Orchestra CD Released

Ethiopiques 20: The Either/Orchestra Live in Addis, a new 2-CD set on Buda Musique documenting the band's January 2004 concert in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has just been released. Guests include Ethiopian composer/vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke, whose music can be heard in Broken Flowers, the new Jim Jarmusch/Bill Murray film, and Ethiopian saxophonist Getachew Mekurya.

You can buy Live in Addis at Allegro Music.

Listen to a conversation with Mulatu Astatke on Addis Live!

Either/Orchestra leader Russ Gershon is currently taking questions on the Jazz Bulletin Board feature on AllAboutJazz. Log in and drop Russ a line!

The Either/Orchestra will return to the Celebrity Series on Saturday, January 28 at the Berklee Performance Center with a concert in celebration of the ensemble's 20th anniversary. E/O will be joined by Ethiopian guest musicians to be named.