DUBLIN, IRELAND –National concert hall One night it is serious Beethoven with Lang Lang; the next it is a Broadway musical with Marvin Hamlisch. The RTE Concert Orchestra is nothing if not versatile. This is something the US composer, conductor, pianist, vocalist, raconteur and Pulitzer Prize winner reflects on at the National Concert Hall, where Hamlisch is the focus of …
OKLAHOMA – Fine Arts Series – Armstrong Auditorium – The Gershwin Project. – On September 8th, a pleasantly temperate evening presaging Fall, Marvin Hamlisch, owner of several Oscars, Tonys and Emmys, one of only thirteen such artists internationally, inaugurated the season’s fine arts series at Armstrong Auditorium with an all Gershwin concert that left his audience cheering for encores. Having …
Pasadena, CA — Marvin Hamlisch and the Pasadena Pops Orchestra concluded their 2012 season last night, Hamlisch’s first with the orchestra and the ensemble’s second and last at The Lawn Adjacent to the Rose Bowl (they move to the Los Angeles County Arboretum in Arcadia next season). What appeared to be the largest crowd of the season came out on a balmy evening to hear …