Melbourne, Australia — The Broadway Musical A Chorus Line is now playing at His Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne, Australia through March 11th, 2012. Next stop: Singapore (May 4th — 27th, 2012). See Schedule , Buy tickets for Melbourne and Singapore at: http://www.achorusline.com.au/ This is A Chorus Line, the musical for everyone who’s ever had a dream and put it all …
PITTSBURGH, PA — HEINZ HALL. A celebration to the music that made movies great! Grammy-nominated saxophonist Dave Koz joined Marvin Hamlisch, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and The All Start College Choir in a concert featuring memorable songs from the silver screen. “The Way We Were,” “Over the Rainbow” “Somewhere”, music from “The Pink Panther”, themes from “James Bond” and more. Comments: …
BILLINGS, MT — Award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch led the Billings Symphony Orchestra at ABT’s 25th anniversary celebration Saturday night. On his way out of the Alberta Bair Theater Saturday night, longtime supporter and onetime ABT marketing director Corby Skinner reminisced about performing in “A Chorus Line” at the theater 25 years ago. That made hearing Marvin Hamlisch, the composer for “A …
MILWAUKEE, WI — Call him a genius or a national treasure, but make no mistake: George Gershwin was the real deal. The American songwriter-composer-pianist — who created an enormous list of hit songs, shows and films, as well as an opera and revolutionary pieces for orchestra — is the focus of this weekend’s fascinating, entertaining, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Pops series performance. Friday’s …
PITTSBURGH — Canned Christmas music is ubiquitous now. There were nice recordings being played Thursday night in the Starbucks across the street from Heinz Hall, Downtown, before the Highmark Holiday Pops concert. Recordings in a store are a musical wallpaper that references enjoyable emotions. How revitalizing it was, therefore, to encounter the freshly conceived holiday concert led by Marvin Hamlisch, …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Christmas Concert For the Troops took place on Dec 6, 2011 in Washington D.C. in honor of the men and women who serve our country, with performances by The Beach Boys, The National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marvin Hamlisch, and a program of holiday surprises. Actor John Stamos as the evening’s host. Country star Lorrie Morgan and …
TORONTO — Idina Menzel makes her first live apperance in Toronto to a sold out crowd at the Royal Conservatory downtown. This concert however was very special for the simple fact that it was being taped live, for a PBS special that will be airing the concert in March as well as a live CD and DVD. The moment I …
MILWAUKEE — One doesn’t so much tell Broadway history as sing and play it. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and its principal pops conductor, Marvin Hamlisch, took a musical jog through a century of Broadway history Friday evening. The program, “Marvin Does Broadway,” began with a George M. Cohan medley and ended with tunes from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera,” …
PITTSBURGH, PA — The Pittsburgh Symphony Pops hooked up with high-energy dancing to open its season Thursday night with a program meekly titled “Ballroom With a Twist.” “Ballroom Boogie” would be more like it, because this show mixed styles with joyous abandon. The orchestra was pushed back into the shell to create considerable depth for the dancers at the front …
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 …