World Ovarian Cancer Awareness Day Concert: David Cohen Guitar

 Thursday May 8th 2014

 7:30 PM 45 minute set

 Stageit.com

 https://www.stageit.com/david_cohen/ovarian_cancer_awareness_concert/34775 …

Jules Massenet

By Samantha van Adelsberg, Administrative Associate

Not many late 19^th and early 20^th century composers achieved what French composer Jules Massenet accomplished in his lifetime. A gifted piano student at age nine and a deeply-respected professor of composition at the same Conservatoire de Paris where he studied, Massenet produced copious amounts of music before dying at age seventy,…

Gianandrea Noseda - Conductor

James Ehnes - Violin

Michael Stairs - Organ

Casella - Symphonic Fragments from La donna serpente

Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 2

Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 ("Organ")

I left this concert saying “Wow.”  I’m not sure why, but I like it…

On  Saturday evening, March 15, we attended the fabulous JUBILATE! at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill.  The concert was marvelous and the AVA voices were magnificent.  Most of the students were in their first year, and we don't know how they could possibly improve!!

Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park has quite a music series!  Today they celebrated Gary Graffman's 85th birthday (a few months late) with performances by Haochen Zhang, Meng-Chieh Liu, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Natalie Zhu, Kuok-Wai Lio, and Yuja Wang.  What a lineup!  The playing was uniformly professional, as one would expect from these top performers, but I was especially thrilled by the poetic nature of so many of the performances.  Haochen played Brahms Op. 117 E flat  major Intermezzo so…

In the weeks leading up to Academy of Vocal Arts' annual favorite Jubilate! A Concert of Sacred Music, Administrative Associate Samantha van Adelsberg explores some of the music that will be performed on March 14, 15, and 16 at select locations in Philadelphia and Wayne. To find out more about the concert and to purchase tickets visit avaopera.org or call the Box Office at 215.735.1685.…