Bard to the Bone: Cymbeline
Wine, beer, snacks, and Shakespeare! Each month, BSF hosts a meeting of our Shakespeare Appreciation Society. This month's topic: Cymbeline.
Wine, beer, snacks, and Shakespeare! Each month, BSF hosts a meeting of our Shakespeare Appreciation Society. This month's topic: Cymbeline.
An Americana Soul band with eight full-time members Dustbowl Revival “mashes” the sounds of New Orleans funk, bluegrass, soul, pre-war blues, and roots music, into a genre-hopping, time-bending dance party that coaxes new fire out of familiar coal.
The group for Thursday Night Live on January 24th is Tusk, the World’s #1 Fleetwood Mac Tribute band. National touring.
No wigs, no backing tracks, no gimmick, just five musicians recreating the music of Fleetwood Mac to perfection with note for note renditions that no other Fleetwood Mac tribute band on the touring scene today can come close to duplicating
Jack Everly leads Broadway stars and the BSO in some of the greatest Rodgers and Hammerstein hits, including memorable songs from The King and I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma! and more.
Otherworld blends jazz, classical, and Middle Eastern influences, played on a mix of acoustic and electric instruments. The band performs original compositions with an emphasis on improvisation.
“Otherworld”, the group’s debut recording, won a Global Music Award, placing among the top 10 in the “Album” category from among hundreds of entries worldwide.
The album has been featured on NPR affiliate WYPR-FM, Baltimore; Jazz Standard Internet Radio, London; the BIRN (Berklee Internet Radio Network), Boston; and WPFW-FM, Washington D.C.’s premiere jazz station, among others.
The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.
Leo Maxey, trumpet
Kevin Clark, guitar
Blake Meister, bass
Byung Kang, drums
and special guest, Gary Thomas
Jack Everly leads Broadway stars and the BSO in some of the greatest Rodgers and Hammerstein hits, including memorable songs from The King and I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma! and more.
Additional performances on Saturday, January 26th at 8pm and Sunday, January 27th at 3pm.
Giggle along – and celebrate the simple joys of life with the theatrics of Happenstance Theater’s “Pinot & Augustine” – a classic, family-friendly clown duo inspired by the golden age of Circus. Dance along to musical surprises, enjoy theatrical flair, and laugh until it hurts (in a good way!) at surprises from the sublime to the ridiculous: from lyrical melodies on a musical saw to pratfalls and a whoopee cushion! The whole family will enjoy this creative, funny show!
Stephanie Barber will be giving an artist talk about her exhibition in the Member’s Gallery at School 33 Art Center on Saturday, January 26th, 2019 at 2pm. Barber will talk with poet Buck Downs about her expanded text piece, "Nature as a Metaphor for Economic, Emotional and Existential Horror". The talk will focus on the role of language in the visual arts and Barber's specific language in this project.
GBCA and Contemporary Arts Inc presents "An Afternoon of Artistic Excellence" featuring the award-winning Baker artists on Sat, January 26, 2019.
Performing Artists: Lafayette Gilchrist, Dora Malech, Carl Grubbs, Joyce Scott, CJay Philip, Ellen Cherry, Amanda Fair, Peter Minkler, Nicole Martinell, Todd Marcus, Vincent Thomas, and Michelle Antoinette Nelson.
Reserve your FREE tickets here: https://bit.ly/2R5q6oC
Playing Jazz Favorites, Swing, Showtunes, and songs from the “American Songbook”, Time for a Change is a hit wherever they perform. Comprised of four of the finest jazz musicians in the Baltimore-Washington area, they bring you back to the days of Swing, Big Band and Bebop. From Sinatra to Charlie Parker, they are comfortable in all popular music from today and yesterday. Leading the sound is Jim Voshell on the Tenor Saxophone. Backing up his formidable technique is Larry Haavik on the piano and synthesizer, Mike Morris on drums and Bill Pachucki on the Upright Bass.
Harlan D. Parker, conductor
Abhinn Malhotra, assistant conductor
Nathan Siler, trombone
Matthew Pellegrino: Winter Unending, Invincible Summer
Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 29 for Baritone Horn and Wind Orchestra, Op. 289, No. 3
Gustav Holst: First Suite in E-flat for Military Band
H. Owen Reed: La Fiesta Mexicana
Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) (Live score) 90mins.
Said to be the first full-length science-fiction movie ever made, this influential film about space travel by the Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov is re-imagined by avant guitarist Marc Ribot with a new score that premiered at London’s Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall. In 2016, Marc re-worked his score for solo guitar, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in Medillin, Colombia. He will be performing solo for this screening.
His quintet jostles from occasional moments of unison playing into wide-burning group improvisations. Like much in Mr. Hwang’s catalog, this stuff feels both intensely personal and oddly mythic. - Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times
Help us mark UNESCO International Holocaust Remembrance Day as Mark Hetfield of HIAS and Anne Richard, former Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration in the Obama Administration, discuss immigration in American, past, present, and future.
Piano Jazz Series 2019
An die Musik Live proudly launches a bi-monthly series to promote and focus on the innovation of the jazz piano. The series will feature local and national artists.
Here is the schedule for 2019:
Jan 27 - Bruce Barth
Mar - tba
May 12 - Alex Brown
Jul 7 - Allyn Johnson
Sep - tba
Nov - Kevin Gift
All shows begin at 3 pm, with a Q&A session at 2 pm.
Ticket prices are $20 in advance/$23 at door/$10 full-time student with ID
Black is the Color (52 min) highlights key moments in the history of African American visual art from Edmonia Lewis to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Art historians and gallery owners place the works in context—juxtaposing them with racist images of African-Americans as minstrels and setting them against the larger social contexts of Jim Crow, WWI, the Civil Rights Movement and the racism of the Reagan era.
We welcome you to join us for a moving, cross-cultural experience of shared stories inspired by Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl” on Sunday, January 27th!
“Remembrances” will feature readings presented by Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, with members of B’nai Israel: The Downtown Synagogue and representatives of Baltimore Refugee communities.
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company and B’nai Israel Congregation presents “Remembrances”