First Person: Seeing America A collaborative project featuring photographs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, narration by NPR's 'Talk of the Nation' host Neal Conan and actress Lily Knight, and music by Ensemble Galilei. Following their brilliant production First Person: Stories From the Edge of the World, Ensemble Galilei and Neal Conan will bring to the stage the writings of Langston Hughes, Carson McCullers, John Muir, James Baldwin, and others with photographs from the collection that includes the iconic works of Evans, Curtis, Stieglitz, Strand, and Eakins. The soundtrack is the music of Ensemble Galilei – Bach, traditional music from Scotland and Ireland, and new compositions featuring fiddles, harp, viola da gamba, banjo, percussion and oboe. More...
This photo: Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975), Alabama Tenant Farmer, 1936. Gelatin silver print, 23.6 x 18.7 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2000 (2000.329) © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Virtuosi Finlandia tours with violin soloist Elina Vähälä.
This "...finely attuned and vividly responsive string orchestra of crack Finnish players" * will be available in North America during the 2010/2011 concert season. Watch this space for more information about the program and tour dates.




* The Independent, London

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Guitarist Jason Vieaux's BACH VOL. 1: WORKS FOR LUTE debuts at #13 on the Billboard Classical Album Chart. Gramophone and Absolute Sound critics rave. More...

Enchantment Theatre Company premieres Scheherazade with the Cleveland Orchestra, tours with the New Jersey Symphony. The company evokes the Rimsky-Korsakov score using masks, puppets, magic and movement. More...