244 stories by "Edward Kliszus"
White Wave SoloDuo Dance Festival was where motion sometimes reveled in silence while tonight's music afforded sonic landscapes and tensions for artistic motion. We sensed Zen, religious con…
Let's get right to the point. Lucas Debargue's piano recital debut at Carnegie Hall was spellbinding and spectacular. His reputation certainly preceded him as seats filled before a single, m…
Jazz lovers will want to see and hear the Arthur Kell Speculation Quartet. With the opening sounds tonight at the fabulous Smalls Jazz Club set in Manhattan's West Village, one sensed the cu…
NEW YORK - The American Symphony Orchestra performs Dvořák's Requiem in Carnegie Hall, enthralling a full house with music performed by superb vocal soloists, the ASO, and the renowne…
49 Years of Preserving Native American Culture - Thunderbird American Dancers Pow Wow with dances, stories, and traditional music from Native Peoples of the Northeast, Southwest, and Great P…
'Pieces' performed by Santina Umbach exemplified Richard C. Walter's finest sonic expressions of elegiac, passionate, and metaphysical delights.
Billed as An Audacious Cabaret, a marvelous performance was delivered by Felicia Finley in Backwoods to Broadway at Manhattan's Green Room 42. This live performance was also presented in a l…
El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered is a masterpiece of modern opera and a testament to the enduring power of great art to inspire and uplift the human spirit.
The Orrin Evans Holiday Extravaganza at Birdland was electric with a festive spirit as the big band took to the stage, adorned with shimmering decorations, glittering lights and guest stars …
With superb soloists, orchestra, and choir led by Maestro Kent Tritle, tonight's Carnegie Hall performance by the Oratorio Society of New York bolstered Messiah's legacy as one of the greate…
Works and Process returned to the Guggenheim to present Third Bird by Isaac Mizrahi and Nico Muhly. In this tale of modern times starring the Ostrich as our hero, we meet a flock of characte…
It was a stellar evening for the magnificent Riverside Church concert with the American Symphony Orchestra and Händel's seminal work, Judas Maccabaeus, Oratorio (1747). Excitement abounded …
Charming only begins to describe Peter & the Wolf by Works & Process at the Guggenheim. Originally commissioned by the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow in 1936, tonight's perf…
Killin' Republicans may sound like an extreme anti-GOP motto, but it's a hilarious reference to American politics looking back 150 years or so. Perhaps the sequel is Killin' Democrats or Pro…
Tonight was an event when The Orchestra Now Performs Barber, Strauss, and Schumann in a fantastic concert of challenging, diverse, and intriguing music. The musicians performed with intensit…
The New York Choral Society presented Angel of Many Signs, a superb digital, instrumental, choral, and visual art synthesis. This production was billed as "a multi-media and multi-disciplina…
Tonight's concert, Transcendent Triumph and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 was suitably billed as the Full InsideOut Concertsâ„¢ Experience. This performance by David Bernard and Park Ave…
Tonight was David Dean Bottrell: The Death of Me Yet at Pangea in New York City's East Village. The high-energy storyteller slapped himself, immediately capturing the audience's attention an…
Aging is Not a Fairy Tale at the Theater for the New City is a delightful, charming, humorous admixture of favorite fairy tales and characters. The repartee was well crafted and sophisticate…
Impresario Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now of Bard College presented at Carnegie Hall - Exodus: Jewish Composers in Exile. This intriguing program title represented the product of Botste…
On stage at Carnegie Hall was Maestro Kent Tritle with superb soloists, orchestra, and the Oratorio Society of New York with Bach's Magnificat and Mozart's Requiem. From the Magnificat's ope…
The Imani Winds with Terrence Wilson on Piano, appeared for their debut performance at the 92nd Street Y. The versatility of these world-class artists facilitated a wide variety of musical s…
The Constant Wife was charming, fun, witty, droll, elegant, and deserving of the full house and extended ovations. From the onset, listeners were drawn into a mesmerizing plot of well-crafte…
Scrambled Eggs by the author Reginald L. Wilson made its world premiere at the Gene Frankel Theater in New York City. It was crafted in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It was bil…
Hays Street Hart at Smoke Jazz Club presented tunes from their Bridges Record Release tonight. As I sat in the sold-out performance the sounds I heard reminded me of the incredible importanc…
