Among the vocalists featured are the rappers Snoop Dogg, Common and Lupe Fiasco; Patrick Stump, lead singer of the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy; and Norah Jones, who like Mr. Glasper is the product of an acclaimed performing-arts high school in Texas.
The call came from a manager at the online backup-storage company to which Mr. Masada had entrusted what might well have been the world's most valuable collection of stand-up comedy video — 1,500 hours of acclaimed comics performing on the stage of Mr. Masada's groundbreaking Hollywood comedy club, The Laugh Factory.
(Rooney) 'The Testament of Mary' (previews start on Tuesday; opens on April 22) Before it became a searing novella, the Irish author Colm Toibin's eloquently humanized first-person account of the post-Crucifixion years of Mary, mother of Jesus, was an acclaimed monologue performed at the Dublin Theater Festival in 2011 by Marie Mullan under the direction of Garry Hynes.
(Grode) 'The Testament of Mary' (in previews; opens on April 22) Before it became a searing novella, the Irish author Colm Toibin's eloquently humanized first-person account of the post-Crucifixion years of Mary, mother of Jesus, was an acclaimed monologue performed at the Dublin Theater Festival in 2011 by Marie Mullan under the direction of Garry Hynes.
Gordon joined the Company as a rehearsal pianist and later became a conductor and an acclaimed solo pianist, performing at the premieres of such works as George Balanchine's "Ballade" and "Robert Schumann's Davidsbundlertanze," and Jerome Robbins' "Dances at a Gathering" and "The Goldberg Variations".
Every year, classical music lovers swarm to Mumbai's National Centre for Performing Arts for the Bandish festival, a three-day event that honours India's legendary composers with the country's most acclaimed classical maestros performing their works in the signature styles prescribed by their respective gharanas (musical lineage).
Will Dailey is an acclaimed recording and performing artist, who is a three-time winner of the Boston Music Award for Best Singer/Songwriter.
No American ballet troupe had ever performed a Graham work; Colorado Ballet's classically trained dancers went through a painful crash course in Graham technique to deliver remarkably authentic and widely acclaimed performances of the landmark 1944 dance.
Coming off her acclaimed performance as the ornery P.L. Travers in "Saving Mr. Banks, Emma Thompsonn has brought her considerable comic energy to Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sweeney Todd," which is being performed in a semi-staged concert production by the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center.
After appearances at the Dance Umbrella festival and a spell performing with acclaimed choreographer Jonathan Burrows, he joined the X-Group project, a creative programme for young choreographers at Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's PARTS school in Brussels.
As part of the "Don't Look Back" series (an offshoot of the U.K.'s "All Tomorrow's Parties" festival), in which artists revisit watershed moments from their catalogues, Mudhoney will be performing its acclaimed album "Superfuzz Bigmuff" in its entirety, along with some early singles.
