Nowadays Mostly Mozart is a more compact festival, and guest ensembles lighten the orchestra's workload.
A compact festival bringing 30 premieres, plus masterclasses, guests, and awards chaired by Jeremy Irons.
Yesterday, Uniqlo launched their two-week compact festival of art, music and clothing, with the first in a series of parties they'll be hosting at their new pop-up store on Kingsland Road.
(Tommasini 20100318 'THE FAIRY QUEEN' (Tuesday and Thursday) For the second production in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's compact Baroque opera festival, William Christie leads Les Arts Florissants in this semi-opera -- a hybrid theater work and opera, with stretches of dialogue, music and dance -- based on Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream".
It was like listening to a compact version of Mahler.The festival continues at the weekend with repeat performances of the two operas.
This concert-presenting organization offered its inaugural series of recitals and chamber music concerts at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey this season, and is capping its schedule with a compact but inviting Beethoven festival this weekend.
Of course, the most radical experiment with family, compact cameras and film festivals might be director Cory McAbee's film Crazy and Thief, his attempt to capture an honest portrait of those earliest, hazy days of childhood that you quickly forget but remain as primordial memories animating your soul.
In "Pumped Fiction," which had its premiere on Wednesday at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space as the opening installment of the American Composers Alliance's American Music Festival 2007, the compact vocal cast was enhanced by musicians in headgear (halos in a deathbed scene, penis hats in a dream sequence), who darted around the stage, both speaking and playing.
THE BERKSHIRES -- This time of year, things are so beehive-hectic in these parts that it's easy to drive around on a single Saturday and see, say, The Visit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the compacted-into-one Henry IV Part I and IIat Shakespeare and Company.
It is presenting "COIL: A WINTER DANCE FESTIVAL," which offers a compact and intriguing mix of companies over the next few days.
This included a compact version of the famous street festival Virada Cultural which this year happened just once in September, nevertheless it's significance grew larger set against troubles brought upon by a by lack of funds.
