The Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced a professional development program designed to provide free support to Brooklyn art groups attempting to mount performances.
Mounting a performance in her memory, Banjo drew together his mates and their younger brothers, calling themselves Diversity to reflect the disparities in their ages and ethnic origins.
Extremely large orchestrations were not widely favoured, partly because of the difficulty and expense of mounting a performance, yet Blackwood, for instance, wrote one symphony for an orchestra larger than Mahler's as well as one for chamber orchestra.
She broached her idea last year with Jacqueline Chambord, director of programming of the French Institute Alliance Française, just as Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Deloeuil, a team of French stage directors, were in town mounting a performance of Gluck's "Pèlerins de la Mecque" for L'Opéra Français.
Certainly, Scorched designer Naomi Dawson is insistent that they didn't decide to mount a performance here because the site looked trendy (all that corrugated iron and crumbling brick).
Theater, by definition (and Woodruff's own definition is careful to exclude solitary forms of watching), is a communal enterprise, both for those who mount a performance and for those who take it in.
During the Mighty's first season at the Paramount, the company sold out two of its three productions and mounted a performance with participants in its Summer Acting Intensive program.
Few figures were more important for Anton Bruckner's career than the great German-Jewish conductor Hermann Levi, and Levi's refusal to mount a performance of the composer's Eighth Symphony because he felt unable "to make it his own" sent Bruckner into a deep depression from which he only emerged three years later, with the work revised and extended.
As part of this endeavour he decided to mount a performance of A Child of Our Time, with Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt conducting.
His attempt on behalf of van Dieren to raise financing to mount a performance of the latter's opera The Tailor also failed.
