Hall, who is 81, has spent a lifetime sitting in the stalls at dress rehearsals making notes and offering views of performances.
'DANCE OUT!' New York has a proud tradition of offering outdoor performances of all kinds during the summer, but there is something about watching people dancing outdoors that feels particularly right.
There is nowhere better than the Bard Festival, which makes a practice of offering intense lineups of performances, pre-concert talks, panels and lectures, to re-examine misunderstood composers.
While the host city for Moogfest may have changed this year from Asheville to Durham, North Carolina, it's still one of North America's most adventurous and cutting-edge electronic music festivals, with the four-day event offering a smorgasbord of performances, lectures, and workshops.
Heading into its second year, the Afro-Bailar Festival is taking over the Latin dance club Palanca on the fifth floor of the newly renovated Kotva department store (Namesti Republiky 8; www.palanca.cz), with a solid offering of international dance performances and workshops.
Now 20 years old, this festival is offering an expansive slate of performances this summer.
It reopened as Artpark in 1974, its first season dedicated to the memory of the land artist Robert Smithson, offering a vast array of performances and public workshops.
Naturally, Aldeburgh is offering an ambitious season of performances, extending into the fall, with a full weekend of events to mark Britten's birthday on Nov. 22.
When Olga Bloom began presenting her Bargemusic chamber concerts in 1977, the idea of offering performances in a floating room seemed both novel and slightly eccentric in the way that musical life beyond the walls of New York's big, well-endowed concert halls often is.
Last week the Cave continued its Butoh offerings with a week of performances at the Theater for the New City in the East Village.
While offering regular performances of local and regional arts, TIM also produces modernist theatrical works that typically fuse Indonesian and international idioms.
