Friday, September 15, 2023
In the Ensemble for the Romantic Century's audio drama about Tchaikovsky, Steven Fry, Vanessa Redgrave, and the music are sublime.
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:26PMThursday, September 14, 2023
Two-time Tony Award nominee Josie de Guzman performed her show "Back Where I Started" and enthralled listeners at The Green Room 42.The enchanting and vivacious de Guzman performed a musical…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:55PMMonday, September 11, 2023
The conductor and music director of the ASO, Maestro Leon Botstein, came to the stage. Building anticipation for the concert, he explained that tonight’s program featured musical works of …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:22PMSaturday, July 22, 2023
The actors' droll and elegant linguistic patter sliced into the backdrop of the city's hubbub of engines, horns, and sirens. The virtual world they drew us into was a topsy-turvy pastiche of…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:36PMTuesday, June 27, 2023
Tonight at Smoke Jazz Club featuring vocalist Mary Stallings with Emmet Cohen - piano, Peter Washington - bass, and Joe Farnsworth - drums, was a true jazz event with ample chance to hear ea…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:32AMTonight's Opera in the Garden On Site Opera production of Mozart's The Magic Flute was a night of magical enchantment, charismatic strains, and sublime artistry. Moreover, the characters roa…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:29AMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Tonight’s Juneteenth Celebration at New York’s Lincoln Center was a reflective, fresh, and vibrant source of inspiration for all participants. This nonpareil venue inspired artistic expr…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:55PMWednesday, June 14, 2023
This auspicious event was the fruit of an esteemed collaboration between the Kaufman Music Center and the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony. Gifted young artists competed for the opportunity to g…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:11PMMonday, June 5, 2023
From a bottomless pit of prison and despair, Stevens mustered sobriety and hope powered by a renewed, unwavering determination, self-worth, confidence, and passion for his craft. His life be…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 08:29AMMonday, May 22, 2023
Performed by the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony at today's two concerts was Sergei Prokofiev's delightful Peter and the Wolf featuring WQXR evening host and luminary Terrance McKnight. In this…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 10:18AMThe American Classical Orchestra ascended to the stage before a packed house in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Under the baton of conductor Thomas Crawford, the concert began with Gioac…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 09:39AMFriday, May 19, 2023
This was an evening of superlatives by the Cathedral Choir and Rose of the Compass at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine offered a transformative musical experience for listeners an…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 07:36AMTuesday, May 16, 2023
Soloists in the ON SITE Opera production of Puccini's Il Tabarro were consistently marvelous and presented a thrilling performance of a seminal artwork with the support of a splendid chorus,…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:47PMWednesday, May 10, 2023
Kent Tritle and The Oratorio Society ensured that the ineffable rapture of Bach's Mass in B minor was ably expressed while articulating the vision, technique, Affektenlehre, and unparalleled…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:33PMTuesday, May 9, 2023
The Theater for the New City presented Bliss Street, a blockbuster musical production based on the life and times of New York rocker Charlie Sub (played by Blaize Adler-Ivanbroo) and his uni…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:26AMFriday, May 5, 2023
This production of Iolanthe by MasterVoices at Carnegie Hall portrayed the essence of superlative artistry coupled with modern technological tools. Audience members were masterfully delivere…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:36PMWednesday, May 3, 2023
The Art Bath Salon Series program was 21st century-multimedia at its finest, but with the intimacy of the Parisian salons made famous by the likes of Gertrude Stein, Gustave Courbet, and Fra…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:15PMSaturday, April 29, 2023
The Singing Sphere was entertaining, intellectually engaging, imaginative, provocative, and introspective. It seemed, after all, that one might evolve to a better state. We enjoyed a sojourn…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 12:53PMFriday, April 28, 2023
Schwartz is a raconteur extraordinaire. From the onset, her repartee was confident and, at times, adapted to prompt audience interaction. One could hardly resist her gentle, enchanting coaxi…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:53PMThursday, April 20, 2023
Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra have once again brought important musical works to the forefront in an opulent setting with superb artists. Tritle’s conducting was expressive and precise, whi…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:59PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
This was a celebration and reminder of Kent Tritle, a gifted musical artist of epic importance to the world of performing arts in New York and beyond. Tritle’s ubiquitous, multi-dimensiona…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:07PMSunday, March 26, 2023
Tonight's O How Good was a celebration of the life of MasterVoices board member Lois Conway and the years of philanthropy and insightful leadership characterizing her service. The venue chos…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 06:41PMTuesday, March 14, 2023
The Conductor celebrated emotionally charged discourse governed by mutual respect, intellectual rigor, and passionate argument without the hostility, recriminations, and violence sometimes s…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:24PMFriday, March 10, 2023
Maestro Kent Tritle opened this "Light of Paradise" program with the strings of his world-class orchestra performing George Walker's Lyric for Strings (1946). This work set the tone for the …
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:23PMThursday, March 2, 2023
The cast, setting, dramatization, and well-crafted script evoked yearning, hope, sadness, heartache, and disillusionment. Sharp's adaptation explored family, love, and social status themes a…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 04:30PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
From the onset, Cold Feet was saucy with an eccentric style of humor, bizarre characters like Shelly the orangutan with her goofy grunts and screams, and off-the-wall skits. Laughs were guar…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:28AMThe well-crafted descriptive language in Han! was fundamental to creating vivid and evocative imagery that transported viewers to other times, places, and states of mind. Through rich sensor…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:24AMMonday, February 27, 2023
Kissing the Floor was a well-conceived, powerful dramatization akin to the legendary "sins of the father," ably expressing the overpowering tragedies of Antigone brought to life in the demis…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:31PMSaturday, February 25, 2023
An icon of her generation, Candice Lee is a singer of heartfelt, caring distinction. On stage, she is confident, energetic, and versatile, with a unique blend of musical influences and origi…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 11:09AMFriday, February 24, 2023
This deeply personal family story is an important, unique, and vital account of survival and hopes seen through the eyes of a child ably characterized by gifted actor and raconteur Ingrid Ga…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:22PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Who Murdered Love was a musical comedy extraordinaire At the Theater for the New City. The scene for fun was set as DaDa Love (Elyp Johnson), and the cast sang Mad for Love. This setting pro…
SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:10PM 
