La Belle et La Bête - Rehearsal
It's SHOWTIME folks!!!
TONIGHT Present Music kicks off the 2022-23 season at Milwaukee Art Museum with French Connection, featuring Jean Cocteau's iconic 1946 film La Belle et La Bête (aka Beauty and the Beast) with live music from The Philip Glass opera.
Here is a peek into last night's rehearsal, just as the performers finish the first complete run-through. One thing is for sure...it takes stamina to play this music for over 90 minutes!!! We can't wait to share it with you
Also Urban Milwaukee just put out a very detailed preview of tonight's show. Check it out right here: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2022/09/09/classical-present-music-rethinks-beauty-and-the-beast/
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Join Present Music for a very French 🇫🇷 evening at the Milwaukee Art Museum!
* Experience Jean Cocteau's iconic 1946 film La Belle et La Bête (aka Beauty and the Beast) with live music from The Philip Glass opera
* Visit the Always New Posters of Jules Chêret exhibit at MAM open exclusively for French Connection ticket holders between 6:00 pm and 7:30 pm
* Mingle at the cash bar between 6:30 and 7:30 pm in Windhover Hall at MAM
* Enjoy free admission to MAM between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm with French Connection ticket purchase
* Enter our raffle at the performance and earn a chance to win a membership with MAM, membership with the French Alliance, or a gift card for the French Restaurant Pastiche
Sunday, September 11th 7:30 pm at the Milwaukee Art Museum
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Here's a Thanksgiving: Circle Unbroken sneak peek sent in from the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelical by our featured composer Raven Chacon.
Can you imagine how it's going to look and sound when we give the place the Present Music touch this Sunday?
Don't wait, buy your tickets now and come see for yourself!
Thanksgiving: Circle Unbroken
Sunday November 21st
🎟️ TICKETS 🎟️ : https://www.presentmusic.org/events
🖥️ Also available to stream online November 24-28 🖥️
We've got some more behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage of "Voiceless Mass" by composer Raven Chacon.
Thanksgiving: Circle Unbroken
Sunday November 21st
🎟️ TICKETS 🎟️ : https://www.presentmusic.org/events
🖥️ Also available to stream online November 24-28 🖥️
We've got some more behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage of "Voiceless Mass" by composer Raven Chacon.
Thanksgiving: Circle Unbroken
Sunday November 21st
🎟️ TICKETS 🎟️ : https://www.presentmusic.org/events
🖥️ Also available to stream online November 24-28 🖥️
Here's a peek 👀 at Krists Auznieks piece "Untimed," commissioned by Present Music, which will be making it's world premiere TONIGHT at the Jan Serr Studio.
Join us in person or on the livestream.
Tickets are still available for both Oct 14 & 15, but limited seating is going fast! www.presentmusic.org/events
It's show day!!! 🤩 Our 40th anniversary season kicks off TONIGHT with "Keeping Time".
Check out this gorgeous excerpt of "Negative Space" composed by Leila Adu, featuring Milwaukee vocalist Donna Woodall!
Get the full gamut of Adu's work as well as the *world premiere* of "Untimed" by Latvian composer Krists Auznieks by joining us in-person at the Jan Serr Studio or via livestream.
Tickets are still available for both Oct 14 & 15, but limited seating is going fast! www.presentmusic.org/events
Thanks to ensemble member Derek Johnson for capturing the video at rehearsal.
ICYMI: The incredible Milwaukee-based movement artist Maria Gillespie 😍 is choreographing two new dance works for our season opening concerts this Thursday and Friday!!
In-person and livestream tickets still available for "Keeping Time" at Jan Serr Studio: www.presentmusic.org/events
Gillespie's dances, "ricochet between vulnerability and strength with razor-sharp shifts in intensity and intent."
~ LA Times
"Gillespie holds back nothing, either as a performer or as a choreographer."
~ Orange County Register
👀 a preview of her dance work "Migrations of Gesture" playing below
CREDITS:
Choreography: Maria Gillespie
Composer: Barry Paul Clark
We can't wait to celebrate our 40th Anniversary Season with you so so soon!
"these broken wings" by David Lang
FRIDAY! Join us for our virtual season finale concert, NEON LIFE!
Many many thanks to everyone, from the musicians to the video and audio architects, to our amazing supporters that allow us to continue doing this new music making thing. 👏👏👏
CHEERS to hanging in there with us throughout this unprecedented year! We'll see you at the show...
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$10 Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neon-life-tickets-116647713451
Aviya Kopelman "Neon Lights" Teaser
🤩 JOIN US for our season finale concert this FRIDAY, June 11 at 7:30pm CDT! 🤩
From gritty to majestic, funky to eloquent, this concert has everything it takes to close out this unprecedented season in proper Present Music fashion.
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Filmed in high-definition video and audio at Turner Hall, the concert video includes four original new short films created exclusively for this concert by Tankthink, produced by the ever creative Wes Tank.
Featured composers include: Aviya Kopelman (whose piece, Neon Lights, is featured below), David Lang, Daniel Kidane, Tansy Davies, Henry Threadgill and Louis Andriessen.
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JOIN US!
Tickets start at just $10:
www.eventbrite.com/e/neon-life-tickets-116647713451
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