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North Carolina’s own Steep Canyon Rangers return with their straight-ahead bluegrass, which devotes its virtuosity to original songs and adds original twists to traditional music with unforgettable country-pop and singer-songwriter sensibilities.
Dubbed the Jon Stewart of the Arab world, cardiothoracic surgeon Bassem Youssef created the first political satire show in the Middle East, earning millions of viewers every week. Now residing in California, he shares his wry observations on his own story, the current state of American politics, and how propaganda lays the foundation for dictatorial... Read More →
Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich, renowned for their spectacular virtuosity and piercing intelligence, join forces in this wide-ranging program of modern piano masterpieces.
Singer, songwriter, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician, N’Dour is the undisputed king of Senegalese music, mixing the country’s traditional mbalax with everything from Cuban rumba to hip-hop, jazz, and soul.
This choreographer’s genome, converted to an algorithm, controls the ordering of the 23 dance sections of Autobiography for each performance, resulting in a “tantalizingly personal” new dance work exploring the chapters of human life.
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, founded in 1989 by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, stands as the world’s foremost large-scale period performance orchestra. Their interpretations of Classical and Romantic works, using the principles and original instruments of historically informed performance, are a revelation in this all Berlioz program.
Performed in German and English Subtitles Version by Florian Borchmeyer Direction by Thomas Ostermeier A city’s drinking water is contaminated, and two brothers, the town’s doctor and mayor, line up on opposite sides of a war pitting money and politics against the health and safety of the town. Henrik Ibsen’s classic play is newly considered... Read More →
Eric Clapton calls him the best guitar player alive. His radical gumbo of Chicago blues, avant rock, soul, and free jazz has influenced pretty much any guitarist whose name you know. And his live performances are legendary; at his 2012 White House concert he had President Obama singing along. Don’t miss Buddy Guy’s second appearance... Read More →
Mexican-born songstress Magos Herrera and the omnivorous string quartet Brooklyn Rider join forces to reinterpret classics from Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and Spain, celebrating such luminaries as Octavio Paz, Federico García Lorca, and Rubén Darío.
In the universe of independent singer-songwriters, Neko Case is near the epicenter. After several years collaborating with kd lang and Laura Veirs, she has released her first solo album since 2013: the acclaimed Hell-On. Speaks for itself, no?
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