L.A. correspondent Diane Daou predicts the Oscars – and gets them right!
Posted February 25th, 2009 byCategories: Film
Filmmaker/commentator Diane Daou predicted Best Film, Best Actor and Best Actress correctly on our show of Feb. 22.
Categories: Film
Arizona Opera’s Don Giovanni
Posted February 25th, 2009 byCategories: Classical Music, Opera and Jazz
Arizona Opera artistic director Joel Revson talks about Mozart, Don Giovanni, and his company’s 2009-2010 season.
Phoenix Chorale wins the Grammy!
Posted February 14th, 2009 byCategories: Classical Music, Opera and Jazz
The best small classical ensemble on earth, according to the Grammy Awards, is the Phoenix Chorale, formerly the Phoenix Bach Choir. Our L.A. correspondent Diane Daou reported live from the Grammys during our show of Feb. 8. Listen to her report the excitement!
Conducting opera, talking opera
Posted February 14th, 2009 byCategories: Classical Music, Opera and Jazz
Conductor Joseph Rescigno, in Phoenix recently to lead Arizona Opera’s Elixir of Love, shares his thoughts about opera, singers, and the great opera composers.
Caio Pagano, pianist
Posted February 14th, 2009 byCategories: Classical Music, Opera and Jazz
Caio Pagano is a pianist of international repute, and a devoted resident of our Valley. Recently, Caio talked about the piano, music, and becoming a citizen of the United States.
ATC’s “Raisin in the Sun”
Posted February 5th, 2009 byCategories: Theater, Dance and Other
Sara Bernstein, education manager for Arizona Theatre Company, discusses the importance of ATC’s latest production, “Raisin in the Sun.”
Of Grammies, Alice Tully Hall, and the Phoenix Chorale
Posted February 5th, 2009 byCategories: Classical Music, Opera and Jazz
Since its start 50 years ago, the Phoenix Chorale (formerly the Phoenix Bach Choir) has risen from community group to one of the globe’s best-regarded choral organizations. Proof: Arizona’s only professional choir is nominated for four Grammies, including Best Classical Album, and it will be the first a capella choir to sing in New York’s newly refurbished Alice Tully Hall, March 16. You can stream the Grammies this Sunday, Feb. 8, to see if our hometown choir’s an international winner, but before you do, take a moment to listen to the choir’s executive director, tenor Joel Rinsema, wax eloquent about his life’s passion.
A new work, a hidden work
Posted February 5th, 2009 byCategories: Visual Arts
Our “docent-in-residence” Clark Olson discusses two works in the contemporary collection at Phoenix Art Museum: A new acquisition, and one that’s hidden in plain sight.
Dale Wasserman, the Impossible Dreamer
Posted February 5th, 2009 byCategories: Theater, Dance and Other
Before he passed away in December at the age of 94, “Man of La Mancha” author Dale Wasserman talked with us about his life, his career, and his latest play. The result was so mesmerizing that we dedicated an entire show to it.
James Ballinger on James Turrell
Posted February 5th, 2009 byCategories: Visual Arts
Longtime Phoenix Art Museum director James Ballinger discusses PAM’s new work by renowned sculptor James Turrell.