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There is no official word from the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, but the Dave Matthews Band say they’re playing the outdoor amphitheater for two nights in May.
The calendar on the band’s website says the jam band will be at SPAC on May 25 and 26.
Pre-sale for tickets will be held on Feb. 21 and tickets go on sale to the general public on March 22.
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“Spring Bed #4” by Catherine Wagner Minnery of Saratoga Springs was named best in show at Albany Center Gallery’s Project Art, a pop-up gallery at last weekend’s Great Northeast Home Show at Times Union Center.
The award for the 8-by-8-inch oil-on-panel painting comes with a $250 prize and is meant to recongize a single work that stood out among the more than 90 entries of various mediums by artists from throughout the Capital Region.
Four other works received recognition as honorable mentions. They were:
The jurors of the show were Elizabeth Dubben, director of exhibitions at Saratoga Arts; Tony Iadicicco, executive director of Albany Center Gallery; and Michael Janairo, Times Union’s arts and entertainment editor.
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Albany Symphony Orchestra music director David Alan Miller, coming off the blockbuster success of Yo-Yo Ma’s sell-out performance last month, on Thursday announced the ASO’s 2013-14 season.
The featured concert will be a special gala performance next January with acclaimed pianist Andre Watts, who is slated to fill the Palace Theatre with the sweeping Romantic grandeur of Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2.
Watts previously performed with the ASO in 1995, and has been a frequent guest with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, having performed the Brahms piece in 1997 at SPAC.
Another superstar performer slated to play with the ASO is Dame Evelyn Glennie, the Scottish percussionist who was featured during the Olympics opening ceremonies in London last year. She will be the featured soloist of the May 17, 2014, American Music Festival at EMPAC in Troy, performing “Strike Zones” by Joan Tower.
Known for featuring the work of new composers, the ASO season includes three world premieres of pieces by Clarice Assad, Aaron Jay Kernis and Conor Brown.
The ASO is also known mixing new with old, and the season will include cherished works such as Ravel’s “Bolero,” Tschaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade,” Beethoven’s Third Symphony and Barber’s Violin Concerto.
For ticket information, contact the Albany Symphony Orchestra at 465-4755 or visit http://www.albanysymphony.com.
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Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer is now performing Women of Will in New York City, and the big city is loving it (Read the AP review).
The latest evidence comes from NY Mag’s Approval Matrix.
Congrats, Tina!
Read previous reviews of Women of Will by the Times Union:
http://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/women-of-will-shakespeare-and-company-62010/2139/
How can the extreme conditions of military life be translated into contemporary dance?
Choreographers Lee Sher and Saar Harari of LeeSaar The Company (founded in Israel, now based in New York City) spent four years researching that question. The result is “grass and jackals,” a new work onstage Friday at Mass MoCA that was presented as a work-in-progress at Jacob’s Pillow in the summer of 2012.
Using dramatic lighting by Avi Yona Bueno and movement structured as a continual series of climaxes, the piece shifts among moods of isolation, vulnerability, intimacy and imminent violence as the dancers—who hail from Taiwan, Korea, the United States, Malaysia, Canada and Israel—are pushed to the edge of their physical abilities.
LEESAAR THE COMPANY: GRASS AND JACKALS
When: 8 p.m. Friday
Where: MASS MoCA, 87 Marshall St., North Adams, Mass.
Tickets: $15; students, $10
Info: (413) 662-2111
— Tresca Weinstein
SCHENECTADY — Modern dance is an abstract art, with bodies moving through 3-dimensional space creating lines that appear and disappear in a snap.
The centerpiece of the British troupe Motionhouse’s performance Saturday night on the Mainstage at Proctors, however, was something very concrete: a large curved wall like a skateboarder’s quarter-pipe that stood in the middle of the stage and rose more than 12-feet.
In “Scattered,” a crowd-pleasing 65-minute piece, that wall, which was designed by Simon Dormon, was not only a screen for projected images — such as glaciers, ice floes, the inside of a freezer, drops of water, a pools of water, a desert landscape, snowfall and avalanches — but also the point from which dancers launched their bodies or to which they threw themselves.
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Valentines Music Hall at 17 New Scotland Ave., Albany, will host a double record release show on Sunday, as local punk rockers The Slaughterhouse Chorus and Bad Friends unveil new work on vinyl.
Henry’s Rifle, Maggot Brain and Syracuse’s Bridge Under Fire will join in the fun. The show kicks off at 7 p.m. for the 18 and older show. Tickets are $5.
The Slaughterhouse Chorus and Bridge Under Fire teamed up for a split album on Syracuse label L.R.S. Records. Limited to 200 copies on randomly mixed color vinyl, the split features two songs by each band. A third track from each group will also be available via a digital download card included with the record.
Albany fastcore favorites Bad Friends will drop its long-awaited debut record, blasting through ten tracks in as many minutes. Self-released by the band, the records will be available on clear, gold and black vinyl, limited to 100 copies each.
Lark Street shop Fuzz Records will be on hand slinging their wares. For information, go to http://valentinesalbany.com.
Which came first: the sculpture or the drawing? Most sculptors will tell you that a three-dimensional finished piece is likely preceded by a two-dimensional one. Whether a quick gesture in a sketchbook or a detailed schematic, drawing and sculpture are often intimately connected. Drawing offers a way to work through ideas and sometimes may even be the final product for a sculptor, reflecting a similar line of inquiry as their sculptural work. A new show at Troy’s Fulton Street Gallery will give viewers insight into this part of the sculptor’s process. ”Working/Drawing,” curated by Albany artist Ken Ragsdale, presents the drawings of 22 sculptors from two corners of the country, the Northeast and the Northwest. Collar Works Gallery is pitching in promotional help since the show switched to Fulton Street during a period of uncertainty about the former’s location. An opening reception Friday is part of Troy Night Out, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fulton Street Gallery, 406 Fulton St., Troy. 518-331-0217
