Three concerts featuring composer Steve Reich’s "Drumming," music inspired by massive storms, and a string quartet joined by an Australian didgeridoo player are featured in the 2016-17 season of Fuze, the out-of-the-box series presented by Akron’s Tuesday Musical. Two of the concerts are at the Akron Art Museum. All begin at 7 p.m. and end with refreshments and … [Read more...]
Explore ‘The Planets’ plus So Percussion on Oct. 15 at EJ Thomas Hall
Explore the mysteries of outer space and the inventiveness of percussion when Tuesday Musical and The Akron Symphony co-present “The Planets” plus So Percussion on Saturday, Oct. 15, 8 p.m., at EJ Thomas Hall. Using “found” instruments — twigs, tuned wine bottles, metal pipes, steel drum — So Percussion will play against the backdrop of the Akron Symphony, … [Read more...]
Yeats, Dickinson combine with jazz in April 21 concert presented by Tuesday Musical
Combining jazz and classical with the poems of Yeats and Dickinson, pianist and composer Gregg Kallor and mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala will perform Thursday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in EJ Thomas Hall, presented by Tuesday Musical. The finale of Tuesday Musical’s 2015-16 season, the concert will include selections from the duo’s Exhilaration, a CD featuring Kallor’s … [Read more...]
Roomful of Teeth concludes Tuesday Musical’s Fuze series
The vocal vibrancy of the Grammy-winning a cappella ensemble Roomful of Teeth concludes this season of Tuesday Musical’s Fuze series on Tuesday, April 5. Praised by The New York Times for “making nerdiness cool,” Roomful of Teeth mines the expressive potential of the human voice with world-inspired grooves. The concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Akron-Summit County … [Read more...]
Fuze concert series includes Grammy winners Roomful of Teeth
(Courtesy of Tuesday Musical Association) Roomful of Teeth, the Grammy-winning ensemble that mines the expressive potential of the human voice, is part of the 2015-16 season of Fuze, the out-of-the-box, up-close and classical series presented by Tuesday Musical Association. This season, Fuze features three concerts at three different venues. All of the performers are … [Read more...]
