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La Marisoul Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts October 12

The 2021-22 Flavor will marking the 10thursday Anniversary and the reopening of the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya). In celebration and as a welcome back after the pandemic, The Soraya is offering the special souvenir of five costless concerts to the public. To my knowledge, no other functioning venue has washed this until at present. Of the nearly l performances beingness presented at The Soraya during its upcoming flavor, the gratis concerts will be presented throughout the Autumn flavour and will include the Saturday Oct sixteen Opening Night with Afro Latin Jazz master Arturo O'Farrill, the LA Philharmonic's Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen leading the Colburn Schoolhouse Orchestra, Christmas in Vienna with the legendary Vienna Boys Choir and the annual holiday celebration Nochebuena with Ballet Folklorico de Los Angeles and Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéller.

The Soraya's Executive & Artistic Director, Thor Steingraber, in front of The Soraya - Photo credit Luis Luque

The Soraya'south Executive & Artistic Managing director, Thor Steingraber, in forepart of The Soraya – Photo credit Luis Luque

"This coming fall, when you enter The Soraya's doors, you lot know you volition have fabricated it—safe and sound, beyond the threshold into a new era, rejoining a community that embraces artistic excellence and the global expression of our blithesome humanity," said Thor Steingraber, The Soraya's Executive and Artistic Managing director. "Reopening The Soraya is more lighting the lights and unlocking the doors. It's an invitation to open your hearts, minds, eyes, and ears."

He continued, "In a little more than than a decade, The Soraya has proven its resilience more than once, and in every case, our audiences' commitment to our exquisite habitation is infrequent. For our 10th ceremony, we've planned a homecoming for beloved and familiar artists who in one case graced our phase."

Martha Graham Dance Company - Appalachian Spring - Photo credit Melissa Sherwood

Martha Graham Trip the light fantastic Company – Appalachian Jump – Photo credit Melissa Sherwood

Amid the returning artists on the 2021-22 flavor is the Martha Graham Trip the light fantastic toe Company, led by Artistic Director Janet Eilber, on November nineteen, 2021, at 8 PM. The visitor's program will include Graham'southward widely acclaimed Appalachian Spring choreographed in 1944. At The Soraya, the Graham Company's performance will be accompanied with Aaron Copland's iconic music score performed live by Los Angeles-based music grouping Wild Upward pb by Artistic Director and Founder Christopher Roundtree. This will mark the Martha Graham Trip the light fantastic toe Visitor's fourth advent at The Soraya.

The list of other returning artists include Esa-Pekka Salonen & the Colburn Orchestra, La Marisoul, Branford Marsalis, Stewart Copeland in a unique operation of  music of The Police force, Joshua Bell, Marco Beltrami, Vadym Kholodenko, Aida Cuevas, David Sedaris, John Eliot Gardiner, Megan Hilty, Joshua Henry, conductor Richard Kaufman, and The Soraya's new Creative person-in-Residence Étienne Gara.

Étienne Gara participates in 2 much anticipated programs: Delirium Musicum Sleeping room Orchestra with Gara performing works of two contemporary composers – Philip Drinking glass and Max Richter, each in response to Vivaldi's dear Iv Seasons. In a second program, film composer Marco Beltrami transforms Bach'due south preludes also performed by Delirium Musicum.

Stewart Copeland - Photo courtesy of the artist.

"The long wait is finally over for all of u.s.," said CSUN's new President, Erika D. Beck. "Audiences from every walk of life in LA's vibrant cultural tapestry, the re-opening of The Soraya will exist a momentous occasion, an opportunity to reunite as a community, to celebrate our resilience, and to sally into a world made better by the monumental power of live performance."

Other highlights of The Soraya's 2021-22 Season La Marisoul and Aida Cuevas performing their Linda Ronstadt program; Deranged for Orchestra; YAMATO – the Drummers of Nihon; and a Broadway evening with Megan Hilty (Broadway and Hollywood Wicked; NBC's Smash); Joshua Henry (Broadway Carousel, Tour Aaron Burr Hamilton); and The Count Basie Orchestra celebrates Ella Fitzgerald.

The listing of FREE concerts include: Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Fandango at the Wall with Special Guests the Villalobos Brothers and the Conga Patria Son Jarocho Collective (October xvi, 2021, at 8 PM); The Colburn Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor; Vienna Boys Choir, Christmas in Vienna (Sun, November xx, 2021 at iii PM); Disney's FANTASIA Live in Concert, Richard Kaufman conducting (Sabbatum, Dec 4, 2021 at 3 PM); and Nochebuena, Ballet Folklorico de Los Angeles, and Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéller (Fri, December 10, 2021 at eight PM, and Saturday, December eleven, 2021 at iii PM.)

The Soraya offers a sneak-peak at the 2021-22 Crescendo series, a wide ranging eleven classical music concerts including Esa-Pekka Salonen & the Colburn Orchestra performing Shostakovich and Bruckner; the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko in a program of Britten, Elgar and the Grieg Piano Concerto with piano soloist Olga Kern; the LA Jewish Symphony with violinist Lindsay Deutsch in a plan inspired by the Violins of Hope; pianist Vadym Kholodenko; Russian National Orchestra playing the Tchaikovsky Quaternary; Academy of St Marin in the Fields with Joshua Bell in its 8th Soraya functioning; the St. Lawrence Cord Quartet; and Sir John Gardiner conducting a Baroque program of Haydn and Mozart.  Tickets for the Crescendo serial become on sale in September.

Additional Jazz, Dance, and other offerings for Spring, 2022, will be announced in September.

For a total look at The Soraya'due south 2021-22 Season, Tickets, and Safety/Health protocols, please visit The Soraya website Hither .


Written by Jeff Slayton for LA Dance Chronicle.

Featured image:  Martha Graham Trip the light fantastic Company – Appalachian Jump – Photograph credit Melissa Sherwood

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