• Most Recent
• Highest Rated
• Hot Comments

Knight Arts

• Summer 2012 at the Philadelphia Orchestra

  
  
  

  By Vincent Geels, The Philadelphia Orchestra

  Though the summer is traditionally considered downtime for most, The Philadelphia Orchestra has been keeping busy with out-of-state residencies, performances at the Mann Center, and free Neighborhood Concerts in Cheltenham and at Penn’s Landing. The iNotes team has been keeping busy, too, with [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Knight Arts Challenge Philly makes Comcast Newsmakers

  
  
  

  Philadelphia Program Director Donna Frisby-Greenwood chats about the ins and outs of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia on Comcast Newsmakers. Enjoy the video above

  [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• “We are Charlotte”: a unique perspective

  
  
  

  A thought provoking and honest photography exhibition, “We are Charlotte,” opened this week at the Light Factory (a Knight Arts grantee) in Uptown Charlotte. It is the culmination of a Student Art Exchange program that high school students from Myers Park, Northwest School of the [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• O Cinema presents a free night of short films by local directors

  
  
  

  It’s right there, he said. O, I said. Cinema? It’s easy to get lost in the jungle of Miami’s booming and ever-expanding performing arts scene. It’s a kaleidoscope of color, sound, movement and magic with so many spokes — performances staged here, there and everywhere — that [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Ryan Parker provides a lot to find at Space 1026

  
  
  

  Ryan Parker is displaying a number of prints at Space 1026 for his show “Finder,” which is nothing short of a-maze-ing. Contrived puns aside, the black-and-white structures Parker creates are both eerie and inviting in a way that only the puzzle [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Random Acts of Culture™ at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

  
  
  

  By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

  Staff and visitors at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi were surprised by a Random Act of Culture on August 16, 2012.  A very talented musical chamber group called the Sixth Floor Trio received a grant from the [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Twenty teens selected to be part of Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Young Adult Writer-in-Residence program

  
  
  

  By Victoria Galan, Miami-Dade Public Library System

  More than a hundred teens representing fifty-five different schools from around the County submitted their writing samples and applications for their chance at a spot in Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Young Adult Writer-in-Residence Program. Over the summer, Young Adult author and [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• For MISO conductor, new music is vital to the project

  
  
  

  Eduardo Marturet and the Miami Symphony Orchestra.

  Eduardo Marturet uses a computer metaphor when he talks about the impact of new music on listeners.

  “I love to give you music, that when you come in and sit in your chair, and you’ve come in from your work and [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Longtime arts journalist Matt Peiken to launch MNuet, a comprehensive Twin Cities classical music resource

  
  
  

  “I love starting things. I love the challenge of building something new that really works,” says Matt Peiken, longtime arts journalist and founder of a new online hub for Minnesota classical music coverage, MNuet.com, which is set to launch September 4.

  The impresario behind MNuet, [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• New conductor aims to widen appeal of Macon Symphony Orchestra

  
  
  

  With the announcement of new musical director and conductor Ward Stare, the Macon Symphony Orchestra, a Knight Arts grantee, has set the stage for one of its richest and most exciting seasons in recent memory. When talking to Stare, one quickly notices his ambition [...]

  Share  |  Rate