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THE PANDEMIC MIRACLE OF COLOSSUS

At a time when international touring is at a standstill, the Festival has put together a challenging collaborative dance project, Colossus, created by Australian choreographer Stephanie Lake, with more than 50 dancers from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Creating mass movement that is both organic and spectacular is a hallmark of Stephanie Lake’s large-scale public shows, such as .......

Artists in the Time of Social Distancing: Terri Lyne Carrington

1. How would you describe your daily life in the time of self-isolation? My daily life has been busier in self-isolation than it was before. I have more meetings and correspondences, and the projects that I’m working on take up more time, so it’s challenging and sometimes stressful. ...

Artists in the Time of Social Distancing: Rudresh Mahanthappa

1. How would you describe your daily life in the time of self-isolation? I think that the word "unbalanced" sums it up. My kids are quite young: 7 1/2 and almost 4. In many ways, it has been amazing to spend this much time with them. However, I have had little time to do anything else, including making or even thinking about music. There is hardly ever a moment of silence in our household outside ...

Fly Higher: Charlie Parker @ 100 Takes Off

Miles Davis once said that he could encapsulate the history of jazz in just four words “Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker”. ...

Sibelius and <i>Kullervo</i>

"I would not wish to tell a lie in art …… But I think I am now on the right path. I now grasp those Finnish, purely Finnish tendencies in music less realistically but more truthfully than before", says Sibelius in regard to Kullervo. This epic piece precipitates his new, modern Finnish style in ways that were to inform the rest of his career....