Author: Mollie Siu-Chong

Jazz Meets Artificial Intelligence in this FREE Engagement

Building off ideas and collaborating equally, the robot marimba player listens to bandmates live to present original compositions influenced by jazz & hip-hop.

The First-Rate Follies of ‘Safety Last!’

Instead of exaggerating society’s eccentricities (however memorably), Harold Lloyd distinguished himself from silent-film peers Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton by embracing everyday matters of his era and audience.

Safety Last!

A treasure of the silent-film era, the 1923 classic will be screened in an historic movie house with accompaniment from Clark Wilson on the Mighty Wurlitzer.

Arturo O’Farrill, a man with glasses and a beard, stands smiling with arms crossed in a black short-sleeve shirt and jeans before a colorful graffiti mural and metal shutter.

Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

A longtime soloist for Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, and Harry Belafonte, Arturo has led the ensemble (rechristened the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra) since 1995, performing worldwide and earning two Grammy® awards.

Dinosaur Zoo Live

Get ready for the ultimate playdate 65 million years in the making! Meet an eye-popping collection of amazingly lifelike dinosaurs brought to life on stage!

A musician from Cage the Elephant with a guitar performs on stage facing a lively crowd, with many audience members raising their hands and a person crowd-surfing above them.

Celebrating Convos alumni in the 59th Annual Grammy Awards

We highlight our music history by listing the many past performers who earned 2017 Grammy Award nominations.

Verona String Quartet Program Notes

Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110 (1821-22) by Ludwig van Beethoven (Bonn, 1770 – Vienna, 1827) Like the late string quartets, the late Beethoven piano sonatas are surrounded by their own mystique. In them, Beethoven broke a creative...

Calmus Program Notes

William Shakespeare, one of the most shining – and miraculous – figures in the history of all literature, died 400 years ago in 1616. Despite Shakespeare’s universal appeal, there still remains some debate even today about the authenticity of his...

Program: Inon Barnatan

The pianist has studied alongside some of the 20th century’s most distinguished instructors and will present Brahms’ “Chaconne,” “Handel Variations,” and more.

Scenes from Kannapolis with Jenny Scheinman

Folk music sheds light on Great Depression in Kannapolis

Jenny Scheinman’s Kannapolis presents Depression-era America as an intricate assembly of different fabrics woven into a beautiful pattern of personalities, passions, and perspectives.

A New Orleans jazz pianist in a dark shirt and khaki pants leans forward, playing an upright piano intently in a dimly lit room with brick walls, a framed mirror, and abstract art on the wall.

New Orleans jazz pianist, accompanied by Indy musicians, to perform Oct. 22 at Purdue

This New Orleans native and rising jazz-piano star, winner of the 2015 Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz, will be joined by three of the hottest Indy players for a performance on October 22nd at Loeb Playhouse.

L.A. Theatre Works, Susan Ablert Loewenberg, producing director presents: Judgment at Nuremburg

‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ to be presented Oct. 18-19 at Purdue

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of World War II, L.A. Theatre Works brings their courtroom drama, ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’, to Loeb Playhouse.