By: Andrea Nierenberg 6/5/13 The Russian American Foundation began a presentation of the retrospective of work by Russian-born American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984). Curated by Marina Kovalyov, the exhibition includes over fifty paintings and is on view June 1-16, 2013 at the National Arts Club, as part of the 11th Annual Russian Heritage Month, a celebration of events and exhibits highlighting Russian culture. It was wonderful to attend the opening evening and have a chance to view the beautiful artistic work and sip the delicious Vodka.Tschacbasov's prolific 60-year career includes an incredibly varied oeuvre and extensive exhibition history. His work is...

Review by: Andrea Nierenberg   InsightALT is a new festival of readings and symposia that offers an intimate, inside look into American Lyric Theater’s process of creating new creating new operas at all stages of their development. The inaugural InsightALT festival is taking place  between May 28th and June 3rd, 2013, at the Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Family Auditorium, The JCC in New York City. Public readings of three new operas at different stages of their development will be at the center of the 2013 festival. After each opera, there will be an open discussion exploring the creative process with the composers and librettists,...

Andrea R. Nierenberg, author and business authority, is the force behind The Nierenberg Consulting Group.Nierenberg Group@anierenberg More about Andrea Check out her blog of personal insights, straight from the Andrea Nierenberg, here! Gift Certificate AppreciationPower.com - Send FREE cards! This certificate entitles the holder: 3 Cards with Postage from AppreciationPower.com Visit AppreciationPower.com or call: 212-980-0930 Activate your account and receive a free 15-minute training session! Newest Book In the first military transition book written by an Iraq or Afghanistan veteran, authors Mike Abrams, Dr. Michael L. Faulkner and Andrea Nierenberg provide a guide for a successful military transition into the...

  Review by Andrea Nierenberg Tuesday, May 14, 2013 French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) presents World Nomads Tunisia: Dance, Radhouane El Meddeb: Sous leurs pieds, le paradis Tuesday, May 14 at 8pm From the moment the music and dance began, the audience was totally engaged with the movement and passion of the performer,  Tunisian dancer Radhouane El Meddeb. His skill and talent to move graciously and passionately for almost an hour telling us all a story through his dance. This subtle, moving solo that premiered at the Montpellier Dance Festival in 2012,  pays homage to femininity and the vital, nurturing role...

Review by: Andrea Nierenberg Saturday, May 11, 2013 Mirror Visions Ensemble, a vocal trio featuring soprano Vira Slywotzky, tenor Scott Murphree and baritone Jesse Blumberg “Concert à la carte” Fantastic and entertaining performance with the Mirror Visions Ensemble at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. The 70 minute performance flew by with a combination of smiles and continual entertainment. The program was comprised of food-themed songs by composers such as Samuel Barber, Christopher Berg, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter and Stephen Schwartz.. The program featured Richard Pearson Thomas’ cantata Clean Plates Don’t Lie, a musical celebration of the farm-to-table movement inspired by...

Review by Andrea Nierenberg 5/9/13 "Detroit Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall"  Thursday, May 9, 2013  7:30 pm What energy flowed through the walls at Carnegie Hall with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra accompanied by 628 fans from The Motor City. As the orchestra came on stage- everyone was waving their red flags and banners. It was fantastic! It was their first performance in  17 years at Carnegie Hall. Led by the great Leonard Slatkin,music director since 2008,who is currently recording symphonies of Rachmaninoff and ballet music of Copeland for Naxos with the DSO. The performance last night featured Kurt Weill’s ballet, “The...

Review by: Andrea Nierenberg May 6, 2013 Emerson String Quartet-at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space- May 6 What a wonderful way to spend a Monday early evening listening to the Emerson String Quartet's final New York City concert with cellist David Finckel. This evening's performance was presented by WQXR at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. The Emerson String Quartet stands alone in the history of string quartets with an unparalleled list of achievements over three decades: over thirty acclaimed recordings since 1987, nine Grammy® Awards (including two for Best Classical Album, an unprecedented honor for a chamber music group),...

Review by Andrea Nierenberg April 27, 2013 The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York's premier French cultural center, and the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence hosted a wonderful HD performance of Verdi's La Traviata starring the incredible French soprano Natalie Dessay, Ludovic Tezier and Charles Castronovo. It was absolutely fantastic. Natalie Dessay is France's most celebrated operatic diva since Regine Crespin and was truly mesmerizing.Her voice and acting were superb and was coupled by the fantastic singing and acting both of Ludovic Tezier and Charles Castronovo. Both Tezier and Castronovo were brilliant performers and singers. Verdi's La Traviata is such a passionate love...

Review by Meredith Nierenberg April 18, 2013 Sarasota Ballet's La Fille mal Gardée (The Wayward Daughter) The Ballet, “La Fille mal Gardee”, The Wayward Daughter, was a lot of fun. There was plenty of laughter, smiling all around the theatre. It was a most beautiful, expressive and enticing, romantic comedy brought about by the famous choreographer, Frederick Ashton’s, 1960 version. This ballet is about a country girl, played by Kate Honea, who prefers a handsome, local, penniless farmer, played by Ricardo Graziano, over the childlike, wealthy, nervous and not so cute boy, Alain, played by Logan Learned, that her mother, the...

Review by: Andrea Nierenberg April 20, 2013 What a fantastic concert last night at The 92nd Street Y. From the minute we sat down until that last encore and ovations, the musicians were each unique, brilliant and captivating.The music of Mozart, Jörg Widmann and Olivier Messiaen, all with their unique style and sound were played with passion and precision. Christian Tetzlaff, violin / viola Tanja Tetzlaff, cello Jörg Widmann, clarinet Alexander Lonquich, piano MOZART: Piano Trio in B-flat major, K. 502 WIDMANN: Fantasie for Solo Clarinet MOZART: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, K. 526 MESSIAEN: Quartet for...

Andrea R. Nierenberg, author and business authority, is the force behind The Nierenberg Consulting Group.Nierenberg Group@anierenberg More about Andrea Check out her blog of personal insights, straight from the Andrea Nierenberg, here! Gift Certificate AppreciationPower.com - Send FREE cards! This certificate entitles the holder: 3 Cards with Postage from AppreciationPower.com Visit AppreciationPower.com or call: 212-980-0930 Activate your account and receive a free 15-minute training session! Newest Book In the first military transition book written by an Iraq or Afghanistan veteran, authors Mike Abrams, Dr. Michael L. Faulkner and Andrea Nierenberg provide a guide for a successful military transition into the...

Review by: Meredith Nierenberg April 9, 2013   Lace Bite: 40 amazing women, one cause and the trophy? A cure someday for Cystic Fibrosis.   These 40 amazing women from different parts of Canada, skated for 243 hours and 5 minutes straight, not only to break the Guinness Book of Records for women ice hokey game, they raised $166,000 to help find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis.   Val Skelly, who not only had a young friend with Cystic Fibrosis, her father was involved with the organization for quite a few years. Val wanted to give back to the community And...

Review by: Meredith Nierenberg   April 10, 2013 Review by: Meredith Nierenberg April 11, 2013   EXHIBITION cinema series of "Édouard Manet: Portraying Life" on Thursday, April 11 presented by NCM Fathom Events, BY Experience and PhilGrabskyFilms.com   If you haven’t gone to any Fathom Events at your local theatre, then you are missing out on a lot of wonderful, educational, exciting, and beautiful productions!   On April 11th, I had the opportunity to experience Great Art on the Screen: Manet: Portraying Life.   This exhibition opened with the collectively beautiful paintings of Edouard Manet on exhibit at the Royal...

Review by: Meredith Nierenberg   April 10, 2013     Candida, a play written by George Bernard Shaw, was excellent. It was held in the Cook Theatre at the Aslo Rep. The students from the Conservatory were wonderful.   I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found the production of the play was just as good as the Asolo Rep.   Candida is about the domestic turmoil between a progressive-minded clergyman, by the name of James and his charismatic wife, Candida. The turmoil is caused by the young, 18 year old, very nervous, shy poet, by the name of Eugene Marchbanks. Well, Mr....

Review by: Andrea Nierenberg April 11, 2013 The New York Philharmonic: MOZART’s Piano Concerto No. 23; MESSIAEN’s Les Offrandes Oubliées; BEETHOVEN’s Symphony No. 2 Conductor: David Robertson     Pianist: Pierre-Laurent Aimard What a beautiful concert filled Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center tonight. The symphony played select pieces from Messiaen, Mozart, Murail and Beethoven-all truly inspiring. Each piece had a beauty and dynamic theme all its own- and the treat of the evening was listening the fantastic guest pianist, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who has performed with major orchestras around the world under conductors including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christoph von Dohnanyi- amongst others. As the...

Review by Andrea NierenbergCalling All Dawns - Christopher Tin's debut Album - At Avery Fisher HallWhat a fantastic afternoon enjoying a live performance at Lincoln Center today featuring the music of Christopher Tin, a two time Grammy award winner, at the 53rd Annual Grammy awards that called - All Dawns which is a song-cycle in three movements: day, night and dawn, the last album ever to win the Best Classical Crossover Album category and Baba Yetu made history as the first piece of music written for a video game ever to be nominated for or win a Grammy Award.Each movement of...

Review by: Andrea NierenebergElīna Garanča, Mezzo-Soprano and Kevin Murphy, Pianist- Light Up Carnegie Hall, Saturday, April 6, 2013What a delightful and lovely performance when Elīna Garanča opened her mouth - every note and piece was perfect and she performed with such passion, elegance and grace.Born into a musical family from Latvia, she studied at the Latvian Academy of Music with her mother.Performing all over the world, in Sept 2005, she became an exclusive recording artist with Deutsche Grammophon. This season, she appears at the Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper-Berlin and Semperoper Dresden. She will also embark on a major...

Review by: Andrea Nierenberg Boston Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall April 4 and 5 "Thursday, April 4 at 8:00 p.m., Mr. Gatti takes the podium, leading Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter; the women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, led by John Oliver; and boys of the PALS Children’s Chorus, led by Andy Icochea Icochea." "In the final Boston Symphony Orchestra program, on Friday, April 5 at 8:00 p.m., Maestro Gatti leads the orchestra in an all-Wagner program featuring works from Götterdämmerung, Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Lohengrin, and Tristan und Isolde with guest soloist mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung" The last...

 March 28, 2013 Steinway Society of Sarasota, Inc. Presents... I had the opportunity recently to hear truly beautiful music from the pianist, Arthur Brown. Arthur is the recipient of the Steinway Society of Sarasota, Inc. scholarship. Not only did Arthur play music from Frederic Chopin, he played music that he composed himself. Arthur’s fascination with music began the moment he started playing the violin, under the instruction of Mrs. Angela Hartvicson. He enjoyed every opportunity to listen to classical music whenever he could. He started playing the piano in the latter part of 6 th grade by teaching himself, before he...

March 26, 2013 Considered the finest mansion on Sarasota Bay, The Crosley Estate Foundation held a wonderful and delicious Royal Tea at 'Seagate"- Sarasota's Jewel on the Bay. This beautiful home was the winter residence of Powel and Gwendolyn Crosley. Not only is the estate beautiful-- and was created and finished in 72 - 9 hour workdays, also the man behind it was truly an entrepreneur with many endeavors. From mail order marketing of auto gadgets, he started The American Automobile Accessories Association which was the springboard to his many other successful ventures. He build Crosley Radio Corp to become the...

Sarasota Opera will host a reception for three members of the CLUB Dei 27 who will be traveling from Parma, Italy to attend the final performance ofSarasota Opera's production of Verdi's rarely seen second opera:  A King for a Day (Un giorno di regno)The CLUB Dei 27 is a society of enthusiasts of the music of Verdi.  Founded in 1958 in Parma, Italy, the CLUB Dei 27 consists only of 27 members (Verdi wrote 27 operas), each of which bears the title of an opera by Verdi.The three members that will be in attendance are:"Un giorno di regno" (Enzo Petrolini, Club...

  Andrea R. Nierenberg, author and business authority, is the force behind The Nierenberg Consulting Group.Nierenberg Group@anierenberg More about Andrea Check out her blog of personal insights, straight from the Andrea Nierenberg, here! Gift Certificate AppreciationPower.com - Send FREE cards! This certificate entitles the holder: 3 Cards with Postage from AppreciationPower.com Visit AppreciationPower.com or call: 212-980-0930 Activate your account and receive a free 15-minute training session! Newest Book In the first military transition book written by an Iraq or Afghanistan veteran, authors Mike Abrams, Dr. Michael L. Faulkner and Andrea Nierenberg provide a guide for a successful military transition into the...

Review: 3/3/13   On Sunday, I had the opportunity to see the Sarasota Ballet at the Asolo Repertory Theatre. It consisted of three ballets: Les Rendezvous, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, Lilac Garden, choreographed by Antony Tudor, and I Napoletani, choreographed by Dominic Walsh.   They were all wonderful. Les Rendezvous was a traditional ballet. The Principal Girl, Victoria Hulland and the Principal Boy, Ricardo Graziano, were fabulous. And of course along with the rest of the dancers. Their poise and grace were outstanding and genuine.   I Napoletani was fun. It was set to Italian music and props were used....

Review: 3/2/13 The Acting Company’s AS YOU LIKE IT Directed by Dan Rothenberg Shakespeare's light hearted comedy 'As You Like It' came to The New Victory Theater and came in with a bang! Directed by Dan Rothenberg, the production begins with an almost Jazz like feel. The actors are very animated and truly come into their own during the second act which is fast moving. The scenery changes from the Jazz environment to most of the play appearing to be a graphic jungle with lush landscapes. Drama and wit center around the main character, Rosalind,who is played by Elizabeth Stahlman-who brings...

Review: March 1, 2013 Tonight I could have been sitting in a concert hall in Vienna as I listened to the mesmerizing Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. From the minute,the charismatic and celebrated conductor, Franz Welser-Möst walked on stage and began working his magic, everyone sat in awe. Each piece had its own story and intensity. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is probably the most closely associated with the history and tradition of European classical music. In the course of its 171 year history, the mostly male orchestra with 4 female musicians travel throughout the world. Their mission is to communicate...

Andrea R. Nierenberg, author and business authority, is the force behind The Nierenberg Consulting Group.Nierenberg Group@anierenberg More about Andrea Check out her blog of personal insights, straight from the Andrea Nierenberg, here! Gift Certificate AppreciationPower.com - Send FREE cards! This certificate entitles the holder: 3 Cards with Postage from AppreciationPower.com Visit AppreciationPower.com or call: 212-980-0930 Activate your account and receive a free 15-minute training session! Newest Book In the first military transition book written by an Iraq or Afghanistan veteran, authors Mike Abrams, Dr. Michael L. Faulkner and Andrea Nierenberg provide a guide for a successful military transition into the...

 Brought to you by: The Nierenberg Group: The Gold Standard in Customized Executive Training, Business Workshops, Consulting & Keynote Addresses www.NierenbergGroup.com   Review: February 3, 2013 By: Andrea Nierenberg - See more at: http://www.don411.com/index.php/entry/andrea-nierenberg-s-review-of-19-year-old-korean-born-cellist-james-kim-with-pianist-larry-weng-at-carnegie-s-weill-recital-hall#sthash.F9Y0fabV.dpuf Brought to you by: The Nierenberg Group: The Gold Standard in Customized Executive Training, Business Workshops, Consulting & Keynote Addresses www.NierenbergGroup.com   Review: February 7, 2013 By: Andrea Nierenberg   Asia Society - The Knights and Wu ManThe Asia Society had a spectacular concert with renowned pipa virtuoso, Wu Man, who performed classic and contemporary chamber orchestra works with the progressive New York classical ensemble The...

 Brought to you by: The Nierenberg Group: The Gold Standard in Customized Executive Training, Business Workshops, Consulting & Keynote Addresses www.NierenbergGroup.com   Review: February 3, 2013 By: Andrea Nierenberg   Review: 2/2/13 By: Andrea Nierenberg Review: 2/2/13 By: Andrea Nierenberg Review: 2/2/13 By: Andrea Nierenberg The Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall was filled to capacity to hear the debut of Korean-born cellist, James Kim, who is the Winner of Charlotte White's Salon de Virtuosi and Sony-USA Foundation Career Grant and a first prize winner of numerous international competitions.James Kim, 19 years old and his almost as young pianist partner, Larry...

 Brought to you by: The Nierenberg Group: The Gold Standard in Customized Executive Training, Business Workshops, Consulting & Keynote Addresses www.NierenbergGroup.com     Review: 2/2/13 By: Andrea Nierenberg Ice skating legend, and Olympic champion, Dick Button, led the discussion, and guided us through video screening honoring The Ice Theatre of New York at Lincoln Center which was founded by Moira North in 1984. It has become the nation's premier ice dance company and is nationally known for challenging conventional definitions of figure skating by creating works integrating the sensibilities of contemporary dance, music and art.  The audience was captivated while we...

Review: 1/30/13By: Andrea NierenbergWatching musical theater in creation - was the epitome of One Night Stand, a documentary about four short musicals that are written, rehearsed and performed in 24 hours. You are behind the scenes watching all the emotions the actors, writers and choreographers go through. It is also lots of fun and funny to almost feel that you are part of the cast.The show opened and closed in one night-- truly a 'One Night Stand'. I watched it in New York at the legendary Ziegfeld and it also played in 450 theaters across the country.Starting off with the creative...