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Fringe binge: The Rochester Fringe Festival returns
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The Rochester Fringe Festival, in its 13th year, runs Sept.10-21, with a total of 650 performances.
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A Shakespearean romance on a summer night
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Rochester Community Players present the odyssey of “Pericles,” one of the bard’s least-performed plays, in the Highland Park Bowl.
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Good neighbors, great music: FLO premieres ‘Two Corners’
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Finger Lakes Opera this weekend will present an opera based on the story of two Alabama women, one white and one Black, whose friendship was severely tested during and after the Civil Rights era.
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Old meets new in chamber music season finale
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The Society for Chamber Music in Rochester’s final concert of its 47th season will feature an interplay between baroque and 20th century works.
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A transforming journey: Alexander Kobrin’s exploration of Beethoven’s piano sonatas
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Eastman faculty member Alexander Kobrin’s year-long Beethoven sonata series reaches its conclusion Wednesday evening at Hatch Recital Hall.
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Vocal meditations on religious faith, duty, and death
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Eastman Opera Theatre this week presents Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites,” based on a play about a convent of nuns during the French Revolution, when practicing their faith was illegal.
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Reviving ‘The Rivals’
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The comedy, produced by Rochester Community Players’ Irish Program, opens tonight at he Multi-Use Community Cultural Center.
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Concert to showcase Black classical musicians in Rochester
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The performance, inaugurating the 50th anniversary season of classical public radio station WXXI, will feature soprano Kearstin Piper Brown and musicians sponsored by the Black Students’ Union at the Eastman School of Music.
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‘Surround sound’ from the 17th century
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Publick Musick’s “Echoes of the Renaissance,” a concert slated for Thursday evening at the Memorial Art Gallery, will underscore that musicians tossing sounds back and forth is nothing new.