LAS VEGAS — Her hips don't lie and neither do her massive album sales. International pop star Shakira was honored as the 2011 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year in Las Vegas Wednesday night.
Henderson’s ArtBeat concert series will kick off its fall season this weekend with a performance by Peace Frog, a tribute band in the style of 1960s-rockers the Doors.
Some of the valley's top young performers will make music at the Clark County Library on Sunday as the Nevada Chamber Symphony concludes its winter concert series.
Las Vegas’ largest performing arts institutions have faced an odd predicament over the past two years: an economy that’s forced them to slash budgets, while simultaneously struggling to grow in preparation for their move to the Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
An odd little online feud, based entirely on a misunderstanding, took place in the music world last year. Involved: Beck, The Fiery Furnaces, Radiohead and 20th century avant-garde composer Harry Partch, who died in 1974.
The Historic Fifth Street School has become somewhat of a cultural hub since re-opening in fall 2008 after an extensive refurbishing. The 1936 building at 401 S. Fourth St., has become a common gathering place for theatrical performances, recitals and arts group mixers. But nothing says high-minded revelry like four guys in bow ties, a killer pianist and a gaggle of mandolins.
Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra has become a familiar staple for orchestras since it premiered in Boston in 1944, but it received its first Las Vegas airing 65 years later, at UNLV’s Artemus Ham Hall on Saturday night.
Despite Clark County School District’s budget cuts — including $120 million for the 2009-10 academic year — moments like concert pianist and guest instructor Alpin Hong teaching at Basic High School still happen. Research has long shown that students who are involved in fine arts programs typically do better in their academic classes than their peers who don’t take part. Basic is expected to dodge any fine-arts cuts because it had no enrollment drop. Still, Principal David Bechtel says he’s not satisfied with the status quo.
If he could go back in time, I wonder if Las Vegas Philharmonic conductor David Itkin might rejigger the order of the three pieces he planned for the orchestra at Saturday night’s season-opening performance.
