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AZ Daily Star: Tucson gets its freak on for TSO, Michael Jackson

It’s not often that you go to a concert featuring the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and hear this invitation from the guest vocalist:

“If you want to get freaky, get your freak on!”

Canadian bari-tenor Gavin Hope threw that invite out moments into “For Michael: The Music of Michael Jackson,” the inaugural TSO Rocks the Fox series concert. Two songs later, a woman in the front row got out of her seat and started dancing along as Hope and his four-piece Toronto-based Jeans 'n Classics band and trio of backup singers blasted out the Jackson 5 hit “ABC.”

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AZ Daily Star Review: TSO unwraps big surprise in little package

Sometimes big surprises come in small packages.

Want proof? Check out the Tucson Symphony Orchestra Sunday afternoon at Tucson Music Hall. In the first six minutes of the concert, the orchestra’s string players will unwrap the biggest surprise of the concert — the six-minute work “Ascending Bird.”

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AZ Daily Star: Callaway plans personal look at Streisand music

Ann Hampton Callaway may get a bit teary-eyed when she performs with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra this weekend.

It will likely happen during "I've Dreamed of You," the wedding song she wrote for Barbra Streisand that the legendary singer sang to James Brolin the day they married in 1998.

"To be able to write a song that celebrates such a momentous experience of someone who inspires me so much, it is one of the biggest thrills," Callaway said in a recent phone interview from her New York City home.

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AZ Daily Star: Star-crossed lovers, NY on TSO concert bill

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?"

This weekend, he and Juliet are hanging out with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.

Next month, they'll take the stage with Arizona Opera and in February, they will be in Phoenix with Ballet Arizona.

The TSO and Ballet Arizona are tackling Prokofiev's famous work; Arizona Opera mounts Gounod's version of the tragic love story.

The symphony's performance takes the tale one step further, pairing it with Leonard Bernstein's 20th-century update "West Side Story." In between the two, the orchestra will perform Iranian-American composer Richard Danielpour's "Toward the Splendid City," a piece that recalls Bernstein and pays homage to the New York Philharmonic as well as Bernstein's beloved New York City - which also is Danielpour's beloved hometown. There also are references to John Lennon, said TSO Conductor George Hanson.

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Tucson Weekly: Wherefore Art Thou?

The Tucson Symphony and Arizona Opera each take on the classic tale of 'Romeo and Juliet'

In perhaps William Shakespeare's most-famous play, the young lover Juliet muses aloud from her balcony, "Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?"

We can help her out.

(Yes, we know the line is more a question about her would-be boyfriend's lineage than his physical whereabouts, but please allow a little interpretive leeway.)

In the next couple of weeks, Tucson audiences will be able to hear a bounty of works representing the artistic responses of some of the world's most-revered composers to Shakespeare's story.

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AZ Daily Star: George Hanson Wins 2012 Lumie Award

The arts, arts lovers and arts supporters had their day - or rather evening - Friday at the 2012 Lumies Arts & Business Awards ceremony at the El Casino Ballroom.

Among the big winners were George Hanson, who took the Artist Lifetime Achievement Award; Jean-Paul Bierny and Fletcher McCusker, the Arts Patron Award; Amy Briseño, who took the Emerging Artist Award, and David Andres, who won in the the Arts Educator category.

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