Steve Mack News

Created especially for the Grammy Award-winning sextet eighth blackbird is Rinde Eckert and Steve Mackey's new music-theater piece, Slide, which the group premiered last summer and to which it now devotes a U.S. tour, with performances in Richmond, VA (March 3), Chicago's Harris Theater (March 24), and College Park, MD (April 9-10).

Texas Performing Arts welcomes modern performance ensemble So Percussion to the McCullough Theatre on Thursday, March 11 at 8:00 p.m. They will present the Austin premiere of composer Steve Reich's new Mallet Quartet, written for the group and several other renowned percussion ensembles.

Texas Performing Arts welcomes modern performance ensemble So Percussion to the McCullough Theatre on Thursday, March 11 at 8:00 p.m. They will present the Austin premiere of composer Steve Reich's new Mallet Quartet, written for the group and several other renowned percussion ensembles.

Continuing the momentum and building on the critical success of its fall 2009 season, the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park will present a winter/spring 2010 season of impressive and diverse performances by the city's most acclaimed music and dance institutions as well as world-renowned national and international artists and ensembles through its Harris Theater Presents series.

The Board of Directors of New York City Opera has announced the appointment of George Steel as the company's new General Manager and Artistic Director. Mr. Steel is expected to assume his responsibilities as of February 1, 2009.