“The Toledo Symphony Orchestra and Toledo Ballet—collectively known as the Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) [have] scheduled over 30 live music and dance performances between September and next June,” writes Zaporah Price in Thursday’s (6/12) Toledo Blade (OH). “The season features … The Nutcracker on Dec. 10-12 and… the Toledo Symphony’s evening with Grammy award-winning Rhiannon Giddens on Sept. 12. This year’s theme is ‘Face the Music.’ … ‘It’s the faces we haven’t seen because we haven’t been able to get together, and when we have, our faces have been behind masks,’ director of marketing and communications Vanessa Gardner wrote… ‘It’s the faces of the diverse guest artists and composers. And, importantly … asking ourselves “how do the performing arts help to serve our community and become a vehicle for social change?” ‘ The season’s musical selections will include works by … Bach, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, and Strauss, along with … American composers…. Concerts will be devoted to the legacies of Tony Bennett, Judy Garland, John Philip Sousa, the ‘queens of soul,’ and … theme songs of super heroes…. In collaboration with the symphony, the Toledo Ballet will perform Stravinsky’s Petrushka.”
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