Great Performances

"I Think An Empty Theatre is Exciting"

Broadway stars such as Carol Burnett, Robert Morse, Robert Redford and Elaine Stritch reminisce about what it was like to arrive to the theatre before their audiences in Rick McKay's "Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age."

"I Think An Empty Theatre is Exciting"

4m 26s

  • Taking Note - Njioma Chinyere Grevious: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Taking Note - Njioma Chinyere Grevious

    8m 41s

    With early inspiration from her mother’s love of music, Njioma Chinyere Grevious took up the violin after watching her sister learn to play. Gaining initial skills through lessons from Boston’s Project STEP, Grevious particularly values the training she received in high school from teacher James Buswell whose instruction included both musical insight and life lessons.

  • Taking Note - Sandbox Percussion: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Taking Note - Sandbox Percussion

    10m 4s

    After meeting in graduate school in 2011, members Terry Sweeney, Jonny Allen, Victor Caccese, and Ian Rosenbaum created Sandbox Percussion. The chamber percussion group chose their name as a reference to a playful and dedicated space for creativity. Using a diverse range of instruments including homemade steel pipes, the group performs “Pillar V” by contemporary composer Andy Akiho.

  • Taking Note - Clayton Stephenson: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Taking Note - Clayton Stephenson

    9m 57s

    A Juilliard Pre-College student at age 10, pianist Clayton Stephenson only decided in the past few years to pursue piano professionally after studying economics at Harvard University. Playing Godowsky’s “Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes from Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus,” Stephenson believes that the piano portrays many instruments.

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