“TV, theater and film actor Tituss Burgess tomorrow afternoon will kick off Live with Carnegie Hall, a new online series,” writes Jane Levere in Monday’s (4/13) Forbes. “The series will launch at 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 14, with a live performance and conversation with Burgess [and] Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown … and soprano Angel Blue…. On April 16 … Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, will explore the world of Beethoven … joined by members of the orchestra and its composer-in-residence, Gabriela Lena Frank. The program on April 21 will be curated by singer Ute Lemper…. Additional programs will be curated by … Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Michael Feinstein, Renée Fleming and Angélique Kidjo. In addition to live conversation and performance, Live with Carnegie Hall programming will integrate historical or recent audio/video content…. In most of the programs, artists will engage with viewers in real time via social media. The series will be streamed on Carnegie Hall’s social media channels via Facebook Live and Instagram Live…. Carnegie Hall continues to offer online programming for families and children … as well as free resources for music educators, including a new Facebook group, open to all.”
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