Fort Hill Performing Arts Center, Inc.

This Saturday, May 1 at 7pm, the Rochester Oratorio Society presents its RIVC Showcase, an evening of performances from the 2020-2021 Rochester International Vocal Competition winners, on Facebook Live. The event is free and open to all. Watch live as young artists performing thrilling renditions of the most moving classics of opera, art song, and oratorio. PLUS... participate in this one-of-a-kind evening of music by voting for your favorite performance! We look forward to ...welcoming ROS back to the FHPAC stage very soon! Until then, tune in on Saturday to enjoy this wonderful event. More info: https://rossings.org/rochester-international-vocal-compe//

Master choreographer Jií Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia His mother Markéta, was as a young teenager a dancer-child protégée. Initially inspired by the acrobatic performances of the Circus Busch, Kylián decided to pursue professional ballet training at the School of the National Ballet Prague at the age of 9, after having seen a ballet performance for the first time. Kylián was admitted to the Prague conservatory in 1962. Here he encountered one of his ment...ors, teacher and former dancer Zora Šemberová, "who left a deep mark in Jií's professional development". At the conservatory Kylián made his first steps as a choreographer. #ballet #balletdancers #choreography #rochestercityballet #classicalmusic #classicaldance See more

We’re getting close to our Reopening!! Help us get ready for you by taking our survey at https://fhpac.org/ #theatre #flxwinecountry #music #niva #rochestercityballet #jazz #bluegrassmusic #dance #concert

Help Us With Our Reopening!! While we are still awaiting details and directives regarding the conditions under which we will be able to reopen, we can now begin to plan in earnest for the day we will be able to welcome your return to FHPAC. You can help us in three vitally important ways: 1. Complete our reopening survey below. Your feedback will give us valuable information about what you, our valued patrons, need from us so that you feel safe and comfortable when in our ven...ue. 2. Make sure we have your correct mailing address and email address on file. That way you will never miss knowing what is going on at FHPAC. 3. Donate. Donations large and small keep us viable during shutdown and will ensure we can restart operations when the time comes. Reopening will only be allowed at a significantly reduced capacity. Donations are the only way we will be able to bring you exciting arts and entertainment at an affordable ticket price until we are returned to full capacity. Your contribution makes a major impact. THANK YOU! https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSf6vm9bZixWUiDH72/viewform

Remembering Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is regarded by some as the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation. Nureyev was born on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Union to a Bashkir-Tatar family.

Celebrating Astor Piazzolla Astor was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed Nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. #bandoneon #tango #nuevotango #music #dance

Remembering Noel Coward Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise". Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved endur...ing success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit, have remained in the regular theatre repertoire. He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works (including the operetta Bitter Sweet and comic revues), screenplays, poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance, and a three-volume autobiography. Coward's stage and film acting and directing career spanned six decades, during which he starred in many of his own works, as well as those of others.

Remembering Jim Morrison Together with Ray Manzarek, Morrison co-founded the Doors during the summer of 1965 in Venice, California. The band spent two years in obscurity until shooting to prominence with their number-one single in the United States, "Light My Fire", taken from their self-titled debut album. Morrison wrote or co-wrote many of the Doors' songs, including "Light My Fire", "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", "The End", "Moonlight Drive", "Wild Child", "The S...oft Parade", "People Are Strange", "Hello, I Love You", "Roadhouse Blues", "L.A. Woman", and "Riders on the Storm". He recorded a total of six studio albums with the Doors, all of which sold well and received critical acclaim. Morrison was well known for improvising spoken word poetry passages while the band played live. Manzarek said Morrison "embodied hippie counterculture rebellion". He died in Paris at the age of 27. #rocknroll #doors #music See more

Celebrating Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.

Please do support your local venues this holiday season!! NIVA - National Independent Venue Association #SaveOurStages

Celebrating Conductor George Solti The incredibly prolific Solti won 31 GRAMMYs in his lifetime, and he currently is the top GRAMMY winner of all time.

Remembering Dave Brubeck Brubeck, (19202012), designated a Living Legend" by The Library of Congress, was one of the most active and popular musicians in both the jazz and classical worlds. Dave’s career spanned over six decades, and his experiments in odd time signatures, improvised counterpoint, polyrhythm and polytonality remain hallmarks of innovation.

What is an oud? Answer: The oud is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument, usually with 11 strings! Lesson of the day!!

We are thrilled to share that Fort Hill Performing Arts Center has received the 2020 Award of Merit from The Landmark Society of Western New York, Inc.. We are so grateful and honored to be recognized for the hard work, dedication, and passion that has been invested in this space. Thank you to everyone who has participated and contributed to the FHPAC rehabilitation project and made what was once just a dream become a reality. We cannot wait to open our doors again, present wonderful and diverse forms of art, and share the beauty of this newly renovated historic gem with our Western New York community and beyond. While an in-person award ceremony was not possible this year, here are some screen shots from yesterday's virtual event.

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From NIVA - National Independent Venue Association: #SOSFEST may be over, but the work is not done. We need Congress to pass the updated HEROES Act, which includes the #SaveOurStages Act, to get these small, independent businesses the support they need. #SaveOurStages #livemusic #HeroesAct

Remembering Doris Humphrey Modern Dance Pioneer

Please support the #SaveOurStages Act. This bipartisan bill would provide federal funding to independent venues across the country like ours who have been shuttered for nearly eight months without any revenue. Join us, get involved saveourstages.com

PLEASE DO!! To write to your local representatives, donate, or set a reminder for the festival, please go to saveourstages.com NIVA - National Independent Venue Association #SaveOurStages

October is Arts and Humanities Month Support The Arts #music #art #canandaigualake #canandaigua #rochesternewyork #theatre #whattodo #Rochestertheatre #rochestermusic

Birthday greetings to Tim Minchin Minchin is known for his musical comedy and has a background in theatre. He has appeared in various stage productions, in addition to some small acting roles on Australian television. He is the composer and lyricist of the Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated show ‘Matilda the Musical’, based on the Roald Dahl book Matilda. His musical ‘Groundhog Day’, based on the 1993 film, opened in London in 2016, winning his second Olivier Award, and opened on Broadway in spring 2017.

Happy Birthday Yo-yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist. Born in Paris, France to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, Ma was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from The Juilliard School and Harvard University, and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world. He has recorded more than 90 albums and received 18 Grammy Awards.

Happy Birthday Stevie Ray Vaughn!

We agree!! We should not be forcing small business owners to make an impossible choice between taking on massive new debt and closing their doors forever. Please support #SaveOurStages #HeroesAct... NIVA - National Independent Venue Association

Celebrating Danseur Noble. The place for dance in the Finger Lakes

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