Category: Stories
A Full-Circle Jazz Moment
When the Joshua Redman Quartet takes the stage at the Soraya, audiences will witness a full-circle moment that has been decades in the making.
CSUN Alumni - A Return Home
With students returning to CSUN campus, we thought we would highlight two notable and musically gifted CSUN alumni who are returning to their alma mater for a special performance on...
Executive Director Thor Steingraber Remembers Vin Scully
His voice was singularly recognizable, his spirit was universally admired, he resided in a far corner of the Valley and, perhaps lesser known, he was a big fan of music,...
Director Selects: Classical
Fifty-three years ago this week, mankind landed on the moon (presuming you give no credence to the conspiracy theorists). I remember it - barely, but I do.
The Soraya Is The Thrill Of Being Present
As part of the Signature Series, The Soraya will bring to the stage three performances by today’s most stunning and innovative dance companies and choreographers.
Director Selects: Signature Series
The Signature Series is a way of embracing all the many artistic disciplines that we present and produce here at The Soraya.
Director Selects: Classical
While so many things changed during the pandemic, one thing didn’t: our outstanding classical series brought to you in an acoustically superior environment.
The Soraya Is World Travel Just A Few Miles From Home
This year, we're rolling out the new, ongoing Signature Series – 17 performances that convey the very soul of The Soraya’s programming mission to produce and present diverse, unexpected, thought-provoking,...
‘Rivers of Sound’: From the Euphrates to The Soraya
Composer Amir ElSaffar, the innovative jazz trumpeter and director of the Rivers of Sound Orchestra, is calling his new work “a sonic embrace.” ElSaffar penned the expression to describe “Emergence,”...
Accessing the Eternal Through Dance
Ragamala Dance Company, a family affair, has its artistic roots in the South Indian dance form, Bharatanatyam, renowned as the oldest classical dance tradition in India.