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Grex > Music2 > #122: Grexers on Stage: Spring 1998 |   |
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response 25 of 39:
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May 21 03:45 UTC 1998 |
not always. I think I can saftly say that many of the people I perform before
don't even know me, much less love me.
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other
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response 26 of 39:
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May 23 02:59 UTC 1998 |
Well, this isn't exactly stage, but...
I will be appearing in a staged reading of the transcript of a sex
discrimination lawsuit which will be aired on community access cable
beginning sometime in late summer. I read the part of the judge.
The case is that of Natalie Koshey, who was denied a position of
Assistant Principal with a school in the Roseville, Michigan district.
The case was tried in 1982.
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ivynymph
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response 27 of 39:
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May 23 04:39 UTC 1998 |
Do you know what part of late summer? (I'm interested, but I don't know if
I'll be around and if I'm around I don't know if I'll be anywhere near a TV,
let alone one w/ the proper channel...)
Jus' lemme know if you find anything more out... <g>
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other
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response 28 of 39:
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May 23 13:43 UTC 1998 |
i've been promised a videotape of the finished product, so if all else fails,
it can be narrowcast into the room of your choice. :)
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ivynymph
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response 29 of 39:
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May 23 14:29 UTC 1998 |
(That's good... because unless it's during the 1.5 weeks during which I'm
home between Europe and camping, I'll hopefully not have a television...)
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mary
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response 30 of 39:
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May 30 12:45 UTC 1998 |
I'm not sure this real counts as a stage experience but I'll
be attending a cello master class today from 9:30 to
1:30 at the Unitarian Church. I'll be playing an Irish folk
song which is played almost entirely in the upper positions
using lots of vibrato and harmonics - all things I've been
working on lately.
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katie
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response 31 of 39:
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May 30 14:07 UTC 1998 |
I`ll be singing outdoors at the corner of Huron and State St (on the lawn
at the Methodist Church) tomorrow morning from 10:30 till 11:30, accompanied
by full band. Some of the selections will be ~Wayfaring Stranger", "Walk
Over God`s Heaven" (IGot Shoes, Mahalia Jackson-style), and Joan Osborne`s
"One Of Us".
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remmers
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response 32 of 39:
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May 31 01:21 UTC 1998 |
This coming Wednesday through Sunday, I'll be attending the Scott
Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, Missouri, and will be performing
at various "open piano" sessions.
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remmers
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response 33 of 39:
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Jun 15 23:42 UTC 1998 |
Well, I'm back from the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia,
Missouri and can report that I appeared "on stage" on several
occasions -- three times in the main tent, a couple of times at
after-hours sessions, and a couple of evenings where I hung out
in the bar. Performed pieces by such ragtime composers as George
Botsford, Peter Lundberg, Joseph Lamb, Thomas Shea, and others.
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md
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response 34 of 39:
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Jun 17 02:00 UTC 1998 |
John, that sounds like great fun. What sort of town is Sedalia?
Is that Joplin's home town?
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remmers
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response 35 of 39:
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Jun 17 19:42 UTC 1998 |
Sedalia as town isn't all that interesting -- a small commercial
center of about 20,000 without much in the way of distinctive
architecture, culture, or dining. Its greatest claim to fame,
aside from the annual Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival, is probably
that it's the site of the Missouri State Fair.
Scott Joplin was born and raised in Texas but was working as a
piano player at Sedalia's Maple Leaf Club in 1899 when he wrote
"The Maple Leaf Rag". It became an enormous hit, launched the
ragtime craze that dominated American popular music for almost
20 years, and was the first piece of sheet music to sell over a
million copies. Hence Sedalia is a very appropriate city to host
a ragtime festival named in honor of Scott Joplin.
I plan to post a detailed report of my Sedalia adventures in my
ragtime item in the music conference.
Two weekends from now I'm off to another festival -- the Egbert
Van Alstyne Ragtime Festival (I kid you not) in Woodstock, Illinois,
a distant suburb of Chicago. Egbert's name is probably not high on
people's recognition scale nowadays, but in the 1910's and 1920's
he was a very popular song composer ("Under the Shade of the Old
Apple Tree") and did a lot of ragtime as well. Van Alstyne was a
Chicagoan, and the focus of the festival is Chicago's contributions
to ragtime music.
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maeve
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response 36 of 39:
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Jun 18 02:13 UTC 1998 |
maple leaf rag...hmm there's a martha graham piece to that I think..
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remmers
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response 37 of 39:
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Jun 18 02:44 UTC 1998 |
No doubt -- Maple Leaf Rag has been arranged in all kinds of ways.
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krj
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response 38 of 39:
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Jun 18 05:39 UTC 1998 |
Leslie Smith (arabella) has another opera performance coming up...
The Michigan State University Summer Opera Program offers a double bill:
Menotti: THE OLD MAID AND THE THIEF (1 act)
Smetana: THE BARTERED BRIDE (2 acts)
at the Michigan State University Music Building Auditorium
Thursday June 25 - Sunday June 28: 7:30 pm each night
$12 admission / $8 for students and seniors
advance tickets:
call the Center for the Arts: 517-372-4636
(Leslie's role is in The Bartered Bride: Hata, the mother of the fool.)
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krj
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response 39 of 39:
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Jun 23 18:57 UTC 1998 |
(Item frozen due to the retirement of Spring Agora.
The new item is Summer Agora #26 / Music #133.)
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