Spring is a busy performance season. Announce your stage appearances here if you'd like other Grexers to show up to see or hear your performance.39 responses total.
Leslie Smith (arabella) has a few things coming up, including choral work in two symphonies, Beethoven's 9th and Mahler's 2nd. And, having started this item, I realize that I left the dates at home... :/ ((( Spring '98 Agora #40 <---> music #122 )))
Ah group I'm in is preforming Hayden's "Seven Last Words" on Good Friday, on April 10th. This is really a cool peice from this composer, and much more moody (as you'ld expect it to be) than, say, his "Creation", which I'll also be in a bit later on. I (sadly), don't have any of the solo parts, being a bit young and inexperienced yet, but the soloists we do have are great, and our choir ain't bad either. The performance starts at 7:00 at the Kerrytown Concert Hall. If any of you are former CHS students, you might remember one of the performers, Chris Dentel, who used to be a student there. The choir is led by his dad, George. Just thought I'd throw in a plug for it, thanks.
I'm flying pipes for Fame at Shreiber Auditorium this weekend.
What does it mean to be "flying pipes"?
operating the counterweight system in which pipes from which scenery is hung are flown up and down (in and out, in theatrical parlance).
in --> down out --> up
Take a long, *strong* piece of pipe and lay it across the stage where you want the bottom of a curtain to be. Bolt several pulleys to the roof, then run ropes or cables through them & secure to the pipe so you can raise it up a bit to attach the curtain, up to the curtain's height to use the curtain, or *way* up to get the curtain out of the way. (Same principle with lights, backdrops, or 'most anything else on the pipe.) Run the free ends of the ropes/cables off to the side backstage & attach to a brake/counterweight system so one person can raise/lower the pipe or lock it in place. (Memories from HS. Grex's theatre pros probably handle much fancier stuff. And know the right terms.)
uh, yeah... what he said <snicker>
<i quickly bows...the tomato misses over his head>
What Walter said, except, hire someone to do the hanging for you.
ok, here goes the pitch(es)..
May 16, 8:00 pm, Power Center, the Dance Ensemble of Michigan presents
Twilight Dance. It's a jazz show and looks to be rather good (or at least it
had better be judging from my rehearsal schedule) Tickets were $12 last year,
but call 995-1747 for more information.
also
May 17, 2:00pm, Power Center, Studio One School of Dance presents, Alice In
Wonderland, this is the studio recital, adn it'll hav lots of cute little kids
doing dances taht last forever, it's probably more of a parent and family
thing, but it'll have Alice and all the characters if you'd rather see that
than the jazz show. I"m not sure about ticket prices, but you can call the
same number to ask.
Tickets for both shows are available at teh box and ahead of time at Studio
One, 220 S. Main, next the Main Street News, upstairs. There's generally some
sort of discount for groups, so bring friends. :)
You're robbing us blind, you know that?
no i"m not..DEMI's a non profit organization, we need all the money we can get... :)
Don't we all?
of course..but, erm, DEMI needs your money more, because, we work awfully hard.. <bright cheerful grin>
I can think of alot of creditors who might disagree.|-}
<g> actually, I think the only people we owe money to is the director...
Wanna trade?
Leslie Smith (arabella)'s choral work: For those of you with a time machine, Leslie sang in the chorus for the Lansing Symphony Orchestra's performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on April 18. Tonight, April 27, Leslie is singing with the MSU Chorale, and two other MSU choirs, in a very long concert. 7:30 pm at the MSU Union, in East Lansing of course. Friday April 24, Leslie is singing in the chorus for MSU Orchestra's performance of Mahler's 2nd Symphony. This will be in a church somewhere in Lansing; e-mail us if you want the details when we dig them up. In late June, Leslie will be singing a small role in MSU's summer opera production of the opera THE BARTERED BRIDE by Smetana. Details to follow.
Another time machine report: I performed a few ragtime piano tunes last weekend in Zehnder's Tap Room in Frankenmuth, Michigan during "open mike" sessions at the annual Zehnder's Ragtime Festival. During the first week of June, I'll be attending the annual Scott Joplin Festival in Sedalia, Missouri, where I expect to be doing the same.
I'll be performing in a cello quartet, as part of a recital, at Kerrytown Concert House this afternoon.
Wish we had known sooner, we like cello. Can you manage a few days advance notice before the next recital?
Mostly I just play in front of people who have to love me anyhow. ;-)
don't most musicians? (This is especially true of music students.)
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.
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.
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>
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. :)
(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...)
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.
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".
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.
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.
John, that sounds like great fun. What sort of town is Sedalia? Is that Joplin's home town?
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.
maple leaf rag...hmm there's a martha graham piece to that I think..
No doubt -- Maple Leaf Rag has been arranged in all kinds of ways.
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.)
(Item frozen due to the retirement of Spring Agora. The new item is Summer Agora #26 / Music #133.)
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