2010 Rhythms of Life Series
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Series Ticket Prices: $66, $76 & $86 · Includes All Three Shows!
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Rhythms of Life Series available only through the Chandler Center for the Arts Box Office.
Rhythms of Life ~ “Pardon My English” Gershwin by Ira
Starring: Robert Picardo, pianist Jeff Haskell, vocalist Katherine Byrnes
Sunday, January 10, 2010 @ 3 pm
Venue: Hal Bogle Theatre, Chandler Center for the Arts
$26, $30 & $34 • Series Pricing Available
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Gershwin is the most famous American composer. With brother Ira at his side the two revolutionized popular music and created masterpieces that defy the easy popular/classical paradigm. This portrait, told through Ira’s eyes and ears, recounts the brothers’ extraordinary rise and success in the first decades of the 20th century. A brilliant array of Gershwin work, both instrumental and vocal, will be featured.
About Rhythms of LIFE
Rhythms of LIFE is a unique collection of powerful and personal stories of the most celebrated artists in history. Brought to life in an entertaining blend of live theatre, visual images, and music from classical to jazz. Intimate, passionate narratives crafted from original letters, memoirs and biographies, starring the finest actors and musicians performing today.
*All programs and artists subject to change
Rhythms of Life ~ “Love Letters: From Beethoven To Bernstein”
*Starring Michael Learned, cellist Harry Clark, pianist Sanda Schuldmann, soprano Jennifer Nagy
Sunday, February 14, 2010 @ 3:00 pm
Venue: Hal Bogle Theatre, Chandler Center for the Arts
$26, $30 & $34 • Series Pricing Available
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In celebration of Valentine's Day, experience the passionate, witty and moving letters of more than a dozen composers, interwoven with their equally impassioned music to create a tapestry in words and sound of their most intimate and revelatory thoughts. Featuring music and letters from Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Copland, Boulanger, Bernstein, Gershwin and others.
About Rhythms of LIFE
Rhythms of LIFE is a unique collection of powerful and personal stories of the most celebrated artists in history. Brought to life in an entertaining blend of live theatre, visual images, and music from classical to jazz. Intimate, passionate narratives crafted from original letters, memoirs and biographies, starring the finest actors and musicians performing today.
*All programs and artists subject to change
Rhythms of Life ~ Copland and Me
Starring: Armin Shimerman as Virgil Thomson, soprano Jennifer Nagy, cellist Harry Clark, pianist Sanda Schuldmann
Sunday, April 11, 2010 @ 3pm
Venue: Hal Bogle Theatre, Chandler Center for the Arts
$26, $30 & $34 • Series Pricing Available
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As composer, critic and friend of Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson presided over the American musical panorama with his brilliant writing about composers, performers and musical institutions in the mid 20th century. Copland and Thomson helped shape the course and destiny of American music as we know it today. These two American originals intersected at key times and places along parallel lines in helping America find and define its own ‘voice.' Music of Copland, Thomson, Gershwin, Barber and Bernstein.
About Rhythms of LIFE
Rhythms of LIFE is a unique collection of powerful and personal stories of the most celebrated artists in history. Brought to life in an entertaining blend of live theatre, visual images, and music from classical to jazz. Intimate, passionate narratives crafted from original letters, memoirs and biographies, starring the finest actors and musicians performing today.
www.chambermusicplus.org/coplandshow.htm
*All programs and artists subject to change
