Ballet Theatre of Maryland Presents "Aladdin" - Press Release
Contact: Dianna Cuatto
410-263-8289 or at [email protected]
Ballet Theatre of Maryland, Maryland’s Premier professional ballet company
Contact: Dianna Cuatto
410-263-8289 or at [email protected]
Ballet Theatre of Maryland, Maryland’s Premier professional ballet company
Rhythm Future Quartet’s acclaimed guitarist Olli Soikelli will walk students though a standard Gypsy jazz tune along with various classic licks and phrases in the guitar style of DjangoReinhardt. You will also learn the correct chord voicings and picking technique used within the style to help you get that authentic Gypsy sound.
Skill Level: Appropriate for all skill levels
SUN FEB 25 | 2PM-3:30PM | $30, $25 MEMBERS
Ride with BTM on a magic carpet ride to mystery, intrigue, and dark desert nights, when BTM presents: Aladdin. You will find adventure with Aladdin and his mystical Genie from the Lamp of Wonders as they seek to: overthrow the dark sinister plot of the Wizard Jamal; rescue the feisty Princess Samira; and save her kingdom from doom and destruction as Aladdin discovers his true identity.
For this workshop, violinist extraordinaire Jason Anick will examine a standard swing tune and various classic licks and phrases to help you start improvising over that tune. Phrases will be taught by ear but will be supplemented with sheet music. He’ll also cover various stylistic approaches (vibrato, bowing, etc.) to help you get that authentic swing sound achieved by jazz violin greats like Stephane Grappelli and Joe Venuti.
Skill Level: Intermediate- Must know violin fundamentals
SUN FEB 25 | 2PM - 3:30PM | $30, $25 MEMBERS
A history-making production of Othello in 1833 will shock London audiences and reverberate through history to influence theatre today. Red Velvet, by Lolita Chakrabarti, takes audiences backstage to witness the London debut of the trailblazing African-American actor Ira Aldridge as Shakespeare’s tragic Venetian general. He was the first man of color to play the role at an influential European theatre. Based on a true story, the play captures the emotion of the times and the drama both on stage and off surrounding this revolution in the theatre.
Powerful multi-instrumentalist, Danny Knicely, has the chameleon-like ability to blend into almost any musical situation. He has appeared with many top bluegrass, old-time, swing, jazz, blues, rock, Latin, and country artists.
Danny will lead students through the basics of swing mandolin, and show then tips on how to adept this instrument to the jazz setting.
Skill level: Intermediate: Must know mandolin fundamentals
SUN FEB 25 | 2PM-3:30PM | $30, $25 MEMBERS
A Disappearing Act
By Single Shoe Productions
February 22 – 25
The great magician, Philip Winterbottom, cordially requests your presence for his final act. Sadly, he’s dead. So…he won’t be there. But, he’s left his son and assistant very clear instructions. Join Philip’s family and friends for one final disappearing act.
With exuberant music, magic and more than a healthy dose of audience participation, A Disappearing Act celebrates the absurd, and sometimes awkward, rituals we use to say goodbye to the ones we love.
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about
THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY
By Lucas Hnath
Directed by Genevieve de Mahy & Matthew Shea
Sunday, February 25, 3pm
Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center
Blair Skinner, conductor
Johann Hasse: Overture to Cleofide
Richard Strauss: Serenade for Winds, Op. 7
W.A. Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297, “Paris Symphony”
Chamber ensemble performances featured.
Free concert, no reservations or tickets required.
It takes two to play music written for four-hand and two pianos. What happens when eight hands at two pianos are needed? Do not miss this opportunity to see the Octtava Piano Duo’s venture into multi-media technology in their performance of Smetana’s beautiful work, the Moldau. Also on the program will be works by Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich, and Gershwin.
The Charm City Django Jazz Fest returns for another weekend of virtuosic musicianship, collaboration, and goose bump inducing surprises, all in the spirit of Django Reinhardt.
This five week class invites students to isolate, explore, and integrate each fundamental tool in the actor’s instrument to create dynamic characters. Activate the body, exercise the voice, engage the mind and release your imagination. Each class allows time for the actor’s to explore these tools and then integrate them in the context of story and text. Students learn to use themselves in new and exciting ways as they segue their own stories into workable text to practice sound text analysis strategies.
The Monday Night Music series presents adjunct lecturer David Duree on clarinet and saxophone and senior lecturer Linda Kirkpatrick on flute. Duree performs with the Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra, Hood Chamber Players, MISTRAL Woodwind Quintet and the Dumale Trio. He has recorded for Centaur Records. Kirkpatrick has been a member of the National Flute Association Professional Flute Choir and is currently the director of Flute Cocktail, a 20-piece flute choir based in Columbia, Md., formed as an outgrowth of the Columbia Concert Band.
Nathan Hook, saxophone
Alex Fornier, bass
Jonathan Baez, percussion
Performing in our first floor gallery.
McDaniel’s Department of Theatre Arts presents a student-directed play festival featuring short plays directed by McDaniel seniors Bryan Bowen of North Beach, Md., and Brandon Richards of Huntingtown, Md. Bowen directs David Ives’s “Sure Thing,” “Variations on the Death of Trotsky,” “English Made Simple” and “The Other Woman.” Richards directs four short plays from the collection “Trepidation Nation,” including “Down to Sleep” by Victoria Stewart, “I Am Not Alone” by Richard Dresser, “Euxious” by Bridget Carpenter and “Yes” by Stephen Belber.
Audrey Andrist and Lisa Emenheiser
Wednesday, February 28, 7:30 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Audrey Andrist and Lisa Emenheiser, two of the busiest pianists in the Washington, D.C. area, have performed together on occasion for twelve years. They have presented four-hand and two-piano concerts at the Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum and at the Garth Newel Festival in Virginia, and were featured in a two-piano program for the Phillips Collection’s 75th Anniversary concert in 2016.
A passion for exploration comes naturally to Xylouris White, a ruggedly visionary duo with Cretan lute player George Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White. For their debut album, 2014’s Goats, Xylouris White compares themselves to titular animals that wander fearlessly through rough-hewn terrain. Two years later, they show how far their horizons can reach with 2016’s expansive album Black Peak, which they named after a mountaintop in Crete. In 2018 they will release their third project, Mother, named to denote “new life”.
SLAPSTICK JUKEBOX
By Happenstance Theater
March 1 – 4
Happenstance Theatre’s award-winning company presents a suite of comic material old and new. Noted for their physical comedy and precise ensemble work, the company recasts free-standing material from their repertoire along with new works informed by great comedy of the past: 19th Century European Circus entrées, Vaudeville, silent film, and early television. A playful new format will structure the material and enhance the audience experience.
Appropriate for all ages.
UMBC Jazz with Ben Allison
Friday, March 2, 7:30 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
The UMBC Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz with special guest artist Ben Allison.
Just in time for Women’s History Month, we bring back one of our favorite events and celebrate two of the most important voices in musical history. Akua Allrich, a jazz treasure, has a vocal style that is fluid and ever evolving. Her musical roots run deep into blues, soul, and rhythm and blues, with a clear grounding in jazz and pan-African music. She sings in many languages, including Portuguese, French, Spanish, English, Xhosa, and Twi.