19 2O SEASON Letter from the Executive Director
THANK YOU for your love and support to make this a phenomenal year! With your patronage, there were 33 sell-out shows and over 50,000 who enjoyed performances, making our quaint downtown a bustling hub.
With your generosity, our Arts & Education programs were impactful and inspiring. More National Geographic Live! than 2,500 Treasure Coast students attended Hidden Wild Secrets the educational and interactive performances of the Everglades Kia Fontaine of the Discovery Series for Young Audiences FEB 5, 2020 | 7pm and over 250 families, business owners, community leaders and citizens attended free educational presentations. The Family Fun Series grew to 12 performances bringing hundreds of families together to experience the wonder of live entertainment. The Lyric Contents League’s 2019 Youth Arts Celebration was truly amazing, providing a platform for 52 young emerging artists to perform on the historic stage and raised funds for our Arts & 3 Letter from the Executive Director Education Programming. 4 Board of Directors & Staff, Season Sponsors But the year is not over. Coming up in the dog days of summer, The Lyric has just the ticket to keep you cool with the powerful vocals and tight rhythm section of The 6 Sheléa: A Natural Woman Motowners, the jamming country rock of Pure Prairie League, the jazz, R&B, and funk 8 Historical Timeline fusion sounds of Sypro Gyra (page 14), the popular Free Movie Summer (page 34) and 10 Become a Lyric Star The Lyric’s AWESOME! Camp will be back in action (page 39). 14 Summer Shows In this issue, we are very excited to announce the 2019-20 Season! From divas and 18 Family Fun Series tenors, blues and jazz, dance and comedy, there is something for everyone (page 22). Be 22 sure to stay connected with us for more shows and events to be added! 2019-20 Season Lineup 24 2018-19 Director’s Circle Tickets for the upcoming season are on sale to Members throughout the summer. & Contributors Membership is the fast pass to your favorite seats. Become a Family member and enjoy 30 Seating & Patron Privilege Perks provided by our business partners (page 40). There is so much General Information more. Your membership and support plays a leading role in providing the community with affordable ticket prices, expanding cultural and arts education programming and 33 Volunteer Bartenders & Ushers preserves our historic landmark. Your membership and donations help to enhance the 34 Free Movie Summer quality of life, educate and inspire our future leaders and supports the local economy. 35 Group Sales We are so grateful to YOU the many members, foundations, corporate and business 38 Arts & Education partners, and patrons that support The Lyric year after year. Thank you wholeheartedly, 39 Lyric’s AWESOME! Summer Camp we couldn’t do it without you. 40 Patron Privilege Perks Stay cool this summer, 42 Become a Member Today!
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The Lyric Theatre is thrilled to announce the 2019-20 season lineup. There is something Kia Fontaine 19 2O for everyone bringing you the best music and The Lyric Theatre’s Mission SEASON entertainment from around the world stage. “To provide the community with a home for the performing arts that entertains, educates, and stimulates the growth of artistic integrity and experience for everyone.” 3 Board of Directors
2019-20 President Todd Laycock Season Sponsors 1st Vice President Paul Shirley 2nd Vice President The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. would like to thank Frank Tidikis Treasurer these sponsors who have generously helped to underwrite Harold Walsh the costs of our 2019-20 Season. Secretary Priscilla Baldwin Directors Frank M. Byers, Jr. Mary Laub Cowan Patty Downing Stephen Fry Sharon Holt Diane M. Lawrence Joan McGowan Eileen D. Morris Olene Stuart Michael Tenzyk Linda Weiksnar Artistic Director Emeritus John Loesser President Emerita Ethel Christin Advisory Board Daisy Carter Marianne Hartnett Elisabeth Lahti Natalie MacDonald Pat Pendergast May Smyth Lyric Theatre Staff Executive Director Kia Fontaine Controller Monica Soricelli Director of Development Linda Prange Membership Director & Volunteer Coordinator Heather Long Technical Director Chip Vaughan Box Office Manager Meagan Ebright Arts & Education Coordinator Sue Nauss Art Director
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The LYRIC Magazine publishes four times a year. Written and produced by The Lyric Theatre. To advertise, go to lyrictheatre.com/advertise or contact [email protected]. 4 The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization The Lyric Theatre Box Office (772) 286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.com 5 JJ Grey(November 9, 2019 7:00pm) He has been called the north Florida sage and soul- bent swamp rocker, and he still lives on his family’s north Florida land, a former chicken farm. Now it Sheléa: has a recording studio, a warehouse that doubles as his gym, an open-air barn and some 50 pecan trees from which he removes moss, suspended 50 feet above land. He is JJ Grey, and while he now headlines major festivals instead of local A Natural Woman juke joints, he has not lost a blue-collar spirit and love for the land, the swamps of his youth and the From brass to sass to class, the Lyric’s 2019-20 Season Louisiana swamp-blues tradition. Grey was drawn early-on, to country-rockers like is sure to fill the seats of Stuart’s historic, iconic Theatre. Jerry Lee Lewis, Otis Redding and other Memphis soul icons and he listened to Run-DMC as well. Merging those traditions, Grey began touring as Acoustic Alchemy NOV 2, 2019 | 7pm Mofro in the late 1990s. His debut album in 2001, Blackwater, emphasized his love of roots-rock and Acoustic Alchemy Webb died in 1998 and Carmichael revamped the he was soon playing beyond America and the UK at Sheléa - Natural Woman: A Night band, bringing in Gilderdale and White. Their album larger and larger clubs and the biggest festivals. (November 2, 2019 7:00pm) Acoustic Alchemy has of Soul from Aretha to Adele AArt was released in 2001 and was nominated FEB 25, 2020 | 7pm never accepted a place in one genre. The boundary- for a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album. In On his latest album, Ol’ Glory, Grey spent more time pushing instrumental group has been challenging 2011, the band celebrated its 30th anniversary with than ever on new material. He says that he “draws audiences for nearly four decades with its blend of Roseland, which reached No. 6 on the jazz albums blood” making all his albums and he takes no jazz, classical, flamenco and other world music, rock chart, and 2018’s 33 1/3 cracked the Top Ten of shortcuts. While he is known as a hip-shooting, off- and New Age. The group has received three Grammy Billboards’ Jazz albums chart. The band had been the-cuff performer whose first vocal take is often his nominations, but also has developed a reputation recognized in a variety of genres, doing exactly what favorite, he took more time constructing the lyrics as one of the most exciting live bands around. Their they had set out to do. Throughout its creative life, and vocal lines for this album. “I would visit it often mission? Reaching the broadest audience by taking the band has defied categorization. In an interview, in my mind, visit it more often on the guitar in my the potential of instrumental music as far as they can. Carmichael described why the name Acoustic house,” he said. “I like an album to have balance, Alchemy fit the band. For the last decade or so, the band lineup has continued on page 8 been made up of Greg Carmichael on nylon string “It’s a good name,” he said. “It says we’re acoustic, guitar, Miles Gilderdale on steel string acoustic and although we’re not strictly now because you couldn’t electric guitars, Fred White on keyboards and a be heard. In essence, though, the identity is two powerful rhythm section featuring Greg Grainger on acoustic guitars. Acoustic Alchemy is not about a drums and his brother Gary on bass. person, it’s about a band. Alchemy means a blend, a combination of lots of different styles. Alchemy suits Acoustic Alchemy began in London in 1981 by us. It implies a magical blend.” guitaris Nick Webb and Simon James. Webb had studied jazz at Leeds College of Music in England. This “G Force” of Greg When the two parted ways, Webb joined with Greg Carmichael, Gilderdale, Carmichael, a classically trained guitarist, and Grainger, Grainger (and the duo found work with Virgin Airlines, providing White) has been defying in-flight music on trans-Atlantic flights. They sent a gravity for years. Come demo to MCA and six weeks later were signed to a along for the ride. contract. Their first album, Red Dust and Spanish Lace, was released in 1987 and they went on to release several more albums with MCA. In 1990, the duo signed with jazz label GRP and the album, JJ Grey Reference Point, earned them their first Grammy NOV 9, 2019 nod for Best New Age Performance for the track 7pm “Caravan of Dreams.” Five more albums followed, including 1996’s Arcanum, which garnered an Emmy nod for Best New Age Album.
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like a novel or like a film. A triumph, a dark brooding solo and has recorded six solo albums, the most moment or a moment or peace-that’s the only ring I recent Arkansas. He has teamed with a group of consistently try to achieve with a record.” accomplished Americana musicians, known as The Belarus Good Road Band, to pay homage to the state’s Grey has several treasured possessions, including are featured, with beauty and underscore Oates’ interest in early Otis Redding’s In Person at the Whisky a Go Go, performances of tradition tango and American music. and Jerry Reed’s greatest hits. He has said that the street dances of the samba and salsa. Taking he grew up “wanting to be Jerry Reed, but with The Lyric’s Family Fun Series presents you through this dazzling evening is Cuban vocalist John Oates met Daryl Hall at Temple University in Cirque Mei Mimi J, who has toured internationally in Rent and less or a country and more of a soul thing.” As one NOV 10, 2019 | 2pm Philadelphia. Both were devotees of earlier soul commentator said of Ol Glory, “Grey does his idols Grease and has performed with Gloria Estefan and greats and they began proud. It’s a country record where the stories are all Bobby McFerrin. continued on part of one great mystery; it’s a blues record with An Evening at the page 12 one foot in the church; it’s a Memphis soul record For one night only, The Lyric becomes The Copa. Copacabana: An Come enjoy the show. that takes place in the country.” American and Latin It’s JJ Grey in all his glory. Don’t miss it. Extravaganza (November 15, 2019 7:00pm) The names of the clubs make you think of energy and sophistication: John Oates with the The Coconut Grove, the Tropicana, and, of course Good Road Band The Lyric’s Family Fun Series presents The Copacabana. An Evening at The Copacabana (November 23, 2019 7:00pm) John Oates Cirque Mei (November 10, 2019 recreates the energy and excitement of a night on introduces his life this way in his autobiography, 2:00pm) Chinese circus is a feast for the eyes, with the town with a combination of sultry Latin dance Change of Seasons: “Thursday, April 7, 1948 - Al non-stop action and brightly colored costumes on rhythms from Argentina to Cuba, Madrid to Miami. Jolson was voted most popular singer in performers who seem to defy the laws of physics America by Variety magazine and with acrobatics, contortion tricks, juggling acts The show features an international cast of Columbia records introduced the and balancing feats. Cirque Mei comes directly fiery Latin ballroom champions, elegant and new 33 1/3 long-playing record from Hebei Province in the People’s Republic of sophisticated showgirls, percussive Argentinian album. At 1 a.m. that morning, I China, bringing with it a company of 40 elite circus gauchos, bilingual Cuban vocalists and authentic was introduced to the world at activists and acrobats performing many of the most Flamenco dance artists. With the music of Latin Bellevue Hospital in New York popular Chinese circus routines, including Hoop artists from Carmen Miranda to Celia Cruz, Tito City, starring as the first child Diving, Lion Dance, Collective Bicycle Skills, Flying Puente to Gloria Estefan, and Desi Arnaz to Carlos born to Anna and Alfred Oates.” Meteors, Foot Juggling with Umbrellas, Female Santana, An Evening at the Copacabana is a night Contortion and the Ladder Balancing Act. of sultry singers and dancers, blazing choreography It was an auspicious beginning and electrifying percussion. to an auspicious career. John The Lion Dance evolved from an old folk dance In Flying Meteors, the performer swings glass bowls Oates went on to become Chinese acrobatics has a long and proud history in China. In the dance, there are two types of that move like meteors in the sky. Using rope and An Evening at the Copacabana feature stars who half of the best-selling duo going back some 4,000 years. It developed from lion, the large, played by two acrobats, and the two glass bowls filled with water, the performer does have performed internationally with Cirque du Soleil of all time, Hall & Oates, people’s everyday lives, using instruments used in small, portrayed by one. They perform traditional forward rolls and backward somersaults without and onboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Daniel as well as a member of the daily life like tables, chairs, jars, plates and bowls. movements of lions like rolling and jumping and spilling any water. and Claudio Ponce follow in the tradition of great Songwriters Hall of Fame Wushu, which is traditional group gymnastics, and portray the lion’s strength and agility as well as the masters of Argentinian folklore, and their energetic and the Rock and Roll Hall the Lion Dance come from folk sport and games. playful side of the King of Beasts. This spectacular performance is a colorful and lively Like so much of folk lore, Chinese acrobatics is celebration of the Chinese circus arts and a delight dancing, drums and boleadoras make every of Fame. In 1999, Oates went the art of working people and was not considered Hoop Diving developed from the “Swallow Dance” of for the entire family. performance unique. The show also stars Alessandra Torres and the artists of Luna Café, a Flamenco theater-worthy. That has changed as skillful some 2,000 years ago where the acrobats imitated John Oates with the Good Road Band performers amazed audiences and led to a the flying movement of swallows as they leapt performance group from Venezuela. Latin ballroom NOV 23, 2019 | 7pm resurgence of interest in the national arts in China. through the rings. champions Igor and Anastasia Puzhevitch from
Spring of 1913 1917 1930 1936 1978 Construction for The The “first” Lyric was abandoned Newly equipped The Hancocks fell on hard times The Lyric was purchased “first” Lyric began on and moved to a little wooden with a RCA during the Great Depression and by the New Life in Christ Osceola Avenue near structure on Osceola Avenue. Photophone, sold The Lyric to the bank. Church and used for Belle Flora and opened Danger Lights weekly worship services. for its first performance June 1925 Judge JC Hancock began construction was screened as a year later. of the new Lyric Theatre. the first “talkie.” 1936-1978 The Lyric was rented out to community 1926 groups and was used to present The Lyric opened with the feature traveling vaudeville shows, news picture Skinner’s Dress Suit. Cost of weeklies, movies and eventually, construction was $100,000 and was a Performing Arts Auditorium. HISTORICALYRIC the largest building in Martin County. 8 A Brief History 9
1988 1989 1993 1996 1999 2001 2005 2014 Friends of Friends of the The Lyric Theatre was New Orchestra seating Vacant lot to The balcony of The Lyric expansion was completed, A Capital Campaign resulted in substantial the Lyric Lyric became listed on the National was installed and the north of the theater was enlarging the stage 14 feet and renovations to the lobby and box office, new purchased a 501(c)(3) Register of Historic administrative offices The Lyric was remodeled for the adding a backstage equipped with a exterior and interior entrances, new orchestra the historic not-for-profit Places. constructed. purchased installation of new restroom and office/storage areas. seating, new sound system and architectural theatre. organization. for a future balcony seating, elements added to the walls and columns. 1987 1991-1995 expansion. an elevator was installed and 2015-16 With talk of razing the theater, Friends With grant funding from the State of Florida, National refurbishment of The Lyric, a group of concerned Endowment for the Arts and local community funding The Lyric’s proscenium was ornamented in an Art of the lobby and Nouveau style. The elegant design, artistry and citizens, banded together to save and support, The Lyric underwent needed stabilization restrooms. the historic structure. and repair: new roof and air-conditioning systems, craftsmanship of the trompe l’oeil art technique were ADA Compliance alterations, Box Office construction, added throughout The Lyric including the balcony marquee improvements and remodeling of the lobby, parapet, doorway transoms and interior theatre walls. restrooms and dressing room. Enjoy our Patio Dining!
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of the greatest tenor arias and songs, all done in performed in that same year at the Universal Expo world with the hallmarks of entertainment, virtuosity, and original arrangements of Renaissance and arrangements created especially for their U.S. tour. in China as a representative of Italian excellence. spontaneity and, most of all, fun. Baroque masters, marches, holiday favorites, ragtime, Dixieland, Latin, jazz, big band, Broadway The tenors will bring to life arias from Rigoletto, La This is a wonderful opportunity to hear this Canadian Brass began in 1970, when friends Chuck and Christian music, as well as popular songs and Boheme, and I Pagliacci, as well as beloved Italian wonderful music, sung by gifted performers making Daellenbach and Gene Watts came together to standards. They have created their own musical songs such as “Volare,” “O Sole Mio,” and “Granada.” their first tour of the United States. Years from now, form a brass quintet in a chamber music setting. world by transcribing, arranging and commissioning They will sing the aria that is guaranteed to bring you’ll be able to say you saw them when… They quickly filled the three remaining chairs and more than 600 works. In the process they have tears to my eyes, “Nessun Dorma,” from Puccini’s began presenting a full range of music form their brought brass instruments to the forefront and Turandot. trademark Baroque and Dixieland tunes to new created an ensemble that can span centuries of compositions and arrangements created especially music in a single concert. The talented singers who bring this wonderful music Canadian Brass (December for them. Masters of concert presentations, they to life have impressive biographies. Alessandro 12, 2019 7:00pm) Strike up the band! That’s have developed a unique and engaging stage The musicians of Canadian Brass include founding D’Acrissa graduated with honors in opera singing at Canadian Brass, one of the most popular brass presence and rapport with audiences that allows member Chuck Daellenbach on tuba, Christopher the Conservatory of Cosenza. He has performed in ensembles performing today. The group has spent them to move from formal classical presentations to Colletti and Caleb Hudson on trumpet, Achilles operas throughout Italy and in 2013, he performed more than four decades bringing the sound and music served up with a lively dialogue and theatrical Liarmakopoulos on trombone and Jeff Nelson on the role of Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at excitement of brass music to audiences around the effects. Their repertoire features brass standards horn. They have sold more than 2 million albums the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. He was selected continued on page 16 by the Pavarotti Foundation to take part in the show, Belcanto: The Pavarotti Heritage.
The Four Italian Tenors DEC 3, 2019 | 4pm & 7pm Federico Serra won his first pop music competition at 11 and his family enrolled performing together in the early 1970s. They went the traditional roots material to make the recording Canadian Brass him in singing lessons. At 17, he enrolled at DEC 12, 2019 | 7pm on to record 21 albums, selling more than 80 a retrospective of American popular song in an the Liceo Musicale of Varese, specializing in million units with hits like “Private Eyes,” “I Can’t earlier era. Asked to describe, the album, Oates said opera singing and piano. In 2014, he made Go for That,” and “She’s Gone.” They have scored 10 “It’s like Dixieland, dipped in bluegrass and salted his debut at the Donizetti Theater in Bergamo, number one records, more than 20 Top 40 hits and with Delta blues.” and in 2015 he performed with the Verona were involved in the original “Live Aid” concert and Philharmonic in concert. the “We are the World” charity recording. Others had praise for the work. No Depression: The Journal of Roots Music, said that “Arkansas may be Federico Parisi began studying voice at 14. The album Arkansas was released in 2018 and was Oates’ very best album, simply because the music In 2011, he won “The Youngest Tenor of Italy” originally inspired by the music and legacy of the is so much a part of him that he can deliver it with award and in 2012, he was awarded the Citta Spring of 1913 1917 1936 1978 legendary Mississippi John Hurt, Oates’ musical idol. a simple intensity that evokes a range of feelings in di Taormina Prize. He performed concerts 1930 It expanded to encompass other artists and styles the listeners.”Construction for The The “first” Lyric was abandoned Newly equipped The Hancocks fell on hard times The Lyric was purchased “first” Lyric began on andthroughout moved southernto a little Italy wooden and in 2014, he with a RCA during the Great Depression and by the New Life in Christ that represent the dawn of American popular music Osceola Avenue near structure on Osceola Avenue. Photophone, sold The Lyric to the bank. Church and used for Belle Flora and opened broadened his horizons from classical music, Danger Lights weekly worship services. from the early 1920s and 1930s. Oates assembled for its first performance June 1925 openingJudge for Italian JC pop Hancock music artists. began construction was screened as a year later. a band of all-star Nashville musicians to shine a of the new Lyric Theatre. the first “talkie.” 1936-1978 light on American music long before the birth of The Lyric was rented out to community The Four Italian Roberto Cresca began his voice studies at the 1926 groups and was used to present rock ‘n roll. There are new interpretations of the (December 3, 2019 4:00pm & Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 2004, The Lyric opened with the feature traveling vaudeville shows, news Emmett Miller classic “Anytime” from 1924, as well Tenors picture Skinner’s Dress Suit. Cost of weeklies, movies and eventually, 7:00pm) What’s better than four Italian tenors? he made his operatic debut and in 2006, he construction was $100,000 and was a Performing Arts Auditorium. as the Jimmie Rodgers tune, “Miss the Mississippi Four ItalianHISTORICA tenors honoring four Italian tenors who sangLYRIC at the Palais de la Bourse in Paris. In the largest building in Martin County. and You” from 1932. The album reimagines came beforeA Brief them: Caruso,History Lanza, Pavarotti and 2008, he made his debut as Cavaradossi in traditional Delta, country blues and ragtime. Oates Bocelli. The Four Italian Tenors: Alessandro D’Acrissa, Puccini’s Tosca and he has performed at opera has contributed several tracks: the title song, Federico Serra, Federico Parisi and Roberto Cresca houses throughout Italy. In 2010, he won the “Arkansas,” and “Dig Back Deep.” They blend with are making their United States debut in a program 64th European Union Contest at Spoleto, and
1988 1989 1993 1996 1999 2001 2005 2014 Friends of Friends of the The Lyric Theatre was New Orchestra seating Vacant lot to The balcony of The Lyric expansion was completed, A Capital Campaign resulted in substantial the Lyric Lyric became listed on the National was installed and the north of the theater was enlarging the stage 14 feet and renovations to the lobby and box office, new purchased a 501(c)(3) Register of Historic administrative offices The Lyric was remodeled for the adding a backstage equipped with a exterior and interior entrances, new orchestra the historic not-for-profit Places. constructed. purchased installation of new restroom and office/storage areas. seating, new sound system and architectural theatre. organization. for a future balcony seating, elements added to the walls and columns. 1987 1991-1995 expansion. an elevator was installed and 2015-16 With talk of razing the theater, Friends With grant funding from the State of Florida, National refurbishment of The Lyric, a group of concerned Endowment for the Arts and local community funding The Lyric’s proscenium was ornamented in an Art of the lobby and Nouveau style. The elegant design, artistry and citizens, banded together to save and support, The Lyric underwent needed stabilization restrooms. the historic structure. and repair: new roof and air-conditioning systems, craftsmanship of the trompe l’oeil art technique were ADA Compliance alterations, Box Office construction, added throughout The Lyric including the balcony marquee improvements and remodeling of the lobby, parapet, doorway transoms and interior theatre walls. 12 restrooms and dressing room. 13 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! LANDAU EUGENE MURPHY, JR. NOVEMBER 8 • 7:00P SINATRA, MOTOWN AND MORE Experience the voice that won America’s hearts! Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. won America’s Got Talent by the largest vote total in the show’s history, and has gone on to top the Billboard charts and sell out concert halls around the world. He’ll perform cuts from his Live in Las Vegas at Caesar’s Palace album, including hits like “New York, New York,” “Night and Day,” “Superstition” and more. Don’t miss this incomparable vocal talent’s unforgettable interpretations of the timeless classics we all know and love.
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14 continued from page 13 worldwide, and their album Stars and Stripes: Trash walks the magic walk. He created the world’s for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Now the artist and his National Geographic Foundation of Florida and the Rolex Artist-in- Canadian Brass Salute America, spent eight weeks first eco-friendly green magic set that can be used ensemble have released The Secret between the Exploration Awards from the Explorers Club. in the top 25 on the Billboard Classical Chart. by adults and kids. It is made up of renewable Shadow and the Soul, which capitalizes on Marsalis’ Live! Hidden Wild They have performed in the United States, Canada, The Lyric’s bamboo and rubber tree wood. In 2013, he and collaborations with Sting and Elling. “Working with National Geographic has been making explorers Family Fun Series presents Secrets of the Japan, Europe, Australia, Steve Trash Kelvin Holly released an album called The Trash Kurt for a year and a half took me back to what Everglades with of all of us for more than a century through the Middle East, the JAN 14, 2020 | 7pm Tunes, and he is a creator of The Recycle Cycle, I learned in hindsight from my gig with Sting,” he groundbreaking storytelling from the world’s best Soviet Union and South a mobile recycling said. “Working with a singer changes you in ways Conservation and brightest scientists, explorers, photographers America, and were the edu-station, to help you don’t realize. When I started playing jazz, after Photographer and filmmakers. National Geographic Live! brings first brass ensemble from kids learn the my background in R & B, all the possibilities I their stories to the stage and enables audiences to Carlton Ward Jr. the West to perform in importance discovered led me to play solos that went on and interact with the men and women who have gone (February 5, 2020 7:00pm) Author, photographer, the People’s Republic of on. Sting said, ‘No, you’ve got 45 seconds,’ which where few have gone before. conservationist and National Geographic explorer China. They have made did more than just cause me to edit. It taught me to Carlton Ward Jr. travels the world to find and several appearances there, including of keeping the focus on the melodies, to get to the point.” You can join Carlton Ward Jr. at The Lyric as he document conservation stories that have not yet been one on Hunan TV for the Chinese New earth clean follows the footsteps of bears, panthers and told. He has lived deep in the Amazon, documented Year. They were the first brass group to and litter free. He Marsalis and his group have longevity not often seen cowboys while discovering the wonders of a hidden new species in the rainforests of Gabon and take the main stage at Carnegie Hall in New York has been given the Environmental Educator in the music business. Pianist Joey Calderazzo and world on the brink of being lost forever. photographed endangered desert elephants in Mali. and have often been asked by Canadian officials of the Year award, and his Green Magic bassist Eric Revis have been with the group for more Then he discovered the biggest untold story of his continued on page 20 to play for visiting heads of state as musical Set won an American Specialty Retailers than 20 years, and drummer Justin Faulkner, known career, hiding in his own back yard. ambassadors. They are noted for their Holiday Association Award in 2009. He was a as “the rookie,” has been with it for a decade. In Concerts at Christmas time. featured guest on LeVar Burton’s Reading addition to performing, each of the veterans, including Ward is an eighth generation Floridian, and he uses Rainbow Magic Week and has appeared on Marsalis, is a composer and their works are heard on his camera to tell the story of the little-known Education is an important part of the CBS, ESPN and CNBC. He has appeared in theater, the recording and in concert. For Marsalis, it’s about world surviving in the shadows of the beaches and Canadian Brass mission. As they tour the world, fairs and festivals around the world, spreading his the non-verbal story-telling, a lesson he learned from theme parks that people associate with Florida. they often work with students, young audience and message of going green and being kind. Sonny Rollins. “Sonny Rollins provided the template He has trekked more than 2,000 miles on two professional musicians. They recently completed a for playing each piece with a ton of vocabulary and conserve it. This is an interactive one-hour show National Geographic-supported expeditions, four-year residency at the University of Toronto and “Be good. Be amazing. Don’t be mean.” Those are how to use the sound of one’s instrument,” he said. that is perfect for the whole family! to showcase a statewide vision to protect An Evening with were Chamber Quartet-in-Residence at the Music his watchwords. “With us, it’s all about the sound and the power it Branford Marsalis Florida’s wild places. Both expeditions produced Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. has to create emotion. When you deal with sound, you JAN 22, 2020 | 7pm Trash grew up in Alabama and has a degree in award-winning books, PBS films and widespread JAN 23, 2020 | 7pm They also created an innovative brass summer Come and watch and join the fun. don’t play the same thing twice in a row. You listen to theater from the University of North Alabama. He outreach. Ward continues to fight to protect an course at the Eastman School of Music and have each other and every song is different.” moved to New York and studied at the Stella Adler endangered wildlife corridor needed also worked with El Sistema, the acclaimed global School of Acting. In a 2010 interview with Gazette. to keep the Everglades connected music education program founded in Venezuela. Marsalis has had a wildly successful career as a net, he explained how he fell into garbage. “I to the rest of America. His solo artist, working with some of the best classical wanted to make a living in entertainment,” he said. An Evening with current National Geographic Canadian Brass enjoys interacting with an ensembles in the world. He has performed with the “I was an actor, but that didn’t really fulfill what I project, “Path of the Panther,” international audience with videos, DVDs and Branford Marsalis New York Philharmonic, Chicago and Dusselfdorf wanted. I wanted to reach people with fun, comedic (January 22, 2020 7:00pm & January 23, 2020 is using sophisticated cutting edge technology including multimedia Symphonies, and performed his first solo concert at entertainment. I stumbled onto doing tricks with 7:00pm) A revolutionary jazz musician and Grammy- camera traps and intimate airplay, downloads, YouTube videos and streaming San Francisco’s Grace Church in 2014, a performance trash and it just grew into this big thing, being able winning saxophonist, Branford Marsalis is in a league photojournalism to create an opportunities as well as digital applications with documented in the recording, “In My Solitude.” He to share ecological principles through really high- of his own. He is an NEA Jazz Master and Tony award unprecedented glimpse into phones. They truly are universal and appeal to served as creative director for the Ascent series for quality magic tricks and stage illusions.” nominee for the original score for the revival of August the life of one of America’s audiences of all ages with an exciting show that will the Cincinnati Symphony in 2012-2013 and served as Wilson’s Fences. The New Orleans native, eldest son most endangered and make you tap your feet and sing along while being musical director to The Tonight show with Jay Leno. Audience members may watch Trash saw Mother of pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis and the brother elusive predators. taken on a musical journey that spans centuries. Nature in half, but not to worry. She will be put of Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, the musician This is not your grandmother’s chamber music, but Still, Marsalis finds that his band works best for together by “reusing, reducing and recycling.” “I’m began his career as a youngster, picking up the Carlton Ward is the bring her along. She’ll love the show, too. him. “Some musicians may need to work in different always looking for a way to make the magic play clarinet first. He eventually settled on the soprano sax author of four books projects to create the illusion of sounding different into a story I tell about how Mother Nature works and worked with Clark Terry and his brother, Wynton, and his photographs by changing the context,” he said. “We are confident and how we can conserve resources. I always want in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers while in college. In have been published that we can adjust our group sound so we don’t to do very high-quality magic. Magic should never 1986, he formed his own quartet, which has become widely in National The Lyric’s Family Fun Series presents have to change the content. Staying together allows suffer from trying to tell the eco message.” one of the most widely respected groups in jazz. Geographic, Audubon, us to play adventurous, sophisticated music and Steve Trash (January 14, 2020 Smithsonian and Nature sound good. Lack of familiarity leads to defensive 7:00pm) Steve Trash loves garbage. The self- Trash aims his show at the entire audience, but In 2015, Marsalis and his quartet received a Conservancy magazines. playing, playing not to make a mistake. I like playing proclaimed garbologist and green magician does performing for children is his passion. “Probably the rare invitation to join Kurt Elling in a weekend He has received sophisticated music and I couldn’t create this music magic tricks using everyday things people have greatest thing on the whole planet is a kid laughing performance at the New Orleans Snug Harbor. the Conservation with people I didn’t know.” thrown away. His goal is to entertain with magic out loud. Because they are very pure about the things Elling and Marsalis recorded their collaboration, Leadership tricks and illusions while telling the story of how they laugh about. You can really get at their hearts in which can be heard on the 2016 release Upward Award from the nature works and how we need to preserve and a meaningful way if you can make them laugh.” Spiral, which was nominated for a 2017 Grammy Fish & Wildlife
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Bel Canto literally means beautiful singing. This is Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia and Zamar is from the Hebrew and means sing or an opportunity to hear some of the world’s most is the artistic director of the non-profit performing praise. You will hear songs of praise that will inspire beautiful music, sung by some of opera’s rising stars. arts youth group, Creative Impressions, of which he and bring joy to the heart. As the group prepares to The Lyric’s Family Fun Series presents Trey McLaughlin and The Sounds of Zamar was once a member and student director. He serves produce a second album, the future is “Limitless.” FEB 11, 2020 | 7pm as adjunct faculty at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, teaching graduate level The Lyric’s Family Fun Series presents courses in conducting, vocal technique, composing, Trey McLaughlin arranging and piano. Al Stewart with and The Sounds of A native of Augusta, Georgia, McLaughlin attended the Special Guests the Zamar (February 11, 2020 7:00pm) Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University Empty Pockets (February Trey McLauglin and The Sounds of Zamar are in Columbus, Georgia, where he was a member of the 12, 2020 7:00pm) When British singer/songwriter known for their expressive vocals and intricate University Singer and Chorale and placed second and Al Stewart told his parents he was going to be a arrangements of classic gospel hymns, but they third in Georgia’s National Association of Teachers musician, they weren’t happy. “My parents said have gently pushed the boundaries of gospel to of Singing competition for two consecutive years. He this pop stuff wasn’t going to last six months, I add fresh adaptations of contemporary gospel, pop holds a Bachelor of Music Performance degree with was advised to get a job with British Leyland and and musical theater. Their viral videos on YouTube emphasis on vocal pedagogy. He is a member and 40 years of solid income. They went bankrupt, yet have millions of viewers and they have performed past president of the professional music fraternity the music industry that wasn’t supposed to last is with gospel greats like William McDowell, Kierra Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and is a former director of pottering along and I still have a job.” “Kiki” Sheard, Brian Courtney Wilson and James G.E.N.E.S.I.S, the Columbia State Gospel Choir. Fortune. They are recent competition winners for Indeed he does. Stewart came to prominence as their rendition of “Chasing After You.” This win led to In 2014, McLaughlin had the honor of conducting part of the British folk revival of the late ‘60s and a featured appearance of Grammy nominated artist a Master Class and performing at the L’Opera de ‘70s and had No. 1 hits with “Year of the Cat,” “On Vashawn Mitchell’s Triumphant DVD. Their single, “I Massy in Massy, France. In 2015, he conducted the Border,” “Time Passages,” and “Nostradamus.” Will Praise,” taken from the debut album, Limitless, a 300-voice choir on Krakow, Poland as a guest He performed at the first ever Glastonbury Festival is on the Billboard Gospel Charts. In clinician. He often serves as guest clinician for in 1970, worked with Yoko Ono before there was a 2018, they embarked on their Honor Choruses throughout Georgia. Lennon and shared an apartment with Paul Simon. first national tour, “The Zamar He performed alongside Van Morrison and Cat Experience.” Trey McLaughlin and The Sounds of Zamar are Stevens. He has released 19 studio albums and is a known for their distinctive gospel style and popular touring artist who weaves his love of history she performed at the San Francisco Opera in Bolivar Orchestra singing Beethoven’s Symphony Bel Canto Trio (February Behind the sound is Trey their new arrangements of musical theater and films into his songs. The beginning though, was Francesca Zambello’s production of Wagner’s Ring No. 9.He was a featured soloist at the Richard 9, 2020 7:00pm) The great singer Mario Lanza McLaughlin, a passionate tunes. They bring a fresh perspective to their when he was 11 or 12 and Elvis Presley and rock ‘n cycle. She has also performed with the opera as Tucker Music Foundation Gala at Carnegie Hall became a star when he toured in 1947-1948 with vocalist, educator, composer songs, but always capture the essence of the roll arrived. Mimi in La Boheme, and Kate Pinkerton in Madame and appeared at a special gala honoring Placido George London and Frances Yeend as the Bel Canto and arranger. Known for original piece. Butterfly. In 2018-2019, she debuted with the Domingo at the Salzburg Festival. fusing together an eclectic mix “I adored the Everly Brothers,” he said. “I loved Trio. For 10 months, the group toured the United Al Stewart Arizona Opera in Silent Night by Kevin Puts and with Special Guests States, Canada and Mexico, bringing some of of musical genres, he performs Eddie Cochrane, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. as Mimi in La Boheme with the Des Moines Metro Bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee received a original works with the the Empty Pockets When I left school, I thought, opera’s greatest works to their audiences. To honor FEB 12, 2020 | 7pm Opera. She has performed Beethoven’s Symphony Master of Music degree from Rice University. The the 70th anniversary of that tour, the Bel Canto Trio, ensemble he created. ‘I’ll have a crack at that.’ Number 9 with the Phoenix Symphony and a singer, whom The New York Times described as now made up of soprano Julie Adams, tenor Joshua He also serves I left school and joined concert version of West Side Story with the Oakland “charismatic and charming,” is a first prize winner Guerrero and bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee, will as director of a band as the Beatles Symphony. On the recital stage, Ms. Adams was of the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, perform the original program of that historic tour, worship and came along. They were so featured as part of the Schwabacher Debut recital winner of the Zarzuela Prize at Operalia and the featuring some of the greatest arias, duets and trios arts at successful that every third series with John Churchwell. grand prize winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s from Rigoletto, La Boheme, The Barber of Seville kid was in a band.” National Council Auditions. He recently made his and others. Joshua Guerrero was the second prize winner at Metropolitan Opera debut as the First Soldier in Stewart performed in six different bands in his late Placido Domingo’s Operalia Competition in 2014 Salome. He has performed as Colline in La Boheme The artists chosen for this concert are among the teens and realized that he wasn’t very good at what he and was the recipient of the 2016 Richard Tucker at the LA Opera, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel most talented of rising stars. wanted to do. “I was not a good electric guitar player Grant. He is a Grammy winner for the Los Angeles and in the same role at the Atlanta Opera. He has and I didn’t look or sound right. I was beginning to Opera’s recording of John Corigliano’s Ghosts of an extensive concert background, performing with Julie Adams was a winner of the 2014 Metropolitan despair, and just at that moment, Bob Dylan came Versailles. He has performed at the Washington the Houston Symphony Orchestra in Dvorak’s Te Opera National Council Auditions, the 2015 George along. He couldn’t sing or play guitar, but boy, could he National Opera in a new production of La Traviata, Deum, and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Award, the 2015 Elizabeth Connell Prize write lyrics. I could have a career doing that.” at the Houston Grand Opera in Catan’s Floriencia en under Gustavo Dudamel, in Beethoven’s Choral for aspiring dramatic sopranos and the 2015 Sara el Amazonas and at the Canadian Opera Company Fantasy. He also performed with the Los Angeles Tucker study grant. She holds Bachelor of Music and Stewart speaks with a little tongue-in-cheek, in La Boheme. He has performed at the famed Philharmonic in Pelleas et Melisande, under the Master of Music degrees from the San Francisco self-deprecating British humor. Asked whether he Glydebourne Festival in England and toured Europe direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen. Conservatory of Music. In the 2017-2018 season, considers himself a singer who writes songs or a in concert with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon continued on page 28 20 The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization The Lyric Theatre Box Office (772) 286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.com 21 19 2O
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songwriter who sings, he has a quick answer. “I’m Teaming up with a wide range of legendary artists; eventually forming Amici Forever. The group went on her insights with high school students on the value of not a singer at all. I have a range of one octave. Kenny Loggins, Simon Kirke (Bad Company/ to sell more than 3.5 million albums worldwide and music, the craft of songwriting, vocal technique and There are four things that make you into a pop star. Free), Al Stewart (“Year of the Cat”), Gary Wright had two No. 1 albums. He had a successful solo professional development. You have to sing, play, have a sense of fashion and (“Dreamweaver”), and Richie Furay (Buffalo career and performed for the Queen, Princes Charles, look great. Sting has all four. I only have one. I write Springfield/Poco), both as direct tour support and William and Harry and other members of the Royal You may not yet know her name, but you will. You lyrics and it’s enough to have a career with one.” backing band, their sound has evolved, influenced Family at The Royal Albert Hall. have the chance to hear her perform live; don’t not only by these remarkable musicians, but also miss it. Partial proceeds to benefit St. Paul African Stewart describes his music as “aural cinema” through collaboration with independent artists and, Bravo Amici has performed around the world, Methodist Episcopal Church and “aural geography” and says that movies and most importantly, among themselves. wowing audiences in the United States, Europe, Frank Marino’s DIVAS: Absolutely HER-Larious atlases are a big influence on him. “I watch an Asia and New Zealand. Their recipe for thrilling MAR 9, 2020 | 7pm enormous amount of movies, a couple of hundred a audiences is to take the essential elements of year,” he said. “I’m taking movies, literature, history, classical crossover: pop, Broadway, the West End Frank Marino’s and geography and putting them into a pot and Bravo Amici (February 20, 2020 and opera and put it in a package that is uniquely DIVAS: Absolutely stirring. Those elements are in pretty much every 7:00pm) Take three handsome tenors and add their own. The classically trained singers bring song. If I open an atlas, a song appears. I opened two stunning sopranos. Add a blend of classical and audiences of different backgrounds together in HER-Larious (March 9, 2020 one to China and could see six songs in front of contemporary songs and arias and you have Bravo a show that defies boundaries as it creates a 7:00pm) Don’t hate Frank Marino because he me. It works for me like that. It makes it three- Amici. This dynamic group was formed in 2010 by new genre of music. The show is meant not only looks better in a gown than you do. Don’t hate him dimensional.” husband-and-wife team Geoff Sewell and Simone to entertain, but to excite and to connect with because his hair and makeup are always perfect Lanham, founders of Amici Forever, the world’s first audiences in a concert listeners will never forget. and he walks on Manolo Blahnik stilettos. His show, Stewart brings out that self-deprecation in opera band. Bravo Amici is a tribute to the emerging DIVAS, features an all-star cast of superstar female describing his success over 40 years, “You don’t genre of contemporary classic crossover music, with If you missed them the first time, you get another impersonators, and on any given night, you are likely get famous writing historical folk rock, but you world-class international performers who take on the chance to hear them. If you know their work, you to meet Britney, Cher, Diana Ross, Beyonce, and can make a living,” he said. “I think if one history best of pop and opera, giving each genre a taste of won’t want to miss the chance to see them again. more. Even Madonna and Dolly may stop by. Marino, teacher would buy a guitar, they’d have my job. No the classical. Their music has attracted the attention Partial proceeds to benefit Little Lights Dentistry, a the show’s emcee and star, Joan Rivers, changes one has. It’s a great mystery.” of Queen Elizabeth, Elton John and Paul McCartney. program of Light of the World Charities. between every act and struts on stage in designer gowns, strapped into his stilettos. His campy voice, A student of history, Stewart began reading Sartre Geoff Sewell is a native of New Zealand who studied smooth performance style and comic delivery are and ended going in reverse order, back to the music at the Boston Conservatory. He moved to part of the reason for his success, but the main Trojan War. Historian Barbara Tuchman was one London and got into the music business with Lanham, Sheléa - Natural reason is his incredible energy. As his promo of his idols and figures in how he’d like to be material says, “Niagara Fall could take lessons.” remembered: “I write like Barbara Tuchman and Woman: A Night of Be-dah-da-dum. play like Eddie Cochran.” Soul from Aretha to Adele (February 25, 2020 7:00pm) Marino grew up in New York and always knew he’d Special Guests the Empty Pockets sound is built Whitney. Cher. Adele. Aretha. There are those few be a star. He has spent some 25 years on the Las upon a strong foundation of the timeless Americana, legends who need only one name to identify them. Vegas Strip as the star of An Evening of La Cage, Blues, and Motown Soul that came before them; Singer, songwriter and pianist Sheléa seems poised to and in 2005, then Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman told singersroom.com that the college experience While Sheléa had considerable success in R & B, an old-school sensibility showcased by enter that rarified atmosphere. She performed at the proclaimed February 1 to be “Frank Marino Day.” set her on her path. “That was my first time being she was noticed in other arenas and other genres. multiple lead singers, rich harmonies, White House for President and Mrs. Obama. Stevie He has a street, Frank Marino Drive, named after immersed in music culture like that, with late nights Her 2012 invitation to the white House was to honor and skilled instrumentalists. Rolling Wonder, a friend and mentor, plays the harmonica him and a star on the Las Vegas Walk of Fame. In in the studio, writing and producing,” she said. “That’s Burt Bacharach and Hal David with the Gershwin Stone called “bandmates Josh on her hit song, “Love Fell on Me,” the theme song 2009, he was named Las Vegas’ “Entertainer of the when I felt like, ‘I want to do this on my own.’” Prize. She also performed at the Library of Congress Solomon, Erika Brett, Nate for the Angela Bassett film, Jumping the Broom. Century,” and has performed more than 25,000 for ASCAP’s “We Write the Songs.” During rehearsals, Bellon and Danny Rosenthal, Quincy Jones asked her to be the first vocalist shows to more than 10 million people. Sheléa began her career as a songwriter/vocalist she impressed Alan and Marilyn Bergman, who wrote members of polished yet at his jazz club at the Palazzo Versace with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. She many of Barbra Streisand’s hits and her latest album, rootsy Chicago outfit.” Dubai. She has a sultry sound that Marino is an author, newscaster, columnist and wrote and produced for Chanté Moore’s album, Love Pretty World: Through the Eyes of Alan and Marilyn blends traditional pop, jazz, R & B and actor. His first book, His Majesty, the Queen, was a the Woman, and recorded vocals for soundtracks for Bergman, has songs picked for her by the duo. She soul with a contemporary edge to best-seller and he appeared in Miss Congeniality Hotel Rwanda, Akeelah and the Bee and Be Cool. In made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2017 with a tribute classics and a classic touch to 2 with Sandra Bullock and in the off-Broadway hit, 2008, she teamed up with the Grammy winning Take to songwriter Jimmy Webb. Her range truly knows only Bravo Amici contemporary pop standards. Tony ‘n Tina’s Wedding. FEB 20, 2020 | 7pm 6, singing “Someone to Watch over Me” for their one imperative: great songwriting. Grammy-nominated album. Her debut album, Love Sheléa first began to think of While Marino always knew he’d be a star, he didn’t Fell on Me, not only featured Stevie Wonder but had Sheléa is an artist who believes in giving back. In 2012, music as a profession at Oakwood know the path would be covered with designer clothes Brian McKnight and Narada Michael Walden on she joined Herbie Hancock, Patti Austin, the South University, from which and wig changes. “The ladder of success was even board, as well. It charted for more than 22 weeks on African Children’s Choir and others at the Kennedy she received a degree harder to climb wearing high heels,” he said. Billboard’s R & B lists. Center for the UN International AIDS Conference. She is in music with an a staunch advocate for female and empowerment and emphasis on piano. She Come meet the DIVAS. It won’t be a drag. as a member of The Recording Academy, has shared continued on page 36 28 The Lyric Theatre Box Office (772) 286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.com 29 Seating and General Information STAGE STAGE 7531 AA 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 AA 2468 9 7 531 BB 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 BB 2468 10 9 7 531 CC 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 CC 2468 10 11 9 7 531 DD 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 DD 2468 10 12 13 11 9 7 531 EE 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 EE 2468 10 12 14 Upper Balcony 13 11 9 7 531 FF 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 FF 2468 10 12 14 Lower Balcony 13 11 9 7 531 GG 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 GG 2468 10 12 14 Orchestra 2468 10 12 14 13 11 9 7 531 HH 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 HH Wheelchair 13 11 9 7 531 JJ 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 JJ 2468 10 12 14 Accessible 2468 10 12 14 13 11 9 7 531 KK 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 KK Patrons with disabilities: 13 11 9 7 531 LL 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 LL 2468 10 12 14 Special seating arrangements 13 11 9 7 531 MM MM 2468 10 12 14 can be made with the Box Office at the time you purchase 13 11 9 7 531 A 112 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 A 2468 10 12 14 tickets, based on availability. 15 13 11 9 7 531 B 112 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 B 2468 10 12 14 16 19 17 15 13 11 9 7 531 C 112 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 C 2468 10 12 14 16 18 20 19 17 15 13 11 9 7 531 D 112 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 D 2468 10 12 14 16 18 20 31 E 112 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 E 24 31 F 112 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 F 24
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Their first stop to support the recording? New York people we haven’t’ met personally, it does feel like The three went on to create a new dance City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center. They also debuted their we’re in it together, making things happen. And production company, StepCrew. “Healing Modes” project, which presents Beethoven’s that’s an exciting thing.” National Geographic Live! Opus 132 in its entirety, alongside five compact They have a not-so-secret weapon in the musical View from Above with NASA Astronaut Terry Virts MAR 19, 2020 | 7pm new commissions which explore the subject of Come share the excitement. ensemble that performs with them and has healing from a wide range of historical and cultural everything from Canadian champion fiddle players perspectives. to some of the most sought-after musicians in the Celtic, folk and rock genres. They have performers Brooklyn Rider has worked on several projects with The Lyric’s Family Fun Series presents from the likes of the Chieftains, Cherish the Ladies, banjoist Bela Fleck and has also partnered with The StepCrew (March 29, Loreena McKennit, Carlos Nunez and Bowfire. Among two other artists at the forefront of their respective 2020 4:00pm & 7:00pm) StepCrew and its cast them is Alyth McCormack, a native of Scotland, genres: jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman and Irish of 11 combine three styles of percussive dance, whose vocals contrast the vigor of the dance but act fiddle master Martin Hayes. In the midst of these featuring the world’s top talents in Irish, Tap and as a soundtrack inspiring it. exciting collaborations, the quartet performed Ottawa Valley Stepdancing. It is a pure celebration across the U.S. and Europe. They have also spent of dance, showcasing each traditional form while The show itself takes the audience on another time teaching, with past residencies at Dartmouth creating what Jean Butler of Riverdance called journey, through a varying array of textures from College. Williams College, the University of North “a unique and seamless blend of all three.” The high-energy dance to haunting vocals, groovy music, Carolina and Texas A & M University. company takes the audience on a journey from complex choreography and comical props. The a house party in the back kitchen of an old Irish StepCrew was designed to highlight staging and For Johnny Gandelsman, this is an exciting time cottage to a lamp-lit street in New York City to a musicality and the pure talents of solo performers to be an artist. In a radio interview on WGBH, he French Canadian lumber camp in Quebec, using with nothing more than their feet, instruments and explained why collaborations were so important to nothing more than their talented feet. voices to reach their audience. They offer everything the group. “There’s a freedom for musicians (right from the bluesy origins of tap to traditional Irish and now) to go after the things they’re really passionate Nathan and Jon Pilatzke, brothers, spent their Scottish music and modern day Celtic fusion. about and make it work, a do-it-yourself feeling, summers like a lot of young Canadian children, and it’s just incredible how many ensembles there traveling around the province competing in fiddle Six-time Grammy winner Paddy Moloney of The National Geographic about his time in space and the new perspectives energy of young rock stars jamming on their guitars, are that explore world music and bring influences and stepdance festivals. They grew up to be among Chieftains said it this way: “The StepCrew does not he gained about our world and then have the a Beethoven-goes-indie foray into making classical of that in what they do. It’s a really exciting time to Canada’s leading Ottawa Valley Stepdancers and simply draw their audience in, they take them by Live! View from opportunity to ask questions about everything music accessible but also celebrating why it was be a musician. In a way, commissioning all these along the way, they met Cara Butler, a multiple the hand and remind us what dance is meant to be Above with NASA you’ve always wanted to know about space travel. good in the first place” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. different composers is a way of celebrating this Irish Stepdancing champion and principal Irish about - fun!” larger community that we are a part of. Even the Astronaut Terry dancer for the famed Chieftains for two decades. continued on page 41 Terry Virts always wanted to be an astronaut, but it Johnny Gandelsman on violin, Colin Jacobsen on Virts (March 19, 2020 7:00pm) turns out that his favorite planet is Earth. It wasn’t violin, Nicholas Cords on viola and Michael Nicolas The Lyric’s Family Fun Series presents He made an appearance on the last Star Trek until he was farthest from home that he came to really on cello offer an eclectic repertoire that is as The StepCrew MAR 29, 2020 | 4pm & 7pm Enterprise episode in 2005, which is fitting, as the appreciate the beauty of our world, and he shares that much at home at the SXSW Festival in Austin as at original series is what sent him soaring into space. perspective through his stunning photos and videos. Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Their first album, NASA astronaut Terry Virts has served as a pilot of Passport, was selected by NPR as one of the best the space shuttle Endeavour, a crew member on National Geographic has been making explorers classical albums of the year, and they were chosen by the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and most recently of all of us for more than a century through composer Philip Glass to record his complete string as commander of the International Space Station groundbreaking storytelling from the world’s best quartets, including the world premiere recording of during 200 consecutive days in space, one of the and brightest scientists, explorers, photographers his “Bent Suite.” They are known for playing unusual longest continuous space missions of any NASA and filmmakers. National Geographic Live! brings works and for collaborating with musicians not astronaut. He helped install the outpost’s 360 their stories to the stage and enables audiences to traditionally associated with classical music. degree observation module and made good use of interact with the men and women who have gone it, taking hours of video and hundreds of thousands where few have gone before. To celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2015, the group of still images, including some featured in the put together a ground-breaking multi-disciplinary National Geographic book, View from Above. He’s Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a thrilling ride. project, Brooklyn Rider Almanac, for which it recorded a star of the breathtaking IMAX film, A Beautiful and toured 15 specially commissioned works, each Planet, featuring his footage from space. inspired by a different artistic muse. Other recent recordings include 2016,’s The Fiction Issue, with Now you have the opportunity to step back, some The Lyric’s Family Fun Series presents music by Gabriel Kahane, and The Impostor, with 220 miles from earth, and experience our planet (March 27, Bela Fleck. In 2018, Brooklyn Rider released Dreams from a new perspective. With Terry Virts as your Brooklyn Rider 2020 7:00pm) If you think you know chamber with celebrated Mexican jazz vocalist Magos Herrera. guide, you will gain a deeper understanding of our music, think again. Brooklyn Rider has been The recording includes pieces written to texts by planet’s beauty, climate and place in the universe. described as “four classical musicians with the Octavio Paz, Ruben Diario, and Federico Garcia Lorca. You have the opportunity to hear Terry Virts talk
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Continuing to provide Treasure Coast families with the wonderfully unique and magical experience of live performing arts. The Lyric Theatre Discovery Series Completes Another Season
Students sat in the darkness of the upper balcony with an unbroken gaze on the lighted stage below. They watched with wide-eyed fascination as George Washington Carver pondered the uses for his latest peanut crop and as Jackie Robinson got his chance to play for the Dodgers. These Martin County students experienced notable moments in history like never before as a part of The Lyric Theatre’s Discovery Series for Young Audiences.
SUMMER CAMP Partnering with U.S. Sugar, The Lyric Theatre offered scholarships for students of area Title 1 schools to attend Discovery Series shows. For the third year, these scholarships allowed for students to enjoy the educational and cultural experience that The Lyric Theatre provides.
Each school-time show in the Discovery Series is designed with educators in mind as supplemental teaching materials allow for continued engagement Session 1: June 10-28 with the subjects and themes of the performances. During this season, four different shows incorporated various educational elements including ecology, We are the World creativity, history, social studies, and literature. This is our earth, and it is the only one we get. So we need to take care of it by being more Since The Lyric’s partnership with U.S. Sugar, over 1,800 students from environmentally conscious, doing what we can to Martin County schools have been able to attend performances through the reduce, reuse, and recycle, and knowing that every DISCOVERY SERIES Discovery Series Scholarship Fund, with 443 attending during the 2018- little bit counts. 2019 season.
“The people of U.S. Sugar are proud to support the Discovery Series scholarship program so that all children have the opportunity to learn, grow and blossom academically and culturally,” said Judy Sanchez, senior director of corporate communications and public affairs for U.S. Sugar. Session 2: July 8-26 Thanks to the scholarships provided by U.S. Sugar, The Lyric Theatre was able to expand the reach and influence of the Discovery Series program, and Why We Tell the Story young members of Martin County were afforded the valuable experience of This theme looks to the past to point the way for learning through stage productions. our future. We must first know where we came from to know where we are going. The campers will FAMILY PROGRAMMING take the audience on a trip through different eras Groups are encouraged to apply for next year’s Discovery Series for Young and decades using songs, dance, and scenes. Audiences. For more information go to: https://www.lyrictheatre.com/ discovery-series.
We are more than just your ordinary theatre camp… Join us for three AWESOME weeks as we learn new skills in drama, dance, music, and technical theatre with campers of all backgrounds and interests. These new skills help us spread our message with audiences on the historic Lyric Theatre stage, and our message is this: Character is important, both onstage and off.
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Contact our Arts & Education Coordinator, Sue Nauss at 772-220-1942, ext 205 or by email at [email protected] ARTIST IN RESIDENCY 38 39 continued from page 37 Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn (May 5, 2020 7:00pm) He is a 16-time Grammy Enjoy the winning banjo player named after three classical musicians. She plays the claw BECOME hammer banjo and almost became a lawyer in China. They’re Béla Fleck and Abigail A MEMBER! Washburn and a visit from them is a visit from musical royalty.
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