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Year 32, No. 11
Celebrating 32 Years of Community News
F R E E I N N O VAT I V E Lyric Fest Presents “A Neighborhood of M U LT I - E T H N I C C O N C E RT Friends – A World of Song” Followed by an Open Jam Session at the Woman’s Club of Bala Cynwyd
ain Line Reform Temple once again hosts Lyric Fest for a program designed to connect children and families through song on Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 3 p.m. This concert celebrates America’s diversity and highlights the rich traditions of our coun-
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Grammy Winner Mollie O’Brien Performs Page 6
Friends’ Central Celebrates The Ulmer Family Light Lab Page 11
November 9 – November 15, 2016
Main Line Reform Temple hosts Lyric Fest for a program designed to connect children and families through song on Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 3 p.m. Singer Cristina Nassif, Soprano, is one of the artists performing. try’s many immigrant communities. The music presented will be enjoyed by people of all ages and presents a unique opportunity for adults to share an inclusive worldview with children —one that expresses the richness of our immigrant heritage. This eclectic program has a little something for everyone. Selections include: Juche! by Johannes Brahms, You’ve Got a Friend in Me by Randy Newman, a Czech clapping song, A South African call and response, Lime Jello Cottage Cheese Surprise by William Bolcom, If I Were a Rich Man, or Opa! by Maurice Ravel. Lyric Fest will also feature classics such as Quando M’en Vo by Puccini and The Pirate King by Gilbert and Sullivan. Actors Jake Miller and Mia Rosof-Mallory frame each song in its origins and meaning. Vocal artists include Jean Bernard Cerin, Baritone; Cristina Nassif, Soprano; Misoon Ghim, Mezzo Soprano; and Laura Ward, Piano. See Local Lyric Fest Concert for Families on page 6
The Bala Cynwyd Library presents a concert of folk and world music by female duo Simple Gifts on Sunday, November 20 at 2 p.m. at the Woman’s Club of Bala Cynwyd. he Bala Cynwyd Library is presenting a concert of folk and world music by Simple Gifts, a female duo that will perform a wide variety of music, including American reels, Klezmer, Irish, Romanian, Blues and Ladino. They will play at least ten instruments, including a baritone fiddle, a mandolin, a hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltery, mandolin, guitar and percussion. Their performance will be followed by a jam session open to anybody and everybody who brings their own instruments or wants to sing along. The concert will be on Sunday afternoon, November 20 at the Woman’s
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See Simple Gifts Free Concert and Jam Session in Bala Cynwyd on page 4
Celebrate the Holidays with “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” at Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3
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alnut Street Theatre’s 20162017 Independence Studio on 3 season continues with The Irish Repertory Theatre of New York’s adaptation Dylan Thomas’s iconic, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.” Directed by Aaron Cromie, the production begins with previews on November 15, opens November 17 and continues through December 23. “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” takes us to that legendary “Snowy Christmas Day” when songs are sung, cakes are gobbled up, ghost stories are whispered, and wild Indians roam the City Park! While the uncles, stuffed with pudding, nap and bellow on the parlor couch, audiences are taken back in time to remember the joys of being young, the strength of a community and the comfort of a loving family. Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” features both traditional and contemporary holiday music and is the perfect way to celebrate with family and
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friends. “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” began as a piece entitled “Memories of Christmas” for a BBC program in 1945, though it never aired. In 1947, Thomas expanded the poem and sold it to Harper’s Bazaar. In 1952, during a trip to America, Thomas recorded his work and it became “A Child’s Christmas in Cast of “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” at Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3. Photo/Mark Garvin Wales.” The story has seen numerous adaptations, including a television film, an animated version, and a stage adaptation. Poet Dylan Thomas was born in Wales in 1914. At the age of 16, he left school to become a journalist for South Wales Daily Post. He left the position soon after to focus on his poetry. Among his many writings, his most famous poem, See “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” page 4