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Year 31, No. 24
Celebrating 31 Years of Community News
February 17 – February 23, 2016
Tony Award Winner Sutton Foster to Direct from Beale Street Perform Solo Show at the Merriam in Memphis Comes the he Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, in association with Mark Cortale Productions, welcomes two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster to the Merriam Theater on Thursday, March 3 at 8 p.m., to perform her acclaimed solo show, “One Night Only: Sutton Foster,” accompanied by pianist Michael Rafter. The show, which debuted at Carnegie Hall earlier last year, honors and celebrates different eras of music
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Daddy Mack Blues Band Annenberg Center Live Performance February 20
“One Night Only: Sutton Foster” at the Merriam Theater March 3, 2016, at 8 p.m.
Free Organizing Event at Library Page 8
Golden Slipper Programs Page 10
Education News Pages 8, 9 & 11
and gives Foster the chance to, as she says, “express herself without the confines of a character.” This show is part of Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway Concert Series, which kicked off with Audra McDonald on October 7, and continues with Megan Hilty on May 17 and Kelli O’Hara on June 14, all curated by Mr. Rudetsky. “There are names that light up a marquee, and performers who light up a stage, and Sutton Foster is a brilliant example of both,” said Anne Ewers, President & CEO of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. “It’s not every day that Courtesy/Daddy Mack Blues Band The Daddy Mack Blues Band performs Saturday, audiences have the chance to see such a remarkable performer in an intimate environment February 20 at 8 p.m. at Annenberg Center Live, as part and the Kimmel Center is thrilled to make that possible through this series.” of the African Roots, American Voices series. Sutton Foster’s Broadway career is the stuff of legends, from her fabled leap from understudy to star – and a Tony Award – in “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” to her above-title billing hen people say, “Memphis blues ain’t what it used as the singing, tapping, wise-cracking Reno Sweeney in “Anything Goes,” for which she won to be,” they haven’t heard the Daddy Mack Blues her second Tony. On television, Ms. Foster starred in the ABC Family TV series “Bunheads” Band. Annenberg Center Live is serving up the real and now plays the lead role in TV Land’s comedy-drama series “Younger,” which premiered deal when the Daddy Mack Blues Band performs Saturday, for a second season on January 13, 2016. Other upcoming shows in Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway Concert Series include Megan Hilty February 20 at 8 p.m. at Annenberg Center Live, as part of
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See “One Night Only: Sutton Foster” on page 12
See Daddy Mack Blues Band Performance on page 12
Bala Cynwyd Library Concert to Revive the Exotic Music of Moritz Moszkowski Find Lots of Great Events Inside!
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aturally, musical tastes change with time,” says Gilya Hodos, the Musical Director of the Bala Cynwyd Library. “Unfortunately, this means that the works of some wonderful composers are left unknown and unplayed over time, even to those who would really enjoy them.” A prime example is Moritz Moszkowski, who enjoyed enormous popularity in the late 19th and early 20th century but who is barely known today. Hodos is curating a concert of works by Moszkowski
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This concert will feature a variety pieces performed by four musicians – Hodos and Debra Lew Harder (right) playing the piano, Vivian Barton playing the cello and Adeline Tomasone (left) playing the flute – on Sunday, February 28 at the Woman’s Club of Bala Cynwyd. and a selection of women composers whose music was influenced by him, on Sunday, February 28 at the Woman’s Club of Bala Cynwyd, one of a series of concerts produced in memory of local music publisher Sylvia Glickman. “Moszkowski had a fascinating life,” Hodos says. He was born in in Prussia 1854 to a Polish Jewish family. At a young age, he performed with Franz Liszt and traveled throughout Europe, earning a reputation as an exceptional concert pianist and brilliant composer. “His work was lush and gorgeous,” Hodos says, “it was very exotic for its day. He was realSee Free Concert at the Woman’s Club of Bala Cynwyd February 28 on page 5