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Commemorating 50 Years since “Meet the Beatles” – the FREE dual piano concert features virtuoso New York jazz pianists Angelo Di Loreto and Adam Kromelow, Saturday, March 2 at 5 p.m. at Jacobs Music Company ing available. RSVP by advising how many people will be attending the event at 215-568-7800. Refreshments will be served. In December, Kromelow’s recent release “Youngblood,” with his own Adam Kromelow Trio, was named by Philadel-
n honor of “Meet the Beatles” dawning 50 years ago – the album that launched the band whose approach revolutionized rock – and the 160th anniversary of Steinway & Sons, Jacobs Music Company is providing a FREE dual piano concert presenting exciting New York jazz pianists Angelo Di Loreto and Adam Kromelow, in a program called “Re-Imagine: The Music of The Beatles.” The duo will present individual interpretations of adored Beatles melodies such as “Ticket to Ride” and “Let It Be,” alongside other super-hits in The Beatles musical vault. The concert will take place Saturday, March 2 at 5 p.m., at Jacobs Music Com pany’s historic Art Deco recital hall, at 1718 Chestnut Street, Center City Philadelphia, 19103. The concert is FREE, and there is limited seat-
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phia Inquirer reviewer Karl Stark as one of the Top 10 Jazz CDs of 2012. Jacobs Music Company audiences were first introduced to the exceptional talent of these inventive young musicians in 2012 in a series of concerts featuring their original collaborative, dual-piano interpretations of the music of Genesis. Praised for his inventiveness and versatility, 22-year old pianist/composer Angelo Di Loreto is currently a second-year master’s student at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Most recently, he was a finalist in the 2012 Nottingham International Jazz Piano Competition in the UK. A native of Buffalo, New York, Angelo is a student of internationally renowned pianist/composer Vijay Iyer. For info on Angelo, visit www.adam kromelow.com. Described as “The real deal” by All About Jazz, and “a sensational pianist, and brilliant young musician” by the Buffalo News, pianist Adam Kromelow is making a strong name for himself in today’s music scene. Original-
n One Woman in a Hundred (University of Illinois Press, 2013), author Mary S u e We l s h shares the remarkable biography of harpist Edna Phillips (1907-2003), who joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1930. Phillips was not only the Philadel phia Orches tra’s first female member, but also the first woman to hold a principal position in any major orchestra in America. Phillips was just twentythree years old when she was Edna Phillips, the first female principal of a major American Orchestra (or the Philaplucked from delphia Orchestra). Photo/Emil Rhodes the Curtis Institute of Music in the midst of her studies and named principal harpist by renowned conductor Leopold Stokowski. Blessed with a nimble wit and passion for music, Phillips not only survived, but thrived in the all-male world she entered – despite having to face hostility from her peers, skepticism from the public, unwanted amorous advances, and her own struggle to overcome a lack of experience and improve her playing. Welsh began working on the book as a memoir for Phillips in 1990, but put it aside when Phillips became ill several years later. After Phillips passed away in 2003, Welsh returned to the project, this time approaching the story as a biog-
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Jacobs Music Company is providing a FREE dual piano concert presenting exciting New York jazz pianists Angelo Di Loreto and Adam Kromelow, in a program called “Re-Imagine: The Music of The Beatles,” March 2 at 5 p.m.
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Blue Man Group First-Ever Theatrical Tour Returns to Philadelphia lue Man Group returns to Philadelphia at the Merriam Theater on next office rather than walking over to talk to them face-to-face.” “We say that no matter how high-tech things get, there’s still something March 5 - 10, as part of the Broadway Season presented by The Kimmel Center and The Shubert Organization. The theatrical tour fea- human there. We’ll always need others, always need to collaborate. People tures brand new content highlighted by classic Blue Man favorites. The still need to come together and look each other in the eye. Through the Blue new sound, set, and video design centering around a proscenium-sized LED Man’s connection with the audience, we hope to encourage this human-tohuman interaction, while helping people reconnect with their own sense curtain and high-resolution screen create an entireof wonder and discovery, with their own sense of what is possible ly new, high-impact visual experience for Broadin their lives.” way houses across the nation. Tickets ranging in price from $35 to $75 are on sale now. Blue Man Group creates experiences that defy Tickets can be purchased by calling 215-731-3333, online categorization. Blue Man Group is best known for at kimmelcenter.org/broadway, at the Kimmel Center multi-media performances that feature three bald box office, Broad & Spruce Sts. (open daily 10 a.m. to and blue characters who take the audience on a 6 p.m.) or at the Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad Street journey that is funny, intelligent and visually (open during performances only). Groups of 10 or stun ning. A live band, whose haunting more will receive discounts for select pertribal rhythms help drive the show to formances by calling 215-790-5883 or its climax, accompanies the Blue 866-276-2947. Performances inMen. clude: Tuesday - Thursday eve“Our theatrical productions ning at 7:30 p.m.; Friday & take a humorous look at what Saturday evening at 8 p.m.; we like to call 2.5-D space,” Sunday evening at 6:30 p.m.; says Blue Man Group Comatinees Saturday at 2 p.m. Founder Philip Stanton. “An “Blue Man Group” appearing at the Merriam Theater. and Sunday at 1 p.m. example of what we mean Thanks for Reading by this would be emailing City Suburban News! or texting the person in the
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