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Year 31, No. 28
Celebrating 31 Years of Community News
March 16 – March 22, 2016
Friends’ Central Chorus Members to L EGENDS OF I RISH M USIC P ERFORM “C ELTIC C ROSSINGS ” Perform at Carnegie Hall
Sugarloaf Crafts Festival Page 3
VoxAmaDeus Concert in Wayne Page 5
From March 18-20, members of the FCS Upper School Chorus, including – Lydia VarcoeWolfson, McKenna Blinman, Georgia Fossett, Evan Paszamant, Anthony Candelori-Moraglia, Naomi Detre, Matthew Blackman, Noelle Mercer, Amelia Boscov, Zoe Walker, Ciara Hervas, Olivia Bartholomew, Peter Bradbeer, and (not pictured) Margaux Berland, will head to Carnegie Hall to perform in a contemporary a cappella concert with world-class conductors, premier college and high school vocal groups, and a cappella legend Deke Sharon. embers of the Friends’ Central Upper School Chorus will be heading to Carnegie Hall in New York from March 18-20 to perform Total Vocal, Contemporary A Cappella Music Concert. Presented by DCINY, the second annual Total Vocal Concert, which takes place on Sunday, March 20 at 2 p.m. in Two legends of Irish music – Andy Cooney (shown) of the Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, is a celebration of contemporary a capacclaimed “NY Tenors”and Phil Coulter – perform at pella. This year’s concert will feature arrangements from “Pitch Perfect” Upper Darby Performing Arts Center March 19. and “The Sing-Off” and will include some surprise celebrity guest artists. This is Friends’ Central’s third trip to Carnegie Hall in the last five years, and this year’s trip is particularpper Darby Performing Arts Center announces “Celtic ly exciting, as they will be working with Deke Sharon, arranger, music director, and vocal Crossings,” an evening of Celtic music and melodies producer of “Pitch Perfect” and “Pitch Perfect 2.” featuring two legends of Irish music, Phil Coulter and As members of the audition-only vocal groups at Friends’ Central, this group of 14 singers is ready to take on the challenge of working with Sharon, who has been heralded as “the special guest Andy Cooney. The performance takes place on father of contemporary a cappella.” Friends’ Central Choral Director Michele Zuckman com- March 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Upper Darby Performing Arts Center. Phil Coulter – known as Ireland’s Musical Ambassador – is ments, “Our trip to New York will afford some of our singers the opportunity to rehearse and perform with world-class conductors and premier college and high school vocal groups the mastermind and original songwriter behind “Celtic Thunder,” from around the world. Working with someone like Deke Sharon and to say that you per- an act that found huge success on PBS and has regularly topformed at Carnegie Hall are two very exciting accomplishments. I am grateful to the stu- ped the Billboard World Music Charts. Coulter’s career is decdents for their enthusiasm and dedication to this project, and to their families and the FCS orated with 23 platinum discs, 39 gold discs, 52 silver discs
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See Friends’ Central Students Performing in Carnegie Hall “Total Vocal” Concert on page 12
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Film Critic A.O. Scott Returns to BMFI with New Book ilm critic A.O. Scott returns to Bryn Mawr Film Institute to discuss his new book, “Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth.” As a film critic for the New York Times since 2000 and chief film critic since 2004, Mr. Scott has become one of the most read and respected voices in the industry through his passionate, articulate, witty, and sometimes blunt, movie reviews. “An Evening with A.O. Scott” will take place on Wednes day, April 13, at 7 p.m. at Bryn Mawr Film Institute. The evening will include an in-depth “An Evening with A.O. Scott” will take place on Wednesday, conversation with questions April 13, at 7 p.m. at Bryn Mawr Film Institute. from the audience and a book signing in the lobby. John Timpane, Book and Fine Arts Editor and Writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, will facilitate the conversation with A.O. Scott. Mr. Scott was previously a Sunday book reviewer for Newsday and is a frequent contributor to Slate, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. He has served on the editorial staffs of Lingua Franca and The New York Review of Books. In addition to his film-reviewing duties, Mr. Scott often writes for The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times Book Review. See “An Evening with A.O. Scott” at BMFI on page 12
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