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Year 34, No. 3
Celebrating 34 Years of Community News
Pianist Tomer Gewirtzman Opens Tri-County Concerts’ 78th Season September 16 Concert at Eastern University’s McInnis Auditorium
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ri-County Concerts is delighted to be opening its 78th season of presenting high-quality chamber music in the Philadelphia suburbs with award-winning pianist Tomer Gewirtzman on Sunday, September 16, at 3 p.m. at Eastern University’s McInnis Auditorium located at 1300 Eagle Road, St. Davids, PA. Mr. Gewirtzman will perform works by Beetho-
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Tri-County Concerts presents award-winning pianist Tomer Gewirtzman on Sunday, September 16, at 3 p.m. at Eastern University’s McInnis Auditorium located at 1300 Eagle Road, St. Davids, PA. Photo/Christian Steiner
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ven, Scriabin, Brahms, Medtner, and Shostakovich. Meet the artist at a complimentary post-concert reception. Tickets are available by phone, mail, online, and at the door: general admission $20, seniors (62+) $15, students and children free. For information and reservations, call 610-504-4678 or see www.tricountyconcerts.org. Hailed by The Washington Post for his “formidable virtuosity and Irene Levy Baker has spent seemingly endless hours eating and drinking her way through the region’s award-winning stylistic sensitivity,” Mr. Gewirtzman restaurants, small mom-and-pop-owned BYOBs, distilleries, has impressed judges and audijazz joints and under-the-radar bars. ences around the world. His many accolades include First Prizes at f you’re hungry for a good meal & a delicious story, Unique Louisiana’s Wideman International Eats and Eateries of Philadelphia is here to serve you. The Piano Competition, Israel’s Clairmont newly-published book includes the sweet and spicy stoCompetition, the Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition, and the Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Tel Aviv. He also won top prizes at New York’s International Keyboard ries behind 90 of the Philadelphia area’s most fascinating Institute & Festival, Greece’s Arte Con Anima, and Poland’s International Baltic Piano Com- restaurants. Discover how two chocolatiers got engaged; dinners interpetitions, as well as the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He has performed with orchestras and in recitals across Israel, throughout Europe from London to Russia, rupted by bungled mob hits; restaurants that survived an
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Lantern Theater Company Presents Philadelphia Premiere of Hapgood antern Theater Company kicks off its 2018/19 season with the regional premiere of Hapgood by Tom Stoppard. Longtime Lantern artistic collaborator Peter DeLaurier will direct a cast that includes McKenna Kerrigan as MI5 spymaster Elizabeth Hapgood, with Damon Bonetti, Kirk Wendell Brown, Trevor William Fayle, Christopher Patrick Mullen, Adam Phelan, David Pica, William Zielinski, and young actors Charles LaMonaca and Will Zielinski, who will share the role of Hapgood’s son Joe. Perfor mances started September 6 and run through Sunday, October 14, 2018. Tom Stoppard refers to Hapgood as his “plot play.” Showcasing the prolific playwright’s characteristic wit, verve, and deft wordplay, Russian espionage collides with particle physics in a mes-
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merizing journey through a wildly complex counterintelligence operation – and absolutely nothing is what it appears to be. Focused mainly on a brilliant British spymaster juggling motherhood William Zielinski as Kerner and McKenna Kerrigan as Elizabeth Hapgood in Lantern Theater Company’s production of “Hapgood” by Tom Stoppard, directed by Peter DeLaurier. Onstage now through October 14, 2018. Photo/Mark Garvin and career in a profession dominated by men, Hapgood also references quantum mechanics – including Niels Bohr’s “The answer is the question interrogated,” Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, and the historically notable See Lantern Theater’s Philadelphia Premiere of “Hapgood” page 4