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Special Projects for the 2010-2011 season include:
The latest creation from Ensemble Galilei & NPR's Neal Conan, First Person:
Seeing America, which features large-screen projections of photographic images
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The collaboration between acclaimed cellist Colin Carr and the New Zealand
String Quartet --
The Bach Goldberg Variations, performed on the Moor Steinway, a unique,
dual-manual instrument
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Special Projects
Collaborations & Film
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Broadway Romance the new show from Rosa Lamoreaux and Rob Tudor is a
classic Broadway love story with jazz bass and piano. Hear favorites from
Guys and Dolls, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, Show Boat and more. A bit of
comedy, costuming From "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "My Funny Valentine" to
"Some Enchanted Evening" and "Adelaide's Lament" hear the ""vocal power" of
Tudor and the "wonderfully rich timbre and amazingly flexible voice" of
Lamoreaux.
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Universe of Dreams Music, poetry, images and the spoken word. NPR’s Talk of
the Nation host Neal Conan joins Ensemble Galilei in a show that features
projections from the Hubble Space Telescope. More...
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 First
Person: Seeing America features Ensemble Galilei,
Neal Conan and actress Lily Knight with large-screen projections.
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Wildness and
Beauty: Calamity Jane’s Letters to Her Daughter
Actress Lily Knight brings Calamity Jane to life. Her performance is
mesmerizing and her band, the harp, fiddle and viola da gamba from Ensemble
Galilei, is brilliant, their music perfectly expressive. It is an
extraordinary evening of music and theater.
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Winter's Night -- Ensemble Galilei and NPR's Neal Conan perform this
winter solstice concert with spoken word for a special seasonal treat. With
text from Ogden Nash, Li Young Lee, Mary Oliver and Jim Harrison, Ensemble
Galilei performs Irish, Scottish, Early and Original music on a variety of
ancient and modern instruments, including the Celtic harp, Scottish small
pipes, gamba, fiddle, recorders, whistles and percussion. The inimitable Neal
Conan is host and narrator.
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Collaborations &
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 Cellist Clancy
Newman joins the New Zealand String Quartet for performances of
Schubert's Two Cello Quintet and some delicious Bach.
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 Violinist
Dmitri Berlinsky performs Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the
International
Chamber Soloists. This exciting new chamber orchestra will tour North
America in 2010/2011
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Danzas y Bailes features baroque dancers in
costume on stage while Chatham Baroque recreates 17th century danzas, the
dignified, Italianate dances of the nobility, and bailes, the “wild” dances of
the streets. More...
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 Pianist
Christopher Taylor performs
the Bach Goldberg Variations on a unique dual-manual Steinway. The instrument
tours across the country with the acclaimed pianist, by special arrangement.
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 Pictures
at an Exhibition - The Award-Winning film is projected on a large screen
as I Musici de Montréal performs Mussorgsky's transcendant score.
Digitized from the series of new large-scale paintings by acclaimed artist
Natasha Turovsky "The big-screen projection is an uninterrupted suite of
delight, with effects of movement, space and depth, always successfully
achieved. The "Catacombes" are mind-boggling and a sky filled with bells
dominates the "Great Gate of Kiev" (La Presse). All-Russian programs are
offered, as well as works from Bach
to Schubert and Turina to Dvorak.
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