555 Gallery Exhibition @ DSA

May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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It’s not just chemistry. It’s generous parts of inspiration, collaboration and guidance. Discover the amazing results when professional artists from 555 Gallery work with Detroit School of Art students. The process is like a chemical catalyst, accelerating creative works of genius.

The 555 Gallery Exhibition at Detroit School of Arts is on exhibit May 1 through May 31, 2013. There will be a Closing Reception Wednesday May 29 from 5-6:30 at the DSA. The Detroit School of Arts is located at 123 Selden Street, Detroit, MI, 48201.

Details from DSA:

During the month of May, the visual arts department has had guest artists come in every Wednesday to do an artists workshop with students in Mr. Wood and Mrs. Braxton’s visual arts classes. The interactive, engaging workshops have highlighted various forms of the arts and issues relevant to the community. Not only have the presentations allowed the artist to present unique artwork, but the students also have had opportunity to create through hands-on workshops. Issues addressed through the workshops have included: bullying, alter egos, the environment, and social justice, among other topics.

An exhibition with the pieces from the artists’ collection is set up in the DSA 5th Floor Gallery, installed by the visual arts instructor and DSA students. Students will also be featured at the reception, as the work they created as part of the workshops will be on available for viewing.

The closing reception will take place on Wednesday May 29 from 5-6:30 and will feature music, art, food and engagement with DSA visual arts students, 555 Gallery artists, and the school community.

Please come out to participate in this wonderful event.

Visual Arts May Series

Curated by DSA Students: Daniel James, Alex Collier, A’leetzia Burns, Deontae Lyles, Adam McQueen, Sierra Dillard, and Latasha Davis.

Collaboration with Detroit Arts Community and Detroit School of Arts. 555 Gallery is a not-for-profit art gallery founded to develop new and emerging artists, and to advance arts and culture in Michigan.

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Kickstart Your Summer with the Arts!

May 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Edsel and Eleanor Ford House and Daffodil Garden by Stephen J. Brown

WRCJ 90.9 FM and Edsel & Eleanor Ford House invite you to Kickstart Your Summer!

Don’t miss a fun filled event for families, students and arts and cultural organizations. You also can be part of a live radio broadcast on WRCJ 90.9 FM, hosted by Dave Wagner and Chris Felcyn.

Join us on the grounds of the historic Edsel & Eleanor Ford House on the shore of Lake St. Clair on Saturday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Among the fun:

  • Free Admission and Free Parking
  • Live entertainment will be provided by musicians from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Livonia Symphony, Macomb Symphony, Cantata Academy Chorale, The Detroit Children’s Choir, Grosse Pointe Community Chorus, Motor City Brass Band and many others
  • Over 40 Exhibitors – Arts, Music, Educational and Civic Organizations
  • Instrument “Petting Zoo” and other children’s activities
  • Tours of the historic Edsel & Eleanor Ford House will be available with an admission fee of $12 for adults, $11 for seniors, $5 for children ages 6 – 12 and free for children under 5.

Families will be able to sample tasty food from Ford House’s Cotswold Café, Dirty Dog Jazz Café and Fresh Farms Market.

Representatives from the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Cranbrook Academy of Art & Art Museum, Cranbrook Music Guild, Dearborn Symphony, Detroit Public TV, Grosse Pointe Symphony, Michigan Opera Theatre, Windsor Symphony, and many other arts and cultural organizations will be on hand with activities and information.

The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House is located at 1100 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe Shores. For more information, visit us online at www.wrcjfm.org.

The image above of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House and the Daffodil Garden is a detail from a photograph by Stephen J. Brown. Click here to see it and other photographs by Mr. Brown.

 

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The Poet – The Green Room

March 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment

“Undercurrent” is the latest of poems by Victor “Billione” Walker, a native Detroit writer and activist who uses poetry as a method to share his cultural experiences. He is the founder and editor of Detroit Poetry Blog detroitpoetry.blogspot.com a source of information about poetry related events and venues in the Detroit Area. “Billione” will be releasing a collection of poetry entitled “Grand River” later this year.

PRODUCER NOTE: In an effort to remain true to the poet’s vision the location of each image was suggested by Mr. Walker.

ZOO WATER TOWER PICTURE: by William Archie used with the kind permission of the Detroit Free Press.

All other images by Roy Feldman.

The Green Room series is produced by Roy Feldman for Detroit Performs. To see more artists in the Green Room, please click here.

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Maestro Slatkin spells out ‘Why Detroit?’

March 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Maestro Leonard Slatkin

Maestro Leonard Slatkin, music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, wrote a most interesting blog for the Huffington Post in which he talks about the arts, the metropolis, and the people who live here. An excerpt:

Nearly every subscription program is broadcast via a series of free HD webcasts. Last season we became the first orchestra in the world to offer such a product, with viewers in 75 countries and a cumulative audience approaching 300,000.

That’s not the best of it, though. Click here to read the rest of “My Town“ by Maestro Slatkin.

The webcasts are produced in partnership with Detroit Public Television Channel 56 and WRCJ 90.9 FM. Here’s the link to the DSO archive, courtesy of DPTV.

What’s not spelled out in the Huffington Post piece is why the Motor City adores Maestro Slatkin. As Artur Schnabel wrote about the spaces between the notes being the region where art resides, that indescribable bond is writ loud and clear between the lines.

 

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DSA Performers Star at Carnegie Hall

March 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment

DSA Wind Symphony

The Detroit School of Arts Wind Symphony won overall “Best Group” for its performance at Carnegie Hall the weekend of Mar. 29 & 30.

The DSA Wind Symphony, under the direction of Ronald Malabed, and DSA Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Sean Smith, participated in the National Band and Orchestra Festival held at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

The Detroit School of Arts Achievers Ladies Ensemble, under the direction of Connie Malabed, will perform at Carnegie Hall on April 28.

The National Band and Orchestra Festival featured performances from six schools across the country. DSA students were diligently working toward being adjudicated, a technical critiquing process where judges evaluate performances, and were pleasantly surprised when the judges unanimously decided that their group outperformed all other school groups.

DSA’s award-winning performance pieces included: “Robinson’s Grand Entrée March,” by Karl L. King; “An American Elegy,” by Frank Ticheli; and “Gavorkna Fanfare,” by Jack Stamp. The judges awarded DSA with a detailed vinyl banner measuring roughly 12 feet in height listing all of the participating schools.

“I was so excited when all four of the judges told me that our DSA group performed the best, and that we were also being awarded with the banner. I had no idea anyone was going to be awarded anything,” said Ronald Malabed, DSA Director of Bands.

In recent years, DSA’s bands have traveled to Chicago, Orlando and Washington D.C. through fundraising and student payments. The Carnegie Hall performance was their most marquee trip yet, and the cost for each participant was covered completely through fundraising.

The DSA Achievers Ladies Ensemble is still accepting donations to help support their trip to Carnegie Hall. All donations are tax deductible. If you would like to make a donation, checks and money orders can be made to:

Detroit School of Arts HS, C/O Connie Malabed
123 Selden Ave. Detroit, MI 48201

 

 

 

 

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Well-Tempered Conductor Returns to DSO

March 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos

Heads-up! Maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos led the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for performances over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

The Spanish conductor spoke with our colleague Chris Felcyn on his Well-Tempered Wireless program on WRCJ 90.9 FM last week to talk about Dvorak, Stravinsky and the Rite of Spring. Frühbeck de Borgos has led symphonies from Vienna to Tokyo and is revered by audiences — and musicians — everywhere he goes.

To enjoy the discussion with Mestro Frühbeck de Burgos, and other great interviews with the people creating the best music in the world, click here.

From the DSO, an invite to a pre-concert lecture:

The DSO invites all patrons to join us for a pre-concert lecture led by University of Michigan Associate Professor of Dance and Music, Christian Matijas-Mecca entitled “Fauns, Nymphs, Games & Rites: Dances for a Century – The 1912 & 1913 Seasons of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.”

The special lecture will take place in Orchestra Hall, one hour and 15 mins prior to each DSO performance.

From 1909 – 1929, Serge Diaghilev commissioned numerous dance scores for his company, the Ballets Russes. Compositions by Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, Milhaud, De Falla, Satie, and others, would become part of the orchestral repertoire, whereas the choreographies for which these works were originally created reside on the edges of our cultural landscape. In this, the centenary of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), we acknowledge both the ballets and their choreographers whose dances first presented these masterpieces to orchestral world.

Click for tickets and details.

 

 

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Lynn Harrell, Anne-Marie McDermott & Beethoven

March 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Chamber Music Society presents Lynn Harrell and Anne Marie McDermott

The stars of Beethoven continue to align over Southeast Michigan as Chamber Music Detroit presents two of the world’s most eminent classical musicians, cellist Lynn Harrell and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, in concert on Saturday, May 18 at the Seligman Performing Arts Center. The concert begins at 8 p.m.

Program
Beethoven: Sonata in G minor, Op. 5, No. 2
Beethoven: Sonata in C major, Op. 102, No. 1
Beethoven: Sonata in A major, Op. 69

Seligman Performing Arts Center is located at 22305 W. 13 Mile Road (at Lahser), Beverly Hills, Michigan, 48025, on the campus of Detroit Country Day School.

Tickets range from $15 to $60. For reservations, phone (248) 855-6070 or email tickets@ChamberMusicDetroit.org.

From CMD: 

Lynn Harrell’s presence is felt throughout the musical world. A consummate soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, conductor and teacher, his work throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia has placed him in the highest echelon of today’s performing artists. His collaborator, Anne-Marie McDermott, is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has performed as orchestral soloist, chamber musician and recitalist for over 25 years. She was recently appointed Artistic Director of the Vail Valley Music Festival as well as Curator for Chamber Music for the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego.

“From the opening gesture, Harrell embraced us and didn’t put us down, gently but with a flourish, until the end. His playing was bold, imaginative, and surpassingly sensitive … fully human and rich in detail” —The Boston Globe

“Anne-Marie McDermott is a pianist who balances qualities of excitement and spontaneity with clarity and elegance.” —The New York Times

Learn more online at Chamber Music Detroit.

The Chamber Music Detroit program continues the string of incredible good fortune we Beethoven lovers are enjoying in 2013. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra presented a Beethoven Festival with all nine symphonies and 32 piano sonatas and more, including Emanuel Ax performing the Egmont Overture…The Michigan Opera Theatre presented his only opera, “Fidelio,”…The Purple Rose Theatre currently is presenting “33 Variations” a drama set in two times, the present and Beethoven’s…Pro Musica of Detroit presented Dr. Richard Kogan, a Harvard trained psychiatrist and Juilliard trained concert pianist who analyzed the mind and music of Beethoven…

Mille grazie, stella celestial! Mille, mille grazie, Ludwig!

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Sounds of Healing – Detroit Medical Orchestra

March 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Detroit Medical Orchestra

Bringing a musical perspective to the art of healing, the Detroit Medical Orchestra, under the direction of Elliot Moore, will present a program of classic works on Sunday, May 12. Held in the Community Arts Auditorium on the campus of Wayne State University, the program begins at 3 p.m.

The DMO program is free and open to the public. The Community Arts Auditorium is located at 450 Reuther Mall, WSU, Detroit, MI 48302.

 

Program:

Sam Johnson – On Sumum Stowum “In Some Places”

Respighi – Fontane di Roma

Borodin- Polovtsian Dances

 

MISSION STATEMENT

The Detroit Medical Orchestra is a non-profit organization that exists to explore the connections between music and healing, foster partnerships among medical professionals, and make philanthropic contributions to the medical community in Detroit.

​BRINGING HEALING THROUGH MUSIC

Detroit Medical Orchestra musicians range from medical students, residents, and physician to researchers and professors but membership is open to anyone within the health field or the Wayne State community.

​The Detroit Medical Orchestra was founded in 2010 by Michelle Ubels, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she studied violin, during her second year of medical school. The inaugural season was conducted by Joel Schut. Previous conductors also include Warren Puffer Jones.

​The organization welcomes any and all interested musicians who are in any way related to the medical profession to contact us and join us in making music.

The image above, courtesy of the Wayne State University School of Medicine Alumni, shows members of the Detroit Medical Orchestra in performance at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Detroit, on Dec. 9, 2012.

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Shakespeare anniversary at the Elizabeth Theater

March 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment

ET presents Measure for Measure

Prepare for some law and order, neo-feudal style as The Elizabeth Theater celebrates its Second Annual Shakespeare Fest with Measure for Measure. The tragi-comedy by William Shakespeare runs on select dates through April 27.

When the Duke of Vienna decides it is time to restore order and morality to his city, which has for fourteen years lacked just that, he leaves his strict deputy, Angelo in stewardship of the city while he “sets off” on undisclosed business. Angelo begins his charge of cleaning up the city, specifically fornication, quickly when he sentences Claudio to death for getting his fiance Juliette pregnant. Claudio’s sister Isabella pleads with Angelo on her brother’s behalf in hopes of changing his mind. The entire situation gets more complicated when Angelo finds himself lusting after Isabella. All the while the Duke watches over what’s happening in his city and pulls the strings, disguised as a Friar.

Performances:

  • Friday, March 15 @ 7:30 p.m.
  • Saturday, March 16 @ 7:30 p.m.
  • Friday, March 22 @ 7:30 p.m.
  • Saturday, March 23 @ 7:30 p.m.
  • Friday, March 29 @ 7:30 p.m.
  • Saturday, March 30 @ 7:30 p.m.
  • Friday, April 12 @ 7:30 p.m.
  • Saturday, April 13 @ 7:30 p.m.
  • Friday, April 20 @ 7:30 p.m.
  • Sunday, April 21 @ 2 p.m.
  • Friday, April 27 @ 7:30 p.m.

 

For Tickets: ElizabethTheater.com. Also available at BrownPaperTickets.com.

For more info, call (313) 454-1286.

Elizabeth Theater is located above The Park Bar, 2040 Park Ave. Detroit, MI 48226.

 

 

 

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Salsa, Songs & Sweets

March 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Madrigal Chorale

Madrigal Chorale (formerly the Madrigal Chorale of Southfield) celebrates Cinco de Mayo on Sunday, May 5th, with a unique performance of exciting and varied selections in their second annual spring “Pops” event at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. The musical program begins at 5 p.m.

Madrigal Chorale is billing its benefit concert as “Salsa, Songs & Sweets” because of the Mexican fiesta flavor of the event, it features songs (of course)—but also because the program includes a dessert bar and coffee. A silent auction, 50/50 raffle is also planned with all proceeds going toward the 19th Annual Madrigal Chorale Vocal Scholarship Competition for high school vocalists. A cash bar also will also be available.

Artistic Director Robert A. Martin, Ph.D., who celebrates his 24th season with the Madrigal Chorale, acknowledges that the typical genre for 100-plus year old traveling chorale is performing the classics, but adds, “We all like to have some real fun once in a while and push each other out of our usual comfort zone. It will be incredible fun, with surprises around every corner.”

Thus, the Madrigal Chorale “Salsa, Songs & Sweets” concert will include selections from West Side Story, In the Heights, Footloose, Celebration, La Cucaracha and many more selections with an accent on Spanish. In addition, the concert will feature a number of special surprises and solo and small group acts—an audience favorite from last year’s inaugural Madrigal Chorale “Pops” event. The Madrigal Chorale Women’s Chamber Ensemble will add a unique, high energy interpretation of “Everybody Rejoice” from The Wiz.

Madrigal Chorale has a rich history of choral performance and community service that dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. Often described as “one of metro Detroit’s artistic jewels” and is comprised of locally based men and women who share an unequalled commitment to excellence in vocal music performance. Betsy Graham Marsh is Associate Director and Patrick Kuhl serves as Accompanist.

Madrigal Chorale annually engages in self-imposed commitments of giving back to its own community. A benefit concert is held each season with all proceeds going to its non-profit recipient (in 2012, the recipient was Habitat for Humanity) and it’s highly regarded vocal scholarship program that provides educational money to high school vocalists ($3,000 was awarded in 2012).

Tickets are $30 and must be purchased in advance. To order, call (248)804-1377, email yourmcs@yahoo.com or go online at mcs-notes.org. For more information on the Madrigal Chorale, visit their website at: mcs-notes.org.

Madrigal Chorale “Salsa, Songs & Sweets” concert will be performed Sunday, May 5, at 2:30 p.m. The event takes place at Adat Shalom Synagogue, 29901 Middlebelt Road in Farmington Hills.

Adat Shalom Synagogue is locate at 29901 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills, Michigan.

 

 

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