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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us November 3, 2005 LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon announces fall concerts Cynthia Hutton is music director of the YSSO. The Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon has announced its fall concert series. The three ensembles of the YSSO — Youth Strings, Youth Orchestra and Youth Symphony — will perform in at 7:30 p.m. at the Angus Bowmer Theater on Saturday, and in Medford on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Craterian-Ginger Rogers Theater. Tickets are $5 for students/seniors and $10 for general admission. Tickets are available at Paddington Station in Ashland, and at Larry’s Music in both Medford and Grants Pass. Tickets for the Sunday performance are available through the Craterian Ginger-Rogers Theatre box office. The Youth Symphony will perform three movements from Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C Minor as well as the first movement of Reinhold Glière’s Concerto for Horn. The concerto will feature an outstanding young musician, Philip Lopez, as French Horn soloist. “This is one of the few Russian pieces written for French Horn,” said Lopez, a Southern Oregon University music major. “It demands much vibrato and the tempo ebbs and flows. I especially like it because I find new things in the music each time I prepare to perform it.” The Youth Orchestra will perform the fourth movement of Antonin Dvorák’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major, as well as “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Paul Dukas and Niccolò Piccinni’s “Overture to Didon.” Philip Lopez is the French horn soloist for the YSSO’s weekend performances. The Youth Strings will perform a variety of works including A. Wallerstein’s Jenny Lind Polka and La Spagnola by V. DiChiara, among others. Cynthia Hutton, assistant professor of music at Southern Oregon University and member of the Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra, is music director of the YSSO and conductor of the Youth Symphony and Youth Orchestra. This season marks Hutton’s 11th year with the YSSO. In addition to her work with the YSSO, Hutton is associate professor of music and director of bands at Southern Oregon University. She is a member of the Rogue Valley Symphony and the SOU Faculty Brass Quintet. Hutton has served on the board of directors for both the Oregon Music Educators Association and the College Band Directors National Association — Northwest Division. Prior to coming to Southern Oregon, Hutton served as Director of Bands and horn instructor at the University of California, San Diego, and was Assistant Conductor of the La Jolla Civic University Orchestra. She received her doctorate in conducting from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Faina Podolnaya will conduct the Youth Strings. Podolnaya is in her sixth year with the YSSO as associate conductor. Upon completion of her studies in violin performance and teaching at the Soviet Conservatory of Music, she accepted a teaching position at a Kazakhstan music academy where she worked privately with students, lectured and coached ensembles preparing for competitions and concerts. Podolnaya has been the recipient of numerous awards, including her selection as the Soviet Union’s Teacher of the Year. Since coming to the United States seven years ago, she has performed with the Rogue Valley Symphony and has taught at Southern Oregon University. She also maintains a private studio for violin and viola. Most recently, she led the Siskiyou Violins in a performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon is a non-profit educational and cultural organization serving Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass and the surrounding communities. This year more than 180 students will participate in performances. For information about the 2005-2006 season of concerts, membership benefits, concert sponsorship, advertising or tickets, contact Sharon S. Wilson, Executive Director, Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon, P.O. Box 4291, Medford, OR 97501-0163, 541-858-8859, [email protected] or visit the web site: www.ysso.org. The Rogue Suspects open Mojo Rising's first Friday Music and Art series. First Friday Music, Dancing With The Rogue Suspects Ashland’s Mojo Rising Workshop and Event Studio announces the debut of its new First Friday Music and Art series on Friday. The Rogue Suspects will kick the series off with an evening of live music and dancing, featuring musicians from around the Valley. Showtime is 8 p.m.; cost is $5 students, $7 general public at the door. Following on the heels of the Suspects’ recent show at the Oct. 22 Briscoe Art Wing benefit at the A Street Marketplace, this event at Mojo promises to bring rhythm and blues enthusiasts the first of many opportunities to cap their Friday art walk with live music. Artists with their work shown at the Mojo include Jimmy Gilchrist; Jessie Hobart; Inger Jorgensen; David Sherman; Mark Steele; and Steven Cornett, Scott Carlson, and Keith Gabor from Ashland’s Gathering Glass Studio. Mojo Rising is a boutique event space specializing in workshop production, custom event hosting, and acoustic live music, located at 140 Lithia Way. For information call 541-323-7044 or see the Web site www.mojorisingstudio.com. Learn more about the Rogue Suspects online at www.roguesuspects.com. Camelot’s “The 1940’s Radio Hour” will continue through Nov. 20. Camelot extends ‘1940s Radio Hour’ Due to sold-out performances, Camelot Theatre will extend for one week the musical “The 1940s Radio Hour,” written by Walton Jones. “We haven’t sold tickets this fast since “Zorba!” said Artistic Director Livia Genise. A different time is evoked in this show, a live broadcast of The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade from the Hotel Astor’s Algonquin Room on Dec. 21, 1942. This musical realizes the spirit of that bygone era when the world was at war and pop music meant “Strike Up the Band,” “I’ll Be Seeing You,” “Kalamazoo” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.” “The 1940’s Radio Hour” extension dates are Friday and Saturday, November 18 and 19 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, November 20 at 2 p.m. Reservations are recommended. Tickets are $16 for students and seniors and $18 for Adults. Extension tickets are only available through the Camelot box office (located at the corner of Talent Ave. and Main St. in Talent). Reserved seats are available at the Box Office Only for an additional $2 per ticket. To reserve tickets, call the Camelot Theatre Company Box Office at 535-5250. Ashland artist Marian Spadone poses with pieces of art expressing grief. ‘Over My Dead Body; An Exhibit Encouraging Green Burial’ Ashland Artist Marian Spadone curates an exhibit of art demonstrating alternative ways of expressing grief and burying our loved ones on First Friday at the Nuwandart Gallery, at 258 A St. as part of the First Friday Art Walk. On display will be her hand-painted silk and linen burial shrouds, as well as the funerary art of several other Northwest artists. Items include handmade or painted caskets of varying materials, cremation urns and grief memorial collages. The opening will feature various performance artists in an “alternative” funeral procession in which the public is invited to participate. The procession will begin at the gallery at 7:45 p.m. Candles will be provided. The human spirit celebrated “An Evening in Celebration of the Human Spirit” returns for its fifth year from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Angus Bowmer Theatre. The evening features performances by area poets, actors, musicians, dancers, and artwork by area painters, sculptors and photographers. The event is produced under the aegis of Horizon Institute, the Ashland-based non-profit cultural and educational organization. The first “Evening” was held in the wake of 9-11, but it is not specifically linked to the events of that day. Organizers have a policy of keeping overt political and religious content out of the program. “We wanted to raise the question, ‘What it means to be human?’” founder and executive director Richard Moeschl says. “And the arts provide an ideal form in which to couch that question and to honor the human spirit.” Five years later, the event is still finding ways to celebrate our humanity. This year’s performances on the Bowmer stage will run the gamut from operatic arias to Broadway musicals. Camelot Theatre Company opens the show with a scene from Stephen Schwartz’s “Children of Eden” and the evening culminates with the audience singing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” In between there will be Barbara Zollinger’s rendition of the soliloquy from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” songs performed by Beth Baker, Leslie Kendall, the Delusions of Grandeur, the Peace Choir Ensemble, Michael Mish and others. Poets Judd Hyatt, and Mitzi Miles-Kubota will be among those reading their poetry. Actors Shirley Patton, Peter Alzado and Kate Sullivan will present scenes from plays. Suzanne Seiber, the Robin Bryant Dancers, Robin Steihm and other dancers will perform. Oregon Shakespeare Festival staff will provide technical services. An art exhibit in the Bowmer lobby will showcase 20 artworks from painting to sculpture, featuring creations by area artists Judy Howard, Clifford Wilton, Kevin Christman, Harriet Rex Smith, Karen Staal and others. Next year’s event is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 4, 2006. Tickets are $15 general, $10 students, $5 for children 12 and under and are available at Paddington Station, Soundpeace, DJ’s Video and The Bookwagon in Ashland and at the door the night of the performance. Ten percent of the proceeds will go to hurricane relief. See www.thehorizon.org. This Week At The Mobius Bat Makumba Brazilian Samba-Funk Thursday, Nov. 3, 9 p.m. $8 General, $5 students. The brainchild of Brazilian natives Alex Koberle and Emiliano Benevides, Bat Makumba (www.batmakumba.com) is the crossroad between the traditional music of their equatorial homeland and the punk, rock and funk influences of the U.S. Locals to San Francisco, Bat Makumba’s show is a hip renegade carnival party full of tropicalia tinged ska, punk influenced forro, and rock infused samba. Winners of a 2004 California Music Award for Outstanding Latin Alternative Album, Bat Makumba have been hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of five Latin bands to watch, nominated for an SF Weekly Music Award as Best International Band, and their debut album was named one of the Best Records of 2003 by the East Bay Express. First Friday Art Walk Friday, Nov. 4, 5-8 p.m., free. Featuring the art work of Greg Amorelli. Ecstatic Kirtan Traditional East Indian chanting with Jaya Lakshmi and friends Friday, Nov. 4, 8 pm. $10 Immerse yourself in the divine love of the sacred names. Jaya Lakshmi’s )www.jayalakshmi.net) singing is filled with heart and passionate devotion. Her blend of Sanskrit chant, harmonium, flamenco guitar, sarod and ambient grooves will comfort your heart and free your soul. “Jaya Lakshmi’s singing is absolutely phenomenal. The passion and grace in her voice really stirs the soul. Her music combines the best of both traditional yoga-chant and modern down-tempo grooves into an entirely fresh new sound. The beauty in her music is completely absorbing, and inspiring!” - David & Steve Gordon Trance Dance Dance of the Ancestors Sunday, Nov. 6, 7 a.m. doors close at 7:30 p.m. $20 advance, $25 door A journey of movement into the sacred dance of life, transcending time and space to fill one with a sense of infinite existence. It is an offering, an experience that can lead one beyond the temporal mind into a Dance with the Divine. Dance as a doorway into trance dates back over 40,000 years. To dance oneself into a state of trance is to connect completely to the healing powers of spirit. Dance was synonymous with what we would call prayer and demonstration of reverence. To dance regularly promoted spiritual/physical health and vitality. It is from this ‘shamanic’ perspective that Trancedance is approached. Contact Gwendolyn Terra for more information and to register in advance at: (541) 488-3033 or [email protected]. Around town Print arts show at SOPA The Print Arts Northwest show reception takes place Friday at Southern Oregon Printmaking Association, 130 A St. No. 1, in the back of the old Cantwell’s building, across from the A St. Marketplace. The show is a widely varied example of the different types of printmaking possible and what individual artists do with those techniques. SOPA will have displays that show what type of tools, materials and techniques are used to make different works in the show. SOPA artists will be available during receptions to answer questions and discuss techniques. Print Arts Northwest supports contemporary fine art printmaking by promoting the practice, appreciation and collection of original prints through exhibitions and educational programs. SOPA is a local, nonprofit, print studio, school and gallery — one of six non-toxic studios in the United States. Southern Oregon Printmaking Association encourages printmaking awareness through gallery showings, education and community interaction. More than 150 artists are currently represented by PAN from Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Hawaii, Montana, Alberta, Nevada and British Columbia. PAN maintains an active exhibition schedule in its Portland, Oregon gallery and coordinates exhibitions at regional, national and international locations.” The show runs through Nov. 27. The gallery is open Saturdays, a.m. to 3 p.m. and by appointment. For information call 488-9466 or e-mail [email protected]. To The East Singing cowboys in Klamath Falls The Riders in the Sky perform at the Ragland Theater in klamath Falls Nov. 10. Singing cowboys Riders in the Sky will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, at The Ross Ragland Theater in Klamath Falls as part of the 2005-2006 season. With tongue firmly in cheek, this multi-Grammy Award-winning quartet manages to both pay tribute to and poke gentle fun at the great Western musical tradition made famous by Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers. With 27-plus years and more than 5,000 performances under their collective cowboy belts, the Riders approach the status of legends themselves. Guitarist Ranger Doug, “Governor of the Great State of Rhythm,” sings lead vocals and yodels. Upright bassist Too Slim (“A Righteous Tater”) is the sharpest wit in the West and has inspired thousands to whack out tunes on their faces. Woody Paul, “King of the Cowboy Fiddlers,” performs intricate rope tricks that he swears he’ll get right before his career is over. And accordionist Joey “The CowPolka King” has played on his “stomach Steinway” with everyone from Roy Rogers to U2. The group has won many awards and accolades. Ranger Doug is also known as a distinguished music historian. His 2002 Vanderbilt University Press book, “Singing in the Saddle,” was the first comprehensive look at the singing cowboy phenomenon. And the group’s “Silver Jubilee” recording of their best-loved songs is considered perhaps the quintessential Western music album of the modern era. The band has appeared frequently on TV’s “Austin City Limits” and Public Radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion.” They were in the Kenny Rogers made-for-TV movie “Wild Horses.” They also performed in the movie “Sweet Dreams,” the acclaimed Patsy Cline biopic starring Jessica Lange. Tickets are $34, $29 and $21. Senior, low income and group discounts are available. Call 541-884-LIVE (5483), visit www.rrtheater.org or go to the Box Office 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday or noon until showtime the day of show. Visitors to Klamath Falls may request hotel and dining coupons with ticket purchase. all photos submitted DailyTidings.com Home Page Archives | Revels | Classifieds | Real Estate Guide | Weather | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2005 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Deep Muscle Stimulator Ceramic Piggy Banks FREE Entertainment Guide Women's & Men's Slippers Accelerate Weightloss Products Backpacks Generic Viagra Vegas Travel Guide Search Engine Optimization Sportsbook Absinthe Supply Student Loans Hotel & Airline Reservations African Safari Hammocks Helzberg Diamonds Online Casinos Community Bonus Casino King of Spirits ink cartridges Mortgage Calculator Security Systems Mailing Lists Click Here Advertisement .:Advertisements:. 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