ARTS FESTIVAL TO END THEATER SEASON.Byline: Greg Botonis Daily News Staff Writer The Palmdale Playhouse will end its 1998-99 season with a summer celebration, beginning tonight, featuring orchestral music, dance, an art exhibit, poetry readings and plays. Participating will be the Palmdale Youth and Community Dance Company, the Palmdale City Players, the Palmdale Writers' Roundtable, the Palmdale Youth Orchestra, the Palmdale Community Orchestra, the Palmdale Youth and Community Choir, and the Palmdale Visual Arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → Program. ``We're a community theater, and it seems appropriate that we end our season with our community programs,'' playhouse spokeswoman Janna Bitton said. Shows will be at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets for each show are $1 for senior citizens and children 12 and younger, $3 for others. The Palmdale Youth and Community Dance Company will kick off the celebration tonight with ``Wilderness,'' a modern dance piece incorporating Middle Eastern rhythms and movement. After the dance performance, the authors will recite their poems that won awards in the 1999 poetry contest sponsored by the Palmdale Writers' Roundtable. The evening program will conclude with a brief interpretation of ``The Wizard Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious. of Oz'' by the Palmdale City Players. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the Palmdale Youth Orchestra and the Palmdale Community Orchestra will perform jointly. Pieces will include ``William Tell Overture The overture to the opera William Tell, especially its high-energy finale, is a very familiar work composed by Gioachino Rossini. There has been repeated use (and sometimes parody) of this overture in the popular media, most famously for being the theme music for the ,'' ``Moon River,'' preludes from Johann Sebastian Bach and the first movement of Mozart's Third Concerto concerto (kənchâr`tō), musical composition usually for an orchestra and a soloist or a group of soloists. In the 16th cent. concertare and concertato implied an ensemble, either vocal or instrumental. for French horn French horn, brass wind musical instrument. Fundamentally a metal tube of narrow conical bore, it is curved into circles because of its great length. The horn ends in a wide flare. It is a development (c.1650) of the small hunting horn. and orchestra. The Palmdale Youth and Community Choir will continue the music at 2 p.m. Sunday. Pieces will include selections from ``The Sound of Music,'' ``Oliver'' and Andrew Lloyd Webber Noun 1. Andrew Lloyd Webber - English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948) Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton, Lloyd Webber musicals. The choir will also sing original songs composed by accompanist Molly molly see mare hinny. Stecker. Throughout the weekend, the Palmdale Visual Arts Program's exhibit ``Serenity of Water'' will be on display in the playhouse lobby. Pieces are available for sale. ``It's a great way to spend the weekend,'' said Bitton, adding that ``there's something for everyone.'' For more information, call the Palmdale Playhouse box office at (661) 267-5685 or (661) 267-ARTS for a recorded message. |
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