CLASSICAL BEAT : KIDS GO BOWL-ING.Byline: Lynette Rice The Hollywood Bowl The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheatre at 2301 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances. The "bowl" in this context is the natural cavity in the earth into which the amphitheater is built, rather than the shape of the reserves a special place for kids each summer. A cherished box seat? Try a festival of performances and crafts workshops. Six open houses featuring music, dance, theater and puppet performances are slated for the Bowl's 75th anniversary season. The open houses, dubbed this year as ``Color Me Creative,'' take place at 10 and 11 a.m. Mondays through Fridays on the open house stage, located in the Bowl's Box Office Circle area. The performances are presented twice daily, and a different program is featured each week. Workshops follow the performances at 11 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. The 10 a.m. Monday performances are presented in sign language for the hearing impaired. Here's the lineup for the summer: July 8-12: Bobby Rodriguez and Jazz Adventure's swingin' tour through the jazz world of be-bop, Dixieland and salsa. In the workshop, Olga Ponce Furginson creates jazzy jazz·y adj. jazz·i·er, jazz·i·est 1. Resembling jazz in form or nature; rhythmical. 2. Slang Showy; flashy: a jazzy car. crafts with a New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded flavor. July 15-19: Fujima Kansuma demonstrates traditional Japanese dance, and Russian musicians of Limpopo play the accordion and strum balalaikas. Children can make their own instruments from Japan and Russia with Craig Woodson. July 22-26: Storyteller Diane Ferlatte shares tales from the South, and 10-year-old Brody Buster fronts a blues band. In the workshop, children can learn about African dance The term African dance refers mainly to the dances of subsaharan and West Africa. The music and dances of northern Africa and the Sahara are generally more closely connected to those of the Near East. Also the dances of immigrants of European and Asian descent (e.g. from Riu Akinsheguin and the West African West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. drummers. July 29-Aug. 2: Jim Gamble Jim Gamble is a British police officer, the Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre in the UK. A senior police officer of 25 years, he was head of the Northern Ireland anti-terrorist intelligence unit in Belfast, and most recently tackled Puppet Productions presents an animated version of Saint-Saens' ``Carnival of the Animals.'' In the workshop, children can make paper-bag animal puppets. Aug. 5-9: We Tell Stories struts its stuff, and Janet and Judy and the Hotbilly Boys dance and sing. Children then can find unique ways to mark pages with Judi Garratt's colorful bookmarks. Aug. 12-16: The Anderson String Quartet string quartet Ensemble consisting of two violins, viola, and cello, or a work written for such an ensemble. Since c. 1775 such works have been perhaps the predominant genre of chamber music. performs, followed by the Avaz International Dance Theatre. Kids can then design a kite. Performances are $3 per child. Tots under 2 are free. Workshops are $1. Parking is free. For ticket information, call (213) 850-2000. |
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