PERFORMANCE NOTES.Byline: The Register-Guard Dance school's annual show is this weekend The Musical Feet School of Dance will present its 29th annual dance concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Soreng Theatre at the Hult Center, Seventh Avenue and Willamette Street. The show will feature all the students in the performing program at Musical Feet. They will perform pieces in tap, jazz, ballet and hip-hop. The dancers range in age from 3 to adult and in levels from beginning through advanced. The concert also will include two guest artist tap dance groups: the Rhythm Section Noun 1. rhythm section - the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments percussion section, percussion section - a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class of DancEvolve from Portland and Pacific Tap Dance Company from Corvallis. The show is directed by Jeanette Frame. The lighting designer and stage manager is Erin Riley. Choreographers include Honi Coles, Dianne Walker Dianne Walker is a world famous tap dancer known as "Lady Di." She began her dance training in Boston with Mildred Kennedy-Bradic and later studied with Leon Collins, Jimmy "Sir Slyde" Mitchell and Jimmy Slyde. and Eleanor Borg and the faculty of Musical Feet: Samantha Ketcherside, Erin Lee, Erin Riley, Rebecca Chelminiak, Sara Strite, Dawn Cypress, Keelie Allen, Erica Villanueva, Kate Cornwall, Kirsten Garrett and Jeanette Frame. Tickets are $15, $13 for ages 12 and under. For information, call 485-2938. Events feature chanting, poetry, meditations An evening of chanting, poetry, images and meditations on nature begins at 8 p.m. Friday at the Spirit Moves, 1840 Willamette St. The event features Shantala (Benjy and Heather Wertheimer) and Eric Alan, author of `Wild Grace: Nature as a Spiritual Path.' Tickets are $15 at the door. For information, call (503) 245-0187 or e-mail info@shantalamusic.com. Additionally, two workshops will be offered Saturday at the Spirit Moves: "Bringing Wild Grace to Life" will be presented by Alan from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. "Nada Samudra: The Ocean of Devotional Sound" explores the ancient sacred arts of singing, devotional chant and rhythm with Shantala. It will be offered from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Cost is $45 for one workshop, $70 for both. Night of improvisational theater set for Friday The Emerald Valley Playback Theater will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Eugene Water & Electric Board, 500 E. Fourth Ave. Playback theater is improvisational theater based on true-life stories told by the audience. The theme for this performance is "Father and Sun - Exploring Fathers and the Longest Day of the Year." Suggested donation is $5 to $10, but no one will be turned away. For information, call 343-1926. New 22-member choir to perform A "Name That Choir!" event and concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Mennonite Church Noun 1. Mennonite Church - formed from the Anabaptist movement in the 16th century; noted for its simplicity of life Protestant denomination - group of Protestant congregations , 3590 W. 18th Ave. The concert will be an opportunity to hear the new 22-member secular choir, meet the membership, find out how to join and submit suggestions for a name for the choir. If one of the names is chosen, the choir will perform a special concert at an event of the winner's choice. Saturday's event also will include performances by two smaller ensembles as well as the popular Eugene folk duo Flying Crooked. There is a suggested $5 donation, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Lane County Darfur Coalition. Refreshments will be available. The group comprises amateur singers with a variety of musical experience and is seeking new members for next season. The choir is directed by Lisa Mischke. Eugene Symphony The Eugene Symphony is an American orchestra based in Eugene, Oregon. Its home venue is the Silva Concert Hall at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. Approximately 22,000 people attend Eugene Symphony's classical and pops concert performances each year. hires three musicians Three Musicians is the title of two similar oil paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. They were both completed in 1921 in the Synthetic Cubist style. One version is currently displayed in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City; the other is found in the The Eugene Symphony announced that three new orchestra musicians have been hired: Anne Ridlington was hired as section cello. Brad Kintscher was hired as second horn and Scott King Scott Glenndale Martin King (born June 25, 1967 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) was a professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in only two National Hockey League games for the Detroit Red Wings, but is known for his great play for the Toledo Storm. was hired for the fourth horn position. Ridlington was born in Corvallis and graduated from Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. School of Music in Bloomington, Ind. She is a new member of the Oregon Mozart Players Oregon Mozart Players is a professional chamber orchestra based in Eugene, Oregon. The orchestra presents six concert sets in a typical season, in addition to numerous small ensemble performances and recitals by guest artists. and has been a member of Oregon State University's Corvallis Symphony. Kintscher previously was a free-lance horn player in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . He recorded for major motion pictures, television and on albums for an array of musical genres and substituted with the Pacific Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LAP) is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. History Founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr. and the Los Angeles Opera The Los Angeles Opera is an opera company in Los Angeles, California, United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center. . King played for the Eugene Symphony from 2003-2006 and is returning after a one-year departure. He has also performed with the Oregon Mozart Players and the Oregon Symphony, as well as with artists such as Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, Rich Little and Helen Reddy. ACE youth program stages `Macbeth' A youth production of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" opens Friday and runs for six performances at the Actors Cabaret Youth Academy Stage, 39 W. 10th Ave. The cast includes Max Jeremiah (as Macbeth), Hillary Humphreys (Lady Macbeth), Kenny Jones (Duncan), Phoebe Gildea (Macduff), Walker Daniel (Lady Macduff) and Devon Daniel, Laura Elizabeth and Madison Jernberg (the Witches). Also in the cast are Tamara Benedict, Jimmy Christon, Cedar Drews, Megan Mackinnon and Braden Smith. Performances begin at 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday and on June 22 and 23, and at 2 p.m. Sunday and on June 24. Tickets are $10, $8 for 12 and younger. Call 683-4368. Lane Cultural Coalition awards grants The Lane County Cultural Coalition has announced $16,000 in grants to various arts groups. Recipients include: Sparkplug spark·plug tr.v. spark·plugged, spark·plug·ging, spark·plugs Informal To inspire or energize (an endeavor, for example). Dance, $750, to subsidize tickets for low-income children; Emerald Empire Art Association, $2,000, for a visual arts education program for children ages 2-12; Eugene Masonic Cemetery Association, $1,000, for repair of tombstones tombstones a cellular phenomenon in pemphigus vulgaris; rows of basal cells of the epidermis remain attached to the basal membrane, reminiscent of rows of tombstones. ; Eugene Symphony, $1,000, to support its American Encounters: Roberto Sierra initiative; Zero Clearance Theater, $1,500, for building repair; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. The original building was designed by Ellis F. Lawrence as part of his "main university quadrangle," now known as the Memorial Quadrangle. , $2,000, for its "Carl Morris: History of Religions" show; Nearby Nature, $1,150, for 10 scholarships; Free Shakespeare in the Park Shakespeare in the Park is a concept used across the world, as a form of free public presentation of William Shakespeare's works. Such performances exist in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. , $1,500, for eight public performances of "Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] See : Death, Premature Romeo and Juliet archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit. "; Arts Umbrella, $1,500, for music instruction to fifth graders; McKenzie Arts Forum, $1,000, to create a Web site; Florence Events Center, $1,200, for a juried art show; KSOW-LP FM, $1,600, to raise the antenna to increase reception. |
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