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| 13 Take Me Out To The Ballgame with The Toledo Mud Hens |
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19 Young Artists Competition Classics IX - New World Symphony |
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Contemporary dance ensemble to perform at Owens
Super Why Saves the Day
The Eisenhower Dance Ensemble will present a program called Dances from the Heart of Rock and Roll Feb. 17 at Owens.EnlargeDances from the Heart of Rock and Roll, a new program by the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, will be presented at 8 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Mainstage Theatre of the Owens Community College Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Oregon Road, Perrysburg Township.
Described as Michigan's premier contemporary dance company, the Southfield, Mich., group has been performing for 21 years with Michigan Opera Theater, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and other regional arts groups. The company also has its own subscription series and school.
Music by Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, and Bonnie Raitt, among other musicians, inspired this choreography by company founder Laurie Eisenhower. Tickets are $24 at 567-661-2787.
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The University of Toledo will present guest pianist Peter Amstutz in the Dorothy MacKenzie Price recital series at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall. Amstutz is professor of piano and coordinator of keyboard studies at West Virginia University College of Creative Arts.
With several degrees from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where he studied with Leon Fleischer, Amstutz also spent two years studying in Vienna on a Fulbright fellowship. Much awarded in prestigious piano competitions, Amstutz is a frequent recitalist in Asia, performing and leading master classes in Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China.
The performance is free. Amstutz also will lead a free, public master class at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Center for Performing Arts.
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Super Why! Saves the Day is the latest Family Series concert by the Toledo Symphony, to begin at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle.
Who is Super Why? He's a little guy with really big brain power who, with his buddies Princess Presto, Alpha Pig, Wonder Red, and Woofster, finds solutions to life's nagging preschool questions through reading. An interactive program by the same folks who developed Blue's Clues for Public Broadcasting, Super Why is aimed at preschoolers and early elementary viewers.
Resident conductor Jeffrey Pollock will lead the orchestra through a lively program of favorites from ballet scores and operas by Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Grieg, Humperdinck, Britten, and Ravel, as a special mystery guest will help the audience dig into the music.
Activities based on the show will begin at 2 p.m. in the main lobby of the Peristyle. Tickets are $20-$25 at 419-246-8000 or www.toledosymphony.org.
More music for young listeners is on tap Feb. 16 when the symphony and Pollock present the second Young Peoples Concerts at 9:45 and 11 a.m. in the Peristyle. Robert Clemens will be narrator for Prokofiev's classic musical tale, Peter and the Wolf. Glass City Steel, the steel drum band from the Toledo School for the Arts, will join Pollock and the orchestra for an arrangement of Alan Mencken's score for The Little Mermaid.
Pollock will achieve a musical trifecta, leading the symphony in a regional concert at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Ernsthausen Performing Arts Center, Norwalk, Ohio. The program will play on jazz standards, patriotic marches, and dance music.
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The University of Findlay's Music Bach's Series will present vocalist and pianist Darrelle London in a lunch concert at 11:30 a.m. Friday in the Alumni Memorial Union. London, a Canadian singer, released her debut album, "Edible Word Parade," in 2009, and has been compared in style and technique to Sarah McLachlan, Sara Bareilles, Colbie Caillat, and Ingrid Michaelson. There is no charge for this mid-day concert.
The annual pops program, this year titled Dancing With the Stars, is planned for 3 p.m. Sunday in the university's Winebrenner Theological Seminary. The university's Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble plus performers from the Toledo School for the Arts will offer a program of music with a dance theme. Jack Taylor will conduct music by Ravel, Strauss, and other composers, with choreography by Alison Reny, of the Toledo school. Pops concert seating at tables will be available along with traditional concert seats. Tickets are $3-$5 at 419-434-5335.
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The Toledo Piano Teachers continue their series on piano repertoire instruction with a presentation by Barbara Foote, teaching the Music of Debussy, at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in St. Andrews United Methodist Church, 3620 Heatherdowns Blvd. The program is free.
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University Musical Society in Ann Arbor will present the Chamber Ensemble of the Shanghai Orchestra at 8 p.m. Friday in Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St. The 20-member group represents a new synthesis between traditional Chinese instruments and more contemporary music. Wang Fujian is conductor. Tickets are $18-$38 atwww.ums.org or 734-764-2538.
The Michigan Chamber Players will present a free concert at 4 p.m. Sunday in Rackham Auditorium.
The Tallis Scholars will return to Ann Arbor for a 7:30 p.m. concert in St. Francis of Assissi Church, 2217 E. Stadium Blvd., Ann Arbor. Tickets are $35-$45 at www.ums.org.
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