AWAITS YOU AT ST. PETER’S!
July 17 – July 30, 2008
28th Annual Festival of the Arts featuring regional artists
Presented by the Society for New Music
The INVITATIONAL ART EXHIBIT will be up the entire month of July - In the Parish Hall and at other locations in Cazenovia. Art Exhibit Chair: Carolynne Whitefeather, assisted by Toloa Perry & Steve Carpenter
July 19 – 4 - 6pm Invitational Art Exhibit Reception & Gallery Walk - In the Parish Hall and at other locations along Albany Street in the Historic Business District – Free
July 22 – 7:30pm Writer’s Corner – In the Parish Hall - featuring prize-winning regional novelist Anne Panning – Free
July 23 – 12:30pm Rising Stars – In the Parish Hall - Award-winning high school students performing the classics (Ewazen, Mozart) as well as premiering works written especially for them by young regional composers Diego Davidenko & Diane Jones . . . Gina Fortunato, soprano; Andrew Friedrichs, trombone; Nina Elhassen, clarinet; with accompanist Sar-Shalom Strong - Free
July 29 – 7:30pm – Writers’ Corner Double-header – In the Parish Hall - featuring award-winning regional poets Elizabeth Twiddy & Derek McKown – Free
July 30 – 12:30pm - Rising Stars - In the Parish Hall – Prize-winning high school students performing the classics as well as premiering works written especially for them by young regional composers Tom Healey, James Welsch & Eric Merten . . . Elizabeth Sutphen, mezzo soprano; Dominic Corbacio, tenor; Brenna Ardner, flute; with accompanist Sar-Shalom Strong – Free
July 30 – 7:30pm - The Wizard of Words – In the Parish Hall (Cabret style) - Yip Harburg’s songs with Chanteuse Karen Oberlin (née Oberbrunner, Syracuse native), pianist Tedd Firth & bassist Phil Flanigan - $15, $12 student/seniors - NY Times - “Ms Oberlin’s singing, in a voice that is slightly lighter than Ms. Day’s (Doris Day), has the same purity, naturalness and polished phrasing, with added colors and a jazz spontaneity.” . . . “Ms. Oberlin’s calm, beautifully shaped reading in the classic pop tradition was one that Ms. Day in her prime might well have envied.”
For more information, contact Mary Ellen Brzozowski 251-1151 or Neva Pilgrim 446-5733 or snm@societyfornewmusic.org – Post on refrigerator or bulletin board - mark your attendance throughout the month!
