The Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel are admiring to advertise that they will bang off their 2009-10 Winter Concert Series on Sunday, October 18. Opening this year’s alternation of performances will be the Durham, North Carolina-based Mallarme Chamber Players.
The Mallarme Chamber Players is a adjustable ensemble of able musicians, whose mission is to adorn the lives of the association through outstanding alcove Music performance. The ensemble distinguishes itself in the association by its avant-garde educational programs, its charge to artistic accord with added organizations, its conception of cogent new plan and its adherence to serve a assorted population.
Created in 1984 by musicians Jane Hawkins and Anna Ludwig Wilson alive with artist and arts agent Margaret DeMott, the ensemble's name comes from Stephane Mallarme, the 19th-century French artist and philosopher who believed that accurate art is created through a accord of music, dance, abstract and the beheld arts. In befitting with their namesake, Mallarme performances are generally interdisciplinary and accept been accepted by critics and audiences as innovative, all-embracing and of the accomplished aesthetic quality.
With the a lot of able artists from North Carolina's Piedmont region, Mallarme Chamber Players performs programs that cover rarely heard works from the acceptable alcove music repertoire which bless the assortment in our association by featuring the music of African-American, Asian, Latino, Indian, Middle Eastern and women composers. Mallarme has commissioned over 25 new works by American composers. They accept created new contours in the mural of alcove music through partnerships with artists of abounding altered disciplines. Through their all-embracing apprenticeship programs they accept developed a new archetypal for community-based arts organizations.
“The barrage of the Winter Concert Series with the Mallarme Chamber Players promises yet addition division of rich, all-embracing and outstanding programs,” said Hal Bowman, Chair of the Friends’ Performing Arts Committee. “The Main Gallery of the Page-Walker Arts & History Center is the absolute affectionate ambience to advertise all of the assorted artists who will be assuming this year. This outstanding alternation is, by far, the best ball amount in Cary.”
Other performances in this year’s concert alternation will feature: internationally acclaimed classical guitarist, David Burgess, who allotment by accepted appeal to accomplish the Carole J. Wright Memorial Concert on November 15; the Enloe High School Ensemble on December 13; acceptable Irish and Appalachian music of Little Windows (with Mark Weems and Julee Glaub) on January 24; and Love Bits & Bites, an aboriginal affected acquaintance adulatory the charm, abracadabra and abstruseness of adulation on February 21. All performances will be captivated on Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m. at The Page-Walker Arts & History Center, 119 Ambassador Loop—in the Heart of Cary.
Advanced division tickets may be purchased for $75 at http://www.friendsofpagewalker.org by registering to appear the Winter Concert Series—SEASON TICKET event. A division admission acquirement includes one added chargeless admission to any achievement as able-bodied as adopted seating. Tickets for all performances may be purchased at the aperture for $15, accountable to availability.
About the Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel: The mission of the Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel is to adorn the association by confined as guardian for the Page-Walker Arts & History Center, by advocating canning of Cary celebrated sites, by archiving history and facilitating history education, and by announcement the cultural arts. For added information, appointment http://www.friendsofpagewalker.org.
MEDIA CONTACT: Mercedes Auger at (919) 460-4963 or mercedesauger@bellsouth.net.
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