The Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel is admiring to advertise that Brian Reagin, acclaimed violinist and Concertmaster of the North Carolina Symphony, will acknowledgment to bang off its Winter Concert Series on Sunday, October 19. Reagin, who captivated the admirers with his arresting concert during the 2007 Winter Concert Series, will accomplish a classical repertoire on his Lorenzo and Tomasso Carcassi violin fabricated in Florence, Italy in 1763.
Concertmaster of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra back 1988, Reagin was for eight years Assistant Concertmaster with the Pittsburgh Symphony beneath André Previn and Lorin Maazel. With the Pittsburgh Symphony he toured Japan, China, Hong Kong, Europe, Canada and Puerto Rico and performed abundant account and alcove works in Europe, Africa and the West Indies. Prior to abutting the Pittsburgh Symphony, he served as Concertmaster of the Cleveland Institute of Music Symphony Orchestra and accomplished in Carnegie Mellon University. Named Concertmaster of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in 1996 at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, he became alone the fourth Concertmaster in the history of that summer orchestra back its birth in 1929, abutting a acclaimed account of agreeable leadership.
Reagin has been a almsman of abundant prizes, including First Prize in the Ohio Music Teachers Association Collegiate Artist Competition, First Prize in the Cleveland Institute Concerto Competition, the Society of American Musicians Talman Award in Chicago, and the Jerome Gross Memorial Prize at the Cleveland Institute.
“We are captivated to accept such a accomplished and acclaimed artist as Brian Reagin to barrage this year’s Winter Concert Series,” 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 admirable alternation is, by far, the best ball amount in Cary.”
The Reagin concert will be the additional anniversary Carole J. Wright Memorial Concert, called for adept adherent of the concert alternation and benefactor to The Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel. Other performances will feature: The Cashore Marionettes, accolade acceptable puppetry set to classical music on November 9; David Burgess, internationally acclaimed classical guitarist on December 7; A Robert Burns Celebration, poetry, song and prose—250 years of Burns on January 11; and Love Bits & Bites, an aboriginal affected acquaintance on February 15. 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 performance.) 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: Hal Bowman at (919) 469-8219 or hkbowman@bellsouth.net.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
“Mysteries and Secrets: Exploring Cary-Area Cemeteries” Historic Preservation Program
Old cemeteries arm-twist a faculty of mystery, affecting such questions as, “Who rests here?” “What joys and sorrows beleaguer their lives?” “Are their families with them, or far, far away?” In the spirit of the Halloween season, the Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel will abode these arresting questions about one of Cary’s celebrated gravesites in Mysteries and Secrets: Exploring Cary-Area Cemeteries. The program—the final in this year’s Historic Preservation Program Series—will be captivated on Tuesday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center.
Through a alluring presentation, Members of the Friends’ Historic Preservation Committee will analyze the comatose places of celebrated figures, and acknowledge the added abstruse facts and questions about Hillcrest Cemetery. The Friends’ cold for the black is to acquaint the greater association about the actual and cultural acceptation of cemeteries.
“Cemeteries are important actual assets that acquaint about a community’s past,” said Bob Myers of the Friends’ Historic Preservation Committee. “Not alone do the burying places of our ancestors add ability to the area, but they authority admired assets for actual and affiliated research. They are aswell monuments to the humans who already inhabited our communities. For some, their adept amount can be absolutely abstracted and peaceful.”
Each year, the Friends of the Page-Walker present four programs in their Historic Preservation Series.
The events—which are chargeless and accessible to the public—start at 7:30 p.m. and are captivated at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center, 119 Ambassador Loop, on the Town Hall Campus. Light refreshments are served afterward anniversary program. Attendees are encouraged to break to abide the chat and accomplish new friends.
The Historic Preservation Committee meets the aboriginal Wednesday of anniversary ages at 6:00 p.m. at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center. To apprentice more, acquaintance Bob Myers at (919) 254-1476 or bob.myers@friendsofpagewalker.org.
The Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel (www.friendsofpagewalker.org) is an all-volunteer, non-profit, associates alignment whose mission is to adorn the association by confined as a guardian for the Page-Walker Arts and History Center, by advocating canning of Cary actual sites, archiving history and facilitating history education, and announcement cultural arts. For associates information, acquaintance Peggy Van Scoyoc at (919) 461-0443 or president@friendsofpagewalker.org.
MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Englert at (919) 342-0806 or lisa.englert@friendsofpagewalker.org
Through a alluring presentation, Members of the Friends’ Historic Preservation Committee will analyze the comatose places of celebrated figures, and acknowledge the added abstruse facts and questions about Hillcrest Cemetery. The Friends’ cold for the black is to acquaint the greater association about the actual and cultural acceptation of cemeteries.
“Cemeteries are important actual assets that acquaint about a community’s past,” said Bob Myers of the Friends’ Historic Preservation Committee. “Not alone do the burying places of our ancestors add ability to the area, but they authority admired assets for actual and affiliated research. They are aswell monuments to the humans who already inhabited our communities. For some, their adept amount can be absolutely abstracted and peaceful.”
Each year, the Friends of the Page-Walker present four programs in their Historic Preservation Series.
The events—which are chargeless and accessible to the public—start at 7:30 p.m. and are captivated at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center, 119 Ambassador Loop, on the Town Hall Campus. Light refreshments are served afterward anniversary program. Attendees are encouraged to break to abide the chat and accomplish new friends.
The Historic Preservation Committee meets the aboriginal Wednesday of anniversary ages at 6:00 p.m. at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center. To apprentice more, acquaintance Bob Myers at (919) 254-1476 or bob.myers@friendsofpagewalker.org.
The Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel (www.friendsofpagewalker.org) is an all-volunteer, non-profit, associates alignment whose mission is to adorn the association by confined as a guardian for the Page-Walker Arts and History Center, by advocating canning of Cary actual sites, archiving history and facilitating history education, and announcement cultural arts. For associates information, acquaintance Peggy Van Scoyoc at (919) 461-0443 or president@friendsofpagewalker.org.
MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Englert at (919) 342-0806 or lisa.englert@friendsofpagewalker.org
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