Holy Family Parish Presents: The Vienna Boys Choir; Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Join us as Holy Family Parish travels to Springfield ’s venerable Symphony Hall for their one-of-a-kind program featuring classic and contemporary Christmas favorites performed by the Vienna Boys Choir.
Experience the beauty of twenty-four of the world’s youngest voices in one of the world’s oldest musical traditions.
The Vienna Boys Choir has been thrilling audiences all over the world for more than 500 years. While providing the music for the Sunday Mass in Vienna ’s Imperial Chapel – which they’ve done since 1498 – the choir also tours internationally, performing each year in some of the world’s finest concert halls.
Package includes: Round-trip transportation from Gloucester , Lunch prior to the concert, Gold seating at Springfield Symphony Hall for the 1:30 PM performance – $135 per person.
Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2012. Don’t miss out, space is very limited!!
For more information please contact Rosa Ladd at 978.580.4455 or rladd@necb.com
Reservation forms with detailed trip information are available at Holy Family Parish Church office at 60 Prospect St. , Gloucester .
Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe is delighted to announce the productions scheduled for its fifth season. The company has grown over the years and ranges in age from teens to eighties: students, businesspeople, teachers and other professions held together by a love of theatre and the works of William Shakespeare. New participants are always welcome either onstage or off.
The season opens November 1 at the Gorton Theatre (Home of the Gloucester Stage Company) with "Shakespeare In Two Acts", a program of comedy and tragedy juxtaposed, consisting of "Visiting Lear" an adaptation of "The Tragedy of King Lear", directed by Ray Jenness and "Love on a Midsummer Night", a twenty- first century take on "A Midsumer Night’s Dream", directed by Nick Neyeloff. "Visiting Lear" opened CAST’s first full season, was enthusiastically received and requested to be performed again. The action is set in a nursisng home, where an elderly man abandoned by his family drifts in and out of Lear’s tragedy.
"Love on a Midsummer Night" uses four players to portray Lysander, Demitrius, Hermia, Helena, Oberon, Bottom, Puck, and Titania in a tangled plot of love and deception. A narrator steps in and out of the action commenting on the follies and foibles that unfold.
Performances are November 1 – 4 and 9 – 11, with opening night a pay what you will performance.
The next production is Shakespeare’s timeless political drama, "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar", also to be performed at the Gorton Theatre on February 28, March 1,2,3,8,9,10. There are still some roles open and backstage help is needed. Anyone interested may email the director, Joseph Stiliano, at cast2008@prodigy.net .
On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, CAST will celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday with"Shakespeare Shout!" and evening of selected readings by members of the company and an invitation to the public to bring their own favorite pieces to read. Time and venue for this season’s birthday celebration are to be announced.
CAST’s final production of the season will be "Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", Tom Stoppard’s brilliant dark comedy featuring Prince Hamlet’s university classmates who are unwittingly caught up in the intrigues at Elsinore. Directed by Ray Jenness, it will play on May 10,11,12,17,18,19 at the recently restored Rockport Community House, where Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe staged its first productions.
More information on CAST may be found at capeannshakespearetroupe.blogspot.com and Facebook.
Joseph Stiliano, founder and artistic director
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Free Admission To Cape Ann Museum
Hi Joey!
I thought GMG readers would be interested to know that this Saturday is Museum Day. The Cape Ann Museum will be offering free admission to those who print out a Smithsonian Pass. Let me know if you need any more info, but the website does a pretty good job explaining!
Dear Joe,
The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts is pleased to invite you to our fourth Fall Benefit, "Celebrate Emerging Stars!" on Saturday, October 27, at the Bass Rocks Golf Club. We will have two fabulous sets of musicians performing as part of an uplifting evening of art and music. We hope you’ll take this opportunity to get to know seARTS and see first-hand how we encourage and support the arts in Cape Ann. Early bird tickets are available on line or by mail (see details below). Click poster at left for a larger view.
Highlights for this celebration include performances from the 17-piece Cape Ann Big Band (right) which has recently played several "sold out" performances at Shalin Liu.
They will be opened by the Beverly High School Jazz Sextet (left). Profiles of all musicians will be featured in upcoming seARTS eblasts.
Both visual and functional art from a diverse nominated group of emerging artists of many genres and generations will also be showcased and for sale. Hearty hors d’oeuvres from Tim Hopkins Catering will accompany a cash bar at the event.
We will also have some fabulous raffle prizes, including jewelry items from Mahri, Beth Williams and other designers, museum passes and a gift certificate from Duckworth Bistrot, a five-star cafe in Gloucester.
The Board and the Bands
Left to right: seARTS Board Member Susan Boles, Board Advisor Seyrel Williams, seARTS Chair Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco, Carlos Menezes Jr. from Cape Ann Big Band, Liam Beaudoin from Beverly High School Jazz Sextet, Adam Costa, BHS Band Director, Board Member Kristine Fisher.
Don’t miss out on this unique experience to celebrate Cape Ann’s emerging art and artists.
The schedule for the event is as follows:
- 6:00 PM: Art Show Walk-Around and the Beverly High School Jazz Sextet
- 7:00-9:00 PM: Hearty Hors D’oeuvres, Art Sale & Music by Cape Ann Big Band
Additionally, if you would like to consider a small sponsorship, we would most appreciate your consideration for any of the sponsor/donation options we have listed below. We would love for you to be able to join us personally – but if you can not, this is a way to show your support and be present in another way. We are pleased to announce our first $1,000 sponsorship from our fellow Board member Susan Boles of Axis Promotions and hope this will inspire you to do the same.
This is seARTS only fundraising event of the year and thus is a critical component of our funding sources so show your support for the Arts on Cape Ann and join us for a fun evening of colorful art and music!
Free Cape Pond Icehouse tours this Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Trails and Sails
Hey Joey, head’s up, as I’m sure you know, this is the last weekend of the Essex National Heritage Area Trails & Sails.
There are lots of great free events going on, rain or shine, including free Historic Icehouse Tours at Cape Pond Ice Company, 104 Commercial Street on the Fort, where we’ve been serving Gloucester’s fleet since 1848. Icehouse Tours are this Friday at 2 pm, Saturday at 11 am and 1 pm, and Sunday at 11 am. Folks should wear practical footware and bring a sweater or sweatshirt for when we are in the Icehouse. Tours last about 1 hour, and include video of natural ice harvesting, and our role in the Perfect Storm.
Tour details and directions at: http://www.capepondice.com/info.htm and complete Trails & Sails event listing at: http://www.essexheritage.org/ts/
Thanks, Scott
Good Morning Gloucester 