| Doc's band best medicine for college radio station | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:12:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | This doc and his friends, the Mudcats, will cure what ails you. For eight years, Dr. Ron Grober, an orthopedic surgeon by day, a jazz pianist by night, and his Dixieland band have rocked the McAlpin Fine Arts Center at Indian River Community College to benefit the college's public radio station WQCS 89.9 FM. Grober hosted the station's Saturday night radio program The Sounds of Jazz, which was a Treasure Coast favorite for five years. Grober, who has been a resident of Fort Pierce for 35 years, worked his way through med school playing jazz piano with the Quaker City Rhythm Kings in Philadelphia. Now he and the Mudcats perform several concerts a year in South Florida for the joy of it and for good causes. .... | |
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| | | THE BROTHERS OF INVENTION | | Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 1:12:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | On any given day, the brothers can be found enjoying a relaxing lunch next to the Brazilian pepper tree that sprouts through the middle of the dining patio at Casanova, their world-class restaurant in Carmel. One of only a handful of California restaurants to receive the Wine Spectator Grand Award, with a wine cellar that houses about 30,000 bottles, it is but one successful venture by the Georis brothers, who, since immigrating from Belgium with their parents in 1956, have made quite a mark on American culture. Having survived the occupation by Nazi Germany, the two have gone from icons of the 1960s Southern California surf music scene to contributing a signature fashion item of hippie culture, to dazzling some of the world's most famous people with their cuisine.... | |
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| | | Harmony Hall Players first performance Sunday | | Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 3:09:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | Songs about love, written by top-of-the-line composers over the course of three centuries — music that will make you laugh, cry and chuckle — will be performed at Harmony Hall Sunday, under the auspices of the Lenoir County Historical Association's Harmony Hall Players. An opera “sampler," set for 2:30 p.m. at the historic home, 109 E. King St., will feature selections from Austria's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's"the Magic Flute," written in 1791; his “Marriage of Figaro," written in 1786; Italy's Giuseppe Verdi's “La Traviata," writtein in 1853; and three of America's Jerome Kern's songs about love, written during the 1900s. In addition, two Eastern Carolina musicians will sing work from the “Ballad of Baby Doe," written by Douglas Moore. Jon Ward Shaw, soprano, and John Kramar, baritone, accompanied by John O'Brien, professor of accompanying at East Carolina University's School of Music, will perform the operatic and popular music.' Shaw, a resident of Greenville, has performed as a soloist with numerous symphonies and teaches violin.... | |
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| | | Tony Winner Kaye Reprises Souvenir in LA October - November | | Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:02:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | Tony winning actress Judy Kaye will return to her Broadway Triumph, SOUVENIR, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, by Stephen Temperley, for a limited engagement Thursday, October 12 to Sunday, November 12 at the Brentwood Theatre. Opening night is Wednesday, October 18. Ms. Kaye, who won the Tony Award for her performance in The Phantom of the Opera, was also nominated this year for Best Performance for a Leading Actress in a Play for her portrayal of the legendary musical sensation Florence Foster Jenkins. SOUVENIR is directed by Vivian Matalon.In SOUVENIR, playwright Temperley imagines events surrounding the funny and poignant story of the musical career of Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy society eccentric of the 1930s and 40s who suffered under the illusion that she was a great coloratura soprano - when in fact, the opposite was true.... | |
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| | | Broadway Ticket Availability | | Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 11:08:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | When R&B superstar Usher makes his Broadway debut Aug. 22 in the long-running musical revival of "Chicago," he will be surrounded by a cast of experienced musical-theater performers. Playing murderous chorine Roxie Hart will be Bianca Marroquin, who originated the role of Roxie in the Mexico City production of the Bob Fosse-Kander-and-Ebb musical. Marroquin later played Roxie in New York and on tour. Velma Kelly, Roxie's cohort in clawing for show-biz celebrity, will be portrayed by Brenda Braxton, another "Chicago" veteran. Roxie's hapless husband, Amos, will be Kevin Chamberlin, who has appeared on Broadway in such shows as "Seussical," "Dirty Blonde" and "Triumph of Love." And as Matron "Mama" Morton, "the keeper of the keys" and "the countess of the clink" at the Cook County Jail, there will be Tony winner Lillias White.... | |
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