Sunday, April 17, 2011 – 3 pm
Weber Music Hall
Symphonic Wind Ensemble – Mark Whitlock, director
Concert Band – Daniel W. Eaton, director
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
Saturday, April 16, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall
Chamber Orchestra – Jean R. Perrault, director
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
Who: Zoo Animal, The Half Hearts, Ariane Norrgard & Honey Vein
Where: Pizza Luce, Duluth
When: April 8, 9:30P.M., $5
Friday, April 15, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall
Regina Zona, coordinator
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
Big Dipper Jazz Band Concert and Dance
Saturday April 9, 2011 7:30 PM
Sacred Heart Music Center
Tickets $10 advance/ $15 at the door
available online at sacredheartmusic.org
Thursday, April 14, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall
The New Music Festival features the internationally acclaimed Duo Gaetesi-Bezerra return after their stunning concerts at UMD five years ago, which showcased the best of current piano ensemble music from around the globe.
Justin Rubin, coordinator
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall
Combo I – Tom Pfotenhauer, director
Combo II – Ryan Frane, director
Combo III – Billy Barnard, director
Combo IV – Gene Koshinski, director
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
http://seedmath.bandcamp.com/album/seed-math-ii
Hello,
Here’s the second of four Seed Math digital reissues. Originally released in spring 2004.
New Seed Math album coming soon.
RIYL: Ween, Beck, Melvins, Flaming Lips, new wave, psych
NOT RIYL: Creed, Nickelback, Hitler
Peace be with you,
Tony
Call for music!
Call for filmmakers!
We’re doing another Homegrown Music Video Festival this year. Filmmakers draw a song at random from a beautiful top hat, then make a music video from said song.
Here is the PDD link to last year.
Would you be willing to donate a song or two to the cause?
Would you like to make a music video for a free pass to Homegrown?
April 7-9, 7:30 pm
Clyde Iron Works
2920 W. Michigan St., Duluth
A new venue serves up hot vocal jazz entertainment with dinner option at Clyde Iron Works. Dinner includes Italian Pasta Bar with homemade penne pasta with alfredo and marinara sauces, Italian sausage, meatballs, and grilled chicken, classic garden salad with balsamic vinaigrette and fresh baguettes. Price includes pasta bar, beverage and gratuity; dessert may be purchased separately at the event (wood-oven baked New York style cheesecake.) If selecting the dinner option, please note dinner seating is general admission with eight per table with dinner served from 5:45 pm – 7 pm.
Lake Effect and Chill Factor
Tina Thielen-Gaffey, director
Concert only: Adult $15, senior/student $10, UMD student $5 Dinner & concert: Adult $35, senior/student $30, UMD student $25
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
[This post originally contained an embedded video that has been removed from YouTube.]
“Take Me Out To The Ball Game” was written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer in 1908. These images were shot the same year to help sell the song to the public.
The singer in the video is Edward Meeker, one of Thomas Edison’s technicians. This is how they sold music (sheet music, specifically) back in the day — kind of an early form of music video. These were called illustrated songs. An “illustrator” would stand on stage and sing the song while glass slide images portraying the song’s storyline were projected on a screen. Anywhere from 12 to 16 slides were produced for a song. The last slide was usually the chorus text so audience members could sing along. In this version, I’ve enhanced the chorus with slides from other baseball songs. Illustrated songs were often part of vaudeville and early movie theater programs. Notice the giant wad of Cracker Jacks Katie Casey is enjoying. That’s how it was sold back then.
The gin may not be cold (or available), but the dancing is certainly hot in the Duluth Playhouse’s production of Chicago. Set in a Prohibition-era Windy City, Chicago is inhabited by irredeemable (yet likable) hucksters and hustlers, all dancing for their lives. The bondage-lite costumes and the spare, gritty set only rarely hint at the Jazz Age, but that’s just as well: the story at the heart of Chicago, about crime, corruption, sensational journalism, the cult of celebrity and all that jazz, feels contemporary and relatable.
