The Metropolis Sentinel, Employees Report
The Armstrong Worldwide Cultural Basis is about to boost the curtain at Armstrong Auditorium on October 14 for its twenty third annual Performing Arts Sequence that includes dwell performances from international artists similar to the Russian Nationwide Ballet, NEA Jazz Grasp Bradford Marsalis, the Brazilian All Stars, Metropolitan Opera star Isabel Leonard, harpist Bridget Kibbey and the Polish Wieniawski Philharmonic.
“It’s great to have a global lineup again on stage and patrons again within the theater,” live performance supervisor Ryan Malone stated.
“Our theme for this season is ‘Rediscover Pleasure!’ After a troublesome 12 months of lockdowns and isolation, we need to remind audiences of the unimaginable pleasure all of us expertise when attending dwell occasions.” Malone added that masks are now not required and the auditorium is open to full capability.
Armstrong Auditorium’s 2023-22 Performing Arts Sequence was scheduled to start this fall with three-time Nationwide Fiddle Champion and Oklahoma musical treasure Byron Berline, however following Berline’s passing on July 10, the brand new season will begin with a efficiency from the Brazilian All Stars.
Hailed as “some of the ingenious fiddlers ever,” Berline is remembered by his friends, the press and audiences worldwide for his virtuosic ability, versatility and creative mastery of conventional bluegrass and Western swing music.
Direct from Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian All Stars will ignite the 2023-22 Performing Arts Sequence with the thrilling rhythms and delightful melodies of Brazil’s most well-known songs, sambas, bossa novas, ballads, choro, fado, virtuoso instrumental tracks and extra. On Oct. 27, the distinct musical sounds of Brazil will fill the auditorium with a fusion of types, from Portuguese and American jazz to Cuban and African rhythms.
Take the musical journey because the world-renown Brazilian All Stars carry out their catalog of memorable and spectacular songs.
November 11 brings the Romeros Guitar Quartet, an ensemble that continues to be a veritable establishment on the planet of classical music, dazzling numerous audiences and profitable the raves of reviewers worldwide.
The quartet travels throughout North America performing works by Federico Garcia Lorca, Lorenzo Palomo, and Manuel de Falla, and also will be premiering “La Cita” by Douglas Cuomo.
Bridget Kibbey, typically described because the “Yo-Yo Ma of the harp,” will seem on December 2 in her program Celebrating Bach, that includes diversifications of J. S. Bach’s keyboard concerti alongside the outstanding Dover Quartet — fellow winners of the coveted Avery Fisher Profession Grant and not too long ago named the first-ever quartet-in-residence for the Kennedy Heart.
In line with ‘Strings’, their Bach interpretations contribute to their “virtually meteoric” rise and, based on the New Yorker, affirm their standing as “the younger American string quartet of the second”. The Chicago Tribune has stated, “The Dover Quartet gamers have it in them to change into the following Guarneri String Quartet … they’re that good.”
The dancers of the Russian Nationwide Ballet weave the story along with the trademark precision and beautiful grace of the good Russian ballet custom. Embraced worldwide for its complicated choreography, The Sleeping Magnificence’s hovering leaps, excessive extensions, and daring lifts mix with lavish stage surroundings to deliver this beloved fairy story to life on January 26.
January 2023 brings the Russian Nationwide Ballet’s North American tour of Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Magnificence. The ballet, set to Tchaikovsky’s hovering rating with choreography by Marius Petipa, relies on the story of a younger princess who falls asleep after pricking her finger, and solely the kiss of a prince will break the spell.
Famend jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis returns to Armstrong for an encore efficiency on Feb. 10. The NEA Jazz Grasp, Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee has led the Branford Marsalis Quartet for greater than three many years with minimal personnel modifications.
The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul — the quartet’s most emotionally wide-ranging and melody-driven assortment thus far — finds the celebrated ensemble at a brand new peak, addressing a kaleidoscope of moods with inspiration and group dedication.
Identified for pitch-perfect a capella singing and charming British wit, The King’s Singers will current their program Discovering Concord on February 20. With music because the group’s frequent language, Discovering Concord is a deeply shifting assortment of the numerous moments in historical past when songs united nations, cultures and causes.
This system is a novel assortment of items that span the globe, from the Reformation age to South African freedom songs, and from the Scottish Highlands to the American civil rights motion. Every tune is the important thing to a robust true story about who we’re as folks and the way we obtained right here.
One other worldwide group seems March 2 because the Polish Wieniawski Philharmonic launches its North American tour. Based in 1942 within the throes of World Battle II, the Polish Wieniawski Philharmonic gave the primary symphony live performance in post-war Poland and has since change into the most important music establishment in japanese Poland.
The orchestra is joined by violinist Agata Szymczewska, the first-prize winner of the thirteenth Henryk Wieniawski Worldwide Violin Competitors.
Underneath the path of principal conductor Wojciech Rodek, the Philharmonic is poised to dazzle audiences with the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.
Showing on March 31, German artist Tabea Debus explores the horizons of music for the recorder. Debus is described by The Instances [London] as “a charismatic virtuoso,” and has carried out broadly throughout Europe, Asia, Colombia and america. Her critically acclaimed program, Ohrwurm (ear worms), is a pleasant compilation of toe-tapping tunes — positive to embed themselves into the viewers’s unconscious — from the seventeenth and 18th centuries and makes for an engagingly virtuosic efficiency supported and partnered by Alon Sariel on lute.
The 2023-22 season finishes on April 26 with sea shanties from the immensely standard all-male refrain, Chanticleer. Chanticleer’s music options rhythms and melodies from both aspect of the Atlantic and the Portuguese and Spanish colonization in Asia. This system consists of each folks and up to date works from China, Japan, Korea, and Samoan tradition, in addition to works by Chen Yi and Grammy-nominated composer Zhou Tian.
Chanticleer brings the voyage to a detailed with a set of lovely Hawaiian songs evocative of the limitless Pacific horizon.
“We’re thrilled that subscriber numbers proceed to develop regardless of the challenges of the pandemic final 12 months,” stated Shane Granger, Armstrong Auditorium Advertising and marketing Director. “Our skill to increase world-class performances to our audiences, whether or not in-person or nearly, offers our patrons confidence that they may expertise the enjoyment of performing arts no matter exterior conditions.”
Ticket packages for the 2023-22 Performing Arts Sequence can be found for brand spanking new season ticket holders starting June 15, and particular person occasion tickets go on sale July 5. A full-season subscription ensures glorious seats for every efficiency, and a number of extra advantages together with 20 p.c off ticket costs to all season performances, most popular seating upfront of most people, free and simple ticket exchanges, entry to unique subscriber pre-paid parking and extra.
Subscribing to three- or five-performance Flex packages permits patrons to create their very own personalised subscriptions whereas saving 10 and 15 p.c off common ticket costs, respectively.
To subscribe to the twenty third annual Armstrong Auditorium Performing Arts Sequence, name
405-340-7474 or go to ArmstrongAuditorium.org. Teams of 20 or extra could also be eligible to obtain a reduction off the unique ticket worth. Please contact the field workplace for extra data.
Within the fall of 1998, the Armstrong Worldwide Cultural Basis, a non-profit humanitarian group, started a small collection in numerous smaller venues all through Edmond till it opened the award-winning Armstrong Auditorium in 2010. The collection is now effectively established because it celebrates its twenty third season. Audiences will need to go to Edmond’s highest-rated TripAdvisor and TripSavvy Corridor of Fame vacation spot.
