2018-19 Guide To Yellow Springs

28 the Guide to YelLow Springs y 2018 - 1 9 Y e l l ow S p r i n g s N ews Arts and recreat i on Art & Soul, A YS Art Fair Contac t: Lisa Goldberg, 767-7285 ema i l : Lisa@YSArts.org We b : www.ysarts.org/artSoul.html Art and Soul: A YS Art Fair, a YS Arts production, entered the art scene in Yellow Springs in November of 2012. It is held on the third Saturday of November from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. at Mills Lawn Elementary School, 200 S. Walnut Street. It is an intimate juried art fair with 30 artists from the region who gather in Yellow Springs to exhibit and sell their fine arts and crafts for the day. The name Art & Soul was chosen because “artists put their souls into the making of their work.” Artists will have plenty of pot- tery, jewelry, fiber, paintings, photography, wood, glass, and mixed media work available for sale. At times, Yellow Springs Schools students have had work displayed or sold their work as exhibiting artists. During the first three years of Art & Soul, show promot- ers donated over $2,300 to the Yellow Springs school system and Police Coat Fund. In addi- tion, in 2014, they began to donate to the Lisa Goldberg/YS Arts Scholarship Fund held by the YS Community Foundation. Bridge Contac t: Susan Freeman (Wednesday group), 767-0235 ema i l : sf7547@msn.com An informal duplicate bridge group meets Wednesdays, 6:30–10 p.m., in the great room of the Senior Center, 227 Xenia Avenue. Chamber Music Yellow Springs Contac t: 374-8800 ema i l : info@cmys.org We b : www.cmys.org Chamber Music in Yellow Springs has been bringing professional ensembles from all over the world since 1983. The organiza- tion’s mission is to enrich the musical life of the community. Funded by generous donors, local advertisers and subscriptions, CMYS is also the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council sustainability grant. Each season the local booking committee selects chamber music ensembles and chooses a theme. This year’s theme is “Old Friends, New Friends,” as this season will feature ensembles new to the series as well as two ensembles who previ- ously participated in the CMYS Annual Com- petition. Their subsequent successful careers bode well for the two new groups who will be chosen to vie for the top prize in the 34th Annual Competition Concert in April of 2019. Performances take place on Sundays at First Presbyterian Church, 314 Xenia Avenue in Yellow Springs, at 7:30 p.m., except for the Annual Competition, which begins at 4 p.m. First up, on Sept. 23, 2018, was Akropolis Reed Quintet, “old friends” who brought an exciting new program of works by Marc Mel- lits, Astor Piazzolla, George Gershwin, Becky Turro, and David Biedenbender. Winner of both the Fischoff Gold Medal in 2014 and the Fischoff Educator Award in 2015, Akropolis brings “imagination, infallible musicality, and huge vitality” (Fanfare) to the concert stage and to the wider public in music festivals which it organizes and in work with schools, including a Monday visit to Mills Lawn School in Yellow Springs. The second concer t, Nov. 4, brings back “old friends” Attacca String Quartet, prize winners at chamber music festivals from Osaka to Melbourne to Carnegie Hall. Attacca has served as string quartet in residence at The Juilliard School and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. With international acclaim, Attacca has become one of America’s premier young per- forming ensembles. The Washington Post described them as “four strikingly individual players with the ability to speak eloquently in one voice. ... Mastery like this is scarce enough in quartets that have played together for decades.” On Jan. 27, 2019, the series continues with “new friends” JACK Quartet, deemed “the go-to quartet for contemporary music, tying impeccable musicianship to intellectual ferocity” by The Washington Post. Dedicated to the performance, commissioning and spread of new string quartet music, JACK has performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and at major venues in the United Kingdom, Europe, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico and Argentina. “New friends” Seraph Brass will round out the regular season on March 10, 2019. This dynamic brass quintet draws from a roster of America’s top female brass players. Com- mitted to engaging audiences with captivat- ing programming, Seraph Brass presents a diverse repertoire including original tran- scriptions, newly commissioned works, and well-known classics. The group has toured throughout the U.S., Mexico and Europe. Finally, the Annual Competition for Emerg- ing Professional Ensembles will take place at 4 p.m. on April 28. As it did last year, this earlier concert time will enable all audi- ence members to stay for the judges’ highly anticipated final decision. The competition has garnered more attention every year as its winners — first- and second-place — continue to launch successful international careers, as this year’s “old friends” exemplify. CMYS subscription concerts are recorded by SoundSpace Yellow Springs for broadcast on “Live and Local” at WDPR-FM (88.1) and WDPG-FM (89.9). Dates and times will be announced at www.discoverclassical.org, where these broadcasts are also available on streaming audio. Concerts are preceded by a free pre-con- cert talk by music experts John Kurokawa, instructor of clarinet at Wright State Univer- sity and principal clarinetist of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and musicologist and WSU Professor Emeritus Charles Larkowski. Meet the musicians at gourmet post- concert dinners, hosted at homes in Yellow Springs. Everyone is welcome, but seating is limited, so a reservation is required. Call 937- 374-8800 at least four days in advance. CMYS concert season subscriptions are $100 for adults and $25 for students. Indi- vidual tickets are $25 for adults and $7 for students. Tickets and further information are available online at www.cmys.org or by phone at 937-374-8800. Community Band Contac t: James Johnston, Brian Mayer ema i l : delphi@ameritech.net; bmayer@ ysschools.org We b : www.facebook.com/ys.communityband The Community Band is open to all adult woodwind, brass and percussion players without audition — middle and high school students may join by invitation or recom- mendation. Music reading is necessar y. The band plays six to seven concerts a year: two in fall, two in winter/spring and three outdoor summer concerts in June and July. The repertoire includes standard marches, medleys of Broadway and Hollywood songs, big band and jazz sets and other works for concert band in a variety of styles. Rehears- als are held Monday evenings, 7:30–9 p.m., in the high school band room. Follow the band on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ ys.CommunityBand. Community Chorus Contac t: James Johnston, Music Director; Carol Cottom, 767-1458 ema i l : delphi@ameritech.net Founded in 1972, the Yellow Springs Com- munity Chorus is open without audition to all who enjoy singing, can attend rehearsals reg- ularly and are able to learn and perform the music. The ability to read music is desirable, but not required. The chorus usually gives two or three performances a year, often with orchestra, and sings music from a variety of styles, periods and genres. Past repertoire has included Handel’s “Judas Maccabaeus,” “Carmina Burana” and the Mozart and Faure Requiems. Rehearsals are on Sunday evenings, 7–9 p.m., in the YSHS band room. 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