Just Around The Corner: March 1, 2001

Just Around The Corner
Noteworthy Events In The Capital Region

Exhibit: Earth and Fire: The Contemporary Tea Pot
March 2 – April 1
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster

Opening Reception: March 2, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
The Lancaster Museum of Art is making time for some tea with its newest exhibit, Earth and Fire: The Contemporary Tea Pot. Featured in the museum’s Armstrong Gallery, the exhibit will boast the traditional pot with a ‘contemporary twist’ — allowing visitors to get a peak into the eclectic means, materials, techniques, and firing methods involved in creating such pieces of art.

Some of the national and regional artists invited to participate in the exhibit include Chris Staley, Mary Louise Carter, Betsy Rosenmiller, and Chuck Aydlett.

Earth and Fire: The Contemporary Tea Pot will be on display from March 2 through April 1. The exhibit will run concurrently with two other exhibitions, Impressions: Prints by the Experimental Etching Studio, Boston and Recent Work and Places Revisited by Doug Schlemm.

The opening reception for all three exhibits will take place March 2 from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.

The Lancaster Museum of Art is located at 135 North Lime Street, Lancaster. Hours are Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sunday, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. For more information, call 394-3497.

Concert: The Julliard String Quartet
March 3
Market Square Church, Harrisburg
The internationally acclaimed Julliard String Quartet will be performing at the Market Square Church in Harrisburg on March 3 at 8 p.m.

For its Harrisburg performance, the Quartet will perform Mendelssohn’s Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80, the Officium Breve in memoriam Andrae Szervansky for String Quartet by Gyorgy Kurtag, and Beethoven’s String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 127.

In recent seasons, the Quartet has performed concerts in New York City’s Carnegie Hall; at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Herkulessaal in Munich, and in China.

Recognized as the “first family” of chamber music, the Quartet has an avid following in Washington, where they perform at the Library of Congress.

Among other notable facts, the Julliard String Quartet records exclusively with the Sony Classic record label, is a member of the Hall of Fame of the National Academy for Recording Arts and Sciences, and is the quartet-in-residence at the famed Julliard School. In its history, the Quartet has performed a comprehensive repertoire of some 500 works by such composers as Beethoven, Bach, Schubert, and Brahms.

Market Square Church is located along Market Street in downtown Harrisburg. Tickets are $25 ($22 for seniors, $12 for students) and are available by calling THE BOX at 214-ARTS.

Cab Calloway’s Legacy of Swing
March 10
Hershey Theatre, Hershey
A musical salute to Cab Calloway, the “king of Hi-De-Ho,” will take the Hershey Theatre stage on March 10 at 8 p.m. Led by singer/actress Chris Calloway, the daughter of the legendary musician, “Cab Calloway’s Legacy of Swing” will bring the jazz genius’ story to life. In his career, Calloway was a noted orchestra leader, Broadway star, and musician.

Performing with Calloway will be dancers Chester Whitmore and Charon Aldredge and, leader of the Hi-De-Ho Orchestra, Lafayette Harris, Jr.

“Cab Calloway’s Legacy of Swing” will be at the Hershey Theatre on March 10. Tickets are $34, $28, $20 and are available by calling the Box Office at 534-3405.

Jurys Irish Cabaret
March 13
Strand Theatre, York

A celebration of Irish traditional song, dance, music, and comedy, Jurys Irish Cabaret has been entertaining audiences for 38 years. Ireland’s longest-running and most successful show, the Cabaret boasts a troupe of 20 of the country’s most talented performers, including tenor Tony Kenny, comedian Joe Cuddy, pianist Jim Doherty, accordionist Dermot O’Brien, the traditional ensemble Claddagh and the famous Jurys Dancers.

In addition to comedy and dancing, the Cabaret will also feature the performance of such songs as “Danny Boy,” “The Galaway Shawl,” and “I Can Almost See Ireland From Here.”

In its history, the Jurys Irish Cabaret has entertained more than two-and-a-half million people at its home in the Jurys Hotel in Dublin and more than a million audience members in its ten previous tours of North America.

The Jurys Irish Cabaret will be at the Strand Theatre on March 13 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $27, $30, and $33 and are available by calling 846-1111. The Strand is located at 50 North George Street, York.

Concert: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
March 16
American Music Theatre, Lancaster

Bela Fleck is bringing his sound to the American Music Theatre stage on March 16 for one night only. Called “one of the most talented musicians on the planet” by Columbia Records’ Will Botwin, Bela Fleck has been wowing audiences since his 1979 debut release, Crossing the Tracks. Considered the premiere banjo player in the world, Fleck performs everything from traditional bluegrass to contemporary jazz and is the only musician to be nominated for a Grammy Award in eight different categories, including jazz, pop, country, and Christian.

Fleck joined forces with a backing band, a virtual “dream team of musicians” known as The Flecktones in late 1989. Originally comprised for a PBS special, the Flecktones have recorded some seven albums, including last year’s Outbound. Together, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones have opened for Sting, Phish, and the Dave Matthews Band.

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones will be at the American Music Theatre on March 16 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $37 and are available by calling 397-7700. For more information, check americanmusictheatre.com.

Grand Opening: The Gamut Theatre
March 9
Third Floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg
A Gamut? What in the world is a Gamut? Conceived by a medieval monk named Guido of Arezzo, the word gamma-ut, later shortened to just gamut, represents the entire range of a musical system. Today, running the gamut means to do everything within a certain context.

Once again, J. Clark and Melissa Nicholson have come up with an interesting way of defining themselves. Appropriately named, their new playing space, which officially opens its doors the weekend of March 9, will be the home for both the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival and its sister troupe the Popcorn Hat Players.

On March 9 at 12:00 p.m., the Gamut, located on the third floor of Strawberry Square, will host a ribbon cutting ceremony. Also include are a tour and an Open House of the new facilities.

On Sunday at 2:00 p.m. the troupe will officially christen their new home with an original play entitled “The Play’s the Thing.” This show, which celebrates Shakespeare’s use of the ‘play within a play’ device, will be followed by a talk back where interested audience members are given an opportunity to discuss the play and ask J. Clark Nicholson some questions in a casual environment.

Reservation for Sunday’s performance are required — and when you call, please wish the Popcorn Hat Players a Happy Birthday. They are celebrating their eighth birthday: eight years of bringing quality children’s theatre to the midstate. And of course what would a birthday be with out a party with hats and birthday cake. That’s on the schedule for March 10, too.

For reservations and further details call the Festival at 238-4111 or visit their website at HbgShakespeare.pa.net.