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Volume 4 No. 16| May 6, 2022 | |
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From the Arts Blast Clarification and Corrections Department:
Annie Matot sent me an email with the phonetic pronunciation of her name (not Annie) and I managed to type that in the TOC AND the feature title last week. To my credit, I did have it spelled correctly in the story. Sorry everyone for the error and the corrections!
And then it seemed as though I misunderstood the press information about Ryan Kasten's new Paradise Women's Chorale. They're singing a Mother's Day concert Sunday, Ryan has invited Dr. Jacob Craig to share the bill for the Patriotic Music Concert July 3. Jacob is not involved with the Women's Chorale, only this one concert. Scroll down to see the flyer about rehearsals and the invitation to join.
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This week hear Nancy Turrell, executive director of Martin Arts, and Patti Hall and Aileen Diaz from Vero Beach Theatre Guild. Listen to or download the podcast now or listen on the radio — 101.7FM ON THE TREASURE COAST —Sunday evening at 7. | Bookmark On the Calendar at WilliMiller.com for frequent updates. Calls for Artists, Auditions, & Volunteers are now online.Catch up with events at Willi Miller's Arts Blast on Facebook and pick up some laughs and interesting info on the Willi Miller's Arts Blast Extras page. And now there's a Facebook Arts Blast on the Air! | |
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FEATURES
Almost Heaven
Paradise Women's Chorale Correction
First Friday in May
A Mystery at Heathcote
Dick Golden Celebrates Irving Berlin
Marvin S. Cone
Marie Jureit-Beamish & Her Students
Elliott Museum Hosts FAU/HBOI
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TIDBITS
TC Theatre auditions change
Mamma Mia! at The Barn Theatre
ELC LagoonFest
TC Flute Choir
Lake Wales History Museum
Summer camp at VB Art Club
Community Arts Program
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First Friday May 6, 2022
Fort Pierce - Every First Friday at Fort Pierce City Marina 5:30-8:30 p.m., weather permitting.
NO PETS OR COOLERS
Vero Beach - First Friday Gallery Stroll on 14th Avenue and nearby - Galleries and restaurants. Viola Pace Knudsen opens at Gallery 14.
Melbourne - Eau Gallie Arts District - 5:30-8:30 p.m. - Highland Avenue
Abstract Fields by Elizabeth Fernandez opens at The 5th Avenue Art Gallery
Stuart - First Friday Art Walk in The Creek Arts District - 5-9 p.m.
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Almost Heaven is Almost Here | |
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Riverside Theatre's season is back with music memories are made of. Almost Heaven opens May 10 and runs through May 29.
| The show celebrates the life and times of John Denver, whose musical talents took off at age 11 when his grandmother gave him her classic 1910 Gibson guitar. In his career as a singer and songwriter, he produced more than 300 recorded songs and was bestowed with numerous awards and accolades including Best Entertainer of the Year, Best Album, Best Song, and Grammy and Emmy awards. In his career, Denver garnered 12 gold and four platinum albums and topped the charts with nine number-one hit songs and 18 top-10 hits. With his trademark long hair and “granny” glasses, he also was well-known and awarded for his altruistic work toward humanitarian, environmental and nature conservancy issues. | |
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Sam Sherwood returns to Riverside Theatre in the role of John Denver, leading a cast of nine actor/musicians.
Almost Heaven features more than 25 of Denver’s chart topping hits including:
“Rocky Mountain High,”
“Sunshine on My Shoulders,”
“Thank God, I’m a Country Boy,”
“Annie’s Song,”
“Take Me Home, Country Roads,”
and many more.
Tickets for “Almost Heaven” start at $45 and can be purchased at the Box Office and online.
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Paradise Women's Chorale
(an Arts Blast clarification)
A year ago, Ryan Kasten, artistic director at St. John of the Cross Catholic Church in Vero Beach, sent out word that he was forming a new choral ensemble specializing in choral works arranged for female/treble voices. That Paradise Women's Chorale is now the 25-voice resident ensemble in the St. John's Fine Art Series.
They'll be celebrating Mother's Day in song May 8, 4:30 p.m., with The Mother and the Sea, a program that features music about the experiences of life and the sea. Music includes work by composer/arranger Andre Thomas, Eric Whitacre, Franz Schubert, Sam Pottle, and more. The concert is free, but free-will offerings are gratefully accepted. The concert will last approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Any woman interested in singing great choral literature for female/ treble voices is invited to join. There are no auditions or fees to sing with this ensemble. Rehearsals are Thursday evenings at 7:00PM, and all are welcome to join the chorale.
St. John of the Cross Catholic Church, 7550 26th St., Vero Beach
ParadiseMasterChorale@yahoo.com 772-584.9744
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Next up -
Dr. Jacob Craig, director of music and arts at First Presbyterian Church in Vero Beach, will join Kasten and the Paradise Master Chorale in A Patriotic Extravaganza, Celebrating Freedom Through Music.
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Mosaic artist Anita Prentice, creator of the many beautiful mosaic public-seating benches in Fort Pierce, has embarked on a mystery project for Heathcote Botanical Gardens. This photo of Anita and friend was seen in several Facebook posts, so I had to ask, of course. Her reply:
"The cement gorilla is a mystery and has been for years. It was stored down the road from Heathcote at the compound. Someone saw it years ago, and I think it was Kathleen Fredrick who said I should mosaic it. Now, many years later it was delivered to Heathcote and a couple of sponsors have supported the project.
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"The motif started with broken teacups and saucers. She is adorned in a cape, gold dishes for a collar, white marble and glass are the fringe and the cape itself (uses) 1000’s of pieces of thvintage tea cups and saucers.The belly is vintage Japanese tiles with some on her legs. Her legs are tiled with pinks, lime green dishes, glass bobbles, and other shiny bits. The base will be tiled as well with greens and blues."
And that's the mystery as we have it so far. Stay tuned. Anita is at Heathcote 9 a.m.-noon Monday through Friday.
| I’ve been doing mosaics over 25 years.my website is www.anitaprenticeart.com there was a taxidermy fish in a dumpster that a friend brought me.A six foot marlin.I hadn’t done mosaics before so broke up mirror and glued it on.Went on to do more fish and gradually started using stained glass.So I taught myself with all the stumblings that causes, but perseverance did the trick. | |
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BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
Gorilla, Pt. 2!
Prentice followed up with additional information.
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In the second installment, we learn that the tea cups and saucers were donated from people’s collections. "I had a bunch I’ve found over the years, and my friend Holly hit the motherlode at an estate sale. I should be finished by the first of June since I can bend over only about four hours a day and I work about five days a week.”
The gorilla’s storage place was the Public Works site on Savannah Road. “No one seems to know where it was from originally — no clue, only speculation. Gloria Moore originally started the garden with a bunch of folks, including Bud Adams.” And that’s how the gorilla became Gloria.
Prentice explained how she became the invited artist: "I was approached a couple of years ago after I had mosaicked the Blue Panda, Cobalt, and the two gateway lions that overlook the path going to the children’s garden. This is an on going animal collection.The next animals will be a flock of wading birds."
"Many people were part of getting the gorilla to the garden — volunteers, sponsors, the garden queen, and others. Public Works delivered it. The gorilla was placed in a perfect spot, in the rainforest part of Heathcote, where it will stay and where I work on it. When you work on site, you need to have everything ready to make (the best) use of your time." The artist has been working on the project for about five weeks and has several more to go, she said. Pierce estimates its weight in the one ton neighborhood plus the 50 pounds or less of the mosaic she’s adding. She had help glueing on the vintage Japanese tiles to the underbelly. she said.
"You can see it any day of the week, as it’s not covered. I'm usually working on it from 9 in the morning until noon, so stop by."
Pierce and artist friend Ginny Pieche Street will show their work at 2nd Street Gallery for the May ArtWalk in Fort Pierce.
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Weekends Are Back at Riverside Theatre! | |
Dick Golden Celebrates Irving Berlin | |
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“There is no PLACE in American Music for Irving Berlin. Irving Berlin IS American Music.”
Composer Jerome Kern
May 11 marks the 134th birthday of perhaps THE architect of the American Songbook. When Irving Berlin died in his sleep on Sept. 22, 1989, the following morning’s front page story in the New York Times declared that Berlin had “set the tone and the tempo for the tunes America played and sang and danced to for much of the 20th century.” At the Carnegie Hall 100th birthday tribute for Mr. Berlin, host Walter Cronkite opened the program by observing, “We’ve gathered this evening to honor Irving Berlin who, through his popular songs, helped write the story of this country, capturing the best of who we are and the dreams that shape our lives"
The list of performers that evening revealed the impact of Berlin’s songs eighty-eight years into the 20th century. Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Natalie Cole, Isaac Stern, Michael Feinstein, Rosemary Clooney, Marilyn Horne, Willie Nelson, Billy Eckstein, and Bea Arthur were among those who sang or played Irving Berlin songs.
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Irving Berlin was born in Russia. One of eight children, he and his family escaped tyranny when they emigrated to New York in 1893. When his father died, Berlin, just turned 13, took to the streets in various odd jobs, working as a busker singing for pennies, then as a singing waiter in a Chinatown cafe. In 1907 he published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy," and by 1911 he had his first major international hit "Alexander's Ragtime Band."
Over the next five decades, Irving Berlin produced an outpouring of ballads, dance numbers, novelty tunes, and love songs that defined American popular song for much of the century. A sampling of just some of the Irving Berlin standards includes "How Deep Is the Ocean," "Blue Skies," "White Christmas," "Always," "Anything You Can Do," "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Cheek To Cheek," "Puttin' On The Ritz," "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody," "Easter Parade" and "Let's Face The Music And Dance." In a class by itself is his beloved paean to his beloved country, "God Bless America." He bequeathed the royalties from his love song for his adopted homeland to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America.
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The American Songbook radio program exists because of the composing craftsmanship of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, the Gershwin brothers, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, etc. Their musical texts provide the material and inspiration for our great singers and instrumentalists.
Hear Irving Berlin sing his God Bless America on YouTube.
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LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES!
THROUGH THE EYE OF THE CAMERA
May 20 – June 24, 2022
Seeing is believing every year in this highly anticipated competitive review of photography as fine art. The popular annual competition is open to amateur and professional artists in both traditional film and digital photography, featuring cash awards. The unparalleled collection of varied perspectives closes the season. Support the arts by supporting artists.
Entries accepted by advance appointment Apr 13 – May 13; see Prospectus for details
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Marvin S. Cone 36th Annual High School Juried Art Show
Through May 26, 2022
At the Court House Cultural Center, Stuart
Featuring Students From:
Clark Advanced Learning Center
Jensen Beach High School
Martin County High School
South Fork High School
The Pine School
Link to past winners on the website and get information about the history…. Martinarts.org
Photo courtesy of MartinArts.
Best of Show – 2021 – Cassidy Bean “Marine Imitation”
| Marie Jureit-Beamish and Her Students | |
Marie Jureit-Beamish appears in my Arts Blast notes several times this week. She is one of ten winners of the National Flute Association Golden Anniversary Award on the NFA's 50th anniversary. The awards will be given out at the NFA's awards ceremony, scheduled for August.
The list of winners includes teachers, magazine editors, festival founders, concert series creators, and more, all nominated by NFA members.
From the NFA website:
Marie Jureit-Beamish is a devoted supporter of the arts and musicians throughout her community in Florida and beyond. A lifelong music performer and teacher, she has founded and funded many concert series including the Jureit Musicales and the Sunset Concerts at the Gallery. Her passion for arts education continues to break down cultural barriers with the goal of supporting musicians and community members of all ages to bring diverse people together.
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Recently, several of her students have made news, too. "Three of my students were selected to perform on the stage of the Lyric Theatre as this year’s winners of the youth celebration. They are violinist Ava Gunter age 17; Pianist Lucas Huang, age 13; and Pianist Jimmy Baumgartner, age 10. My student Ava Gunter was this year‘s recipient of the MARTies award for outstanding high school senior in performing.
And more:
Braeden Shizume, age 15, is on to the finals of the Hartford Symphony concerto competition. A piano student at age 13 Braeden was winner of Palm Beach County Music Teachers Association honors competition held at Florida Atlantic University.
Kara Ravaschieri is a flute student of Jureit-Beamish and at 15 has been selected for the second time as principal flute in the New World Symphony Side by Side performance.
Jureit-Beamish founded the Sunset Concerts in the Gallery series at Court House Cultural Center, Stuart. She is also a member of the Treasure Coast Flute Choir, in concert for Mother's Day at St. Mary's.
Young Artists of the Treasure Coast
Treasure Coast Youth Symphony directed by Tom Servinsky
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
80 SE Ocean Blvd., Stuart
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Auditions for Neil Simon's Broadway Bound at Treasure Coast Theatre in Port St. Lucie have been rescheduled for May 9 and 10, 6:30-9 p.m.
TREASURECOASTTHEATRE@GMAIL.COM
| The Savannah Sipping Society is at Treasure Coast Theatre, PSL, May 6-15. | |
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The Environmental Learning Center celebrates LagoonFest on the lagoon island campus
May 21, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Lots of family friendly activities and experiences.
| The Treasure Coast Flute Choir will perform Sunday, Mothers Day, May 8, 3:00 at Ross Hall in the Pittenger Center at St Mary's Episcopal Church in Stuart. The ensemble was founded in 1983 by Lindsay Hager and directed by her husband, Al. The concert will feature classical and jazz selections and uses piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute and contrabass flute. Some selections will feature piano, bass and drums. Tickets are not required and donations will be gratefully accepted. | |
Summertime Citrus
Advertising Florida Citrus: 1800s through 1960s
Through Aug. 27 at Lake Wales History Museum
OPENING RECEPTION
May 21, 6-8 p.m.
Members free; non-members $12
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Mamma Mia!, with a live band, is at The Barn Theatre in Stuart May 12-29.
Show times are 8PM Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 2PM matinees Saturdays, Sundays.
| Summer Art Camp begins June 6 at the Vero Beach Art Club Annex and Gallery. | |
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