BRIGHTMUSIC CONCERT II
CHANGE TO 7:30 MONDAY

SPECIAL NOTICE

DUE TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS, BRIGHTMUSIC WILL PERFORM FESTIVAL CONCERT 2 ON MONDAY EVENING – NOT ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Due to the possibility of severe weather on Sunday afternoon and evening, Brightmusic’s “Schubert & Friends” Festival Concert 2 – originally scheduled for 4:00 pm on Sunday afternoon, May 19 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral downtown – has been postponed by one day.  The rescheduled concert will be performed at 7:30 pm on Monday evening, May 20 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral downtown.

The program for Concert 2 remains unchanged.  Guest artist David Shifrin will appear with Brightmusic musicians Gregory Lee, Mark Neumann, Jonathan Ruck and Amy I-Lin Cheng to perform: (1)  Schubert’s “Arpeggione” Sonata in A Minor for Viola and Piano, D.821; (2) Carl Maria von Weber’s Grand Duo Concertant in E-Flat Major for Clarinet and Piano, op. 48; and (3) Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1 in B-Flat Major, op. 99, D.898.

Festival Concert 1 will be performed, as originally scheduled, on Saturday evening, May 18 at 7:30 pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral at 7^th & Robinson downtown.  We appreciate the help of Dean Justin Lindstrom and his staff of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in making this last-minute change in our performance schedule.

If you require further information, please call (405) 216-5595 or (301) 807-4763.

PERPETUAL MOTION
FILLS THE HOUSE
TO A STANDING O

By Nancy Condit

Perpetual Motion Dance's "Water Won't Wait" played to a full house Friday evening, justly ending with a standing ovation. Special guests were the fresNO Dance COllective from California. The performance at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, formerly the City Arts Center. Performances continue Saturday, May 18th at 8 pm and Sunday, May 19th at 4 pm. Tickets from $18 for adults, to $10 for students/seniors and $8 for children can be purchased at the door or at  www.perpetualmotiondance.org.

Perpetual Motion also collaborated with film maker K. Edward Van Osdol in the jaw droppingly terrifying  Aqueous II , as four dancers hung from and performed on top of two horizontally hung ladders, trying to hold on, grasping, catching with a leg, until they couldn't hold on any longer. The film was shown upside down, with the dancers' hair streaming up. One by one they fell down into the clouds that billowed around them.

fresNo Dance COllective, founded in 2010 by director Amy Querin, performed a very lyrical work Soft as Animal, choreographed by Querin, with contributions by Dana Budd, Hannah Cavallaro, Alyssa Garvin and Spencer Ruell. Taking place in a forest, with an opening film projected on the backdrop, the dancers performed on the stage and two sets of white silks, with their work on silks most eye catching. Alejandra Arguello, a bird in a black leotard with a short white skirt of feathers, many of which were left on the stage, was very impressive on the silks, at one point turning herself inside out on one silk. Music was by Evpatoria Report, Polmo Polpo, Sigur Ros, Jonsi, and Explosions in the Sky. Spoken words and the poetry were by Ryan O'Neal, which ended with "We will find new ways to settle, Tipping scales from the killer to its prey. I can feel the weight around us, Climbing every rib inside us, A sanctuary in a lion's mouth."

Company members also included Jackie Aldern, Hannah Cavallaro, Amy Querin and Britney Reyes.

 Fresno Dance Collective (NOCO) is  a non-profit organization founded to help produce Fresno dance artists and companies, develop emerging dance talent, and enrich the arts in the Fresno metropolitan area by fostering collaboration and embracing diversity.

Michelle Moeller, director of Perpetual Motion wrote of Water Won't Wait, "We are working from a metaphor of time and change. Going with a current versus resisting a current."

Perpetual Motion performed seven dances, all of them polished pieces that dealt with qualities of water and its continued passing once it started flowing. One of the most arresting images was in Aqueous I, with film and score by Van Osdol, as one of the two dancers in long black dresses fell over in her back. The other dancer bent over the unresponsive one and took handfuls of water from her midsection. Then positions reversed, and the other dancer drank from her. Both got up and left refreshed.

Where Time Stands Still, choreographed by Kim Kieffer, music by Jody Redhange, had two dancers on the same silks, first one, then the other climbed up, working mostly in splits, while the other two dancers worked the stage, flat on it and standing. The dance ended as the stage dancers took silks of their own and swung around the center two. Kim Kieffer, areial arts director, built all of the metal apparatus.

The final piece, Clockwise, choreographed by Moeller and Kieffer to music by Jody Redhange, featured an aerial pyramid with a wooden wedge letting sand run out of it while the company performed on the stage below it, ending with one dancer upside down with legs split to receive the sand, but it had run out.

Kim Kieffer, aerial arts director, built all of the metal apparatus.

Company members also included Maria Krey, Alana Murray, Amy Nevius and Leah Watson.

Fault Line, choreographed by Amy Nevius with music by Mount Kimbie was an angular piece nicely done by PM2 junior company members Lauren Carter, Ali Lane, Erin Melton, Bailee Ryan and Brett Ward.

               PERPETUAL MOTION/
          MODERN DANCE OKLAHOMA
          TO PERFORM THIS
          WEEKEND

Perpetual Motion/Modern Dance Oklahoma says, Check out this amazing promotional video for Water Won't Wait by K Edward Van Osdol! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcj0fZXezSY&feature=youtu.be WATER WONT WAIT Water Won't Wait, with guests FresNO Dance COllective, will be debued by Perpetual Motion/Modern Dance Oklahoma May 17th and 18th, 8:00pm May 19th, 2:00pm at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, formerly City Arts Center, at its annual spring performance. The touring Fresno Dance Collective will present a selection from their own full length concert. The programs are May 17 at 8 p.m. until May 19 at 4 p.m. at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, formerly City Arts Center. Tickets are $18 -- $15 in advance -- for adults, $10 for students/seniors, and $8 for children under 12. They can be purchased at www.perpetualmotiondance.org or at the door one hour before the show.

BRIGHTMUSIC
SCHUBERT & FRIENDS
FESTIVAL STARTS
NEXT WEEKEND

Eleven Brightmusic musicians –  some of Oklahoma’s finest classical music teachers and performers – and guest artist David Shifrin will present four concerts at the Brightmusic four-concert Spring Festival "Schubert & Friends" on May 18, 19, 21 and 23, focused on the music of Franz Schubert, plus three Classical- and Romantic-era composers and one of America’s best-known contemporary composers.

Concerts 1 and 2 will be given at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral downtown at 7:30 pm on Saturday evening, May 18 and 4:00 pm on Sunday afternoon, May 19.  Concerts 3 and 4 will be presented at All Souls’ Episcopal Church in northwest OKC at 7:30 pm on Tuesday evening, May 21 and Thursday evening, May 23.

Individual concert admission is $10 per person for each concert.  Season Membership Pass holders will be admitted to all Festival concerts without charge, as will students with ID.  If you’re not a Season Membership Pass holder, you can save money by purchasing a four-concert Festival Pass for $30 per person.  You can do that online (visit www.brightmusic.org and follow the instructions on the right-hand side of the Home page or the Concerts page).  You can purchase a Festival Pass by mailing a $30/person check to Brightmusic at P.O. Box 20254, OKC 73156 (please include your mail and email addresses).  Or you can purchase a Festival Pass at the door to the first Festival concert on May 18.

A complete program listing for each concert is available on our website.  Here’s an overview:

Concert 1 – Saturday, May 18 – St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral – 7:30 pm

Pianist Amy I-Lin Cheng will kick off the Festival with Schubert’s Piano Sonata No. 13 in A Major, op. 120, D.664 – a work never publicly performed or published during Schubert’s all-too-short lifetime.  After intermission, eight of the Brightmusic musicians will perform the symphonic Schubert Octet in F Major for Strings and Winds, op. 166, D.803.  The musicians appearing will be Gregory Lee and Katrin Stamatis (violin), Mark Neumann (viola), Jonathan Ruck (cello), George Speed (double bass), Chad Burrow (clarinet), Carl Rath (bassoon) and Kate Pritchett (horn).

Concert 2 – Sunday, May 19 – St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral – 4:00 pm

Appearing at this concert will be guest artist David Shifrin of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music Northwest and the Yale University School of Music.  The concert will begin with violist Mark Neumann and pianist Amy Cheng performing Schubert’s “Arpeggione” Sonata in A Minor for Viola and Piano, D.821.  Next, Mr. Shifrin and Amy Cheng will perform Carl Maria von Weber’s Grand Duo Concertant in E-Flat Major for Clarinet and Piano, op. 48 – a virtuosic work for both instruments.  After intermission, violinist Gregory Lee, cellist Jonathan Ruck and pianist Amy Cheng will play Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1 in B-Flat Major, op. 99, D.898, a “blissfully happy work, rich in cheerful melody."

Concert 3 – Tuesday, May 21 – All Souls’ Episcopal Church – 7:30 pm

David Shifrin will also appear as Brightmusic’s guest artist at this concert.  It will begin with the Quartet for Clarinet and Strings in E-Flat Major, op. 2, no. 1 by Swedish-Finnish composer Bernard Henrik Crusell.  Chad Burrow (clarinet), Katrin Stamatis (violin), Mark Neumann (viola) and Jonathan Ruck (cello) will perform this work.  There will follow the world premiere of a new chamber music work by contemporary American composer Christopher Theofanidis entitled “Quasi una Fantasia.”  This work is written for two clarinets (played by Chad Burrow and Mr. Shifrin) and string quartet (comprised of violinists Gregory Lee and Katrin Stamatis, violist Mark Neumann and cellist Jonathan Ruck).  This work was jointly commissioned by Brightmusic and Chamber Music Northwest of Portland, Oregon, of which Mr. Shifrin is the long-time Artistic Director.  The West Coast premiere of this work will be on July 13-14 at the summer music festival of Chamber Music Northwest, and the East Coast premiere will be played on November 19 in New York City by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  Following intermission, violinists Hal Grossman and Gregory Lee, violist Mark Neumann and cellist Jonathan Ruck will join Mr. Shifrin in performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, K.581.

Concert 4 – Thursday, May 23 – All Souls’ Episcopal Church – 7:30 pm

The Festival will finish with an all-Schubert program, this season’s Mae Ruth Swanson Memorial Concert.  It will begin with Schubert’s Rondo (“Rondeau Brillant”) in B Minor for Violin and Piano, op. 70, D.895 with violinist Gregory Lee and pianist Amy Cheng.  This was one of the three chamber music works that was actually published in Schubert’s lifetime.  Next, tenor Andrew Ranson, accompanied by pianist Amy Cheng, will perform ten of Schubert’s Lieder (Songs):  “Der Neugierige,” “Ungeduld,” “Des Müllers Blumen,” “Tränenregen,” “Trokne Blumen,” “ Heidenröslein,” “Romanze aus Rosamunde,” “Du bist die Ruh,” “An di Laute” and “An die Musik.”  Following intermission, the Festival will conclude with Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major, op. 100, D.929, performed by violinist Hal Grossman, cellist Jonathan Ruck and pianist Amy Cheng.

Brightmusic’s “Schubert & Friends” Festival will be Oklahoma’s contribution to National Chamber Music Month, a nationwide effort to showcase classical, jazz and contemporary chamber music led by Chamber Music America, a national service organization for ensemble music professionals.

Major funding for “Schubert & Friends” has been provided by the Kirkpatrick Family Fund, the Ad Astra Foundation, Chesapeake Energy Corporation and The Kerr Foundation, Inc.

Complete information about the Festival programs, venues and musicians can be found at www.brightmusic.org.

Join us for all four concerts of this second annual event – bringing the finest chamber music in the classical and modern repertoire to the people of central Oklahoma.

From the email 

PERPETUAL MOTION TO
PERFORM
WATER WON'T WAIT

Image provided

Water Won't Wait is an all new and original production featuring Perpetual Motion's signature blend of stunning visuals and technical ingenuity as it delves into the fear, despair, and courage inspired by the unalterable current of time.  The Oklahoma City company's most challenging piece in its eleven-year history debuts at its annual spring performance and will be joined by the touring Fresno Dance Collective presenting a selection from their own full length concert. The programs are May 17 at 8 p.m. until May 19 at 4 p.m. at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, formerly City Arts Center.

The title, Water Won't Wait, emerged from conversations between Artistic Director, Michelle Moeller and Aerial Arts Director, Kimberly Kieffer, who both recently experienced major life changes. "The choreographers are using the classical elements water, earth, and air to delve into the theme of change.  More time has also been afforded to exploration during the rehearsal process than previous years due to the addition of ambitious new elements like two suspended iron bridges and a rotating cube that drips sand as the dancers interact with it," Michelle Dexter, artistic director of Perpetual Motion, wrote in an email.

Sneak preview:
http://youtu.be/HzeZ8Q54rxE

The FresNO Dance COllective is Central California’s resident professional modern dance company. 

Fresno Dance Collective (NOCO) is a is a non-profit organization founded in 2010 to help produce Fresno dance artists and companies, develop emerging dance talent, and enrich the arts in the Fresno metropolitan area by fostering collaboration and embracing diversity.

In addition to the stage choreography, Perpetual Motion is collaborating with local filmmaker K Edward Van Osdol to create a series of dance films to be interwoven throughout the concert.

Tickets are $18 -- $15 in advance -- for adults, $10 for students/seniors, and $8 for children under 12. They can be purchased at www.perpetualmotiondance.org or at the door one hour before the show.

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BRIGHTMUSIC PERFORMS
"SCHUBERT & FRIENDS" ON
MAY 18, 19, 21 & 23


Four-concert passes are now available for Brightmusic’s second annual Spring Festival – “Schubert & Friends” – to be performed on May 18, 19, 21 and 23.

Festival Concerts 1 and 2 will be given at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral downtown at 7:30 pm on Saturday evening, May 18 and 4:00 pm on Sunday afternoon, May 19.  Concerts 3 and 4 will be presented at All Souls’ Episcopal Church in northwest OKC at 7:30 pm on Tuesday evening, May 21 and Thursday evening, May 23.

The Festival will feature the return appearance of guest artist David Shifrin.  David is the Artistic Director of Chamber Music Northwest of Portland, Oregon; a member and former long-time Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; and the Professor of Chamber Music at Yale University.  David has made guest appearances many times at the OK Mozart Festival in Bartlesville, and was the featured guest artist on Brightmusic’s September 2010 concert, “Clarinet Serenade.”  David will perform at Brightmusic Festival Concerts 2 and 3.

Festival Concert 3 will also feature the world premiere of a new chamber music work by contemporary American composer Christopher Theofanidis, which Brightmusic and Chamber Music Northwest jointly commissioned.  After its world premiere at Brightmusic's Festival on May 21, Mr. Theofanidis' new work – “Quasi una Fantasia” for two clarinets and string quartet -- will receive its West Coast premiere on July 13-14 at the Summer Festival of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, and its East Coast premiere on November 19 at Alice Tully Hall by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  Mr. Shifrin and Brightmusic Co-Artistic Director Chad Burrow will be the featured clarinetists in all three premiere performances.  You can hear the world premiere performance right here in OKC!

Tickets are $10 per concert at the door.  We are offering a four-concert Festival Pass for $30.  It can be purchased on our website, www.brightmusic.org; by mailing a check to Brightmusic at PO Box 20254, OKC 73156; or at the door to the first Festival concert on May 18.  Students with ID are admitted free at all of our concerts, including the Festival concerts.
From the email

AUDITION ANNOUNCED FOR
NEWLY FORMING DANCE COMPANY --
DANCE THEATRE OKC

 Newly forming dance company, Dance Theatre OKC, will hold an audition Saturday, May 11 at 2:00 PM, at the Bruce Owen Theatre at Oklahoma City Community College, located at 7777 S. May Ave.

Male and female dancers with training in ballet, modern dance and/or jazz are urged to attend.  Company members and apprentices will be selected.  Apprentices will work with the company and have performance opportunities as they progress.  Dancers must be no younger than fourteen years of age.  No certain type or size of dancer is required, according to artistic director Elizabeth Hobi.  “I am looking for individuals, performers with heart, who project and connect with the audience.”

For the audition, dancers should bring either ballet or jazz shoes, or dance paws.   Registration will begin at 2:00 PM, and will be followed by a warm-up and audition in the format of a dance class.  Dancers will not be allowed into the theatre until 2:00 PM.  The audition is closed to the public and only audition participants will be allowed entrance.

Company members and apprentices will have class and rehearsal Mondays and Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 PM, and, beginning in the fall, rehearsal will also be held on Saturdays 3:00-5:00 PM, as needed.

For more information regarding the audition or dance classes at Oklahoma City Community College, contact Elizabeth Hobi at elizabeth.a.hobi@occc.edu.

From the press release