Interlude - December 10
December 10, 2020
New Live at the Center dates, Civic, CSO and holiday playlists
Welcome back to Interlude, bringing you fabulous arts-related content to ease the stress of knowing that Christmas is basically two weeks away. (Got your shopping done yet? Sorry.)
Live at the Center keeps on streaming
Bloomington-based songstress Jenn Cristy rocked the Palladium last Friday with a Live at the Center set that a couple thousand people enjoyed from the comfort of home, or wherever they happened to be. Watch the replay here – through some really good speakers, if possible.
Up next in the Center’s livestream series for local artists, sponsored by Allied Solutions, is Bashiri Asad (pictured above), known as Indianapolis’ “Everyday Soul Singer.” The show is at 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday, Dec. 16, and you can register here for reminders and viewing info.
Even more exciting: Today the Center is announcing another round of seven great Live at the Center performances for 2021! And that’s just January through March! If you dig funk, psychedelia, Americana, Latin jazz, bluesy power trios or Celtic rock, you’ll want to read the announcement and see the new lineup.
Revisit the sounds of December
Over the Center’s decade-long history, the month of December has been a time for traditional holiday performances, as well as visits from a wide mix of national artists putting their own jazz, rock, country, classical or other spins on the season. Or just playing regular shows, for that matter.
Now you can sample the music of Decembers past at the Center with our latest Shepherd Insurance Rewind Playlist. Listen to the list here.
Support the arts: Double your impact, save on your taxes
Singer-songwriter Jenn Cristy and her band perform at the Palladium for Live at the Center, a new series of livestreams featuring Indiana artists (photo by Mark Sheldon).
Did you know? You can make a year-end gift to the Center with appreciated stock, one of the easiest and most tax-smart ways to donate. Claim the full market price of the stock and avoid paying capital gains tax on the share growth. We make the process easy by doing the work for you. Contact Kendra Latta, Director of Individual Development, to get started: KLatta@TheCenterPresents.org.
And this month, your support of the arts can go twice as far! Longtime supporters John and Marianne Hart are generously doubling their traditional end-of-year matching gift from $5,000 to $10,000, matching every new, increased or doubled gift made to the Center through December 31. You can also donate online to double your impact on the community.
The arts matter now more than ever, and so does your support. Thank you!
Enjoy harmonious holidays with classic tunes
The best way to spread holiday cheer is singing aloud for all to hear! Our friends at the Great American Songbook Foundation are bringing the music of the season to your home with a new set of virtual Perfect Harmony resources, created to help care partners use music to engage people living with dementia. Music is beneficial for everyone, however, and we encourage you to get creative in sharing this month’s holiday-themed resources with loved ones of all ages.
Sing some of the most beloved songs of the season and lead a guided session using Perfect Harmony's December activity sheets. Featured songs include: “Deck the Halls,” “White Christmas," "Silent Night" and more. You can even sing along with these videos.
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Saturday: Civic, CSO stage seasonal smackdown!
IN THIS CORNER – meh, we’ll ditch the metaphor and get to the point: Saturday evening brings two great opportunities to get your holiday spirit on with two of the Center’s fine Resident Companies.
At 7 p.m., a cast including many Civic Theatre stalwarts will stream live from the Tarkington with Holiday Lights, a music and dance revue billed as “a joyous exaltation of the season,” so get your Civic tickets here. Even if you miss the livestream, you can still watch the performance on demand through Jan. 1, which might come in handy because …
At 7:30 p.m., the Carmel Symphony Orchestra will stream its annual holiday pops concert, Holidays at Home, live from the Palladium stage. The program features vocalist Heather Bays, who lives in Carmel but stays busy singing in the studios of Indianapolis, Chicago and Nashville, recording voice-overs, jingles, demos, film scores, video game scores and a range of other projects for clients and collaborators who have included Disney, EA Games, Travis Cottrell, Sandi Patty and Josh Kaufmann. (You also may have seen her sing the National Anthem at Colts, Pacers and Fever games.) Get your CSO tickets here.
This week in performing arts history
December 6: On this date in 1896, Ira Gershwin – the first lyricist to win a Pulitzer Prize – was born in New York City. Among other accomplishments, he and his composer brother George can list the Broadway musicals Porgy and Bess, Of Thee I Sing, Funny Face, Girl Crazy, Crazy for You, Nice Work If You Can Get It and Lady, Be Good. Gershwin’s work has been featured many times by the Carmel Symphony Orchestra, the Indiana Wind Symphony and Michael Feinstein, the Center’s artistic director, who worked for several years as Gershwin’s assistant and recounted the experience with his 2012 book/CD, The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs.
December 11: On this date in 2012, Indian sitar master and composer Ravi Shankar died at age 92 after undergoing heart valve replacement surgery. He has influenced countless musicians throughout the world, including George Harrison, John Coltrane and Philip Glass. His daughter Anoushka Shankar performed at the Palladium in 2017. Another daughter is multiple Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Norah Jones.
December 12: On this date in 1941, jazz singer and Manhattan Transfer co-founder Tim Hauser was born in Troy, New York. The Manhattan Transfer has performed twice at the Palladium, in 2011 and 2018.
December 12: On this date in 1940, singer Dionne Warwick (pictured above) was born in East Orange, New Jersey. The voice behind countless pop hits performed at the Palladium’s opening gala in 2011 alongside Michael Feinstein, Chris Botti, Neil Sedaka and Cheyenne Jackson. She returned in 2019 to headline the Center’s annual Songbook Celebration presented by Krieg DeVault.
December 12: On this date in 1915, singer and Oscar-winning actor Francis Albert “Old Blue Eyes” Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. What can we say about Frank that hasn’t been said? His son, Frank Sinatra Jr., performed at the Palladium in October 2015. Michael Feinstein’s Emmy-nominated PBS special The Sinatra Legacy was shot at the Palladium in May 2011.
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