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Interlude - April 2

April 2, 2020



Announcing CPA Quarantine Karaoke!

Plus rescheduled shows - 800 lb. Gorilla - CSO soloists - celebrity pen pals - stories with Dolly

 

Welcome back to Interlude, your twice-weekly dose of stay-at-home arts and culture from the Center and our friends. Below, you’ll find fun and inspiring material for all ages – and even your own opportunity for social media stardom!

 

Share your talent via CPA Quarantine Karaoke!

 

Yes, we’re all grateful for Netflix and Facebook right now, but there’s a limit to how much media we can consume. Wouldn’t it be much healthier for you and your sequestered loved ones to produce some media of your own and share it with the world?

 

The Center for the Performing Arts is offering you that opportunity with a new program we’re calling CPA Quarantine Karaoke. The concept is simple: Choose a tune, make a video of yourself or your home team singing along, and upload it here.

 

Make your clip as silly or serious as you like, but keep in mind that costumes, awkward dancing and wackiness are encouraged. We’ll be sharing a compilation of the best entries, and you can feel free to share yours wherever you like with the hashtag #CPAQuarantineKaraoke. Don't forget to tag us @CPApresents! Pick your poison: Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

 

Plus, if you do submit a video, you will be entered to win a pair of tickets to a select Center Presents performance in our 2020-2021 10th Anniversary season!

 

For inspiration, please enjoy the artistry of these early submissions from our staff members. Note that our fabulous graphic designer added the names and song titles – no need to get that fancy on your own. We just want to see your faces and hear your voices (lip-syncs allowed too)!

 

 

 

More Center Presents concerts rescheduled

 

It breaks our hearts to cancel and postpone performances, but the healing begins when we can put them back on the schedule. As the entire nationwide concert industry scrambles to reconstruct its calendar for the next year or so, we are pleased to announce new dates for these shows below, which originally were part of our 2019-2020 Season sponsored by Allied Solutions and have now been added to the 2020-2021 lineup:

 

These follow the previously announced new dates for:

 

Previously purchased tickets will be honored on the new dates, and tickets are back on sale now at TheCenterPresents.org. Questions? Just email Patron Services atTickets@TheCenterPresents.org.

 


800 pounds of tasty jam

and you don't even have to go to the store 

 

The Indianapolis-based band 800 lb. Gorilla is building a reputation on the regional jam scene with its mix of rock, funk, jazz and electronica, which is why we booked them into our new Studio Series of intimate concerts by rising local artists.

 

Though they can’t perform live this Saturday as scheduled, you can still dig their new release, Metro Manila, in its entirety via the band’s Facebook page or YouTube channel.

 


CSO players show off their chops

 

You can’t keep a great community orchestra down, even when the musicians are confined to quarters. The talented folks of our resident Carmel Symphony Orchestra – determined to keep sharing music with you – have launched a video series in which individual musicians play solo excerpts of pieces they love.

 

It’s a neat way to sample the sounds of the various instruments. And as Music Director Janna Hymes says, “Music heals. Music unites. Music brings people together.”

 

You can watch the videos on CSO’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.

 


#ArchivesPenPals from the Songbook Foundation

Have you ever had a pen pal? Does that box of old letters in your closet spark joy when you dump out years of thoughtfully written correspondence from friends and family? Our friends at the Great American Songbook Foundation dug through their Archives to find examples from Songbook legends.

 

This Friday, the National Archives is hosting its monthly hashtag party online. Archives across the nation will share materials from their collections using the hashtag #ArchivesPenPals to connect with this month's theme.

 

In the video above, Songbook Foundation Archivist Lisa Lobdell talks about the decades-long pen pal relationship between Mamie Eisenhower and composer Meredith Willson (The Music Man). And the letters you see in this video? They're part of Meredith Willson’s personal papers housed at the Foundation here in Carmel!

 

 

Bedtime stories from Dolly herself

 

If you don’t already love Dolly Parton, you certainly should now, especially if you’re trying to entertain and comfort small kids at home.

 

The tireless country-pop Renaissance woman has announced a new weekly online video series titled Goodnight with Dolly, in which she will read aloud and display the illustrations from a carefully curated list of children’s books every Thursday evening. The 10-week series, a spinoff from Parton’s broader Imagination Library children’s literature project, launches at 7 p.m. EST today at her YouTube channel.

 

 

 

 

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