Interlude - April 21
April 21, 2020
Prom at the Palladium, David Sedaris, music for tots, Songbook Foundation volunteers
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.
A dose of Sedaris to tide you over
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If you were looking forward to seeing the brilliant humorist, writer and radio commentator David Sedaris tonight at the Palladium, keep looking forward! You’ll enjoy his witty and poignant insights even more when he appears on the rescheduled date of Dec. 3.
But if you need a little taste to fill the void until then:
- Read his latest New Yorker column, "My failed attempts to hoard anything at all."
- Watch his interview with Jimmy Kimmel, where you'll learn a little bit about what it's like to ask this man for an autograph.
- Enjoy a YouTube Originals interview "On Being An Open Book."
Because everyone deserves a prom
High school proms are among the spring traditions interrupted by the current freeze on social gatherings, but don’t our teens still deserve a chance to enjoy their rites of passage? Anticipating a relaxation of restrictions at some point soon, the Center for the Performing Arts hopes to fill the gap by presenting Prom at the Palladium, an alternative celebration open to all Central Indiana high school seniors and their guests.
With a choice of dates, Aug. 7 or 8, Prom at the Palladium will feature a DJ and dancing on the concert hall stage along with refreshments, a photo station and other trimmings designed to foster those warm high school memories. Tickets at only $10 go on sale June 1 at TheCenterPresents.org.
New round of music for wee ones
Ms. Michelle of Shoobeeloo Music leads our weekly Child & Adult Music Class for kids 1 to 5, and lately she has moved the sessions to Facebook at 10:30 a.m. Thursdays.
Starting this week, she returns to a popular theme, Over in the Meadow, featuring songs about flowers, frogs, squirrels and insects. So round up your toddlers, preschoolers and the whole family Thursday morning for 45 minutes of music, movement and fun!
They keep the Songbook Foundation humming
Our friends at the Great American Songbook Foundation are ringing in National Volunteer Week 2020 by spotlighting their dedicated volunteers on Facebook in the coming days.
In the past year alone, the Songbook Foundation’s volunteer core has dedicated over 2,800 hours to the organization. That's the equivalent of over $70,000 in paid professional work, but their contributions – from cataloging the thousands of LPs in the Songbook Archives & Library to facilitating weekly Perfect Harmony programs – are invaluable.
Learn more about the talented folks who volunteer for the Great American Songbook Foundation:
- Meet collections processor and Perfect Harmony volunteer Janice Roger here
- Meet docent Margie Draper here
- Meet collections processor and IT guru Chris Jaeger here
- Meet Teaching Notes blog author and docent Sue Ackley here
- Meet Songbook Library book-covering expert Carol Schwartz here
Learn more about volunteering for the Great American Songbook Foundation here, and look for upcoming volunteer spotlights on the Foundation’s Facebook page this week!
Karaoke masterworks keep rolling in
The Center’s #CPAQuarantineKaraoke campaign has revealed a wealth of talent among our friends and patrons, from singing and satire to costume design and video production. In fact, there were too many great entries to include them all in our compilation last week, and new clips keep rolling in.
What to do? Our mission compels us to continue sharing these artistic achievements with the world, of course! Today, we bring you a Green Day/John Lennon medley, a Frozen parody, an a capella rendition of Lauren Daigle's You Say, and a well-known tune from the late Bill Withers.
They'll give it to you straight
The Bloomington-born, globally acclaimed a cappella ensemble Straight No Chaser is always a big draw at the Palladium and therefore a logical choice to headline the Center’s 10th Anniversary Gala on Sept. 12.
But let’s cut to the chase: As we await the return of in-person live performances, the SNC guys – despite being scattered across the eastern United States – are presenting a new song each Wednesday on their YouTube channel. So far, the campaign has included renditions of “Lean on Me,” “You’ve Got a Friend” and even Toto’s “Africa.”
Subscribe to SNC’s Quarantine Sessions here.
