[NEohioPAL] New Music Theater Ensemble Opens in Northeast Ohio

[Tim Tavcar]

WordStage - a Chamber Music Theater- makes its Northeast Ohio Debut
at Rocky River’s West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, Saturday, September
24th at 8:00pm and Sunday September 25th at 3:00pm with
performances of The Musical Circle of
John Singer Sargent.
  

“Had
he chosen to become a musician, he would have risen to eminence in one way or
the other, in our art.” So wrote the composer Charles Loeffler about arguably
the finest portrait painter of the late 19th/early 20th century; the very
cosmopolitan American artist John Singer Sargent. An accomplished pianist
himself, Sargent often punctuated his studio sessions by playing the music of
some of the composers who became friends and confidantes throughout his
prolific career. Brahms, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Grieg, Charles Loeffler and
Percy Grainger were all artistic intimates of Sargent’s who used his personal
wealth and position in high society to inspire their music and advance their
careers.

This WordStage presentation has been created from Sargent’s own recollections of his
life and work, and the correspondence and recorded conversations between
Sargent and Boston’s colorful and convention-defying patron of the arts,
Isabella Stewart Gardener.  The
performance features Artistic Director Tim Tavcar as John Singer Sargent and
Northeast Ohio actor, director, producer and playwright, Deborah Magid, as
Isabella Stewart Gardener. Underscoring and reflecting the text will be the
music of Maurice Ravel, Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Gabriel
Fauré and Charles Loeffler, performed by the Cleveland Institute of Music based
Mauthé String Quartet.
 
 Suggested Admission is $20, $15 for seniors,
$10 for students. WordStage also maintains a “PAY WHAT CAN” policy to help make
its performances accessible to any patron interested in attending.  To obtain reservations for tickets and for
further information, information, call 
(216)
712-6926, or go online to http://www.wordstagevt.com.  Tickets will also be available at the door
beginning one hour prior to performance times, via cash or personal check.
 
The
West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church is located at 20401 Hilliard Blvd. in
Rocky River, OH. (44116) – three blocks straight ahead  from the Hilliard Blvd. exit on
I-90 West.
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