[NEohioPAL] Announcing : An innovative Performing Arts Hybrid

[Tim Tavcar]

WordStage - a Chamber Music Theater- (www.wordstagevt.com) 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 is derived 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 Gardner.  Though these
intimate exchanges, we get a fascinating glimpse into the development of the
mutual admiration society that existed among artists of diverse disciplines,
their patrons and the general public. This creative collaboration, by way of
its warm and affectionate existence, proved to be a happy and lifelong marriage
between the visual and performing arts throughout Europe and the Eastern United
States, particularly in the latter decades of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
 
The
performance features Artistic Director Tim Tavcar as John Singer Sargent and
Northeast Ohio actor, director, producer and playwright, Deborah Magid, as
Isabella Stewart Gardner 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 be available at the door
beginning one hour prior to performance times, via cash or personal check.
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