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<div class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">WordStage ~ a Chamber Music Theater</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">opens its 2nd Ohio Season with</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Eccentricities
of the Velvet Gentleman - The Words and Music </i></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">of Erik Satie</span></i></b></div>
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<div class="MsoBodyText">Only decades after his death in 1925 was French composer
Erik Satie hailed as a genius of contemporary classical music. His work was
extremely simple in structure, yet innovative and marked by a characteristic wryness
and wit. His reliance on unusual harmonic configurations was a reaction against
the heavy, symbol-rich music of his era, a time when the works of Romantic
European composers like Richard Wagner were still very much in vogue, and the
highly decorated Impressionism of his friend, Claude Debussy, was
ascendant.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Satie left a relatively
scarce body of work behind, most of it written for the piano. But his
groundbreaking use of bitonal or polytonal notes and “broken” rhythms would
become a benchmark of twentieth-century modernist music.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Mentor</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">, collaborator and colleague of and with the likes of
Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, and Serge Diaghilev, Erik
Satie’s music transcended the accepted norms of Romanticism and Impressionism
of the time and influenced generations of French composers that followed.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A prolific writer and cartoonist, Satie wrote
fantastic diaries he titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Memoirs of an
Amnesiac</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">A Mammals Notebook</i> and
was a regular contributor to such magazines as the Dadaist <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">351</i> and the publication that was, and continues to be, the arbiter
of contemporary style and taste, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Vanity
Fair</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It is from these sources the
text of this WordStage presentation is derived.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">This performance
features the artistry of WordStage Artistic Director Tim Tavcar as Satie and
pianists HyunSoo Kim and Andrew Rosenblum, of the Cleveland Institute of Music
and the Cleveland Classical Revolution. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">8:00pm Friday,
September 21, 2012 - The West
Shore Unitarian
Universalist Church</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">20401 Hilliard Blvd.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Rocky River,
OH</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman""></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">8:00pm Saturday,
September 22, 2012 – The First
Unitarian Church</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">21600 Shaker Blvd.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman""> at Belvoir Shaker, Heights, OH<br>
</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Tickets $20
Adult $15 Seniors (62+) $10 Student through College</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">WordStage
also maintains a ‘Pay What You Can” policy at the door to make their
performances accessible to anyone who wishes to hear them.</span></div>
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font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">For Reservations call
216-712-6926.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For information visit <a href="http://www.wordstagevt.com/">www.wordstagevt.com</a></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Tickets are also available at the door
beginning 45 minutes before the performance.</span></div>
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