Honor MLK with Philadelphia Orchestra
The orchestra will present its 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute Concert online on Monday.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, in partnership with Global Citizen's Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service, will present its 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute Concert online on Monday at 7p.m. at www.philorch. org and www.facebook. com/PhilOrch. As part of the Our City, Your Orchestra series, the program led by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will celebrate the life and legacy of King through music and interviews with prominent Philadelphians who are continuing his work today. This digital concert is free; RSVP at www.philorch.org.
The Reading Public Museum has announced that the popular exhibit “Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau,” originally set to close Jan. 3, will remain on view into February. Mucha's work became synonymous with the international Art Nouveau style, popularly called “le style Mucha” in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. With a focus on the works created during the 1890s, this exhibition shows a creative man exploring possibilities when the emphasis was on defining a new art, fit for the new century. Mucha's designs for posters, calendars, books and advertising labels circulated widely throughout Europe and America, and his Art Nouveau style dominated visual culture and graphic design for years. Highlights of the exhibition include four versions of a monumental poster Mucha created in 1894for actress Sarah Bernhardt's play “Gismonda” and two posters advertising Job cigarette papers (1896and 1898). The exhibit includes vintage lithographs, original drawings, paintings, books, advertising ephemera and more. The museum, 500 Museum Road, is open daily from 11a.m. to 5p.m. Admission is $10for ages 18-64, $6 children/seniors/students and free to members and children 3and younger. For more, see www.readingpublicmuseum.org.
Kennett Flash in Kennett Square presents a livestreamed concert by Kitty Rotten on Saturday at 8p.m. The stream is free on the Flash's Facebook and YouTube pages, but a $15 donation is suggested. Kitty Rotten mixes old-school blues with punk/soul/garage rock, adding in some purring and a hiss or two. A giant cat head and custom cat skull lucha masks add to the quartet's in-your-face stage presence.
Sellersville Theatre 1894 presents a Soundbooth Session with the Micah Graves Project on Tuesday at 8p.m. with a limited live audience and streaming on Facebook Live. In-person tickets cost $10at st94.com, and the stream is pay as you please, with proceeds supporting the theater and the artist. The Micah Graves Project melds jazz, R&B and fusion.
The Pines Dinner Theatre, 448 N. 17th St., Allentown, starts off 2021with a brand-new interactive mystery comedy entitled “Lucky Lindy's Not So Lucky Landing,” playing Friday through May 9. The play was written and directed by long-time Pines Dinner Theatre Artistic Director Oliver Blatt, with original music by Blatt and orchestrations by Stacy Bechtel. Show times are Fridays, 7 p.m., dinner and show; Saturdays, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. dinner and show; and select Sundays, 12:30 p.m., dinner and show. Ticket price for show admission for all ages is $30. Appetizers, entrees, desserts and beverages are available for purchase. The show is rated PG-13. For ticket information, call the box office at 610-4332333or visit pinesdinnertheatre.com.
New Arts Program, Kutztown, is commemorating the 11th anniversary of the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake that devastated much of Haiti with “Voices & Visions: Artists of Haiti," an expansive exhibition and sale of original paintings curated by artist/poet Patricia Goodrich. An opening reception is scheduled for Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. The art ranges from impressionist landscapes to realist portraits to the unique Saint Soleil (voodoo) movement. Among those exhibiting are internationally renowned artists Marie Jose NadalGardere, co-author of “La Peinture Haitienne,” a seminal book about Haitian art of the 1930s and 1940s; naive painter Gerard Fortune (1930s-2019); and senior San Soleil artists Levoy Exil, Payas (Pierre Sylvan Augustin) and Maxan Jean-Louis. Most of the 47 artists represented live in the Port au Prince region. Many are members of the post-earthquake formed group Promart Haiti founded by artist/diplomat Patrick Cauvin. To preview a selection of the exhibiting artists, visit patriciagoodrich.com/ voicesvisions.html.
On Saturdays and Sundays throughout January, Folino Estate Winery, 340 Old Route 22, Greenwich Township, Berks County, is hosting Soup & Wine Tasting weekends. For $15 per person, you receive three homemade soup samples with three Folino Estate wines at socially distanced tables in the Piazza. Prepaid reservations guarantee a 30-minute tasting for groups up to four, and 45 minutes for groups of five or more. Pairings are as follows: Roasted Tomato Soup with Cabernet Franc; Italian Wedding Soup with Sauvignon Blanc; and Tuscan Lentil Soup with Merlot. To reserve, visit folinoestate. com.
Friends of Chamber Music of Reading will present a free online concert by the Aeolus Quartet performing Beethoven's monumental Op. 131on Wednesday at 3 p.m. on Facebook. Based in New York City, the quartet was formed in 2008 with a vision to share the permanent power of the string quartet repertoire with wide-ranging audiences. It brings an equal dedication to all of its artistic endeavors, placing new and lesser known works side-by-side with the time honored masterworks of the medium. The quartet features Nicolas Tavani, violin; Rachel Kitagawa Shapiro, violin; Caitlin Lynch, viola; and Alan Richardson, cello. For more information, see aeolusquartet.com.