Chamber Music in Yellow Springs Annual Competition set for April 28
Miamisburg High School
Theatre will present “The Chamber Music in Yellow Addams Family,” directed Springs will host its annual by Mark Phillips and choreo- competition on Sunday, graphed by Stacy Gear April April 28.
26-27 at Memorial AuditoThe concert will begin at rium in Miamisburg (Sixth 4 p.m. at First Presbyterian St. & Park Ave.). Church, 314 Xenia Avenue
Individual tickets start (U.S. 68) in Yellow Springs. at $10 for students/seniors Pi a nists Larry Weng and $12 for general admisand Yevgeny Yontov came sion and can be purchased together with percussionists at the door. Matt Keown and Jeff Stern
The show is suitable for at Yale School of Music to kids through adults. form the icarus Quartet (iQ ).
“This show is fun, of With a strong classical traincourse, but it offers more ing and background, iQ is than just two hours of enter- committed to performing tainment,” Phillips said. new works with a studied “I wanted to point out the and convincing interpretadeeper stuff that’s easy to tion that mirrors the validity miss. Morticia finds comfort of works with performance that “Death is Just Around practices developed over the Corner” (which seems centuries. Following iQ’s a bit depressing, to be hon- Carnegie Hall debut, comest.) It is life and love, howposer Paul Lansky remarked, ever, that will always tri“This is music making of the umph. That is a message highest order.” The group’s that we are delighted to Competition program will share with you.” include music by Michael
The cast includes NichoLaurello (Big Things (2014, las Bradley as Gomez, Casrevised 2018) and Paul Lansidy Jackson as Morticia sky (Textures, 2013, with and Eden Hill as Wedneseight parts entitled “Striaday. Pugsley is played by tions,” “Loose Ends,” “Soft Mackenzie Fox, Fester Substrates,” “Slither,” “Granplayed by Caitlin Zook, ite,” “Points of Light,” “AflutGrandma played by Grace ter, On Edge,” and “Round Levan, Lurch played by Wound”).
Dovea Gogo, Mal played The Viano String Quartet by Noah Engel, Alice played (Lucy Wang and Hao Zhou, by Ryann Davis and Lucas violins; Aiden Kane, viola; played by Chris Howie. and Tate Zawadiuk, cello)
The creative team won third prize at the 2018 includes Mark P hillips Wigmore Hall International (director), Nathan Stel- String Quartet Competition, ter (stage manager), Halli along with the Sidney Griller Hill (music director), Stacy award for best performance Gear ( choreographer), of the compulsory work, The Lonnie Daniels & Melissa Four Quarters by Thomas Smith (scenic bui l de r ), Adès, and the Haydn Prize Tim Guth (sound and light- for the best performance of a ing designer) and Andrea Haydn string quartet. During Hubler (costume designer the 2018-19 season, Viano has and marketing). The show made its debut at the SOKA is produced by Tom Hubler Performing Arts Center on and Melissa Fogle. This proits Artists on the Rise series, duction is additionally supas well as a return engageported by Sabrina Sedlacko ment at the Cerritos Center (asst stage manager), Teri with NPR host Rob Kapilow Bradley (tickets & marketon his What Makes It Great? ing) and Liz Engel (house series. For the CMYS Commanager). petition, the group will play the first movement of Claude Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10, the fourth movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3, the first three movements of Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4, and Thomas Adès’s four-movement The Four Quarters, Op. 28.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $7 for full-time students with ID and are available at www. cmys.org. A post-concert dinner will provide those interested with an opportunity to meet the performers. Call (937) 374-8800 by April 25 to reserve a space. CMYS is grateful for support from the Ohio Arts Council, the Yellow Springs Community Foundation and its many individual donors. Hubert and Ruth (Garwood) Mayo will celebrate 70 years of marraige on April 16, 2019. They have four children, ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. They are members of The Brethren Church in New Lebanon.