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Remembering
Amy -January 21, 2007
Southwest Premiere
a
brief description
""The monuments of a nation mark the
progress of its civilization, but
its intelligence and education are qualified by its music."
- Amy Beach
 Harry Clark created "Remembering Amy " in 1998. Sandy
Duncan originated the role in Hartford,
CT and at Quinnipiac
University.
July 9th, 2000 marked the unveiling of Amy Beach's name carved into the
granite facade
at Boston's famous Hatch Shell, alongside some of music's greats. 86
composers including Bach, Handel,
Chopin, Debussy, MacDowell and Beethoven are represented. Amy Beach is the only woman
composer on the granite wall!
In personal vignettes, through the eyes of six women--Clara Cheney, her
mother, prominent violinist Maud Powell, her housekeeper Mary
McNamara, Marian McDowell, pianist, wife of American composer Edward
McDowell and founder of the McDowell Colony, Beach's CPA, Ingrid
Petersson, and Clara, a young admirer-- you will get an intimate
portrait
of this amazing woman.
About the music
Amy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) was America's
foremost composer of the Romantic period and a virtuoso concert
pianist. A musical prodigy, Beach studied with Ernest Perabo, Carl
Baermann, and Junius W. Hill.
The music for Remembering Amy
will be exclusively by Amy Beach. Included are selections for
piano solo, voice and piano and piano and cello.
Performers
  In a one-woman tour de force, portraying six different
characters, is Tony
winning actress, Shirley Knight.
An accomplished actress of stage, screen, and television, Shirley Knight was discovered
while studying drama with Jeff Corey
when she and her classmates Jack Nicholson, Robert Blake, Dean
Stockwell, and Sally Kellerman
were appearing in a production of Look
Back in Anger. Her performance netted her an agent who in turn
helped her get her first film role in Five
Gates to Hell (1959). Knight's
first real break came with a supporting role in Delbert Mann's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
(1960). which garnered Knight her
first Oscar
nomination. The second was
for playing Paul Newman's
first love in Sweet Bird of Youth
(1962). In the early '60s, Knight began appearing on television, making
a memorable debut in the sci-fi anthology series Outer Limits.
Shirley Knight was
twice nominated for the Drama Desk Award
(1997 for the Young Man from Atlanta
and 1978 for Landscape of the Body)
and won a Tony for the Best Actress in Kennedy's Children.
Joining the Clark Schuldmann Duo for this
performance is soprano Jennifer Nagy, who has become a regular
participant in Chamber Music PLUS Southwest productions and an
audience favorite.
Performance details:
Show time: 3
p.m.
Pre concert chat: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: The Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 West Speedway Blvd.
Directions- Click
here for directions to the hall.
Individual Ticket Price: $30
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