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Love
Letters- world premiere
Tucson: Sunday ,
February 8,
2009 @ 3p.m. - Scottsdale: Friday ,
February 6, 2009 @ 8p.m.
a
brief description
We must live our lives to the full, loving
and suffering to extremes!....” -Franz Liszt
 Two of our favorite exponents of the true
romantics are Maria Callas and Leonard Bernstein.
The inscription says: " To my
beloved Maria from her almost-lover Lenny B."
Love letters have no monetary value and almost
always are kept private.
Yet, people hold on to them for decades, tucking them in dresser
drawers or hiding them in secret shoe boxes.
Whether you're in sixth grade or celebrating your 60th wedding
anniversary, chances are you've written or received one. Not only are
these letters deeply personal expressions of love (sometimes
embarrassingly so), but they also serve as snapshots of a moment in
your history.
Love letters are written for many reasons; to express love for the
first time in a new relationship, as a way to show enduring love in an
existing relationship, and sometimes at the end of a relationship. Even
couples who have been married a long time enjoy receiving love letters
that reaffirm their love for one another. Regardless of the reason, the
written expression of love is an especially romantic gesture.
In anticipation of Valentine's Day, we are
offering this new world premiere of the passionate letters and music of
some twenty composers—European, North and South American, over three
centuries—to be interwoven with the composers’ equally impassioned
music to create a theatrical tapestry in words and sound of their most
intimate and revelatory thought.
About the
music
Represented on the program are Beethoven,
Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mozart, Liszt, Schumann, Wagner, Liszt and
Bernstein.
Performers
Four-time Best
Actress Emmy Award winner
Michael Learned was born on April 9, 1939 in Washington, D.C.
The oldest of six daughters of a U.S. State Department employee, she
was raised on her family's farm in Connecticut. The family moved to
Austria when she was age 11, and it was while attending boarding school
in England that she fell in love with the theater and decided to become
an actress.
Learned marr ied Oscar winner Robert Donat's nephew Peter Donat, a
Canadian citizen, when she was 17 years old, a marriage that lasted 17
years and produced three sons.
She learned her craft while acting for the Shakespeare Festivals in
both Canada and the U.S. while simultaneously raising a family. She and
her husband Peter acted together with San Francisco's American
Conservatory Theatre (ACT) in the early 1970s.
Her breakthrough came when she was appearing in an ACT production of Noel Coward's "Private Lives",
where she was spotted by producer Lee
Rich, who cast her as Olivia
Walton in his new television series about a Depression era
family, "The Waltons".
Learned won three Emmy Awards playing the role, and another Emmy for
her next foray into series TV, "Nurse" (1981).
She escaped typecasting as Olivia Walton (although she
re-prised the role that made her famous in a 1995 TV-movie reunion)
while appearing on numerous shows and TV movies, including top-drawer,
made-for-TV specials such as the 1986 adaptation of Arthur Miller's All My Sons (1986) (TV) with
co-star James Whitmore.
Mini
Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood
Ms. Learned first appeared with Chamber
Music PLUS, on their debut season in Tucson, as Nannerl Mozart in the production of
Sister
Mozart.
Performance
details:
Details
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Tucson
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Scottsdale
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Show Time:
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3:00 p.m.
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8:00p.m.
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Venue:
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Berger
Performing Arts Center,
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Kerr Cultural
Center
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Address (click address for map)
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Individual Tickets
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$35 with discounts to subscribers
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$21, $20 and $17
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Order Tickets
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phone:520.400.5439; on line click here
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phone: 480.596.2660;
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Chamber Music PLUS SW
appreciates
your consideration for support. Tickets and grants cover 80% of our
budget. Your support is much appreciated. Thank You!
You are
listening
to Romanze by Richard Wagner, performed by the Clark- Schuldmann
Duo
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