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A
Rare Pattern
Tucson: Sunday ,
March 28,
2010 @ 3p.m. - Scottsdale: Friday, March
26, 2010 @ 8p.m.
a
brief description
"I walk down the garden paths,
And all the daffodils
Are blowing, and the bright blue squills.
I walk down the patterned garden paths
In my stiff, brocaded gown.
With my powdered hair and jewelled fan,
I too am a rare
Pattern. As I wander down
The garden paths."
Amy Lowell, from her poem
"Patterns"
 Psychologist G. Stanley Hall. 'Academic achievements have forced
conservative minds to admit that women's intellect is not inferior to
that of man. From the available data it seems, however, that the
more scholastic the education of women, the fewer children and less the
ability to nurse children. Not intelligence but education by
present manmade ways is related inversely to fecundity.'
A RARE PATTERN, a solo performance work by Harry Clark, was
commissioned by Connecticutís Quinnipiac University as part of
their annual Women and Creativity Conference. The premiere was given by
Barbara Feldon and it has enjoyed multiple performances since by Hayley
Mills and our superb actor this afternoon, Margot Kidder.
A RARE PATTERN, starts as our unnamed heroine enrolls in Vassar College
in the 1920s and follows her life for
the next twenty years up to World War II. Our heroine experiences
a mental collapse during her time at Vassar, an artistic and spiritual
crisis, and is compelled to speak her mind solely using the thoughts
and ideas of the leading female writers and thinkers of her day
including such luminaries as: Hannah Arendt, Jane Austen, Nadia
Boulanger, Willa Cather, Adelaide Crapsey, Emily Dickinson, Zelda
Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Corra May White Harris, Sarah
Orne Jewett, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore,
Dorothy Parker, Mary Shaw, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Virginia
Woolf.
Experience the journey of our heroine, her search for a life of meaning
in her own words for ñ she too is a rare Pattern.
Thank you, Amy Lowell.
About the
music
Music for soprano, cello and piano for this event is by Fanny Hensel,
Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Lili and Nadia Boulanger.
Performers
 Margot Kidder is a Canadian actress Margot
Kidder spent her infant years living in a caboose.
Whilst at the University of British Columbia, she became involved with
student drama, her first performance being a production of 'Take Me
Along'. She went professional with the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation in Vancouver, and Kidder revelled in the diversity of the
roles on offer.
Her first film appearance was in Norman Jewison’s 1969 media satire,
'Gaily Gaily', with Beau Bridges. Living full-time in the USA, she then
worked with Gene Wilder on 'Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The
Bronx'. Unimpressed by the industry, she moved back to Canada to learn
the art of directing, but returned with great success in Brian De
Palma’s 'Sisters', in 1972.
Kidder shot to international fame with her portrayal of Lois Lane in
the smash hit 'Superman' films, opposite Christopher Reeve.
However, after this pinnacle, her career suffered a rapid decline.
Badly injured in an accident in the late 1980s, she stubbornly refused
treatment, much to the detriment of her health.
Kidder has had a turbulent private life. She declared herself bankrupt
in 1992.
Having been diagnosed with manic depression in 1988 and plagued by
substance abuse, Kidder suffered a very public breakdown in 1996, and
was found, ragged and gibbering, homeless under a pile of wood in
suburban LA.
With her supporters rallying round, she managed to regain parts in
television and theatre. Her trademark husky voice has appeared over
such cartoons as 'Captain Planet' and 'The Planeteers'.
 Soprano, Jennifer Nagy, is active as a
professional singer in the Phoenix metropolitan area. She has
been a voice teacher at Chandler/Gilbert Community College since 1998
and has taught at Mesa Community College since 1991.
Ms. Nagy has had a wide variety of performing experience. Ms.
Nagy has been a featured soprano soloist for works such as
Handelís Messiah, Poulencís Gloria, Rutterís
Requiem and Magnificat, and Mozartís Coronation
Mass. She has also given full recital performances in
Phoenix and Tucson, AZ, San Jose, CA, and Spokane,
WA. She has made appearances with Arizona Opera since
1999; most recent roles include the Foreign Woman in The Consul and
Frasquita in Carmen. She has appeared as a guest artist with the
Coeur díAlene Symphony Orchestra, the Mesa Symphony, the Phoenix
Bach Choir, and the Phoenix Symphony. Ms. Nagyís upcoming
performances in 2007 include performing with the Flagstaff Symphony and
the role of Mrs. Hayes in Arizona Operaís production of Susannah.
Ms. Nagy has won several honors throughout her singing career and
education. In the summer of 1994, she was one of twelve
chosen to participate in the National Association of Teachers of
Singing 1994 Internship Program. In 1997, she won 1st place
in the Amelia Rieman Opera Competition held in Tucson, AZ. In the
summer of 1998, she was one of twelve chosen to participate in the
Cleveland Art Song Festival, and in the fall of 1998, she was a
Regional Finalist in Los Angeles at the Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions.
Jennifer has appeared with great critical acclaim on four previous
Portraits with Chamber Music PLUS Southwest including collaborations
with Lynn Redgrave, Efrem and Stephanie Zimbalist, Hayley Mills and
Michael Learned.
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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