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Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic

Crescendo Family Concert Series

Carnival of the Animals

Sunday, October 10, 2010 / F.M. Kirby Center / Wilkes-Barre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic as they perform a musical adventure that describes animals from fish to fossils, kangaroos to tortoises, and lions to swans through picture-perfect music.

You’ll love this cleverly written music for such instrument friends as xylophone, strings, woodwinds and TWO GRAND PIANOS!
 
Come join us for an afternoon adventure full of musical surprises!

Our special guest artists, James J. Peck and Veronica Dewitt will amaze you with their original masks and dance, designed and choreographed specially for Carnival of the Animals.

 

  

 

 

Crescendo Family Concert Performance Date:
Sunday, October 10, 2010
F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts / 2:00 PM

Purchase Tickets To This Performance 

  

Concert Sponsors:

Dr. Seth & Carolyn Fisher

Procter & Gamble

UGI Electric Utilities

UGI Penn Natural Gas, Inc.

Pride Mobility Products Corporation

  

 

 

Pre-Concert Activity 1:00 PM
F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts Lobby

Come Early! Join our concert partners at 1PM as they present concert-related activities that will include fun experiences in theater, story telling, puppetry, dance and music!

 Don't miss out on the fun! FACE PAINTING TOO!

Crescendo Family Concert Activity Partners:

Osterhout Library
Wyoming Valley Children's Association
Ballet Northeast 
Arts YOUniverse
Lackawanna Children's Library
Wyoming Seminary Lower School

 

 

In a return engagement, James J. Peck and Veronica Dewitt will amaze you with their original masks and movement, designed especially for Carnival of the Animals. 

 

James J. Peck: Founder, Artistic Director & Performer has been a professional actor, teacher and mask artist for 25 years.  2010 will be his 7th year as A.D. of Nutshell and 19th season as an actor at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland OR.  Nutshell Masks & Theater was founded in 2003 to create, perform and teach mask-work. Nutshell has performed and taught workshops with the Rogue Valley, Eugene, Williamsport (Pa.) and Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic symphonies.  James graduated from Northwestern University, and has studied mime and masks in San Francisco with the Houle-Wibaux Mime Theater, masks and mythology at the Del’ Arte School and mask-dance as well as carving in Bali.  He has taught at Southern Oregon University and Ashland High School.  With OSF, along with acting he has taught mask workshops, created masks and performed in them in; The Skin of Our Teeth, Dr. Faustus, Life is a Dream, and Don Quixote. You can visit their web sight at www.nutshellmasksandtheater.org

Veronica DeWitt: Performer began her dance training in 2003 as a freshman at the University of Oregon.  Having recently graduated from there she is in her third season with Dancing People Company in Ashland were she is a teacher, choreographer and performer.  This will be here second time performing with Nutshell. 

Guest Artist Appearance Sponsored by:

Mr. Myer Alperin
Mrs. Susan Belin
The Bergman Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Bohlin
Dr. & Mrs. Harmar Brereton
Cindy Curan - Saucha
The Davidowitz Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Dressler
Dr. & Mrs. John Farkas
The Guard Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Hiscox
Atty. & Mrs. Harry Hiscox
Atty. & Mrs. Morey Myers
Mr. James W. O'Boyle
The Oppenheim Foundation
Abigail K. Peck
Laura Peck & Frances Johnson
Mr. Joseph A. Quinn, Esq.
Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Rifkin