November 2007
Writers Conference
Frank McCourt, Keynote Speaker
Friday, November 2, 2007 at 7 PM
Frank McCourt received the Pulitzer Prize (1997) and National Book Critics Circle Award (1996) for his memoir Angels’s Ashes (1996). It spent 117 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, 23 of those as number one. It also received the Boston Book Review’s Non-Fiction prize, the Abby Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The novel is available in eighteen countries and a film version of it was released in 1999. He is also the author of ‘Tis (1999) and Teacher Man (2005), and his works appear in many high school syllabi. Prior to the publication of Angels’s Ashes, he taught English for 27 years in the New York City public schools. Although he is a wonderful writer and eloquent speaker, he never forgets his love of students and need to inspire them.
Flamenco Vivo
The Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Company
Friday, November 9, 2007 at 8 PM
$22 Reserved Seating
$18 Seniors and Students
$10 Children Under 12
Carlota Santana was designated "The Keeper of Flamenco" by Dance Magazine, recognizing her commitment to creating new works and developing young artists and choreographers. Pride, Sorrow, Love, and Death are universal themes that touch and transcend the boundaries of the many cultures. Originally from Andalusia, the southern region of Spain, Flamenco developed from the interaction of the many cultures that inhabited this region for centuries. Through its purity of form, rhythms and intensity, Flamenco touches the emotions of audiences of all ages, cultures.
Andy Bey
Friday, November 30, 2007 at 8 PM
$22 Reserved Seating
$18 Seniors and Students
$10 Children Under 12
Andy Bey is a commanding interpreter of lyrics who has a wide vocal range and a big, rich, full voice. He is that rare artist whose career extends over the decades when the American musical journey traversed Swing, Bebop, R&B, Rock and Roll and Hip Hop. Andy & The Bey Sisters were celebrated regulars at The Blue Note in Paris and other venues in Europe from the late 1950s into the early 1960s, until the trio disbanded in 1966. For the two decades thereafter, Bey recorded and performed with such notables as McCoy Tyner, Lonnie Liston Smith, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Eddie Harris, Gary Bartz and Horace Silver. Andy Bey's latest recording is a celebration of the American Songbook, "the standards". Andy Bey is one of the last major performers with a personal connection to the era convening with the icons of American Song, Ellington, Strayhorn, Mercer, Harburg, and Arlen reinvigorating the tradition.
