WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE DELAWARE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT WORLD
December 2012
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12/10/12Music, Sweet MusicIt’s a wonderful week for visiting The Music School of Delaware. The first alumni concert of the season is a special one, featuring Brian Sowards, with guest Michael Ronstadt, who will celebrate the release of his new indie EP. Singer/songwriter Katie Barbato will open the show. See them Dec. 13 at the school’s Wilmington branch. The next night, 'Tis A Winter's Evening features a program of holiday favorites and original compositions for the whole family. Featuring Milford faculty Nathan Ames and Layne Thompson-Payne, as well as students from Delaware State College, the Milford Branch and the Dover satellite. It happens Dec. 14 at Avenues United Methodist Church in Milford. The Winter Choral concert this year is Seeking Peace through Song. Local Jewish... |
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12/03/12The Most Wonderful Time of the YearOne of the things we love most about the holidays is visiting the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford. First, there’s the model railroad. As many as five of 150 locomotives and 300 freight cars run simultaneously on more than 2,000 feet of track, winding past a village, stone quarry, oil refinery, mountains and waterfall as Santa and his sleigh fly overhead. This year's display highlights the train experience in Japan after WWII, with model trains by Sakai, Stronlite, Ajin and IMP. Second, there’s the critter ornaments, handmade by local volunteers for sale to support the museum and programs. The decorations will adorn seven trees on the first and third floors, and charming critter scenes will surround the base of the trees and fill display cases. One towering... |
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11/26/12Great News from the DSOHere’s the biggest news going in the world of local arts: The Delaware Symphony Orchestra will resume full-orchestra performances—and we couldn't be happier. The symphony, whose future was in question just a few months ago, will perform a series of programs in January, March and April at The Grand Opera House in downtown Wilmington and the Laird Performing Arts Center at Tatnall School in Greenville. The series will open with Dvořák’s New World Symphony. It will close with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. “We have crafted a season that is broad and beautiful, one that celebrates great symphonic repertoire and the talent of our own DSO musicians, orchestra players and soloists,” says music director and conductor David Amado.... |
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11/19/12Sex! (but it's not what you think…)“If ‘Anything to Declare?’ has one redeeming quality, it’s laughter,” says director Steve Tague. “The play is all about sex, but sex in a world of old-fashioned innocence where young women remain chaste until their wedding night and husbands would do anything—including a visit to a working girl—to prove how much they love their wives.” “Anything to Declare?” presented by UD’s Resident Ensemble Players, is running now at The Thompson Theatre. Billed as a question—wacky farce or camel drama?—the hilarious play tells the tale of Robert, who, after marrying into the du Pont family, returns from his honeymoon in desperation. “In a French farce, of course, the innocence is wrapped in a wacky... |
