PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PIANO CONCERT IS NOT PART OF THE SEASON SUBSCRIPTION - IT IS A SEASON EXTRA!

 

 

 

Performance opens Belhaven College Center for the Arts.

Don’t miss this Jackson performance – a prelude to his CARNEGIE HALL debut.
– April 2003

*Gold Medal Winner Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
– June, 2001

Belhaven College
Center for the Arts
835 Riverside Drive
Jackson, Mississippi
Thursday Evening
October 10, 2002
8 pm

This sensational evening of virtuoso piano performance by the consummate Russian Artist, Stanislav Ioudenitch, should not be missed. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he has grown into one of the music world’s most promising young artists. He has performed with the Munich Philharmonic, & National Symphony in Washington D.C. Fall 2001, Mr. Ioudenitch was featured in a nationwide PBS broadcast, “Playing on the Edge”……. This Jackson performance will be the opening event to a symposium of “Women Composers” hosted by Millsaps College. “Voices of Women in the Arts”

/\ back to top

Thursday
November 7, 2002*
7:30 pm

Created in Buenos Aires, this Show moves Tango from ballroom dancing to great theatrical entertainment. Twenty five virtuoso performers… dancers, musicians and a singer, display personal charisma, great sensuality, sophistication and humor. With over 1,400 performances behind them, this company played for 4 weeks on B’way, NYC and toured Europe extensively including major theaters in Paris, Berlin and London.

“Sizzles with 21st century desire”
–Los Angeles Times

/\ back to top

 

“Classically American”

Thursday
January 30, 2003
7:30 pm

The only performance
in the South East!

“A beacon rising from the heart of Harlem”
–Stanley Crouch,
New York Daily News

This 30 year old company, founded by Arthur Mitchell, a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet, continues to give ballet a new classicism and relevance in today’s multi-cultural American Environment. “In its discipline, its humor, its expression of varied sorrows and joys… and its virtuoso, omnidirectional command of styles the Dance Theatre of Harlem is a beacon rising from the heart of Harlem.”
–New York Daily News

“The arts ignite the mind. They give you the possibility to dream & to hope.”
– Arthur Mitchell,
Founding Director DTH

/\ back to top

ST. PETERSBURG STATE
BALLET ON ICE
Performs Complete 2 Act Ballet of
SLEEPING BEAUTY

Sunday Matinee
February 9, 2003
3:00 pm

“An artistic feast for the eyes”
–Los Angeles Times

This full company of Russian star skaters is touring the USA for their 7th year; this performance marks their very first in Mississippi.

“The production recalled the grand tradition of Russian Ballet with lush production values, lavish costuming and exquisite choreography. The performance was at once intimate and larger than life.”
-American Skating World

... “sparkles like the bejeweled crown of the sovereign princess”
- New York Newsday

/\ back to top

AMERICAN DREAMS
LOST AND FOUND

Saturday
March 1, 2003
7:30 pm

“Anyone worried about the future of the theatre in America should see The Acting Company in action.”
–New York Times

The Acting Company is a development of the Julliard School, New York… among the first year graduates were Kevin Kline, Patti Lupone and David Ogden Steirs. This highly acclaimed company tours nationally each year with a “rep” of one Shakespearean play and one new play of their American Century Project. The World Performance Series presentation will be from the American Century Project. AMERICAN DREAMS LOST AND FOUND is an adaptation from the writings of Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize winning “Oral Journalist” with a 45 year history of radio and television broadcasting out of Chicago. Studs Terkel is considered one of the greatest oral historians of the 20th Century.

“The Acting Company is the hope of the American theatre.”
–Angela Lansbury

/\ back to top

 

Tuesday
April 22, 2003
7:30 pm

“They leave us wanting MO’ ”
–Chicago Sun Times

Inspired by The Three Tenors, the Internationally known Operatic Icons of our time. This new and unique musical phenomenon presents three African American Classical Singers. These performers have also perfected their talent in six other musical styles. This concert shows the incredible versatility of these Operatic Tenors, crossing seven musical forms and spanning four centuries of music in one evening….a memorable and awe inspiring journey through the worlds of opera, Broadway, Jazz, blues, soul, spiritual and gospel.

 

No mistaking these 3 Tenors...Young, Dixon and Cook deliver high energy show !
They are the "Three Mo Tenors", a gifted trio of African - American singers who, in their sensational show..., are redefining the concept of versatility. These guys are so good at what they do and know their material so well that they don't have to sell any song - their artistry sells itself. ...the feel - good show of the year.
-Chicago Tribune ~ March 2002


...first - rate... a joyous entertainment that nearly blows the roof off... continuously top themselves.
- Boston Herald ~ March 2002


"Three Mo Tenors sing their way into every nook and cranny of your heart. Their versatility, as a trio and individually, knows no bounds. As Duke Ellington would say, they are
' beyond catergory ! ' "
-Mercedes Ellington

/\ back to top