The Last 5 Years- Elite Theatre Company, Oxnard

THE ELITE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS THE SMASH HIT MUSICAL THE LAST 5 YEARS AT THEIR BEAUTIFUL NEW LOCATION IN CHANNEL ISLANDS HARBOR.

The Elite Theatre Company presents Jason Robert Brown masterfully crafted song cycle musical The Last 5 Years. This stirring, emotional tale is an intensely personal look at a five-year relationship from start to finish. Jason Robert Brown's contemporary pop/rock musical has won the hearts of audiences across the nation. 

The Last 5 Years will be presented February 23- March 30, 2013.  Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 2:00pm.  Tickets are $18 for students and seniors, $20 for general admission. 

A limited number of half price tickets are available on Goldstar

Special Opening Night Gala on Friday, February 22 from 6pm-8pm.  Food and wine provided by local restaurants and featuring live music by Prime Jazz.  Tickets are $45 ($25 for season ticket holders).

The Elite Theatre is located at Fisherman's Wharf in Channel Islands Harbor- 2731 S. Victoria Ave., Oxnard CA 93035. For more information call 805-483-5118 or visit http://www.elitetheatre.org/. 

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine- New West Symphony, Oxnard/ Thousand Oaks

ACCLAIMED VIOLINIST RACHEL BARTON PINE TO MAKE

NEW WEST SYMPHONY DEBUT WITH TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO

Boris Brott Returns as Guest Conductor

Acclaimed violinist Rachel Barton Pine will make her New West Symphony debut on the fourth Masterpiece Series concert of the 2012/2013 season playing Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Concerto for Violin & Orchestra in D Major, Opus 35. The program will also include Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Opus 55 (Eroica).  Founding music director and conductor laureate Boris Brott will conduct three performances of the program. The first performance will take place on Friday, February 22, 2013 at 8:00 pm at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center, located at 800 Hobson Way in Oxnard.  The program will be repeated on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 8:00 pm at the Bank of America Performing Arts Center at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks and on Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 4:00 pm at Santa Monica’s Barnum Hall, located at 601 Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica.

Tickets:  Tickets priced from $25 to $98 are available by phone, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday at 1-866-776-8400.  Tickets are also available in person at the New West Symphony office, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday and through the Symphony web site at www.newwestsymphony.org, 24/7.   Tickets are also available at the respective concert hall box offices. Student Rush tickets priced at $10 are available at the concert hall box offices beginning 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Hear & Now Live:  This lively and informative, pre-concert discussion about the music on the program begins at 7:00 pm on Friday and Saturday evenings and 3:00 pm on Sunday afternoon.  The programs are free and open to ticket holders for the respective performances. 

A Chicago native, Rachel Barton Pine began violin studies at age three and made her professional debut four years later at age seven with the Chicago String Ensemble. Her earliest appearances with the Chicago Symphony (at ages ten and fifteen) were broadcast on television.  She has since gone on to perform with major orchestras and in recital around the world.  She has recorded extensively on the Cedille, Warner Classics and Dorian labels. Ms. Pine’s diverse musical interests range from the Baroque with her Trio Settecento to heavy metal with her doom/trash metal band Earthen Grave.

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When Tchaikovsky finished his Violin Concerto, he sent it to Leopold Auer, a friend who headed the violin department at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and who was also Court Violinist to the Czar, hoping to have him premiere the work. Auer declared the work “unplayable”. It was not until three years later that it received its premiere.  The concerto is now one of the most popular in the repertory.

Beethoven’s revolutionary “Eroica” Symphony is a work that changed the course of musical history. There was much sentiment at the turn of the 19th century that the expressive and technical possibilities of the symphonic genre had been exhausted. It was Beethoven’s majestic Third Symphony that threw wide the gates on the unprecedented artistic vistas that were to be explored for the rest of the century. In a single giant leap, he invested the genre with the breadth and richness of emotional and architectonic expression that established the grand sweep that the word “symphonic” now connotes.

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New West Symphony

2012/2013 Masterpiece Series Concert No. 4

Friday, February 22, 2013  8:00 pm

Oxnard Performing Arts Cener

800 Hobson Way, Oxnard

Saturday, February 23, 2013  8:00 pm

Bank of America Performing Arts Center at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza

2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard, Thousand Oaks

Sunday, February 24, 2013  4:00 pm

Barnum Hall, Santa Monica

601 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica

Boris Brott, conductor

Rachel Barton Pine, violin

Tchaikovsky	Concerto in D Major for Violin & Orchestra, Opus 35
Beethoven	Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Opus 55 (Eroica)

The Last Five Years Audition- Elite Theatre Company, Oxnard

The Elite Theatre Company is casting The Last Five Years, 
a two-person, song-cycle musical. 
Rehearsals are January-February, 2013; performances run February 22 - March 30, 2013, at 2731 S. Victoria Avenue, Oxnard, CA. 
Auditions will be held by appointment only, between January 3-12, 2013. All roles are open. To schedule an audition, please e-mail head shot and resume to auditions@elitetheatre.org. 

Seeking: 
"Jamie" - male; 20-30; strong singer, actor 
"Cathy" - female; 20-30; strong singer, actor. Please prepare 16 bars of an appropriate song for the audition and be prepared to read from the script. 
There is no pay.

www.elitetheatre.org 

Share Your Vision of America- New West Symphony, Photo Contest

NEW WEST SYMPHONY ANNOUNCES

“SHARE YOUR VISION OF AMERICA” COMMUNITY PHOTO CONTEST

The public is invited to participate in a community-wide photography contest, “Share Your Vision of America,” sponsored by the New West Symphony.  The contest is being held in conjunction with the Symphony’s Masterpiece Series concert Visions of America – A Celebration of Democracy.  The concert will take place January 25, 26 and 27, 2013.  Submissions of original photography are being accepted now through January 17, 2013.

The concert, which is subtitled “A Photo-Symphony” will feature a stunning multimedia portrait of America as seen through the images of “America’s Photo Historian” Joseph Sohm. Mr. Sohm, a former high school history teacher, spent 30 years traveling across America photographing his vision of democracy. An Ojai resident, he is internationally recognized for his work which is reproduced around the world from his stock photo library more than 20,000 times per year.  Further concert details may be found at www.newwestsymphony.org.

Contest Details

The photo contest is open to all ages.  Residents must live in Ventura or Los Angeles counties. Submit your best original photo, accompanied by a paragraph of 100 words or less explaining why it is an expression of your personal vision of America.   Be sure to include your name and address on each entry.  There is no cost to participate.

Photo contest entries will be judged by Joseph Sohm and the top three winners will be invited to attend and have their work displayed at the Visions of America concerts.

Winners will receive:

First Place Winner

·      A Subscription to New West Symphony’s 2012-2013 “Spring Quartet” 4-Concert Series

·      VIP seating for the winner and one guest at a performance of the Visions of America concert on January 25, 26 or 27, 2013

·      The First Place photograph exhibited in the Oxnard, Thousand Oaks and Santa Monica theatre lobbies during the Visions of America concerts

·      The First Place photograph displayed on the New West Symphony website

·      A copy of Joseph Sohm’s photography book, “Pan America – The Grand Picture”

Second Place Winner

·      VIP seating for the winner and one guest at a single performance of the Visions of America concert on January 25, 26 or 27, 2013

·      The Second Place photograph exhibited in the Oxnard, Thousand Oaks and Santa Monica theatre lobbies during the Visions of America concerts

·      The Second Place photograph displayed on the New West Symphony website

·      A copy of Joseph Sohm’s photography book, “Pan America – The Grand Picture”

Third Place Winner

·      Seating for the winner and one guest at a single performance of the Visions of America concert on January 25, 26 or 27, 2013.

·      The Third Place photograph exhibited in the Oxnard, Thousand Oaks and Santa Monica theatre lobbies during the Visions of America concerts.

·      The Third Place photograph displayed on the New West Symphony website.

Honorable Mention

·      The Honorable Mention photograph exhibited in the Oxnard, Thousand Oaks and Santa Monica theatre lobbies during the Visions of America concerts.

·      The Honorable Mention photograph displayed on the New West Symphony website.

Submission Guidelines

Submit entries to the New West Symphony between now and January 17, 2013. Winners will be announced on January 21, 2013, when the winners’ names and winning submissions will be published on the New West Symphony website at www.newwestsymphony.org. 

Photographs

Essays or photographs (color or black-and-white) must be submitted digitally as a .jpg to marina@newwestsymphony.org with Share Your Vision of America Contest in the subject line. Participants may also submit mounted photography to the New West Symphony office 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. The office is located at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza at 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Suite D in Thousand Oaks.

Inquiries may be directed to Marina Kelly at 805-497-5800.  Further information about the New West Symphony and Visions of America may be found at www.newwestsymphony.org. and www.VisionsofAmerica.com.

Visions of America- New West Symphony, Oxnard/ Thousand Oaks

NEW WEST SYMPHONY TO PRESENT WEST COAST PREMIERE OF
VISIONS OF AMERICA - A CELEBRATION OF DEMOCRACY

Multimedia “Photo-Symphony” to Feature Images by Photographer Joseph Sohm, Music by Roger Kellaway, Lyrics by Alan & Marilyn Bergman,
Vocals by Steve Tyrell & Judith Hill, and Recorded Narration by Clint Eastwood

Pianist Norman Krieger to Make New West Symphony Debut in

Gershwin’s Concerto in F Major for Piano and Orchestra

           

The New West Symphony will present the West Coast premiere of Visions of America: A Celebration of Democracy on the third concert of its 2012/2013 Masterpiece Series.  The multimedia work features projected photographs by Joseph Sohm accompanied by music of composer Roger Kellaway.  Mr. Kellaway, who will serve as pianist for the work, will be joined by vocalists Judith Hill and Steve Tyrell, and the New West Symphony Chorus. Pianist Norman Krieger, in his New West Symphony debut, will be the soloist for George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F Major.

Music director Marcelo Lehninger will conduct three performances of the concert. The first performance will take place on Friday, January 25, 2013 at 8:00 pm at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center, located at 800 Hobson Way in Oxnard.  The program will be repeated on Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 8:00 pm at the Bank of America Performing Arts Center at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks and on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 4:00 pm at Santa Monica’s Barnum Hall, located at 601 Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica.

Tickets:  Tickets priced from $25 to $100 are available by phone, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday at 1-866-776-8400.  Tickets are also available in person at the New West Symphony office, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday and through the Symphony web site at www.newwestsymphony.org, 24/7.   Tickets are also available at the respective concert hall box offices. Student Rush tickets priced at $10 are available at the concert hall box offices beginning 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Hear & Now Live:  This lively and informative, pre-concert discussion about the music on the program begins at 7:00 pm on Friday and Saturday evenings and 3:00 pm on Sunday afternoon.  The programs are free and open to ticket holders for the respective performances.  

New West Symphony

2012/2013 Masterpiece Series Concert No. 3

Friday, January 25, 2013  8:00 pm

Oxnard Performing Arts Cener

800 Hobson Way, Oxnard

Saturday, January 26, 2013  8:00 pm

Bank of America Performing Arts Center at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza

2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard, Thousand Oaks

Sunday, January 27, 2013  4:00 pm

Barnum Hall, Santa Monica

601 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica

Marcelo Lehninger, conductor

Norman Krieger, piano

Roger Kellaway, piano/composer

Judith Hill, vocalist

Steve Tyrell, vocalist

Joseph Sohm, photographer

Alan and Marilyn Bergman, lyricists

New West Symphony Chorus, Leslie Leighton, director

Gershwin                   Concerto in F Major for Piano & Orchestra

Kellaway/Sohm         Visions of America: A Celebration of Democracy