06/27/11

Productions and Plays at The Freeman Stage at Bayside in Fenwick: Chapel Street Playhouse's Patrick Cathcart of Newark Wins Best Actor: Creativity Multiplied at Delaware Art Museum

It’s a big, big weekend at The Freeman Stage at Bayside, one well worth a drive to Fenwick Island in holiday traffic—if you’re not there already. (Hint: Sneak in from U.S. 113.)

The fun starts Friday with “Words and Music—by Gershwin,” presented by Clear Space Theatre Company. Four performers stage six vignettes that explore the Gershwin song catalog as it changes through his career. You’ll recognize classics like “Embraceable You,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It” and “Someone to Watch Over Me.” The show starts at 7 p.m. Adult tickets are $10 per person. Children under 18 are admitted free.

Saturday morning features a performance by the Dirty Sock Funtime Band. The group bills itself as...

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06/21/11

All Jazzed Up

Of course, we’re in the thick of the DuPont Clifford Brown Jazz Festival in Wilmington’s Rodney Square. If you missed the start, there’s plenty more to enjoy.

See Manifest 3 and the Junior Mance Quartet on Tuesday, The Avery Sharpe Quintet and Ninety Miles (featuring Stefon Harris, David Sanchez and Christian Scott) on Wednesday, The Ronny Jordan Full Band and Soul of Summer on Thursday, and The Metta Quintet, Tizer and Take 6 on Friday.

On Saturday, the party wraps with a huge day of music. The captain Black Big Band goes on at 3 p.m., Rene Marie’s “Voice of My Beautiful County" at 5 p.m. and Rufus Reid’s Out Front Quintet at 7 p.m. The big finish comes at 9 p.m. with “Sweet Clifford: The Music of Clifford Brown,”...

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06/13/11

Strings that Sing

Don’t miss Serafin String Quartet at the 2011 Delaware Chamber Music Festival on June 17. The concert, “French Evolution,” will feature works by French composers, including Ravel’s String Quartet, Chausson’s “Concert” for solo violin and piano with string quartet, and Couperin’s "Pieces en Concert" for solo cello and string quartet.

The regular Serafin lineup is Kate Ransom, violin; Timothy Schwarz, violin; Molly Carr, viola; and Lawrence Stomberg, cello. For the festival, they will also perform with Barbara Govatos, music director for the Delaware Chamber Music Festival and member of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, as well as pianist Marcantonio Barone and cellist Clancy Newman.

Every year the Delaware...

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06/06/11

Jamie’s Farms

When we think about paintings of farms, we neighbors of the Brandywine Valley often summon images of the so-called “barn painters.” And we often consider their work cliché, mere imitations of the pioneering Andrew Wyeth. That’s unfortunate, for there are a lot of fine painters in the region and a lot of fine work. Who can blame them for being attracted to subject matter as picturesque as farms?

So let’s expand our horizons a bit, both thematically and personally. Starting Saturday, the Brandywine River Museum will present “Farm Work by Jamie Wyeth,” which reviews nearly 50 years of his farm images.

Yes, you will see Wyeth’s famous life-sized “Portrait of a Pig,” Den-Den, a neighbor in Chadds Ford,...

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