ASU Kerr Cultural Center to Present To Lenny with Love

Rhythms of Life Series Returns at ASU Kerr Cultural Center with “To Lenny, with Love” Friday January 22, 2010

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Arizona State University Kerr Cultural Center is proud to present the first of three performances in the Rhythms of Life Series presented by Chamber Music Plus. Concerts will be held at ASU Kerr located on Scottsdale Road, north of McDonald Drive off of Rose Lane. Tickets are $25/$30 and children, students, senior and group rates are available; $63.75/$76.50 to purchase all three series performances. Please call the box office at 480-596-2660 to purchase tickets.

To Lenny, with Love; Friday January 22, 2010:  In honor of the legendary conductor, composer, collaborator and educator, Leonard Bernstein, the evening will include a tapestry of his chamber music, classical tunes, and renditions of popular Broadway songs, as well as recollections of friends and colleagues. The line-up will include actor Bob Clendenin, pianist Sanda Shuldmann, cellist Harry Clark, bassist Scott Black and drummer Pete Swan.

Chamber Music Plus is a nationally recognized organization that creates and presents original works combining theater, classical music and visuals. Managed by the artists, the organization produces the highest education and entertainment, offering a deeper experience in art participation. With a reputation for cutting-edge, adventuresome programming, Chamber Music Plus creates, presents, and maintains more than thirty original works in its current repertory. Working with the finest musicians, actors, directors, composers, and visual artists, this body of work has redefined the classical music concert-going experience.

Upcoming performances in the Rhythms of Life Series will be A Chopin Cornucopia starring Harry Clark and Sanda Schuldmann on Friday, February 19, 2010 at 8 p.m. Celebrating Frederic Chopin’s 200th birthday, Clark and Schuldman will perform cello and piano music and read letters and reminiscences of Chopin’s friends and colleagues between musical selections.

Wrapping up the Rhythms of Life Series with A Rare Pattern on Friday, March 26, 2010 at 8 p.m., featuring actress Margot Kider, soprano Jennifer Nagy, and pianist Sanda Schuldmann, and cellist Harry Clark. This performance will include original theater/classical work using music, poems and literature thought solely of women from the 1880s through the 1940s. Performers will be performing music by Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Lili and Nadia Boulanger Words. The literature and poetry will draw form works of Hanna Arendt, Jane Austen, Nadia Boulanger, Willa Cather, Adelaide Crapsey, Emily Dickinson, Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Corra May White Harris, Sarah Orne Jewett, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Dorothy Parker, Mary Shaw, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf.

For further information, visit ASUKerr.com or call the box office at 480-596-2660. Kerr’s box office is open weekdays between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Saturdays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and one hour prior to ticketed events. Student, senior, and group discounts are available for most events. Kerr Cultural Center, a facility of ASU Public Events, is handicap accessible.

The studio is located at 6110 N. Scottsdale Rd., which is off Rose Lane, west of Scottsdale Road, directly south of the Borgata of Scottsdale. Tickets can also be purchased at ASU Gammage and through any Ticketmaster outlet.

Published on behalf of ASU Kerr Cultural Center
With the guiding principles of “connecting communities” always in mind, at ASU Kerr we strive to enrich our community through cultural participation, great art today and the committiment to great art tomorrow. Since October 1981, the Kerr Cultural Center has been managed by ASU Public Events Department, which also manages Gammage Auditorium. For more information, visit www.asukerr.com.

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