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Inspired by Shakespeare: From Beethoven to Broadway
February 26, 2016 @ 12:00 am - 3:00 pm
$70On Friday, February 26, Grand View Lodge will be the destination for area music lovers for Inspired by Shakespeare: From Beethoven to Broadway, featuring performers from the Twin Cities and around the country. The event, which is being presented by the Lakes Area Music Festival, will begin with a cocktail hour at 6 p.m. with a buffet dinner at 6:30 p.m. and music at 7 p.m. The exciting announcement of the Lakes Area Music Festival’s eighth annual series will also take place that evening, featuring details about the Festival season in Brainerd from July 31 through August 21, 2016.
Tickets are $70 per person including full buffet dinner and entertainment; car bar is also available. For reservations and information on reserved VIP table pricing, visit lamfshakespearenisswa.brownpapertickets.com
The program will feature vocal and instrumental selections based upon, or inspired by, Shakespearian classics. Solo piano and string chamber music will include Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 17 “The Tempest” and Piano Trio in D major “Ghost” as well as the romantic suite for violin from Erich Korngold’s Much Ado About Nothing. Vocal selections will span from sonnet settings by Franz Schubert to Broadway hits from Kiss Me, Kate (Cole Porter) and West Side Story(Leonard Bernstein).
Pianist Gregory DeTurck, a frequent guest of the LAMF will be featured on the program. A graduate of the Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music, Greg has performed as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Los Angeles and Rochester Philharmonics. He has held numerous international residencies and is on faculty at Ithaca College in New York. Other artists featured include Bergen Baker (soprano), Christian Zamora (violin), and LAMF Artistic & Executive Director Scott Lykins (cello).