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Centerstage Announces their Youth Performing Group

Congrats to CLAYR KROENKE and SHANNON SMITH for making Centerstage!!!

Click here to read more:
http://www.ctgso.org/education/centerstage.php

Group Classes at MANC!

Visit the Music Academy website and look at all the Group Classes
and Ensembles being offered this year!

VOICE STUDENTS should seriously consider this one:

Music Theory and Sight-Singing with Susannah Steele, $90

Mondays 7-8 pm

This class is geared towards experienced music students looking to learn about written theory and improve their aural skills. Topics include a brief review of music reading fundamentals, harmonic analysis, voice-leading, and musical form, as well as aural skills such as melodic and rhythmic dictation and sight-singing. Classes are offered 9 weeks per term beginning on September 10, and each class lasts for one hour.  For more information, contact Susannah Steele (ssteele@musicacademync.org).

This class is ESSENTIAL if you plan on making singing a career and/or majoring in music in college!  Sign up now! 

Voice Department Masterclass!

You're invited!
The Voice Department at the Music Academy of North Carolina is proud to host a masterclass given by critically acclaimed American mezzo-soprano Marion Pratnicki. Ms. Pratnicki is on the voice faculty at University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Please join us for what will surely be an informative, enriching and delightful event.

On October 13th at 2pm in the Performance Hall, observe MANC voice students sing and work with Ms. Pratnicki!

Please click here to buy tickets for only $5!

Please click here for Ms. Pratnicki's bio.

Ms. Davis featured in "Got Opera?" Gala



17 Days Greensboro Arts Festival

The Music Academy of North Carolina is proud to be a part of the

17 DAYS Arts & Culture Festival coming up soon, beginning September 21st!

Please visit, http://17daysgreensboro.org/index.html,  for the complete Events Calendar!

Upcoming Events at The Music Academy of North Carolina

August 19th at 2:00pm:  Student Showcase Recital in the Performance Hall

August 27th:  FIRST DAY OF FALL SEMESTER -

                       PLEASE REGISTER IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY!!

September 16th:  Student Showcase Recitals at 12:30pm, 2:00pm, and 3:30pm

                              in the Performance Hall

September 21st at 6:00pm:  Zoosical! A Children's Concert: This concert will feature the best of classical and pop music based on your favorite animals. Come dressed as your favorite animal and be ready to dance, sing, meow, and cock-a-doodle-doo!  Tickets are only $5.  Performances will be in the Performance Hall.  Click here to buy tickets!

September 22nd at 11:00am:  Zoosical! A Children's Concert: This concert will feature the best of classical and pop music based on your favorite animals. Come dressed as your favorite animal and be ready to dance, sing, meow, and cock-a-doodle-doo!  Tickets are only $5.  Performances will be in the Performance Hall.  Click here to buy tickets! 

September 30th at 7:00pm:  Play it Forward: A Showcase to Benefit Student Scholarships: Performed by faculty and friends of the Music Academy, all proceeds will benefit the student scholarship fund.  Tickets are $10 each.   The concert will be in the Performance Hall. Click here to buy tickets!

Into the Woods

Congratulations to the cast of "Into the Woods" at Open Space Cafe Theatre!

     

Narrator…………………………............ Kyle Kite
Cinderella………………………………..Maria Reginaldi
Jack………………………………………Nick Relos
Baker……………………………………..Nash Tetterton
Baker’s Wife……………………………. .Henson Milam*
Cinderella’s Stepmother…………………Caroline Knisley
Florinda…………………………..............Allie Allen
Lucinda…………………………………...Juli Jackson
Cinderella’s Father……………………….Travis Neese
Jack’s Mother…………………………….Laura Peterson
Little Red Riding Hood…………............. Peggy Ellyn Wasmund
Witch…………………………….............. Gracey Falk
Cinderella’s Mother and Sleeping Beauty..Emma Bednar
Mysterious Man…………………………..Noah Gray
Granny and Snow White………………….Taylor Beyrer
Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf…………………Alex Acuff
Rapunzel………………………………….Annanoa Kaufmann
Rapunzel’s Prince………………………...Web Farabow
Steward…………………………………...Chris Jowett

These talented performers were inspiring and captivating.  Greensboro is laden with gifted young people!

Visit their website for upcoming shows for the 2012/2013 Season.

*Student of Stephanie Foley Davis

Children of Eden

The City Arts Drama Center Presents: CHILDREN OF EDEN!


July 15-17 & 21-24
City Arts Drama Center's Summer Musical
Children of EdenPresented by Livestock Players, Greensboro Children's Theatre and 3rd Stage Theatre Co.
Weaver Academy
Showtimes: 7:05 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2:05 pm Sundays
Tickets: $15


http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/index.aspx?page=1469

Director: Stephen Hyers
Music Director: Mike Lasley
Choreographer: Heather Nabors
Stage Manager: Sarah Jean Sparks
Asst. Stage Manager: Kaitlin Lumpkins
Set/Light Designer: David Bell
TD/Sound Designer: Steve Davis
Costume Designer: Jennifer Stanley
Asst. Costume Designer: Kelsey Willis

Cast:
Father – Allan Beck
Adam/Noah – Justin Attkisson
Eve/Mama Noah – Tori Galloway
Cain/Japheth – Skyler Whitfield
Abel/Ham – Lewis Woods
Seth/Shem – Hayden Moses*
Aphra – Jada Castillo
Aysha – Beth Livengood
Yonah – Christina Beasley
Young Cain - Liam Kennedy
Young Abel - Imani Harvey

Storytellers:
Stephanie Dawson
Katherine Galloway
Hannah Hammond
Jacob Hammond
Taylor Neese
Emily Peele
Ashley Pennington
Sarah Rhymer
Tammy Sadler
Debbie Shoffner
McKenzie Tippett
Rachel Tucker

Snake:
Hayden Moses
Josh Rogers
Chris Jowett
Abbie Storch
Delaney Scott
Amy King


*Student of Stephanie Foley Davis

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