Hallelujah Broadway is a feast of inspired vocal performances set in the baroque magnificence of the Church of St. Simon and St. Jude, home to the Prague Symphony. Crucially, Hallelujah Broadway will have star central performances from three featured soloists -the amazing tenor Rodrick Dixon, the powerful soprano from the Chicago Symphony Alfreda Burke, and the marvellous Irish Tenor Anthony Kearns. The show also features as a special guest one of Broadway’s leading ladies - Linda Eder.
Hallelujah Broadway was taped in Prague, Monday 8th February 2010.
HB began airing on Public Television across the nation on July 31, 2010. Please check your local PBS listings for airings andre-airings in your area; (Greater Chicagoland area, WYIN, WTTW). Hope that you are within viewing reception range and enjoy it! Thank you so much for supporting Public Television and Hallelujah Broadway! Peace!
*EMI/Manhattan Records released HB DVDs/CDs online (Amazon.com, Borders.com, Barnes & Noble, CD Universe, etc.) and in selected stores across the nation on September 14, 2010. You may also purchase from any PBS station that has aired Hallelujah Broadway; (PBS orders include bonus DVD tracks). Ireland release will be November 12, 2010.
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Alex North, American Composer, Film (1910 – 1991)
- Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, the Misfits, Under theVolcano, Prizzi’s Honor, etc.
The Michael Teolis Singers will be presenting Alex North’s cantata, NegroMother May 1, 2010 as the centerpiece of their annual spring concert in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. This jazzy and insightful work, to the poem by Langston Hughes, was composed and first performed in 1940 and believed to have had its last performance in New York in 1947. The Michael Teolis Singers’ performance will be the Midwest premier of the work. Famed Chicago- area Soprano, Alfreda Burke, will be the featured soloist.
An excerpt of this Chicago Negro Mother performance was featured in Jon Burlingame’s October 24, 2010 two-hour retrospective of Alex North’s music on LA’s classical radio KUSC. The broadcast time was 2:00pm Pacific Time, 4:00pm Central Standard Time; streaming on www.kusc.org
——————– Upcoming 2010-2012 engagements, airings include national/international PBS Special Hallelujah Broadway; Mike Teolis Singers; WSU Music & Medicine Symposium, YMP Artist Residency (U of C, Berkeley); EMI event (NYC); Chorus Angelorum Beethoven Mass in C; American Ireland Fund event; Tuba Bach Chamber Music Fest; Too Hot to Handel at the Detroit Opera House and Auditorium Theatre; Holders Season Gala (Barbados); Cincinnati Pops Symphony; serving on the Roosevelt University CCPA Advisory Board.
Alfreda Burke & Rodrick Dixon will be live on Cincinnati’s WCET (PBS), Monday, June 6, 2011, 8pm pledging Hallelujah Broadway with Cincinnati Pops. Please tune in and pledge your support! Alfreda, Rodrick and Anthony Kearns will join Maestro John Morris Russell, Cincinnati Pops Symphony, May Festival Summer Chorus and Dir. Robert Porco on August 6, 2011. See you there!
Please come to a Hallelujah Broadway live performance at the Auditorium Theatre, Saturday, September 17, 2011; (see below flyer pdf link). Tickets are now on sale for both Hallelujah BroadwayandToo Hot to Handel (Jan. 14 & 15, 2012)! Love to see you there!
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Mind the Gap Films Press Release (excerpt)
Hallelujah Broadway is a feast of inspired vocal performances set in the baroque magnificence of the Church of St. Simon and St. Jude, home to the Prague Symphony. Crucially, Hallelujah Broadway will have star central performances from three featured soloists -the amazing tenor Rodrick Dixon, the powerful soprano from the Chicago Symphony Alfreda Burke, and the marvellous Irish Tenor Anthony Kearns. The show also features as a special guest one of Broadway’s leading ladies - Linda Eder.
Hallelujah Broadway was taped in Prague, Monday 8th February 2010.
HB began airing on Public Television across the nation on July 31, 2010. Please check your local PBS listings for airings and re-airings in your area; (Greater Chicagoland area, WYIN, WTTW). Hope that you are within viewing reception range and enjoy it! Thank you so much for supporting Public Television and Hallelujah Broadway! Peace!
www.hallelujahbroadway.com
http://www.kcet.org/shows/hallelujah_broadway/hallelujah-broadway.html
http://www.examiner.com/documentary-in-national/hallelujah-broadway
http://www.theatermania.com/emailer/process_in.cfm/id/123532
www.MindtheGapFilms.com
*EMI/Manhattan Records released HB DVDs/CDs online (Amazon.com, Borders.com, Barnes & Noble, CD Universe, etc.) and in selected stores across the nation on September 14, 2010. You may also purchase from any PBS station that has aired Hallelujah Broadway; (PBS orders include bonus DVD tracks). Ireland release will be November 12, 2010.
——————–
Alex North, American Composer, Film (1910 – 1991)
- Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, the Misfits, Under the Volcano, Prizzi’s Honor, etc.
The Michael Teolis Singers will be presenting Alex North’s cantata, Negro Mother May 1, 2010 as the centerpiece of their annual spring concert in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. This jazzy and insightful work, to the poem by Langston Hughes, was composed and first performed in 1940 and believed to have had its last performance in New York in 1947. The Michael Teolis Singers’ performance will be the Midwest premier of the work. Famed Chicago- area Soprano, Alfreda Burke, will be the featured soloist.
An excerpt of this Chicago Negro Mother performance was featured in Jon Burlingame’s October 24, 2010 two-hour retrospective of Alex North’s music on LA’s classical radio KUSC. The broadcast time was 2:00pm Pacific Time, 4:00pm Central Standard Time; streaming on www.kusc.org
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Upcoming 2010-2012 engagements, airings include national/international PBS Special Hallelujah Broadway; Mike Teolis Singers; WSU Music & Medicine Symposium, YMP Artist Residency (U of C, Berkeley); EMI event (NYC); Chorus Angelorum Beethoven Mass in C; American Ireland Fund event; Tuba Bach Chamber Music Fest; Too Hot to Handel at the Detroit Opera House and Auditorium Theatre; Holders Season Gala (Barbados); Cincinnati Pops Symphony; serving on the Roosevelt University CCPA Advisory Board.
Alfreda Burke & Rodrick Dixon will be live on Cincinnati’s WCET (PBS), Monday, June 6, 2011, 8pm pledging Hallelujah Broadway with Cincinnati Pops. Please tune in and pledge your support! Alfreda, Rodrick and Anthony Kearns will join Maestro John Morris Russell, Cincinnati Pops Symphony, May Festival Summer Chorus and Dir. Robert Porco on August 6, 2011. See you there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e-iQwb6yFgU
http://cincinnatisymphony.org/Content.php?id=249
Please come to a Hallelujah Broadway live performance at the Auditorium Theatre, Saturday, September 17, 2011; (see below flyer pdf link). Tickets are now on sale for both Hallelujah Broadway and Too Hot to Handel (Jan. 14 & 15, 2012)! Love to see you there!
http://auditoriumtheatre.org/wb/pages/home/performances-events/subscription-season.php
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Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University (Chicago) YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/atru1889#p/u/6/SLwCPXfKoU4
http://mail.aol.com/34047-111/aol-1/en-us/mail/get-attachment.aspx?uid=1.31346608&folder=Inbox&partId=6&saveAs=ATRU_HB_Flyer.pdf
Too Hot to Handel will be performed at the Detroit Opera House on December 4, 2011.