Good
show!
Music, one-man acts
round out MidSummer Macon run
A cowboy, a Davy
Crockett impersonator and a soprano returning to her roots will grace
the stages of Wesleyan College when MidSummer Macon wraps up its summer
performances in the coming week.
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What:
MidSummer Macon performances
When:
Friday, June 16; Saturday - Monday, June 17-19; Wednesday, June 21; and Friday, June 23. All performances start at 8:15 p.m.
Where:
Wesleyan College
Cost:
$6
Phone:
757-5174
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Tonight's performance
features soprano Mary Ann Lanier, a performer of opera, musical theater
and more who spent her junior high school years in the Warner Robins area.
She now lives in Somerville, Mass., near Boston, where she heads the educational
opera company Opera to Go.
Her program at
Porter Auditorium will include spirituals, musical theater numbers and
operatic arias. She will be accompanied by pianist Susan McDuffie.
Saturday's performer
is violinist John Sweat. He is the principal second violinist with the
Macon Symphony Orchestra and an orchestra instructor in the Bibb County
public schools. His concert will highlight works of composers including
Brahms and Dvorak.
Porter Auditorium
will resound Sunday with the choral notes of the Michael O'Neal Chamber
Singers, a renowned 24-member chorus. Varied selections will include Renaissance
music and spirituals. Former Wesleyan student Amber Brooke will be a soprano
soloist during one of the numbers.
Two one-man shows
come to Wesleyan's Taylor Amphitheatre next week. Dressed in chaps and
spurs, Michael Searles brings his knowledge to the stage Monday in his
presentation of "The Black Cowboy," elaborating on the lives of black
cowboys from the 17th century to the present.
David Hope takes
the amphitheatre stage Wednesday, bringing "Me, Davy Crockett" to life.
A full-time high school theater teacher in Florence, Ala., Hope has performed
this show for about six years. The monologues are taken directly from
Crockett's own autobiography.
Macon's own Edward
Eikner will close out the performances with a piano concert next Friday.
- Amy Menefee
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