July 2022 – Page 3 – an intuitive perspective

July 7, 2022

PSA: Skylight Theater Offers Discount Tickets (One Day Only) For A Jolly Holiday

Mark your calendar for this special offer on Monday, July 25.

“Be Our Guest” for a One Day Sale on Monday, July 25! Plan now to bring the entire family to Disney’s A Jolly Holiday – Celebrating Disney’s Broadway Hits running Nov. 18 – Dec. 31. For one day only, get 25% off tickets* with code JOLLY25! Sure to be an instant classic, this festive holiday party features 30 favorite songs from Disney’s biggest Broadway hits.
The memorable and hummable songs include “Under the Sea” (The Little Mermaid), “Santa Fe” (Newsies), “Step in Time” (Mary Poppins), “Circle of Life” (The Lion King), “Bare Necessities” (The Jungle Book), “Let it Go” (Frozen) and many more.
Skylight’s production marks a regional premiere and will be only the second time the show has been staged anywhere. Skylight Artistic Director Michael Unger will direct.
Mark your calendar for this special offer on Monday, July 25. We can’t wait to be “Part of Your World” this holiday season!

Visit their website: Skylight Music Theatre

July 4, 2022

PSA: Fine Arts Quartet To Perform A Free Concert at UW-Milwaukee

I heard about this on WUWM yesterday and these details are from the UWM website:

Sunday July 10 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm CDT

The prestigious Fine Arts Quartet, Ralph Evans and Efim Boico, violins, Gil Sharon, viola, and Niklas Schmidt, cello will offer a FREE concert featuring Mozart and Brahms.
Performances begin at 3:00 pm with a Pre-talk starting at 2:00 pm.

PROGRAM DETAILS
Mozart and Brahms with two guest artists from the Milwaukee Symphony, Madeleine Kabat, cello and Alejandro Duque, viola.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Viola Quintet in G minor, K. 516
Johannes Brahms – String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36

Visit FOFAQ.org for more Festival information.

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Fine Arts Quartet & over 140 community donors in collaboration with Create Wisconsin and UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts.

One of my favorite memories as a traditional student at UWM back in the 1970s we hearing the FAQ in concert and taking their course on string quartets in performance in the recital hall. !!

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022

50 Years: 1972 – 2022!

This isn’t the usual blog post about something in the arts or music or theater or dance. Instead it is something of a narcissistic post about a bit of my personal life in music. In the early 1970s I played in what is now described as a proto-punk band called Death. We didn’t have an actual genre for it back in the day. We were just Death. Loud and brash and outside the norm…low energy is how the leader characterized our stage presentation. We weren’t allowed to move except as needed to play our instruments. Music was covers of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges (first two albums). We started writing original material about the time I got tossed out (LOL)!

So here are pictures of me in Death in spring of 1972. Despite playing in bands from late 1964 through late 1975, these are the only photos I have of any of those bands. Go figure. These were taken by an art school friend of mine and are © 1972 by Michael Gehrke

Jim Richardson on drums, Chuck Meyer on guitar, Ed Heinzelman on bass

Jack Stewart on piano, Keith Sommer on guitar

Stirling Silver (Brian Koutnik) on vocals

So here I am 50 years later, trying to relearn how to play bass and guitar in my post-pandemic hair, recreating the look from 1972. Nothing has changed, everything has changed…and I feel fine!

Coming to an amphitheater near you! Dream On!

and a short mention about that time in musical history.