ENTERTAINMENT
By Larry Harris | April 4, 1999
Going to a party at Manuel Barrueco's spacious, comfortable home in Lutherville is much like attending a session of the United Nations.On one side of the room three young Asian men, obviously students, are in deep, subdued conversation.A beautiful Russian girl from Siberia, with hints of the steppes in her cheekbones, enters, laughing along with her escort.In a corner, a Spanish composer, his arms flapping wildly, talks animatedly with an assistant conductor of the BSO. Down the hall a young Indian girl has a tug of war with the energetic beagle of the house, Heidi.
FEATURES
By Karin Remesch | June 1, 1998
Peabody Children's Chorus. June 22 at the Peabody Institute, N. Charles St., and June 23 at Peabody's Towson Branch for ages 6-18 in four levels of vocal ensembles. Students in chorus receive age-appropriate vocal training, study art and folk music and work on music skills. Call for appointment, 410-659-8125.Towson Dinner Theatre. "Nifty '50s Revue." 12: 30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the theater, 100 E. Chesapeake Ave. Bring a 1950s-style song and sheet music. Also be prepared to dance and read.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Stephen Wigler | January 22, 1998
The distinguished pianist Ann Schein joins the Maia Quartet Wednesday at 8 p.m. for what promises to be a superb evening of chamber music.With the members of the Maia (violinists Amy Kuhlmann Appold and Timothy Shiu, violist Elizabeth Oakes and cellist Amos Yang), Schein will perform one of the greatest works in the piano-and-strings repertory, Dvorak's Quintet in A major. In the rest of the program, the Maia (the Peabody Conservatory's resident string quartet) will perform one of Beethoven's wittiest and most energetic early works (Op. 18, No. 2)
FEATURES
By John Dorsey | September 22, 1998
For the first time in 17 years, Scipio Africanus will again enter Rome in triumph -- on a huge Renaissance tapestry at the Peabody Institute.The 13-by-29-foot tapestry, called "The Triumphal Carriage," has been rehung, after extended conservation, in the recently refurbished Griswold Hall of the Peabody's main Mount Vernon Place building. It will be on view Sunday in conjunction with this weekend's Baltimore Book Festival.The tapestry, woven of silk, wool, gold and silver thread, is one of two the Peabody owns from a series of 22 tapestries called "The Triumph of Scipio."
NEWS
By Jamie Stiehm | January 25, 1998
Mount Vernon cultural leaders met yesterday in the first step of a five-year campaign to make the picturesque central Baltimore neighborhood a destination for tourists.Inspired by the runaway success of the Inner Harbor, neighborhood cultural institutions -- including the Walters Art Gallery, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Maryland Historical Society, the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Assumption, the Peabody Institute and Center Stage -- joined forces last year to create the Mount Vernon Cultural District.
NEWS
January 15, 1998
FLORENCE RIEFLE BAHR captured some striking images in her day. The Baltimore-born artist drew courtroom sketches of the Catonsville Nine, H. Rap Brown and former Gov. Marvin Mandel, and she painted beautiful watercolor scenes of Baltimore rowhouses from generations ago. At 88, she had ceased working every day, says a daughter, but she still turned out paintings and sketches from her wooden house on Old Lawyers Hill in Elkridge.It should have come as no surprise that Mrs. Bahr, who died in a fire Monday, was still going nearly seven decades after graduating with honors from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, 63 years after her first Baltimore Museum of Art exhibit.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Lori Sears | September 24, 1998
Peabody Open HouseAdd a little music to your life Sunday at the Peabody Institute's Open House, with performances, demonstrations, tours and activities for the family. The Peabody Symphony Orchestra, the Peabody Concert Orchestra and the Peabody Wind Ensemble will perform. Attend the "Instrument Petting Zoo" and get acquainted with some brass, woodwinds, percussions, guitars, strings and harps. See piano and dance demonstrations and learn about offered classes. Tour the facilities, including the George Peabody Library, and see the newly renovated Griswold Hall with its Holtkamp organ and the 16th-century Flemish tapestry celebrating the triumphs of the Roman General Scipio.
NEWS
By Liz Atwood | May 18, 1998
Yesterday's concert at Second Presbyterian Church in Baltimore was a family affair.Robert Sirota, director of the Peabody Institute, his wife, Victoria, their son, Jonah, and daughter, Nadia, performed with an unusual combination of violas, piano and organ at a presentation in the church's concert series.The parents said they were especially pleased with how well the children played."If I hadn't been playing, I would have cried," Mrs. Sirota said.While it would seem natural for this musically gifted family to perform together, their mastery of seemingly incompatible instruments made yesterday's performance a challenge to the musical repertoire and family relations.
FEATURES
By SYLVIA BADGER | January 5, 1997
JESTERS AND TRUMPETERS greeted guests as they arrived for A Merry Feast of Yule at the lovely Laurelford home of Carol Jean and Jay Young. They are the owners of OLES Envelope Corp.; he's chairman of the board of the Baltimore Opera Company; and she's on the board of the Peabody Institute.After considerable research, this creative twosome decided that their Christmas party would be an authentic medieval celebration, and guests were asked to dress in medieval attire or black tie. As you can imagine, most chose black tie, but the Youngs' costumes were enough to carry the theme, with lots of help from the great-looking suits of armor standing in the flower-laden foyer.
ENTERTAINMENT
By John Dorsey | January 2, 1997
Baltimore artist Florence Riefle Bahr graduated from the Maryland Institute, College of Art 65 years ago and since then has created paintings, watercolors, collages and sketches of everything from portraits to nature studies to records of public events in which she participated. She has exhibited at both the institute and the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as at the annual New York show of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. An exhibit of her work at the Peabody Institute's Galleria Piccola contains works reflecting her long career and includes a variety of media and subject matter.