Performing Arts Association

TAKE ADVANTAGE of the discount offered by the Performing Arts Association of Linthicum for the 1997-1998 season by subscribing now. Each subscription purchased by May 31 will cost $20. After that, the cost goes to $23.Subscribers can look forward to another year of quality performances. The concerts are in the North County High School auditorium, which is accessible to the disabled and has assistance for the hearing-impaired.Performances in the coming season begin with four members of the Annapolis Opera singing popular arias and duets in September.

The regional concert season begins this evening with South County Concert Association's American Jukebox, featuring hits of the 1950s, Motown and disco performed by six singers and dancers backed by a six-piece band at Southern High School. On Saturday, the Performing Arts Association of Linthicum opens its season at Chesapeake Art Center's Hammonds Lane Theatre with the Tamburitzans, a Duquesne University ensemble offering an Eastern European program of song and dance. On Tuesday, the Anne Arundel Community Concert Association opens its 57th season with the five musicians of Wholly Brass.

RUSSIAN CONCERT pianist and emigre Vladimir Svoysky will take the stage Sunday afternoon at North County High School to open the subscription concert series of the Performing Arts Association of Linthicum.Svoysky was born in Leningrad and earned degrees in piano, organ and conducting from the Leningrad Conservatories. He has conducted major Russian symphony orchestras and opera companies and has given piano and organ recitals throughout the country and on Russian television.He founded the Krasnoyarsk Symphony Orchestra and was musical director and conductor for three years before moving to the United States in 1979.

When the Performing Arts Association of Linthicum offered the world premiere of a new ballet, Celtic Christmas Suites, it became the first work ever commissioned by the arts association in its 26-year history. Created by renowned choreographer Dianna Cuatto, artistic director of Ballet Theatre of Maryland, Celtic Christmas Suites also proved to be one of the most popular events ever offered by the arts association. On Saturday, the ballet was one of the most well-attended events at the Chesapeake Arts Center in Brooklyn Park, where an audience filled almost all of the 900 seats.

When the Performing Arts Association of Linthicum offered the world premiere of a new ballet, Celtic Christmas Suites, it became the first work ever commissioned by the arts association in its 26-year history. Created by renowned choreographer Dianna Cuatto, artistic director of Ballet Theatre of Maryland, Celtic Christmas Suites also proved to be one of the most popular events ever offered by the arts association. On Saturday, the ballet was one of the most well-attended events at the Chesapeake Arts Center in Brooklyn Park, where an audience filled almost all of the 900 seats.

The Performing Arts Association of Linthicum has announced the details of its 1996-1997 concert series.Subscribers to these thriving community arts events will notice that the slate of concerts contains more than a few tips of the hat to Anne Arundel County's own performing arts organizations, a fact that delights PAAL's founder, Eloise Vaughn."

The Performing Arts Association of Linthicum has announced that it will take part in the opening week celebration of the new Chesapeake Center for the Creative Arts in January. As part of its regular series, PAAL will stage Johann Strauss' operetta "Die Fledermaus" on Jan. 20. Taking the new center's stage will be Maestro J. Ernest Green and the Annapolis Chorale performing as the operetta chorus along with a concert orchestra and eight talented singers in principal roles. Brochures announcing PAAL's complete 2000-2001 season with subscription renewal forms will be mailed out by next week, said Jo Barker, PAAL president.

Classical concert -- The Performing Arts Association of Linthicum will present Jason Stearns in concert at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Chesapeake Arts Center, 194 Hammonds Lane, Brooklyn Park. Pianist Eileen Cornett will also be featured in this performance of Broadway melodies. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $15 for PAAL members. 410-859-3308.

PAAL concert -- The Performing Arts Association of Linthicum will present the Baltimore Mandolin Orchestra at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Chesapeake Arts Center, 194 Hammonds Lane, Brooklyn Park. The concert will feature soprano Beatrice Gilbert and celebrate the era of mandolins in America. Tickets are $20 for general admission and free for students. The center is handicapped-accessible and has free parking. 410-859-3308 or www.paalconcerts.org.

How easy it would be for the good people of North County to attach themselves to the cultural coattails of the area that surrounds them and just leave it at that. Who could blame them? Baltimore's symphony, opera and theater scene are just minutes away. The Kennedy Center sits at the other end of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, while the cultural life of Annapolis beckons just a half-hour down the highway. But for more than two decades, the Performing Arts Association of Linthicum (PAAL)

PATRIOTIC performances and a salute to St. Patrick's Day are among the acts on the bill of the annual variety show staged by St. Philip Neri School on March 10. The public is welcome to an afternoon of entertainment starting at 2 p.m. in the new parish center. Pupils from kindergarten through eighth grade are participating in the show, which will include ballet, gymnastics, karate and contemporary dance performances. Keyboard players, comedians, country musicians and religious singers also will be featured.

THE PERFORMING Arts Association of Linthicum will present soprano Jocelyn Taylor and her repertoire of spirituals, opera and Broadway musicals in an afternoon recital Jan. 20 at Chesapeake Center for the Creative Arts in Brooklyn Park. Taylor is a native Baltimorean who nurtured her love of music while singing with the choir at Western High School. She began her musical studies at Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore and then continued at the University of Maryland, where she earned degrees in modern language and performing arts.

It might be a minor miracle, or it could have been a mass flight from dimpled chads, that drew a large, semireverent crowd to see five "nuns" dancing, singing and joking Sunday afternoon at North County High School. The Performing Arts Association of Linthicum had a record crowd for its presentation by Chesapeake Music Hall of Dan Goggin's hit 1984 comedy, "Nunsense." Only once before in its 19-year history had PAAL presented a fully staged play. That was in 1988, when it sponsored Essex Community College's "The Fantasticks" in its seventh season.