‘WE ARE FAMILY’ SISTER SLEDGE MEMBER, KIM, TO HIGHLIGHT ACCESS TO ART’S SOCIAL ON MAY 17^TH AT THE MIDDLE TOWNSHIP PAC CELEBRATING PHILADANCO!
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Access to Art Celebrates Joan Myers Brown at Reception Preceding
Philadanco Performance on May 17th
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CLUB HARLEM COMMON DENOMINATOR FORSISTER SLEDGE AND JOAN MYERS BROWN, FOUNDER OF PHILADANCO
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Dance as if your life depended upon it!
Access to Art to Presents the award winning Philadanco! aka Philadelphia Dance Company on May 17th at the Middle Township Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m.
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Philadanco!
May 17th in performance. MTPAC
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ENERGY, INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM, AND EMOTIONAL UNDERCURRENT
CHARACTERIZE PHILADANCO’S  FABLED DANCE COMPANY
SCHEDULED FOR A MAY 17^TH   PERFORMANCE
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Washington D.C. Bus Trip Scheduled by Access to Art, Inc.
for March 5^th  Visiting the Library of Congress, the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, The House & Senate, and the National Archives
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Philadanco! M A S T E R C L A S S
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, FROM 8 P.M.-9 P.M.
Joanne Reagan Dance Studio
1037 Seashore Rd., Cold Spring, N.J. 08201

$25. for individual class; $40. combo ticket to class & dance performance
(May 17th, 7:30 p.m.) at the Middle Township PAC, off exit l0 E., GSP,
on Bayberry Drive,
Send checks to:
Access to Art, Inc.
4l7 E. Pacific Ave.
Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210
Call 465-3963 for information
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April is the Cruelest Month—but not for Dance
Philadanco! a.k.a. Philadelphia Dance Company
To offer Lecture/Demonstrations and Master classes
For Access to Art, Inc. on April l5th
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“TU TU TEA” IS PLANNED AS A BENEFIT FOR PHILADANCO!
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NEW YORK!  NEW YORK!
Bus Trip Thursday, October 25th, 2007
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BAYSIDE DOCK PARTY & MUSICAL EVENING TO COMPLETE ACCESS TO ART’S SUMMER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL SCHEDULED FOR STONE HARBOR ON SEPT. 28^TH, Fri. from 4-7 p.m.
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MONDRIAN ENSEMBLE GUESTS DUANE ROSENGARD OF PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA FOR PERFORMANCE OF SHUBERT’S TROUT QUNITET AUG. 25TH AT OUR LADY OF THE ANGEL’S R.C. CHURCH
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OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN ACCESS TO ART’S MUSIC SERIES AUGUST 15TH BRINGING ACTOR/MUSICAL THEATRE TENOR AND OPERATIC SOPRANO TO AREA
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SUE ANN KAHN BRINGS MOZART FLUTE QUARTETS TO CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE FOR ACCESS TO ART’S 10TH ANNUAL SUMMER CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES
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10th Annual Sam Maitin Summer Chamber Music Festival
In July and August In Area Churches
Featuring:
The Borromeo String Quartet
The Mondrian Ensemble
The Mozart Flute Quartet
Christopher Kenniff, Classical Guitar & Brett Deubner, viola

Viewing of SUNY Associate Professor emeritus, Susannah Newman’s dance short "Sam's World"
Middle Township Performing Arts Center
May 19 @ 7:30pm

Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
Performing at the Middle Township P.A.C.
May 19, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

Gourmet Dinner at Union Park Dining Room Celebrates Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
Union Park Restaurant, 727 Beach Drive
May 18th at 7 p.m.

Carolyn Dorfman Dance Auction
Sand Barrons Golf & Country Club
May 4, 2007
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Sam Maitin Original Offered at Auction
Sand Barrons Golf & Country Club
May 4, 2007

Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company to Explore Joy, Sorrow & the Holocaust
April 20, 2007

Beatrix Potter "Bunny Hop" Tea
The Doctor's Inn
1 North Main Street, CMCH
Saturday, April 7, 2007
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Bus Trip to Philadelphia
A day of museums and galleries
February 23, 2007

Bus Trip to Greenwich Village

Sam Maitin Celebration Dinner
7:00 p.m. May 5th, Union Park Dining Room
727 Beach Avenue, Cape May, NJ
(Wine & Cheese 7 p.m., Dinner 7:30 p.m.)
$65 per person. Chairman, Diane Hutchinson

Breakfast With Art Critic Burton Wasserman
Saturday, April 29^th at 9:00 a.m.
 Gilt Complex, 2^nd St. and Dune Drive, Avalon
Call (609) 465-3963 for tickets & reservations

Photo Credit: Seymour Mednick

Duo Fresco Features Classical Guitarist,
Christopher Kenniff and New Jersey Symphony
Violist, Brett Deubner  in Access to Art’s Sam
Maitin Chamber Music Festival Oct. l5th

 Cape May Court House.  Access to Art, Inc. will present the first concert of their Fall classical chamber music series, newly named “The Sam Maitin Chamber Music Festival,” in honor of Philadelphia artist, Sam Maitin, on Oct. l5th, Saturday evening, at 8 p.m. at Our Lady of the Angel’s R.C. Church, 35 Mechanic St., Cape May Court House. It will feature Christopher Kenniff, Classical Guitar, and Brett Deubner, Violist who call their musical collaboration “Duo Fresco.”

 “Sam Maitin began our classical chamber music series, brought me artist, Aurelia Mika Chang, and her talented friends to Cape May, and designed our art work for our music festival flyers,” said Barbara Beitel, Access to Art, Inc. director.  “He died last December 23^rd, and we would like to acknowledge him and his contributions to us by naming the festival after him.”  she said.

 Duo Fresco, including violist Brett Deubner and guitarist, Christopher Kenniff gave their first series of performances together in the 2003-2004 concert season.  Of their performance on the Access to Art Chamber Music Series (Cape May, N.J.), Classical New Jersey noted that the duo’s “technical and ensemble ability is impeccable” and that they “produced a concert that was one highlight after another.”

 The Star Ledger (Newark, N.J.) has described Mr. Kenniff as having “a lush, liquid tone, remarkable clean fingering and a nicely varied touch,” while observing that “There is a burning intensity to Deubner’s playing, and a refreshing variation in the color of his viola tone.”

 Classical New Jersey has noted Mr. Kenniff’s playing for its “elegance, accuracy and impeccable technique” while describing Deubner’s playing as “extremely sensitive and expressive.”

ACCESS TO ART, INC’S SAM MAITIN
CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES OPENS

ON SATURDAY OCT. 15^TH AT OUR LADY OF THE ANGEL’S R.C. CHURCH IN CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE AT 8 P.M.

 Recent highlights from Duo’s Fresco’s schedule include appearances at the Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival, (Juneau, Alaska), Music at St. Andrews (Middletown, Delaware) and the historic Trinity Concerts Series (NYC, New York.)  The 2005-06 season will include many firsts for Duo Fresco including the launch of their own chamber music series “Music at the Corner” in Liberty Corner, New Jersey in which the duo will be joined by guest artists including virtuoso cellist Jeffrey Solow.  Duo Fresco will also be performing the premiere of works composed for them by Frank Ezra Levy and Serio Parrotti.  They will also be releasing their debut CD “Transfiguration” featuring works composed for or arranged by Duo Fresco.

 The perfect blend of sound and style, accessibility and innovation define this exciting group’s mission of music making.  Together, Deubner & Kenniff seek to further the available repertoire for their duo by working with contemporary composers and by creating their own transcriptions of existing repertoire.  In the past year, Duo Fresco has premiered new works for viola & guitar by composers Victor Kioulaphades, Matthew Halper, Jose Lezcano and John Sichel and has arranged works by Henry Purcell, Marin Marias, JS Bach, Franz Schubert, Ralph Vaughn Williams and Manuel DeFalla. New arrangements by Bela Bartok, Luigi Boccherini and JS Bach are currently “under construction.”

 Duo Fresco is currently an ensemble in residence at Kean University, Union, New Jersey where Brett Deubner and Christopher Kenniff are both members of the Affiliate Artist Faculty.

 The concert series is currently sponsored by Chris Clemans, Realtors, Sturdy Savings Bank, Douglass Fudge, and the Delaware River & Bay Authority.  Additional sponsors are being sought to underwrite the event.

 Tickets for the event are $l5. adults; $12. seniors and students.  Call Access to Art, Inc. at (609) 465-3963 for reservations.  Send checks to Access to Art, Inc., 4l7 E. Pacific Ave., Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210.

BattleWorks
May 7, 2005
presented by Access to Art Inc.

Performance:  May 7, 2005 Middle Township Performing Arts Center, 2l2 Bayberry Rd., Cape May Court House, N.J. 7:30 p.m.  Tickets $25. & $30. Call (609) 465-3963 for reservations.  Battleworks Dance Company is directed by Robert Battle, former Parsons dancer.

Masterclasses on April 7th and April 8th at Charter Tech Performing Arts High School, Rte. 9, Somers Point. Master class in Cape May County to be announced. Social on April 8th to meet Robert Battle and some company members. Two lecture demonstrations on April 7th.  The first, at l0 a.m., at the Avalon Community Center, Avalon Ave. & 30th St., Avalon open to all schools.  The second, at l2:5l, at Wildwood High School, open to that school system only.  Call 465-3963 for reservations.

Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale there now or you may call Access to Art, Inc. at (609) 465-3963 to reserve them. (The date of the auction has been changed from its original date April 23rd, due to Passover which begins on the evening of the 23rd at sundown.)

The event promises a delightful evening, full of bargains, weekend pamper packages complete with gorgeous robe, coffee mugs, and a masseuse, art, antiques, sundries, glass, wall ornaments, golf packages, dinners for two, sculpture, lamps, towels, theatre packages, bath baskets with fine soaps and accoutrements, bird feeders, boat rides, etc. “We are excited about the location, which is very charming, and the big tent and auctioneer and all the wonderful auction items which everyone has been gathering.” said Joyce Simon, co-chairman of the evening along with Stephanie Cash.
“We saw this place and we fell in love with it. It’s convenient that they have a catering business, and that it’s next to the shops and the garden center, so they can help promote it. Each year we do this auction so that we can defray the cost of the current dance company. This year we are presenting Battleworks, a New York company, whose founder, Robert Battle danced for Parsons Company for seven years, choreographing for them while he danced. His works have been seen on three continents.” said Simon.

He’s also choreographed for Alvin Ailey twice, and for Hubbard 2 Ballet, Dallas Black Dance, and he’s taught at Jacob’s Pillow and at Saratoga Springs. He’s the youngest choreographer to be invited into the American Dance Legacy series. He does the ivy league circuit, and he just finished choreographing a piece for Juilliard, where he studied as a scholarship student, for their 50th anniversary.’’ Simon said.

The company was down here in April, bringing modern dance to area schools both in Avalon (for Middle, Cape May, Somers Point and Wildwood schools) and Wildwood for Wildwood Middle and High School and Wildwood Crest. They also gave three master classes for area students in Atlantic County. Access feted them at a gourmet dinner at the Union Park Dining Room in Cape May.

To attend the auction at the Historic Abbie Holmes Estate, 1943 Rte. 9 North, Clermont,
send your check to Access to Art, Inc., 4l7 E. Pacific Ave., Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210. Admission is $20. per person. You may call Joyce Simon to donate auction items or to reserve a place at (609) 465-7186.

Fuma Sacra (Holy Smoke)
Westminster Choir's resident ensemble by Andy Megill performing a
Lenten program of Baroque & Renaissance music

Edward Villella's Miami City Ballet . . .
Performing Mambo No.2 at the Middle Township PAC (Performing Arts Center)

Annual Summer Music Festival
Featuring Philadelphia Orchestra members with friends from
The San Francisco Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Martha Graham Dance Company
Presented "Appalachian Spring" with Master Classes and in school residency.

Eye on America . . .
1940's photography exhibit with conversations by leading photographers.