Events Calendar

Potluck Dinner with Andrei Cherny

Meet Andrei Cherny, author of the recently released book, The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour.   It tells the story of how a small group of Americans, with few resources and against all expectations, fed half of one of the largest cities in the world by air for more than a year, thereby avoiding World War III, winning the hearts of our defeated enemies, and inspiring people around the world to believe in America's fundamental goodness.   For more information about this book and how to purchase it, click on http://www.thecandybombers.com/

Andrei is co-founder and co-editor of the critically acclaimed Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a quarterly journal of serious progressive thought that seeks to spur new ideas on the big challenges of the 21st century.  Democracy -- available in print and online -- has a readership in every state and 90 countries around the world.  Over the years, Andrei has provided policy and strategy advice to Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore, Harry Reid, Cabinet members, Governors, United States Senators, members of the House of Representatives, national labor unions, Fortune 100 CEOs, and prominent civic leaders.  From February 2003 through the spring of 2004, Cherny served as a senior advisor for John Kerry's Presidential campaign. As the 2000 Platform Director, Cherny was the lead negotiator and chief drafter of the national 2000 Democratic Party Platform.   Andrei's first book,  The Next Deal: The Future of Public Life in the Information Age -- one of the top-selling political books of 2001 -- examined the roles technological and generational change have played over the course of American history and laid out a progressive vision for government and community life in the 21st century.  A former senior speechwriter and advisor to Vice President Al Gore, Cherny was the youngest White House speechwriter in American history.

Andrei, his wife, Stephanie, and their son, Ben,  reside in Phoenix, Arizona.  He is a criminal prosecutor and an officer in the United States Navy Reserve.  He graduated from Harvard College and from the University of California's Boalt Hall Law School.  For more information about Andrei, click on http://www.andreicherny.com/my_weblog/bio.html

When: Saturday, May 17 5:00 p.m.

Where: Home of Tim and Joyce Shavers
29228 N 120 Ln, Peoria, Arizona

Click here for a link to a map.

Directions: Exit Loop 101 at 75th Ave and take 75th Ave north for 1 mile. Turn left at Deer Valley Rd then, in about 2 miles, turn right at N Lake Pleasant Rd and continue 2 miles. Turn left at Happy Valley Parkway and continue about 5 miles to your first stop sign, at Ridgeline Rd. Turn right onto Ridgeline Rd and continue about 1 mile, then turn right at N 121st Ave, where you'll find the front gate to our neighborhood. Past the gate, turn left and follow the street as it winds through our neighborhood. We are near the end of the street, on the right, at number 29228.

RSVP:    Joyce @ 480-240-9233 or joyceshavers@yahoo.com

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Cello Recital of Harvard Club Member Nokuthula Ngwenyama--Winner of 1994 Primrose Prize

What: Special Concert by Award Winning Harvard Club Member Nokuthula Ngwenyama (MTS '02) Featuring a celebration of solo and chamber works for strings inspired by viola virtuoso William Primrose.

Who: Nokuthula Ngwenyama (MTS '02), viola and violin Nancy Livingston, violin Weijing Wang, viola Jan Simiz, cello

Performing:
Suite No. 1 in G Major, BMV 1007          J. S. Bach
Recitative for Solo Viola                         Scott Slapin
Carpices for Two Violas, op. 18               Henri Wieniawski
Quartet No. 14 in D Minor                       Franz Schubert
(Death & the Maiden), D.810

Tickets are now on sale!
Concert tickets are $35 or $60 per couple Special Harvard Club price:
$30 or $55 per couple Reception hors d'oeuvres and wine included.

All proceeds benefit the 11th Primrose International Viola Competition, held in Phoenix June 1-8, 2008. Due to the intimate size of this concert seating is limited and advance tickets are advised.

When: May 20, 2008 - Tuesday, 7:30pm     

Where: Theatre 4301 - Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts (http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/venue.php?id=15

Theatre 4301 is located on the corner of Drinkwater
Boulevard and Fifth Avenue in downtown Scottsdale, one block east of Scottsdale Road, in the Galleria Corporate Centre

How:  Please call the box office in order to take advantage of our special Harvard Club pricing:  480-994-ARTS (2787) Tickets may also be purchased at the door.

 

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Harvard Glee Club

Special Request: Housing needed for glee club singers!  These tours are financially possible only if local hosts can provide housing for the Glee Clubbers; the cost of hotel accommodations is prohibitive.  The young men can be housed in groups of whatever number you are able to accept in your home. Click here for details.

What: The Harvard Glee Club is America’s oldest collegiate choir, founded in 1858.  The group takes annual spring tours to various regions of the United States, as well as regular summer tours overseas.  This year, though, the Glee Club celebrates its 150th anniversary with its first nationwide American tour since 1978. The 20-concert lineup includes a recently completed spring tour of the Eastern Seaboard and an upcoming summer tour of the Midwest, Mountain West, and West Coast. 

The Glee Club is widely considered to be the top collegiate men’s choir in America.  In 2005, it was the only such group invited to perform at the national convention of the American Choral Directors’ Association. The 60-voice choir performs repertoire ranging from Renaissance polyphony to classical, contemporary, and folk music from around the world.  The Glee Club also features a subset ensemble called Glee Club Lite, which performs pop a cappella music. 

The current repertoire features a newly commissioned three-movement work titled Apollo in Cambridge by Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning composer Dominick Argento.  The Glee Club premiered this work at its 150th Anniversary Gala Concert held in Harvard’s Sanders Theater on April 11, before a sold-out audience that included nearly 400 Glee Club alumni. 

The Glee Club and its sibling choirs, the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, are conducted by Harvard's Director of Choral Activities Dr. Jameson Marvin.  Dr. Marvin was described in the Boston Globe as "a choral director of consummate mastery." (Review: "Schubert's Newly Discovered Andante Has US Premiere Here").  Under his baton, the Harvard choirs have attended six ACDA national conventions, 10 ACDA regional conventions, and numerous other festivals in the last 30 years. 

 

When: Saturday, June 7 8:00 PM. 

Where: Central United Methodist Church.
1875 N Central Ave; Phoenix, AZ 85004
Price: Tickets - $25 General Admission

http://www.phoenixsymphony.org/buytickets/calendar/view.aspx?id=2872
or:
Call: (602) 495-1999

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Stay tuned for the new 2008-2009 line up of events!