The Music Center at Strathmore’s artistic programming team has generated many offerings for its 2011-2012 season. Fifty-five programs will be performed over the course of the presentation season, marking Strathmore’s most varied lineup of talent to date. Twenty-eight performers will either be returning or making their debuts at the venue. They include jazz guitarist Par Metheny, jazz virtuosos John Pizzarelli and Kurt Elling. The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields plays for the first time with their recently appointed artistic director and violinist Joshua Bell, while comedienne and actress Lily Tomlin and dance legend Tommy Tune share dazzling evenings with Strathmore audiences.
“I am so excited about being invited back to Strathmore, because it marked the beginning of my show, ‘Steps in Time,'” said Tune.
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“Steps in Time, A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance,” is Tune’s own story of a life filled with entertaining, which the entertainer performs along with a cast of seven song and dance artists. The revue is constantly changing as Tune’s career continues to take him from one project to the next.
“Come and see a song and dance man,” he tells his fans.
Strathmore’s presentation season also includes a celebration of American composers.
The Ives Project, An Intimate Retrospective of the Life and Music of Revolutionary Composer Charles Ives Co-Produced with Post-Classical Ensemble, as well as the Duke Ellington series, will be featured over the course of the season, along with the D.C. premiere of Espiritu Vivo from Ballet Hispanico, choreographed by Ronald K. Brown and, finally India.Arie and Idan Raichel introduce their new bilingual album “Open Door.”
Eliot Pfanstiehl, Strathmore chief executive officer and founder, has remarked that the season is “peppered with notable names, exciting collaborations, a plethora of genres and premiere performances.”
“It is clear,” he continued, “that the beautiful sound that has become the hallmark of Strathmore is resonating in the streets. People know us, and with this most diverse season to date we are excited to reach an ever-expanding circle of community members, and of artists eager to share their talents here.”
