SummerStage (or, Summerstage)

[Wilson Gray]

On Jun 17, 2005, at 8:35 PM, bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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> SUMMERSTAGE--69,500 Google hits, 1,040 Google Groups hits
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> Central Park's "SummerStage" turns 20 years old. It's not in OED. It's
> not a trade name--there are other "Summerstage" events in other
> cities.
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> http://www.barrypopik.com/article/1038/central-park-summerstage
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> MISC.:
> The guard had a pocket thermometer and checked the temperature in all
> the hearing rooms. I "won"--my room was the worst. NY1 (www.ny1.com)
> had today's temperature as 72 F. My room was about 85 F. And all stale
> air, too. I feel that I'd surely remember all Ben Zimmer's posts if I
> had air.
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> http://www.summerstage.org/index1.aspx?BD=18889
> ?Central Park Summerstage: 20 Years From
> The Heart Of New York City?
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> A unique photo exhibit highlighting many of the
> memorable performances from Central Park SummerStage
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> June 9th ? June 30th
> TIME WARNER CENTER
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> City Parks Foundation is pleased to announce, ?Central Park
> SummerStage: 20 Years From The Heart Of New York City,? a unique photo
> retrospective celebrating the history of one of the world?s most
> beloved performing arts festivals. The exhibit will be on display at
> the Samsung Experience in Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle, 3rd
> Floor from June 9th through June 30th and has been made possible in
> part by Duggal Visual Solutions, Samsung Experience and The Shops at
> Columbus Circle at Time Warner Center.
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> Among the 54 stunning visual images on display will be photographs of
> Celia Cruz from her very last live performance, Buddy Guy, Annie
> Lennox, Lady Blacksmith Mambazo,

Shouldn't that be _Ladysmith Black Mambozo_?

-Wilson Gray

> Curtis Mayfield, and 2005 returning SummerStage performers Bill T.
> Jones, Cassandra Wilson and Elvis Costello, and many more. The art
> captures timeless moments that reflect the true spirit of SummerStage.
> The retrospective features a vast selection of insightful and
> evocative images from the past 19 seasons of SummerStage?s rich
> history.
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> Artwork has been provided by the following noted photojournalists:
> David Atlas, Jack Geshceidt, Hazel Hamiln, Cynthia Laron, Nan
> Melville, Sara Cedar Miller, Liz Reese, Jonathan Roth, Robert Smith,
> Billy Tompkins, and Jack Vartoogian, and others.
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> Since its humble beginnings in 1986, SummerStage has built a
> reputation of presenting cutting-edge, in-depth and thoughtful
> programming, showcasing the very best of both veteran and
> up-and-coming artists in popular music, world music, jazz, word, dance
> and film. In its history, Summerstage has presented a total of 1,513
> diverse artist performances at 694 events, to more than 2.5 million
> people in Central Park.
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> 12 June 1977, New York <i>Times</i>, pg. 453:
> HARTFORD - "Sleuth," presented by Summerstage Tuesday through June 25.
> J.L. Goodwin Theater, Austin Arts Center, Trinity College.
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> 6 April 1980, New York <i>Times</i>, pg. CN11:
> Roger Shoemaker, producer at Summerstage, the summer theater at the
> Austin Arts Center of Trinity College in Hartford, is a professor of
> theater arts during the academic year.
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> 2 June 1980, Chicago <i>Tribune</i>, "Mini-fests offer music for all
> tastes," pg. C1:
> SummerStage '80, a day-long festival of special events and activities
> designed to herald the opening of the Grant Park Summer Concert Season
> will be held June 21 at various locations in the downtown area.
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> 24 June 1984, New York <i>Times</i>, "Summer Theater Around the State"
> by Alvin Klein, pg. NJ11:
> SUMMERSTAGE, Summerfun, SUmmer Festival. By any catch words, they add
> up to the season's ever-popular, mostly lightweight and almost
> universally unthreatening theater offerings.
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> MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOODS
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> 594 words
> 9 June 1986
> Newsday
> MANHATTAN
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> This Sunday at 2 p.m., Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern will
> officially open the new series of free performances at the Central
> Park Bandshell on the Mall at 72nd Street.
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> "SummerStage will bring the best in the arts to New Yorkers for free,
> in the most elegant and accessible performance space in the city -
> Central Park," Stern said. "It gives all New Yorkers and visitors a
> chance to experience every art form from jazz to Japanese drumming and
> dance. Youngsters, seniors, picnickers, joggers, cyclists - all park
> and arts lovers are invited."
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> Sunday's opening will be part of an all-day festival called City Lore
> '86, a musical portrait of the cultural diversity of New York's
> neighborhoods, featuring Lion Dancers from Chinatown, Puerto Rican
> bomba and plena music by Los Plenaros De La 21 along with gospel,
> bagpipers, Irish stepdances, Ukranian lullabies and stilt walkers.
>
> Among the events scheduled this summer are 7:30 p.m. performances by
> the New York City Grand Opera: "La Traviata" on July 17 and "Lucia Di
> Lammermoor" on July 31. A family series including such favorites as
> "Peter and the Wolf" and the Manhattan Brass Quintet will be held on
> Sundays from July 20th through Sept. 14, starting at 1 p.m.
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> 1 August 1986, New York <i>Times</i>, "For 6 Weeks, Central Park Is
> Center Stage," pg. C1:
> This is the first year for the pary's free SummerStage program, which
> is under the direction of Joe Killiam. "We're trying to recover the
> bandshell," Mr. Killian said, adding that performing in the mall dates
> back to the 1870's when concerts were staged in a pagoda, which was
> replaced in 1923 by the bandhsell.
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