A Forum on Themes of Follies - Oakland East Bay Symphony

<BODY> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="6" WIDTH="528" STYLE="border-collapse: collapse" BGCOLOR="#FFFFDD"> <TR VALIGN="TOP"> <TD WIDTH="15" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP"> </TD> <TD WIDTH="358" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP"> <FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE="3"><B><I><BR></I>A Forum on Themes of Follies</B></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT FACE="Berylium"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="2"><BR><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><I>Emerging and Established Artists <BR>Discuss the Life Cycle</I></FONT><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR> <FONT SIZE="3"><FONT FACE="Arial">Saturday, May 3, 2008<BR>1:30 - 4:30pm</FONT><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"></FONT><B><BR></B>Veteran's Memorial Building <BR>200 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA<B> </B><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/line-horiz.JPG" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="1" BORDER="0"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="5" BORDER="0"><BR>Join us as we explore themes of<BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="5" BORDER="0"><B><BR>FOLLIES</B> <BR><FONT SIZE="2">Book by James Goldman <BR>Music and lyrics by Stephan Sondheim</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE="1">Produced originally on Broadway by Harold Prince</FONT><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/line-horiz.JPG" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="1" BORDER="0"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR>We will have paired inter-generational representatives from music, dance, written and spoken word/theater. Plus live music and theater! </FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT FACE="Berylium"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="2"><BR><B>Keynote Speaker</B><BR>Steve Swayne, author of <BR>"How Sondheim Found His Sound" <BR>and Associate Professor of Music, <BR>Dartmouth College. <BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><B>Panelists include</B> <BR>Delroy Lindo, Lucha Corpi, Bill Bell, <BR>Glenn Person, and Bonnie Bell. <BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><B>Presented by </B><BR>Maestro Michael Morgan and the <BR>Oakland East Bay Symphony <BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><B>Moderator:</B> <BR>John Kendall Bailey <BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><B>Keynote Speaker</B> <BR>Steve Swayne: author of <BR>"How Sondheim Found His Sound." <BR>and Associate Professor of Music, Dartmouth College. Co- sponsored by: Stage Bridge; <BR>City of Oakland: Life Enrichment Agency. </FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT FACE="Verdana"><FONT SIZE="-1"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD WIDTH="6" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP"><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/line-vert.JPG" ALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="670" BORDER="0"></TD> <TD WIDTH="182" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/200708/may-follies-poster.JPG" WIDTH="174" HEIGHT="254" BORDER="0"><BR><BR>Maestro Michael Morgan <BR>has said about Follies <BR><I>It is "one of Sondheim's greatest works, it's the ingenious connectivity between the words and music, and the timeless story of aging, learning from the past mistakes and passing wisdom down from generation to generation."</I> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY>