Arts Briefs: Glendale Youth Orchestra readies for final performance of season
The Glendale Youth Orchestra, conducted by Brad Keimach, will perform its season finale on May 22 at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. The night will include 2016 Concerto Winners as soloists: singer Oliver Berliner, cellist Micah Sanders and Samantha Di Giovanni on violin.
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Based at the Alex, the Glendale Youth Orchestra provides local musicians from sixth grade through college a chance to play classical music with Keimach, a Juilliard trained conductor who studied with Leonard Bernstein. As part of the program, members of the GYO are also able to meet with players from the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It was founded in 1989 and is partly funded from an L.A. County Arts Commission grant.
Tickets are $12.50; $10 for students, children and seniors. The Alex Theatre is at 216 North Brand Blvd. in Glendale. More information at (818) 243-ALEX, www.alextheatre.org, glendaleyouthorchestra.com.
Magic man
Magician John Carney returns to Burbank’s Colony Theatre May 6 through 8 for his theatrical show “Carney Magic,” following its successful sold-out run at the venue in January.
Unlike many straight magic acts, Carney’s show mingles illusions with humor and unusual characters. Carney, who has appeared on HBO and “Late Night with David Letterman,” said in a statement: “A good illusion makes us think differently, and it opens our minds to a whole new world of possibilities. I created ‘Carney Magic’ to integrate several art forms that will encourage an audience to open their minds to a different world.”
The show is at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets start at $39. Parking is free. The Colony Theatre is at 555 North Third Street in Burbank. More information at (866) 811-4111 and www.colonytheatre.org.
A Tour of History
Weekly guided tours of the Brand Library exhibition “Armenia: An Open Wound” are being offered Tuesday evenings and Saturday mornings. The exhibition opened April 16 and continues through June 11. Tours in Armenian are also available by request.
Community outreach director Tigranna Zakaryan, with the Armenian American Museum, walks through a door into a desert area called Deir ez-Zor at “Armenia: An Open Wound” at the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale on Monday, April 18, 2016.
“Armenia: An Open Wound” is a large exhibition that explores Armenian society in the Ottoman Empire and the 1915 Armenian Genocide through survivor testimony.
The exhibit is open during regular hours at the Brand Library & Art Center: Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesdays, noon to 6 p.m.; and Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Brand is at 1601 West Mountain St. in Glendale.
All guided tours are free and open to the public.
More information on “Armenia: An Open Wound” at www.ArmenianAmericanMuseum.org and (818) 548-2051.
American Voice
The Autry Museum of the American West in Griffith Park has announced the winner of 2016 Butcher Scholar Award, given to projects designed to explore the history of women in the historical and contemporary American West. This year’s winner is DeLanna Studi for her play “And So We Walked: An Artist’s Journey Along the Trail of Tears.”
The one-woman play by Studi, a Cherokee Indian, examines the lasting impact of the forced relocations of Native Americans following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. That impact stretches all the way to the present day, according to Studi, an actor and activist.
To write the play, Studi traveled with her father to collect oral histories along the trail’s Northern route. The actor-playwright’s goal is to tour the play around the United States.
In a statement, Studi said: “From an early age, my father advised me that wherever I went in the world, I should always seek out the Natives in that community, and among them I would find home. Native Voices and the Autry have been that home for me in Hollywood by supporting encouraging, and challenging me to pursue my dreams.”
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Marquee staff