Lotus Education & Arts Foundation “Seeing Red” cochineal-dyed textiles; Lynn Flinders & Lynne Gilliatt, painting; Sharlyn Cheeseman, painting. M-F 9-7; Sat 9-5. Open later and on Sundays when performances are going on.

Are you a senior who finds yourself wishing for the friendly company of other seniors? Join us on the fourth Wednesday monthly at the Endwright Center for a casual get together of single seniors! Come socialize and make new friends! Fun activities and light refreshments are planned. FREE! (We gratefully accept donations to help fund our free classes and programs). For Additional Information: 812-876-3383, ext 515

The Club also meets for early dinners on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 3:00 pm at differing locations. The March 25 & April 8 dinners will be at the Golden Corral (116 Franklin Rd, Bloomington).

Energy Ambassadors serve as active connectors in neighborhoods, workplaces, faith communities, and other subpopulations in support of the local effort to win the $5 million Georgetown University Energy Prize. This three-hour training covers the basics of the Energy Challenge and of reducing home energy use.

The training will be repeated on October 2.

The Stardusters “little BIG Band” will be swingin’ at the Pub on their regular fourth Wednesday of the month. This month, Sept. 23, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Players Pub is Bloomington’s ecclectic music venue featuring a wide variety of musical genre to satisfy all tastes.
Featured singers will be Janiece Jaffe and Kathleen McConahay
The Stardusters are dedicated to keeping the big band sound alive. Playing the music as it was presented by such bands as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, and many others. The music is drawn from the American Song and vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney, Dianne Schuur, and many others.
Players Pub presents a relaxed atmosphere. A dance floor. Players Pub is more than good music, it is good food.

Considered the greatest operatic soprano of her generation, this exclusive concert performance showcases Ms. Gheorghiu’s incredible artistry and rich, sensuous vocals.

David Effron, conductor

Repertoire
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Op. 26
Hurst: Still Lives for orchestra* (2014)
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 100 (1944)

*Dean’s Prize 2015

About the Conductor

Distinguished symphony and opera conductor, David Effron has, over a forty year career, conducted major symphony and opera companies throughout the world. As a member of the conducting staff of the New York City Opera from 1964 to 1982, he accumulated an operatic repertoire that exceeds 100 operas.

David Effron is Professor of Conducting at the Indiana University School of Muisc.. He previously held this same position at the Eastman School of Music for twenty years where he was Music Director of the Eastman Philharmonia. In these positions, Mr. Effron has trained hundreds of instrumentalists now in professional orchestras worldwide in addition to scores of professionally active conductors. Other positions he has held include, for eleven years, Music Director of the Heidelberg Summer Festival, Principal Conductor of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia for five years, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Central City Opera Festival, and, for nine years, Music Director of the Youngstown Symphony. He also was Music Director of the Brevard Music Center.

Maestro Effron has been a guest conductor for many leading North American ensembles, including the Aspen Music Festival, Chautauqua Music Festival, Bach Aria Group, orchestras of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Denver, Buffalo, Rochester, New Mexico, and the National Ballet of Washington. As an opera conductor, he has appeared on the podium of the San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Tulsa Opera, Greater Buffalo Opera, and Opera Columbus.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he grew up in a gifted musical family. His father was concertmaster with the Cincinnati Symphony for twenty five years, and his mother was a pianist with that orchestra. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree from Indiana University. The recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation and Rockefeller Fund, he studied conducting in Cologne, Germany, after which, he returned to America to join the conducting staff of the New York City Opera.

Maestro Effron has made many recordings: most notably a 1987 recording on the Pantheon label featuring Benita Valente, Effron, and the Eastman Philharmonia, which won a German Critics Prize; an RCA recording of John Corigliano’s “Pied Piper Fantasy” with flutist James Galway was designated by Ovation Magazine as one of 3 top contemporary classical records in 1988; the 1987 Grammy-award winning recording of Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait”; and a disc of songs by Mahler and Berlioz with orchestra featuring the late mezzo-soprano, Jan DeGaetani.

In addition to his work as a conductor, he has continued his interest in piano performance, and, in the past accompanied such notable artists as George London, Sherrill Milnes, and Benita Valente.

He is married to artist Arlene Effron and is the father of two children.

Program notes for Still Lives for orchestra

By Jay Hurst

Screens are everywhere now. Looking around a crowded room, chances are that you will see many people standing or sitting next to each other with their faces buried in their phones – the great contradiction being that technology interconnects us more than ever before, but our lives become isolated and still by tapping in to that connection.

In Still Lives, that contradiction is played out in two contrasting movements. The first movement, reunion, is anxious and blurry, featuring an obsessive rising gesture introduced by the violins. The second movement, wire tap, crackles with energy as pitches are gradually added to the open-fifth gesture of the strings, a buzzing mass of overtones and noise.

Still Lives was completed in July of 2014 in Brevard, North Carolina, and is dedicated to Lee and Hannah Curtis and their son, Shepard, who was born during the first revisions of this piece.