Kimmel Center Presents Celebrates Women’s History Month
March, 2003
Mimi Stillman plays classical flute at Free in the Plaza! on Sunday, March 23 at Noon
Kimmel Center Presents:
Sarah Chang, violin
Lars Vogt, piano
Sunday, March 9
2pm | Verizon Hall
To kick off the month for Kimmel Center Presents, violinist Sarah Chang makes her Philadelphia recital debut in Verizon Hall with Lars Vogt on piano. Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "an amazing, full-blown performer, a musician of virtuosity and artistic insight... " this Curtis Institute graduate will appear on Sunday, March 9 at 2pm. Tickets for Sarah Chang are $15 - $57. Tickets can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org or at The Kimmel Center Box Office at Broad and Spruce Streets. For group sales call 215-790-5883.
Our other featured performances for Women’s History Month take place in Commonwealth Plaza, and are free and open to the public!
Free in the Plaza!
Cinderella's Storyland
Saturday, March 1
Noon | Commonwealth Plaza
Audiences of all ages will be enthralled by Cinderella’s Storyland, performed by the one-woman act of Kitty Jones in Kit’s Kaboodle. On Saturday, March 1 at noon this hilarious performance of Cinderella with singing and dancing will light up Commonwealth Plaza.
Free in the Plaza!
Miao Hou, piano
Sunday, March 2
Noon | Commonwealth Plaza
The following afternoon, on Sunday, March 2 at noon Curtis Institute of Music student Miao Hou will perform classical piano pieces.
Free in the Plaza!
Trillium Harp Ensemble
Wednesday, March 5
5pm | Commonwealth Plaza
Trillium Harp Ensemble "celebrates the beauty of harp music through life's adventures," playing an eclectic mix of folk, classical and jazz music on the harp. The ensemble is comprised of Gloria Galante, Madeline Hlywiak and Sarah Claire Williams.
Free in the Plaza!
Mimi Stillman
Sunday, March 23
Noon | Commonwealth Plaza
On Sunday, March 23 at noon in Commonwealth Plaza, Mimi Stillman plays classical flute. This Curtis Institute of Music graduate has been called "magically gifted ... a breath of fresh air" by The Washington Post.
For a complete listing of free Commonwealth Plaza performances visit the Kimmel Center’s Web site at www.kimmelcenter.org.
Moore College of Art & Design Galleries
Jill Kerwick, oil monotypes
Lonni Rossi, quilts
In addition, the latest exhibition in the Moore Galleries at the Kimmel Center displays the talents of Lonni Rossi and Jill Kerwick, two Moore Moore College of Art & Design graduates from the 1970s. Rossi, president of Longina Graphic Communications, is also an award-winning fabric designer and art quilter. Created with Rossi's own original fabrics, the four pieces on view employ silk screen, stencils and stamps and explore typographic motifs that create an intricate layering of texture and color. Kerwick, an art director in her early career, has focused on painting and printmaking since the early 1990s with over 30 solo or group exhibitions over the past decade in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The monotypes on display are new works that focus on her recurrent theme of the American habitat and issues of surveillance, voyeurism and privacy. These two artists' work can be seen on the North and South First Tier Promenade through June 1.
Moore College of Art & Design is the first and only women’s art and design college in the country -- and one of two in the world. In 1848, founder Sarah Worthington Peter established her enterprise, then called Philadelphia School of Design for Women, to offer women an education that could lead to careers and financial independence.
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