Mona Golabek to Appear March 11
Saturday, March 11, an evening of extravagance and classical music will be highlighted with a concert featuring internationally acclaimed pianist Mona Golabek and opening with Cleveland harpist Deborah Fleisher. Along with wonderful music, the evening includes a pre-concert "social hour" and post-concert réception. The festivities will start at 7 p.m. with several Cleveland women hosting small parties in their homes before everyone heads. to Cleveland State Main Classroom Auditorium for the evening. Following her performance, Mona Golabek will be talking with the audience about her experiences as a woman concert pianist at a reception in the Kiva lounge at CSU.
The music will be wonderful. Sharing it with our community will be exciting. Never before have any of us had classical music in a woman-identified space.
The concert will begin with solo harp music. We rarely hear this spiritually entrancing and soothing instrument performed solo. Deborah Fleisher has been studying and performing in several areas around the country and is now living in Cleveland.
Hearing a performance by pianist Mona Golabek is a doubly rare occasion. Ms. Golabek has been performing internationally for years. Her music will be extraordinary but her desire to perform and
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communicate with a women's community is even rarer. Among the works that she will perform are pieces by Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikowsky, Bach, Lizst and Scriabin. Following her concerts, Mona Golabek finds it important to talk about the music and her experiences as a woman in the arts.
As mentioned in last month's WSW, Mona Golabek has appeared as soloist with many orches. tras and received numerous awards and international attention. Among her performances are appearances with the New Philharmonic of London and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, The Houston Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and many others. Ms. Golabek has won the "People's Prize" at the Chopin International Competition in Warsaw and plans to compete this June in Moscow for the International Tchaikowsky Competition.
Tickets for this event are $3.50, $5.00, $10.00, $15.00 or $25.00 (contribute what you can, all seats non-reserved), under 12 and over 60, 1.00. Tickets to the social hour preceding the concert will be given out at the ticket outlets where you can choose which of several parties to attend. Free child care is available by reservation. Call 321-0692 before March 9. The concert is accessible to handicapped people. Call Oven Productions for more information, 321-0692. This event is co-sponsored with the Cleveland State Women's Law Caucus.
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THIRD ANNUAL VARIETY SHOW
February 11
The house was full, the lights dimmed and then...an announcement. Technical difficulties would cause a short delay. The corp de ballet for the Grand Opening: 'Tous les fous ne sont pas morts' (all the fools are not dead) were waiting to emerge from the kitchen-dressing room where they had been painted and bewinged for the last hour, stealing peeks as the house filled. And now to wait. Several dancers said they had to pee. One ballerina nervously picked apart the flowers for her hair. Another worried that her thick eye make-up might chip. But the technical problem was cleared up and the music began. Unfortunately, it did not begin at the right place and the lovely fairies arrived on stage at the end of the first part of the dance in bewilderment. However, they quickly recovered.
Sharon, the prima ballerina displayed a new interpretation of dance and her performance was marred only by the loss of her hair piece as she twirled across the stage.
The dancers were a visual delight in their purple and pink net tutus and color coordinated chiffon wings. Plastic head bands held in place the plastic flowers which were lovingly tossed at Sharon and June, her Barishnykov-ish partner as the dancers exited the stage.
The emcee chores were beautifully done by Mary O'Connor, who confessed that she is a Dyke Business School drop-out. She told about the virtues of secretarial life and the Secretary's Creed from "I will always be alert so that my boss needn't tell me what he desires", to "I will guard my health.'
The Cleveland Feminist Theatre Collective presented "Sleeping Dyke," perhaps the first theatrical production to demonstrate the "collective kiss."
Collectivity seemed to be a recurring theme. The collective process was demonstrated in another skit, The Semi Annual Meeting... The Struggle Collective, whose words may have been heard at a meeting you have attended. relate to that." "1 can give that "...after all we are all feminists!" "I share with you that I don't feel
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The show ranged from poetry by Jan and Tish and solo dance by Shirley Aenne to the lighter "commercials" about natural food flavored rolling papers and the innovative Hug-A-Gram (Are you listening, Western Union?). Truly the next best thing to being there. Hints for Happiness: A Weekly Self-Help Program told about the joys of tucking as demonstrated by Patty and Gail. Rita, Margaret and Mary Ann showed how they spell relief.
The finger snapping Dyke Song, ala the Jet Song, West Side Story, was danced across the stage by Melinda (choreography and new lyrics) and Char, Sharon, Gail, Gayle, and Dianne.
No Variety Show would have been complete without Feminist Fashions, 'the style to fit your lifestyle.' Lindette modeled the no-purse-wellstuffed-pocket look with a tee shirt for every identity. Jaimee showed the layered look that allows for 'changes in mood and temperature.' as she tossed her layers about the stage.
Lauree was dressed for success in her lawyerlooking tweeds. Gail (gayelle) modelled that comfortable-at-home look complete with long red flan. nels with a tri-buttoned shit flap and down booties. Melinda showed the rugged outdoor look with her down jacket over down vest and face mask for that mysterious look. Her outfit was completed with duck-hunting boots.
Fumé was out to impress the family in her stunning pink feather hat and provocative green dress. Patrice gave us the hope of spring as she tossed off her bandanna and shook out her hair, then shed her sweat pants outfit and high-heeled sneakers to reveal comfy red shorts. "So nice to see legs again," Mary, the fashion moderator cooed. Char closed the show with her school girl look of gray blazer and navy blue skirt whose modesty she demonstrated by genuflecting.
"A Bar by Any Other Name" (written by Pat Dorner, directed by Andrea Baker) revealed the complex happenings at the Five of Wands, a fictitious women's bar. Dianne sang the glories
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