CloseUp and Personal
Interested in learning what Phoenix Symphony Musicians are up to off stage? Here’s your chance. The Phoenix Symphony CloseUps series will feature violist Karen Bea. When Karen is not performing on stage as a member of the viola section, she is busy running around town – literally! Karen is an iron woman in training running roughly 40 miles, swimming 10,000 meters, biking 80 miles, and practicing 10 hours each week in addition to symphony rehearsals and concerts.
Karen will perform works from the viola repertoire and discuss the mental techniques she has developed to prepare herself for performances as a professional musician and serious athlete. If you ask, she might also discuss how she finished the Boston Marathon and testified before Congress three days later in support of funding for that National Endowment for the Arts.
Meet Karen Bea next Monday, November 12 at 7 p.m. at Borders Books & Music located at 2402 East Camelback Rd. in Phoenix. The Phoenix Symphony CloseUps will last approximately an hour, including a fun Q&A session at the event. Best of all, the event is FREE.
1 Comments:
Hey Jan, You don't get enough credit for doing the great job you do every month in bringing these closeups to the Biltmore Borders and other locales.
It is great that so many of the muscians are also willing to participate. The symphony should do more postive p.r. of this sort. For instance, it was great to see John Williams (or any conductor)with members of the Boston Pops (Boston Symphony) playing the National Anthem prior to the first game of the World Series in Boston. Diamondbacks management should wake up and have some of the symphony players before their games. It would be a treat to hear the Anthem played on key and not sung off key, plus it would be great p.r. for the symphony.
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