Beau Bridges and his daughter will celebrate Inyo’s Community Reads program with a performance of “Acting: The First Six Lessons,” by Richard Boleslavsky. Photo courtesy ICA

Register Staff
2-4-2010

It’s only in its second year, but and the Community Reads project, sponsored by the Inyo County Superintendent of Schools is attracting former Olympians to participate and now Hollywood is joining the party.
Specifically actor and two-time Golden Globe winner Beau Bridges will be in Bishop to present a play with his daughter Emily. Bridges played, Dick ‘Mad Dog’ Buek, the love interest of Jill Kinmont Boothe in the movie adaptation of the book “The Other Side of the Mountain.”
Bridges is coming to honor Boothe by a play based on the book, “Acting: The First Six Lessons,” by Richard Boleslavsky.
Bridges is rehearsing the play in Los Angeles, with the premiere planned for April. This performance will be a rehearsal, in nature. And also a rare opportunity to see an actor honing his craft. 

The Felici Trio will present its “Love and Marriage” concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Mammoth. The program will explore the musical and personal relations of three giants of the Romantic period in compositions that range from the intimate to the dramatic. Photo by Yves Rubin

Chamber Music Unbound
1-28-2010

With Valentine’s Day just a few weeks away, Chamber Music Unbound takes audiences this weekend on an aural tour of “Love and Marriage” as told by some of history’s greatest musical storytellers.
Beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Cerro Coso College in Mammoth Lakes, the Felici Trio will perform works by Robert and Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms and, in a world premier, a trio by double bass virtuoso Nico Abondolo.
The Felici Trio, in residence in the Eastern Sierra since 1998, consists of pianist Steven Vanhauwaert, violinist Rebecca Hang and cellist Brian Schuldt. Its members are prize winners of international music competitions and have performed more than 350 critically-acclaimed concerts in Europe, South America and the U.S.
“Love and Marriage” explores the musical and personal relations of three giants of the Romantic period in compositions that range from the intimate to the dramatic.
When the 20-year-old Johannes Brahms met Robert and Clara Schumann in 1853, the young composer witnessed first-hand the poetry and prose of an artist-marriage after moving in with the Schumanns and their six children. Clara and Robert’s relationship was to Brahms, and everyone who knew them, the embodiment of an ideal union. When Robert Schumann became fatally ill, Brahms grew to be Clara’s indispensable assistant – and in the course fell hopelessly in love with her. Even though she was 14 years his senior, her animated beauty and her intellect spellbound the young man. After Robert’s passing, Clara and Johannes remained dedicated friends for life. All three musicians poured their emotions into their works, and Saturday’s concert presents a wonderful opportunity to hear some of their best chamber music side by side.

The Bishop Community Concert Association will host the California Guitar Trio live in concert Tuesday at Bishop Union High School. The group’s fusion of styles and sounds has earned the Trio a widespread and growing fanbase, including aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavor. Photo by Joe Del Tuto

Register Staff
1-21-2010

In presenting its third of five concerts for the 2009-10 season, the Bishop Community Concert Association will be treating residents and visitors to sounds that are literally out of this world.
The California Guitar Trio, whose enthusiastic following and wide acclaim earned their music a steady rotation aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavor, will take the stage at Bishop Union High School’s Dorothy Joseph Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
When not making die-hard fans out of outerspace-bound astronauts, the CGT is busy touring the globe, playing a whirlwind of instrumental styles that fuse classical, rock, blues, jazz, world music, progressive, as well as the quintessential California musical genre – surf music.

By Mike Bodine
Register Staff

The nation’s largest globe-trotting children’s theatre troupe is back in Bishop for the umpteenth time offering youngsters a chance to shine on the stage and learn a little something along the way.
A small team of two, in the middle of an 18-week tour of duty with The Missoula Children’s Theatre, showed up in town last Sunday with plans of presenting “The Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” this Saturday.
In just one short week, Stephanie Walsh and Sarah Azzinaro will turn more than  about two dozen aspiring or experimenting thespians into actors, directors and stage hands and put on a comedy/musical/improvisation loosely (very loosely) based on Daniel Defoe’s classic novel.