Stein’s talk is open to the public. She will also show 17 minutes from the film.

While Stein’s art is not currently on display at Antioch, her exhibit, “The Fluidity of Gender” is on exhibit at the Burnell R. Roberts Triangle Gallery at Sinclair Community College in Dayton until March 7. Organizers of the Antioch College Herndon Gallery hope to bring Stein’s work to Antioch in the future.

See a longer article on Stein in the Feb. 16 News.

The new Arts Council home at 111 Corry Street is an expansion of its former space at Oten Gallery. The new building, owned by Bob Baldwin and formerly occupied by Dolbeers Cleaners and the Rolling Pen Book Cafe, has about 1,400 square feet of gallery space divided into two rooms, which the group hopes to use for art openings, salon discussions, art classes and music events.

While the Oten Gallery did provide an artistic setting and a beautiful outdoor patio, the bustle of an Arts Council run largely by volunteers and operating out of multiple spaces was overwhelming for gallery owner Alan MacBeth’s needs, according to Arts Council Board President Jerome Borchers. In addition, while the Oten is located on a busy state route somewhat apart from the heart of downtown, the Corry Street space allows easy connection to the larger village-wide events and street parties that the Arts Council would like to promote. The paved patio out front could be an outdoor space for smaller events, while Corry Street can be closed off (without permission from the Ohio Department of Transportation) for bigger community events, such as Artoberfest, Cirque Carnivale and last year’s spontaneous reggae party in the street.

“We’re really excited about the synergies that could happen with Corry and Dayton streets to provide a larger outside venue for community events,” Borchers said.

In additional to the gallery expansion, Arts Council received permission from Village Council on Monday to use a space on the third floor of the Bryan Center as an office and records storage. In the past, Arts Council used its gallery spaces as its office, and was constantly tasked with moving desks, chairs and files for gallery openings or performance events. The most recent move allows the group to utilize the entire Corry Street space for art events and classes, while having its records nearby but off site, said Borchers, who is grateful to the Village for its support.

Arts Council continues to lead the search for a new and more permanent Center for the Arts facility in the village, perhaps in connection with the needs of Antioch College for a similar performance space. And while campus leaders have been engaged in ongoing discussions about how to partner with the community to meet common campus and community needs, the college is still busy grappling with a master plan for college facilities, according to college Communications Director Gariot Louima.

Meanwhile, Arts Council is using its time to grow and mature into a well organized operation. The Morgan Family Foundation renewed the group’s annual grant to cover the rent plus several small stipends for an administrative staff. The support helps to retain Joanne Caputo as the arts and cultural manager, Kim Kremer as the bookkeeper and database manager, Emily Elliot to manage membership, Nancy Mellon as the gallery coordinator, and Susan Gartner and Corrine Bayraktaroglu to oversee marketing and a Web presence.

Arts Council membership has grown to about 185, but the group aims to increase the level of participation to 500 members in order to raise revenue and be able to increase its reach. The group helps teach new artists about marketing and how to retain financial support, and would also like to offer arts classes for local residents and youth, Caputo said.

Since an Arts Council-backed visioning effort in 2007 tasked Arts Council with ensuring support for local artists and art venues, such as the Little Art Theatre, a new performing arts center and more public art and village-wide “chautauqua” events, Borchers feels proud to say that the group has moved forward on most of its charges. The group itself has built capacity, the Little Art has a new nonprofit board, the village has at least five new public art installations and the group has partnered with businesses and organizations in town to hold three Yellow Springs Experiences and several other events, such as two multi-media concerts at Oten and this weekend’s Love-In.

“We’ve been following our promise and our mission to support more art venues and more art activity,” Borchers said. And while the group works toward eventually creating a new arts facility, Arts Council continues to gain experience about what works and what doesn’t work. The activity of using the “village as a center for the arts is still valuable as a concept,” Borchers said. And the more people that can get involved now, the more mature the organization will be when the time is right to create a permanent facility, he said.

“Saturday Night with Julia Sweeney” will also include a silent auction, a live auction, a raffle and dinner with complimentary wine. Admission will be $50 per person. The Antioch School hopes to raise $25,000 through the event, and the Morgan Family Foundation of Yellow Springs has pledged a matching gift of up to $50,000 for every dollar donated to the School the night of the event.

For more information or to reserve tickets, contact M.J. Richlen at 767-7642.  Seating is limited to 250. Visit http://vimeo.com/31657410 to see “The Antioch School 90th Anniversary Video.”

Growing Up Female is notable in many ways, not the least of which is the age and relative inexperience of the filmmakers, who were 20 and 22 when they finished it in 1970. Its timing and relevance to the political climate ensured a receptive audience and generated a symbiosis between the work and the feminist movement, each fueling and being fueled by the other. And because in order to make a political impact, the film had to be distributed, the filmmakers are coincidentally this year celebrating the 40th anniversary of the distribution cooperative, New Day Films, that they created to launch their film.

When Reichert came up with the idea for the film as her senior project, neither Reichert nor Klein considered him or herself a filmmaker. At Antioch, Reichert was part of a nascent women’s consciousness raising group, and she was looking for a way to connect with other women and share their common experience.

“We never said we were filmmakers then. We were activists who wanted to change the world,” Reichert said in an interview in January. “We wanted to use photos, radio and film to expose truths, raise awareness and get people to take a step, get people to make a difference.”

Now, 40 years later, what stands out most for both filmmakers is the credit due the college for giving them the space to make a project completely on their terms, they said in an interview last week.

“So much of it had to do with the fact that we were at Antioch — that the film got made at all and got out,” Reichert said.

“Antioch College should be so proud — it would never have been made anywhere else,” Klein added.

The filmmakers will screen Growing Up Female at Little Art Theatre on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 4 p.m. They will be joined by local resident Judy Rose, one of the Yellow Springs women featured in the film. The screening will also include “Up Against the Wall, Miss America,” an experimental documentary made around the same time about the 1968 beauty pageant and protest.

Growing Up Female, the first feature length film of the women’s movement, looks at the lives of six girls and women and the institutional forces that shape them. The film was shot in the area, much of it in Yellow Springs, and includes scenes at the Community Children’s Center, Vernay Laboratories, Dewine’s Pond, Earth Rose and footage of downtown Xenia before the 1975 tornado. One of the teachers interviewed in the film is from Mills Lawn Elementary, two of the residents interviewed worked at Vernay, and local resident Judy Rose, then Judy Russell, is the stay-at-home mother featured in the film.

Though Reichert and Klein wrote and strategized for several months before the shooting, all the footage was shot in 10 days on a 10-millimeter sync-sound camera by a University of Cincinnati film student who had access to equipment. Reichert and Klein then split the editing time equally (a job that would typically have been left to the man at that time), because they wanted to live their belief that “the personal is political.” The 50-minute film is edited at a 2:1 ratio, meaning that the film includes one minute of film for every two minutes of footage (most films have a much larger shooting ratio).

Having deliberately chosen to make a film about “ordinary” women, the filmmakers were pleased that the film got the attention of some of the “famous” women they could have interviewed instead. Writer and activist Susan Sontag wrote of Growing Up Female, “It’s one of those painful experiences that’s good for you…I wish every high school kid in America could see this film.” According to Gloria Steinem, the film is “A true and piercing look at American womanhood.” They weren’t the only admirers of the work.

Each year since 1989, the Library of Congress has chosen 25 films that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant for the national registry. That Growing Up Female now shares a spot next to classic films such as Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, was rather shocking at first for Reichert and Klein. They recently saw a film documenting the films on the registry, including theirs.

“I was literally shaking,” Klein said. “There were all these great American films, and then there’s Growing Up Female…and it was like, how did they select our film?!”

But actually, while the registry does hit the big names, its mission is also breadth, meaning that it includes more obscure documentaries such as Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers, a 1980 film about the ‘stinking rose,’ 1937 newsreel footage about the Hindenburg disaster, and newly selected this year, A Cure for Pokeritis.

And popularity is a measure of quality that the film registry board apparently takes into consideration, the filmmakers said. When they learned that the Women in Film and Video organization in Washington, D.C. had been trying to get their film on the registry for several years, “they activated their people, we activated our people” in a letter writing campaign recommending its selection. In December, a Washington Post article naming the 2011 selections said that two of the films had received a notably high number of letters, which were Forrest Gump and Growing Up Female.

That so many people are familiar with the film is also a product of the Antioch grassroots spirit. When the film was finally completed, the filmmakers were tasked with the most important part of the project: its promulgation. So Reichert picked up the only copy of the film and trekked it in person from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, D.C., New York and Boston, hitting YMCA’s and women’s centers and raising enough money at each stop to get to the next city.

But in order to get the film out to a wider audience, the filmmakers decided to submit it to a New York City distributor, who rejected it. That fate, they now believe, “was the best thing that could have happened.” A little later, when they were approached by Growth Press, a commercial educational film distributor, which promised to make their publicity task a lot simpler if they signed over the rights to the work, they declined. The point of the film, they discovered, was to spur discussion among women through a film about other women. It was a grass-roots effort, not to be co-opted or worse, altered or reframed by a commercial outlet, likely run by men.

“So we had to learn how to do it our own way,” Reichert said.

Klein taught himself how to use the college’s offset press to print posters and promotional material, and then, gathering the mailing lists of all the schools and organizations Reichert had visited on her trips East (and purchasing additional lists as well), they held a stuffing party at Antioch, advertising the film’s availability to as many places they could imagine might be interested. And the orders came, slowly at first, and eventually ratcheting up so high they had to make 30 copies of the film to serve the demand. It was the birth of their cooperative, New Day Films, named after the pictorial signature of a rising sun by their Antioch film teacher David Brooks. The film collective, which currently includes about 100 filmmakers who have produced over 200 films, has continued to support the kinds of films that engage audiences in the social issues of the times.

Growing Up Female launched Klein and Reichert into lives as filmmakers. Together, the two went on to make two Oscar-nominated documentaries, Union Maids and Seeing Red. Separately, they have continued to win awards, including an Emmy for A Lion in the House by Reichert and Steven Bognar.

And it all began at Antioch College.

“Sometimes I read a play, then re-read it, and it keeps growing on me,” he said in a recent interview.

Now Dallas is especially pleased to be directing Eleemosynary for the University of Dayton theater department. The production, which features Yellow Springs actor Marcia Nowik in a leading role, will be presented Feb. 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11 at 8 p.m., and Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Boll Theater in the school’s Kennedy Union. Tickets are $10, and $7 for students.

The one-act play focuses on three generations of strong, intelligent women, each one shaped and in some cases limited by the time in which she came of age. The matriarch, Dorothea, is a willful eccentric, while her brilliant daughter, Artemis, is a scientist estranged from both her mother and her daughter. The daughter, Echo, is a champion speller (eleemosynary is a spelling word that means “related to charity”) who has been raised by Dorothea, and is now trying to bring her mother and grandmother together after years of estrangement.

Described by the Philadelphia City Paper as “elegant, witty, and carefully wrought,” and by the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch as “funny, perceptive and eloquently written,” the play addresses the attempts by each woman to come to terms with the complex relationships between them, along with the gifts and challenges that they pass from one generation to another.

“I wish every mother could take her daughter to see it,” said Nowik, who plays Dorothea. However, while Eleemosynary is a play about women, “I don’t think it’s only a woman’s play. I think it’s bigger than that.”

The play, which includes lines such as, “Don’t ever have a daughter. She won’t like you,” and “We each try to be what the next generation needs, but we never come close,” addresses difficult and painful issues between mothers and daughters. But it’s also a play with “a big heart, with an urge toward mending, toward reconciliation,” according to Dallas.

Part of the play’s humanity can be credited to the directing, according to Nowik, who said that Dallas “finds the depth and humanity” of the play,” and “never takes the easy way out.”

And to Dallas, the play’s strength is linked to the performance by Nowik, who he invited to play Dorothea.

“Marsha has ripened into such a deep and resonant actor with a wonderful internal life,” Dallas said, describing that interior life as “transparent and deeply rooted.”

The two have worked together before, with Dallas directing Nowik in two Antioch College Shakespeare productions, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Tempest, in which Nowik played the leading role. As well as appreciating Nowik’s performance in Eleemosynary, Dallas is delighted with her influence on the other cast members.

“When you have a very good actor, it brings everyone else up,” he said.

Eleemosynary is Dallas’ 12th production with UD, and he directs a play about once a year at the school. He has developed a rapport with Darrell Anderson, the head of the theater department and a set designer, he said, seeing Anderson as someone who has taught him “the importance of the set and how the actors move on the space. That’s been one of the most fortunate relationships I’ve had in theater.”

Perhaps the most influential relationship was that Dallas had with his father, Meredith Dallas, an actor, director and Antioch College theater faculty member who was a driving force behind the college’s annual Shakespeare festival during the early 1960s. Dallas remembers as a boy watching his father “deeply enjoying the process” of directing, and he feels that enjoyment as well.

Theater is “a venue for deep exploration,” to Tony Dallas, and “as a director, there is deep joy in the journey. You don’t have to be aiming at perfection.”

Part of the journey’s excitement is watching a play come alive, Dallas said, a process he also links to his father’s influence. Meredith, like his son, aimed to collaborate with his actors to discover their characters, rather than simply giving them instructions on how to play a part.

“For me, the most exciting part of working with actors is the place of discovery,” Tony Dallas says, “when suddenly you see leaps happen, when the show takes on life and energy.” He appreciates that Nowik, too, seems to thrive with the collaborative method, and that she has produced a rich portrait of a character who can be played as one-dimensional.

“It’s easy to make her a monster,” she said of her character. “But for me as an actress, the challenge is to find moments where you can see the humanity of Dorothea, and of most mothers.”

Living in the Midwest can be limiting to someone who works in the theater, Nowik and Dallas agree. For a director, there’s less opportunity for experimentation, according to Dallas, because plays produced tend to reflect what’s popular on Broadway. And it’s more difficult to see a wide variety of plays.

But there can also be advantages. For instance, professional actors often have preconceived notions of how a character should be played, and therefore are less open to collaboration.

“It’s not always a richer experience working with professionals,” Nowik said. “The joy of working with nonprofessionals is you stay longer in the process of discovery.”

Nowik left the theater for several years, but she has recently come back, and last year was one of a local ensemble that put on Chekhov’s A Cherry Orchard to raise money to revive theater in the village. Both she and Dallas would like to see a thriving community theater in Yellow Springs, and hope that these efforts succeed.

Wherever they work, both Dallas and Nowik will continue to seek the process of “deep exploration,” joy and discovery that they find in the process of putting on a play.

“Being with people who engage in that way, it doesn’t matter where you are,” Nowik said. “We take the gifts and are grateful wherever they appear.”

For information about tickets to Eleemosynary, contact the UD box office at 229-2545.

Organized by the Yellow Springs Arts Council, the Love-In festivities run from Friday, Feb. 10 through Sunday, Feb. 12 and feature music, art, peace and activism.

On the Valentine’s Day theme, 23 downtown shops are taking part in the “Tour de Chocolat” on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. Shoppers can pick up free samples, sale items or special offerings of chocolate and cocoa-laced products at participating businesses, which will hang a heart in their window.

Married couples can renew their wedding vows at a fireside ceremony at Ye Olde Trail Tavern on Saturday at 11 a.m. Jannirose Fennimore will officiate. The first 20 couples to reserve their $20 spot will get champagne for the toast, a copy of a group photo and an optional Valentine’s lunch at the Tavern. And because gay couples can’t get married in Ohio, there will be a talk on the status of same-sex marriage in the state. Ed Mullen, the executive director of Equality Ohio, will speak to the issue on Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Emporium.

Peach’s Grill is hosting a ’60s and ’70s music dance party, on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., along with its regular Friday and Saturday night shows. The local rock ‘n’ roll revival band “The Hoppers” will play at the Emporium’s Friday night Wine Tasting. Antioch College will perform (and jam) at the Glen Helen Building Auditorium on Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m.

The weekly peace demonstration, at the corner of Xenia and Limestone Streets, will take place Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. The “John and Yoko” memorial Love-In will be staged in the second floor above The Winds Cafe on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. Also during that time and place, peaceniks are invited to speak at an open mic on peace and love. Environmental activists can love the earth by gathering at the Eco-Mental store on Sunday at 11 a.m. to sign a petition urging Ohio Gov. John Kasich to put a moratorium on fracking, a controversial drilling technique used in natural gas extraction.

In the spirit of love, Village Artisans is hosting a “Mysteries of the Heart,” art show with 30 artists who created works in various media to complete the phrase, “The heart is…” The show runs through Feb. 24 with an artist reception on Friday, Feb. 10, from 6 to 9 p.m.

The whole event is sealed with a kiss or, more precisely, “The Kiss,” a public performance piece first organized by the Jafa Girls in 2008. They’re hoping to get 80 couples to kiss at 3:27 p.m. on Saturday at one of 80 kissing stations throughout town (designated by a pair of large red lips). Those participating should arrive at the First Presbyterian Church at 2:45 p.m. to get assigned to a kissing station and can kiss whomever, or whatever, they want, including mates, animals, teddy bears, their children or anything else.

For the full listing of events, visit: http://www.yellow-springs-experience.org/

Eleemosynary focuses on three generations of strong and independent women, a grandmother, mother and daughter, who are attempting to navigate the disappointments between them, as well as understand the gifts that one generation passes on to the next. The matriarch, Dorothea (played by Nowik) is an eccentric who is estranged from her daughter, Artemis, a brilliant scientist. Dorothea has been raising Echo, the daughter of Artemis, and the girl attempts to bring her mother and grandmother together at a spelling bee, in which she’s a contestant.

Performances are Feb. 3, 4, 9, and 10 at 8 p.m. at the UD Boll Theater at the Kennedy Union. There is also a performance at 7 p.m. on Feb. 5. Tickets are priced at $10, and $7 for students.

“I wish every mother could take her daughter to see it,” Nowik said in a recent interview, although she also believes that, while the play focuses on the three female characters, “I don’t think it’s only a woman’s play. I think it’s bigger than that.”

For more information about the UD performnces, contact the box office at 229-2545.

See the Feb. 2 Yellow Springs News for a more detailed story.

The weekend of February 10–12, near Valentine’s Day, will feature rock music, dancing, peace protests, wedding vow renewals, couple’s yoga, environmental action, valentine craft-making, a chocolate crawl, a lecture on same-sex marriage and more.

With ties to the 1967 Human “Be-In” in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 “Bed-In,” the Love-In is still very Yellow Springs, according to organizers Joanne Caputo and Megan Miller of the Arts Council.

“We’re bringing back the love-in but with Yellow Springs’ meaning,” said Caputo. Fittingly, the idea for a love-in came to Caputo during a meditation in December. It wasn’t long before the Yellow Springs Experience — a collaboration of local arts groups, non-profits and businesses always looking for new ways to bring tourists to town to shop, learn and recreate — came on board.

On the Valentine’s Day theme, 23 downtown shops are taking part in the “Tour de Chocolat” on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. Shoppers can pick up free samples, sale items or special offerings of chocolate and cocoa-laced products at participating businesses, which will hang a heart in their window. Dino’s will brew a new mocha drink; La Llama Place will have Peruvian chocolates on hand; a chocolate stout will be on tap at Peach’s and Current Cuisine will bake chicken mole enchiladas.

There will be many “date opportunities” for couples to celebrate that holiday weekend. Parents can drop off their kids at a valentine-making craft night at the Yellow Springs High School cafeteria, on Friday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. before venturing out on the town kid-free. One place they could head is the Spirited Goat Café for an Espresso Date Night with dessert and coffee, from 7 to 9 p.m. For health-conscious pairs, couples workshops on Thai-Yoga massage on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. at Inner Light Yoga and Wellness and yoga at Yoga Springs Studio on Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. are being offered.

Married couples can renew their wedding vows at a fireside ceremony at Ye Olde Trail Tavern on Saturday at 11 a.m. Jannirose Fennimore will officiate. The first 20 couples to reserve their $20 spot will get champagne for the toast, a copy of a group photo and an optional Valentine’s lunch at the Tavern.

And because gay couples can’t get married in Ohio, Caputo wanted to organize a talk on the status of same-sex marriage in the state. Ed Mullen, the executive director of Equality Ohio, will speak to the issue on Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Emporium.

Throw backs to the Love-In’s 1960s predecessors are sprinkled throughout the event, especially the music, peace and activism. While Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead performed at San Francisco’s Be-In, the Yellow Springs Love-In will have its own, a sampling of 1960s and 1970s music — “the best music there ever was,” in Caputo’s words.

Peach’s Grill is hosting a ’60s and ’70s music dance party, on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., along with its regular Friday and Saturday night shows. The local rock ‘n’ roll revival band “The Hoppers” will play at the Emporium’s Friday night Wine Tasting — with covers such as “Double Shot (of My Baby’s Love)” by the Swingin’ Medallions.

To involve and appeal to the youth — who played a big part in 1960s counterculture events — the Experience enlisted a group of Antioch College students for a rocking musical performance and jam session at the Glen Helen Building Auditorium on Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m.

According to Antioch College student and event organizer Megan Miller, a “good chunk” of the college’s 34 students, along with some teachers, will bring their guitars, keyboards and other instruments (someone found a cowbell, Miller reported). And because several students happen to have Star Wars costumes (including a Wookie suit and Han Solo pants), the students may perform as the “Star Wars Troubadours,” or some similar name, Miller said.

Harkening back to John and Yoko’s honeymoon Bed-In to promote world peace, there will be a variety of peace-themed activities during the Love-In. While John and Yoko sang “Give Peace a Chance” from bed, the village’s peace activists take to the streets weekly with signs and chants against wars abroad, economic inequality and more. Their demonstration, always open to any peace-loving person, will take place Saturday from noon to 1 p.m.

John and Yoko will make an appearance at the Love-In too, in the form of two re-enactors. The “John and Yoko” memorial Love-In will be staged in the second floor above The Winds Cafe on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. Also during that time and place, peaceniks are invited to speak at an open mic on peace and love. Scheduled speakers include a representative from the Yellow Springs Quaker Meeting and the Dayton Peace Museum.

Environmental activists can love the earth by gathering at the Eco-Mental store on Sunday at 11 a.m. to sign a petition urging Ohio Gov. John Kasich to put a moratorium on fracking, a controversial drilling technique used in natural gas extraction.

In the spirit of love, Village Artisans is hosting a “Mysteries of the Heart,” art show with 30 artists who created works in various media to complete the phrase, “The heart is…” The show runs through Feb. 24 with an artist reception on Friday, Feb. 10, from 6 to 9 p.m.

Dress is “nothing near formal wear,” Caputo said. Blue jeans and bellbottoms are part of the dress code, while tie-dyed T-shirts and flowers in your hair are optional, according to a brochure. And when Love-In participants have “been there and done that,” they can buy the T-shirt. Basho will be screen-printing A Love-In commemorative T-shirt on Friday and Saturday and selling it for just $10.

The whole event is sealed with a kiss or, more precisely, “The Kiss,” a public performance piece first organized by the Jafa Girls in 2008. They’re hoping to get 80 couples to kiss at 3:27 p.m. on Saturday at one of 80 kissing stations throughout town (designated by a pair of large red lips). Those participating should arrive at the First Presbyterian Church at 2:45 p.m. to get assigned to a kissing station and can kiss whomever, or whatever, they want, including mates, animals, teddy bears, their children or anything else, according to Caputo.

Though villagers might be tempted to have their own “Love-In” in bed on Valentine’s Day weekend, Caputo encouraged them to venture out for a few activities. And she hopes the event will draw from the region both “the hippies” and “the hip” to Yellow Springs, which, to her, always felt like the “Haight Ashbury of Ohio,” she said.

A pioneer in establishing the guitar quartet as a legitimate chamber music form, the Minneapolis group has been together for 25 years, and is considered to be at the top of its field. Founder Joe Hagedorn won the Guitar Foundation of America solo competition in 1990 and Ben Gateno won the Andres Segovia award. Other group members are Steven Newbrough and Wade Oden.

The group has programmed new works written for them by Van Stiefel and David Crittenden, and arrangements of works by Astor Piazzolla, Claude Debussy, Maria Kalaniemi, Igor Stravinsky and Joaquin Rodrigo.

Tickets for the event are $20 for adults and $6 for students. To reserve tickets or attend the post-concert reception and dinner, phone 937-374-8800.