Monthly Music Mix: A Night in the Piazza

1800 Main Street,Tupelo MS 38801

12 November, 2021

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Friday, November 12, 2021 Link Centre Concert Hall featuring cast from the University of Mississippi's production of The Light in the Piazza A Night in the PiazzaFriday, November 12, 2021, 7:30 pm Link Centre Concert HallTickets: $15/advance, $18/door * An evening of music and conversation with cast members from the University of Mississippi's production of Adam Guettel's Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza. In celebration of Mississippi writer Elizabeth Spencer’s one hundredth birthday, the University of Mississippi Department of Music is staging a November 2021 production of The Light in the Piazza, a musical based on Spencer’s novella of the same name. Featuring: Blake McIver Ewing (stage director)Amanda Johnston (music director) Emma Johnson (Clara) Isaiah Traylor (Fabrizio) Zoe Bofill (Franca) Blake McIver Ewing's vast experience in the entertainment industry is derived from multiple disciplines. His creative accomplishments range from film and television to live theatre and the recording studio. Performing on network television at age six, Blake was always just as interested in what went on behind the camera as in front of it. His starring roles on hit series such as “Full House” and “Hey Arnold” led to feature films including “The Little Rascals” and gave him the opportunity to work with Steven Spielberg and Penelope Spheeris. Appearing in the World Premiere of the hit musical, “Ragtime”, Blake’s love of musical theatre was ignited. Tony Award winning director, Frank Galati instilled in him a structure for mounting a production that Blake continues to use today. While managing his own theatre company, YMTA, Blake directed a production of Elton John and Tim Rice’s “AIDA” at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and produced the critically acclaimed LA regional premiere production of “The Light in the Piazza” at the El Portal Theatre. Blake is also a graduate of UCLA.Canadian collaborative pianist Amanda Johnston is Professor of Music at the University of Mississippi where she acts as Music Director/Vocal Coach for the Opera Theatre; teaches courses in advanced diction; and coaches students at the undergraduate and graduate level. She is author of English and German Diction for Singers: A Comparative Approach, 2nd edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), highly praised in the Journal of Singing for “enlivening the study of diction.” Her recordings include Pleas to Famous Fairies with Linda Lister, soprano (Albany Records 2018); Métissage with Adam Estes, saxophone (MSR Classics 2017); and Mahler: Rückert-Lieder with Julia Morgan, mezzo soprano (MSR Classics 2012). Amanda Johnston has been broadcast on CBC Radio 2, Classical 96.3 FM, CKWR, and NPR and has performed in Hong Kong, Canada, the United States, Germany, France, Austria, and Scotland. Important COVID-19 Policy Information At Link Centre, we care about each other. Face coverings are required in all public areas of our facility. We house numerous other organizations and serve people of all ages, many of whom are too young to have a choice about whether or not to receive a COVID vaccine. Thank you for helping us do the best we can to keep everyone as safe as possible. *To all ticket holders: Your ticket is a revocable license and may be taken up and admission refused upon refunding the purchase price appearing hereon and is grounds for seizure and cancellation without compensation. Holder of this ticket (“Holder”) voluntarily assumes all risks and danger incidental to the event for which this ticket is issued whether occurring prior to, during, or after same, including, but not limited to, contracting, and/or spreading the COVID-19 virus, and agrees that the organization, venue, presenter, agents, participants, or artists are not responsible or liable for any injuries, sickness, or death resulting from such causes. Holder acknowledges that the COVID-19 pandemic remains a threat to individual and public health, COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease transmitted through human contact and respiratory droplets (including through the air and via common surfaces) and it is possible that Holder may contract COVID-19 while at the event for which this ticket is issued. Holder agrees by use of this ticket not to transmit or aid in transmitting any description, account, picture, or reproduction of the event to which this ticket is issued. Breach of the foregoing will automatically terminate this license. Holder agrees that the license comprised by this ticket may be removed and Holder may be ejected from the event for which this ticket is issued in the event that Holder violates any law, ordinance, or venue regulation. Holder grants permission to the organization sponsoring the event for which this ticket is issued to use Holder’s image or likeness in connection with any video or other transmission or reproduction of the event to which this ticket relates. Celebrate creativity. Engage partners. Build community. Enrich lives.