RE: Save the Date: 15th Annual Broadway/Opera Concert!
Lewis, Richard M.
Dear friends and colleagues,
Hello and good evening. I am excited about our fifteenth annual free concert on Sunday, August 24 – “Down with Love.” On July 11, I sent a Save the Date notice from a new email address, which I have learned several of your spam filters promptly filed in “junk.” So I am back to using my regular email address to reconnect with everyone and make sure you receive today’s message. My apologies to those for whom this is redundant. We hope to see you on August 24!
We are well into July, and that means our fifteenth annual free concert is just weeks away. Save the date for
Down with for Love: Battle of the Exes in Broadway, Opera, and the Great American Songbook, featuring great tunes by Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, and Bloomington’s own Hoagy Carmichael. Join us on
Sunday, August 24 at 4:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 221 East Sixth Street (corner of 6th and Lincoln, near downtown Bloomington).
Last year we tried something new and charted one couple’s love story through a variety of songs, arias, and scenes. This year we flip the script! We’ll focus on two feuding
exes who show up to perform at the same gala concert, brought together by their booking manager who wants to barter a truce – but who has another motive as well. Will romantic chemistry save the day, or will everyone declare that they are done – and
down – with love? Pittsburgh soprano Anna Singer and North Carolina tenor
Joseph Ittoop reunite with Bloomington baritone Richard Lewis for this romantic comedy, and Baton Rouge conductor
Michael Borowitz rejoins us at the piano. Our operatic scenes by Bizet, Mozart, Puccini, and Tchaikovsky are featured in the “gala” concert-within-a-concert, while our characters express their emotions in great songs like “I Get Along without You Very
Well,” “So in Love,” and “How Long Has This Been Going On?”
We continue our annual tradition of accepting donations to benefit Fairview Elementary School’s literacy and arts integration programs. Since 2014, you – our dedicated, generous audience – have raised over $36,000 for these vital programs. Your generosity helps provide Fairview students – whose families often face significant economic challenges – with opportunities to excel in ways they may never have dreamed possible. We will provide information at the concert about ways to give in person, by QR code, or securely online. Thank you!
We will film our live concert for a fall YouTube broadcast so that we can share this musical event with our online audience. For now, please plan to join us in person on Sunday, August 24 at 4:00 p.m. for Down with Love: Battle of the Exes in Broadway, Opera, and the Great American Songbook. Feel free to share this invitation and the attached image with others. See you soon!
On Facebook: “Down with Love: Battle of the Exes”.
