Is anyone else going to the German American Festival???

 

http://www.gafsociety.org/fest.htm

They will be performing for 7 days (3 times on Saturday).  Here is all the info below and where u can get a discount on tickets:

 

Tickets are on sale now and you can purchase them at a $4 discount by using the discount code MOM at checkout. Purchase your tickets at Ticketmaster http://www.ticketmaster.com/promo/fwcyj0.

 

There are restrictions with the discount: Not valid on Circus Celebrity or VIP seats; no double discounts; limit 6 per order.

 

Show Dates: SEPTEMBER 22-26, 2010 at Huntington Center

 

Ticket Prices: $12-$70

 

Schedule (7 total performances):

WED, Sept 22: 7 PM

THU, Sept 23: 7 PM

FRI, Sept 24: 7 PM

SAT, Sept 25: 11 AM; 3 PM; 7 PM

SUN, Sept 26: 1 PM; 5 PM

 

Remember to use the discount code MOM to receive $4 off

Sounds fun!

IMMEDIATE

Contact:

Carla Firestone, Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority Communications Director - Mobile: 419.260.9981

Paul LaMarre, S.S. Willis B. Boyer Executive Director – 419.260.9985

Christopher Gillcrist, Great Lakes Historical Society Executive Director – 216.956.9734

 

S.S. WILLIS B. BOYER PREPARES FOR 100TH ANNIVERSARY

CELEBRATION DURING JULY 4 WEEKEND

 

Toledo, Ohio – March 24, 2011 – July 1, 2011 is the centennial of the S.S. Willis B. Boyer Museum Ship and also

marks the date she will be rechristened to Col. James M. Schoonmaker. This event marks the beginning of a three day

Centennial Celebration sponsored by the Toledo Blade which will include a visit from the Privateer Schooner LYNX, a

historic Toledo Club boxing event aboard the ship and the annual Red White Kaboom fireworks presentation.

 

On July 1, 2011, the Boyer, wearing her original Shenango Furnace Co. livery, will be rechristened to her original

namesake, Col James M. Schoonmaker, by James M. Schoonmaker II and his wife Treecie, at the exact moment his

mother Gretchen V. Schoonmaker christened the vessel 100 years earlier. Also in attendance for the rechristening will

be William P. Snyder III, grandson of the vessel's original owner William P. Snyder who was best friends with the

colonel and thus named his flagship after him. The christening will officially mark the beginning of the three-day

Centennial Celebration and the downtown Toledo Fourth of July festivities. Further details regarding the planned

activities will be announced in the near future.

 

In preparation for the S.S. Willis B. Boyer’s upcoming centennial this summer, the vessel has been undergoing major

restoration. As the future centerpiece of the National Great Lakes Maritime Museum in Toledo, the Great Lakes

Historical Society see's great value in achieving the vessel's complete restoration for her 100th anniversary. This

project will mark the first major step towards the national museum's creation, and demonstrates the society's firm

commitment to the Toledo region.

 

In February, Precision Environmental of Cleveland, Ohio began utilizing the $200,000 U.S. EPA RLF Cleanup grant

awarded to the City of Toledo last year, which marks the first step in the Boyer's restoration. The next phase in the

restoration will begin on April 4, 2011 and will be conducted by P&W Painting Contractors in conjunction with the

Painters Local 7, where they will begin the completion of sandblasting and repainting of the ship above the waterline.

 

Two major material sponsors for the project include PPG Marine Coatings, which will be donating nearly all of the

coatings needed to complete the priming and top-coating of the vessel, and Harsco Inc. which will be donating all 130

tons of Black Beauty sandblasting media. Other sponsors include Warner Petroleum, Geo. Gradel Co., Seaway

Scaffolding and Samsel Supply.

 

Two benefactors who have made this project possible and will underwrite all associated expenses are the James M.

Schoonmaker Foundation and Great Lakes Historical Society. James M. Schoonmaker II, grandson of the vessel's

original namesake, has donated $100,000 to the restoration effort through the James M. Schoonmaker Foundation.

 

It is the mission of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority to continuously leverage our strategic geographic position, resources

and economic development proficiency to provide increased business opportunities—built upon and around our innovative

transportation and logistics expertise—while promoting our community and region within the global marketplace. We will accomplish

this through unmatched speed and efficiency of service, collaborative and strategic partnerships, community stewardship and the

continued generation and execution of new ideas and innovations.

http://www.wqxr.org/articles/live-broadcasts/2011/apr/19/toledo-symphony-orchestra-complete-program-notes/

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/arts/music/spring-for-music-festival-to-open-at-carnegie-hall.html

 

 

“…the Toledo Symphony, conducted by Stefan Sanderling, presents on Saturday night. It pairs Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony with André Previn’s “Every Good Boy Deserves Favor,” a musical-theater work for actors and instrumental ensemble on a text by the playwright Tom Stoppard. The story is set in a Russian gulag, and the orchestra portrays a mysterious character who could be, the music suggests, a mentally unstable prisoner. This piece should complement the moody, dark and, by its last movement, quite boisterous Sixth Symphony, an intriguing and ungainly work, not that often heard, composed in 1939 when Shostakovich was under scrutiny by the Soviet state.”

 

Toledo Symphony gets outstanding review (note: NY Times article reviews two orchestras; below is the complete Toledo portion)

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/arts/music/orpheus-and-toledo-symphony-at-carnegie-hall-review.html

 

"The Toledo Symphony, on the other hand, stormed Carnegie, with 1,400 Ohio citizens in tow (in an audience of more than 2,000), and its program, dwelling on the plight of the individual in an oppressive society, proved a masterstroke. It opened with Shostakovich’s slightly eccentric Symphony No. 6, written in 1939, after a serious strain in the composer’s relations with the Soviet regime.

 

Stefan Sanderling — the orchestra’s principal conductor, who described a personal relationship with the work in the program notes — conducted a brilliant performance. The orchestra may not always have shown the overall sheen of its more famous neighbors in Ohio, and the performance was not flawless, with an occasional false entrance or loose attack. But the playing pondered deeply or surged with energy, as appropriate to the moment, and on this occasion the orchestra fully measured up to high Carnegie standards.

 

“Every Good Boy Deserves Favor” — the Tom Stoppard playlet with music by André Previn, directed by Cornel Gabara — filled out the program in high style. Mr. Stoppard toys with levels of reality, delusion and deception. The three main characters are either father, antagonist and son, or simply different manifestations of a single person, and the conceit includes an orchestra, real and imagined.

 

Mr. Stoppard does not bring Shostakovich directly into the picture, but Mr. Previn does, with uncanny takeoffs on the master’s music woven into more generic writing. The orchestra had less to do here than in the symphony, but it did it equally well, right down to silent miming when the music existed only in a character’s head.

 

In all, the evening was a genuine coup for the orchestra and its gifted conductor."

 

 

^Great news!

Rail Fest rolls into Fostoria

 

By CHANDRA NIKLEWSKI

STAFF WRITER

 

The Fostoria Rail Fest is gearing up for another year of trains and the rail fans who love them.

 

The Rail Fest is planned for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 24, at Fostoria Intermediate Elementary School, formerly Fostoria Middle School. Admission is $2 for adults and any children 12 or younger accompanied by an adult are free.

 

The Rail Fest will follow the groundbreaking for the Iron Triangle Rail Park, which is currently scheduled for Sept. 23.

 

Fostoria Rail Preservation Society Treasurer and Secretary Ellen Gatrell said the format would be roughly the same as last year and she is currently looking into prices to arrange to have flights take off from the airport to show fans the area from the air, including the new inter-modal yard in North Baltimore. The plans to do the same last year didn't quite work out.

 

Read more at: http://www.reviewtimes.com/Issues/2011/Aug/15/ar_news_081511_story1.asp?d=081511_story1,2011,Aug,15&c=n

Annual Rail Fest on track

 

By HANNAH NUSSER

STAFF WRITER

 

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

That's been the motto for members of the Fostoria Rail Preservation Society in planning the 10th annual Fostoria Rail Festival, slated for Saturday.

 

The festival is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Fostoria Intermediate School, and will offer activities for everyone from children to adults, from rail fans to casually-interested folk, said FRPS President Aaron Gonya.

 

The key to making the 10th annual festival a growing success is building on what they did right last year, Gonya said of organizing the event.

 

"The biggest thing about our festival is that we've reached where we want to be," Gonya said. "We're going to just continue to tweak and improve it."

 

Read more at: http://www.reviewtimes.com/Issues/2011/Sep/22/ar_news_092211_story1.asp?d=092211_story1,2011,Sep,22&c=n

Officials break ground on Fostoria's rail park project

By HANNAH NUSSER

STAFF WRITER

 

 

Despite the rain, Fostoria residents, city officials and rail fans turned out to witness the first dirt being shoveled for the official ground breaking of the Fostoria Iron Triangle Rail Park.

 

More than 10 years in the making, the Rail Park reality is a dream come true for rail fans and city officials, as it is believed to bring more tourism to Fostoria. With its central location in the city, between South Poplar Street and Columbus Avenue, the opening of the park will bring with it the revitalization of downtown Fostoria, Davoli said.

 

"We know the impact this is going to have on our downtown," he said. "This is going to be the catalyst for our downtown revitalization. The spinoff dollars and spinoff of business from this rail park is going to have a tremendous "¦ effect on our downtown, long term."

 

Full story at: http://www.reviewtimes.com/Issues/2011/Sep/24/ar_news_092411_story1.asp?d=092411_story1,2011,Sep,24&c=n