Trio to perform new music
The janus trio, an ensemble of flute, viola and harp, will perform a concert of new works March 3 at 8
p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center at Bowling Green State University as part of
the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music’s Music at the Forefront series. The program includes
works by Cameron Britt, Caleb Burhans, Anna Clyne, Claude Debussy, Angelica Negron and Kaija Saariaho.
Brooklyn-based janus – flutist Amanda Baker, violist Beth Meyers and harpist Nuiko Wadden – was formed in
2002 with the goal of presenting and creating new repertoire for the trio through commissioning projects
and collaborations. To date, janus has added more than 20 new pieces to the trio library. The trio
records for New Amsterdam Records and can be heard on its debut release, "i am not." The trio
is also featured on "Gravity and Air," a release from fellow New Amsterdam artist Andrew
McKenna Lee.
Happy Badger hosts shows
The Happy Badger Cafe, 331 N. Main St., Bowing Green, is hosting several musical events over the next few
weeks.
Scheduled are:
¥ Saturday, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., a musical brunch with Mark Hutchins
¥ March 5, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., a musical brunch with blues performers Blue Moon, Laurie Swyers and Mary
Dick.
¥ March 11 at 6 p.m., a dinner show with Inland Traveler from Brooklyn.
¥ March 12, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., a musical brunch with The Amish Country Doctors with a presentation with
the Beehive Design Collective following the music.
Comedy to help dig well in Africa, aid food pantries
WATERVILLE – Theatre-for-the-World and the Waterville United Methodist Church will present the comedy
"Over the River and Through the Woods" Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee on
Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in the church’s sanctuary at 102 N. Fifth St.
The show will benefit the Anthony Wayne and Otsego food pantries and a fund to dig a well in Africa.
3B cast ‘Beauty & Beast’
MONCLOVA – 3B Productions will hold auditions for the musical version of "Disney’s Beauty and the
Beast" Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. and Tuesday from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Garden Park Christian Church,
8605 Salisbury Road.
Show dates are May 5 through 8 at the Maumee Indoor Theatre.
Questions contact the director Joe Barton at [email protected].
Organ symphony featured on orchestra’s program
TOLEDO – The Toledo Symphony orchestra will perform Camille Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, known
as the "Organ" Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle.
Selections from the symphony were used in the score for the hit movie "Babe."
The symphony, conducted by Christoph Campestrini, will also perform Richard Strauss’ tone poem "Don
Juan" and Max Bruch’s Concerto for Violin and Viola, featuring orchestra members Kirk Toth, violin,
and Valentin Ragusitu, viola.
Tickets are $20 to $50. Call (419) 246-8000 .
Online:
www.toledosymphony.com.
Expert to discussed rediscovered Rembrandt
TOLEDO – The expert who helped to validate that Rembrandt Laughing is indeed a portrait from the hand of
Rembrandt will speak at the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle in March 3 at 7 p.m. Professor Ernst van de
Wetering of Amsterdam, the world’s leading authority on Rembrandt, will discuss the authentication
process for this rare find.
Currently on loan to the Museum, Rembrandt Laughing is on display in Gallery 24 in the Toledo Museum
through May 1.
The small oil-on-copper self portrait was painted by Rembrandt in his native city of Leiden when he was
just 21 or 22 years old. The portrait was mistakenly attributed to his older contemporary Frans Hals,
and was reproduced as Hals’s work in an engraving. Some scholars realized the mistake, but they couldn’t
prove their case because the original was lost.
The painting made headlines in 2007 after the English family who owned it for nearly 100 years decided to
sell it through a local auction house. The portrait was attributed to a follower of Rembrandt, with an
estimated value of only $1,600-$2,400. Art dealers, however, recognized its quality and importance, and
bidding went to more than two thousand times that amount.
