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Singing String Music
Performance/Production
Publishing/Studio
Concerts, Workshops & Residencies
Understanding History Thru Music ™
Specialists in 19th- & Early 20th-Century Music
From Parlor and Stage
American & Celtic Traditions
Period Instruments *** Historically-Informed Performance
A composition by Jim premieres at the Mary Baker Eddy Library!
The Mary Baker Eddy Library is located at 200 Massachusetts Avenue, between Huntington Avenue and Boylston Street, Boston, MA.
APR 13 2008 (Sunday) 8 p.m.
MUSIC: The Boston Conservatory Women's Chorus
Miguel Felipe, Conductor
Twentieth-century American works written originally for women,
including the premiere of a work by Boston Conservatory faculty member James Dalton.
HENRY COWELL: American Muse, C. 641 (1943)
*** DALTON: She Moves Through the Fair (2008, premiere) ***
DANIEL PINKHAM: An Emily Dickinson Mosaic (1963)
IRVING FINE: Choruses from Alice in Wonderland (1942, 1953)
AARON COPLAND: An Immortality (1925)
Mary Baker Eddy Library, Hall of Ideas, FREE
at the Boston Conservatory: APR 12 -- 13 (Saturday -- Sunday) 2 p.m.
THEATER: Chess
In this concert version, Chess tells the story of a romantic triangle
between two players in a world chess championship,
during the Cold War,
and the woman who manages one
and falls in love with the other.
The score alone is highly regarded as
one of the best musical theater compositions ever written.
Kevin M. Kline,* Director. F. Wade Russo,* Musical Director.
Lyrics by Tim Rice. Music by Bj–rn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, of ABBA fame.
The Boston Conservatory Theater, $20/$18/$10/$5
Cornerstone Books
45 Lafayette Street Salem, Massachusetts 01970
(978) 744-1831 Phone (617) 812-2562 Fax
www.cornerstonebooks-salem.com
Celtic Winter Evenings Part III
with Jim Dalton and Maggi Smith-Dalton
-- Our third"Celtic Winter Evening" together!
Our theme is "Love, in All Its Guises."
Bring your favorite poetry (from any source) to share, or a short tale to read...
We'll celebrate with Celtic music, poetry, and stories
in the third of our Celtic Winter Evenings.
DESCRIPTION OF SERIES:
SALEM -- Gather 'round through the winter,
sharing a melodious fireside
with Jim and Maggi Dalton
-- snug and warm at cozy Cornerstone Books in Salem, Mass.
(www.cornerstonebooks-salem.com)
on three Saturday winter evenings,
beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Dec.15, 2007.
The onset of the cold, dark half of the year was the time
when the Celtic bards of old held sway
It was the time to gather indoors around the fire
and hear songs, poems and stories.
Join modern-day bards, Jim and Maggi Dalton,
around the fireplace at Cornerstone Books, Salem,
as they recreate this atmosphere with songs and tales of the Celtic lands.
Bring a story or poem (from any cultural tradition) -- memorized or to read --
perhaps even selected from the many books at Cornerstone).
You could even recite your favorite prophecy
for the year just beginning to stir ahead.
The series will continue into 2008.
Dec. 15 (suggested theme: Winter Season/Holidays);
Jan. 26, 2008 (suggested theme: a one-day-after- "Burns Night"
poetry-fest)
and Feb. 16, 2008 (suggested theme: Love -- in all its Guises)
For More information contact Jim or Maggi and Beth Simpson at Cornerstone Books, Salem
300 YEARS OF CHRISTMASTIDE IN AMERICA (AMERICAN CHRISTMAS MUSIC)
"300 Years of Christmastide in America" is a musical/historical journey across the United States, geographically, historically, AND stylistically. Music is interspersed with poignant, amusing, or surprising anecdotes, most of them collected from primary sources -- drawn from all kinds of celebrations (or NON-celebrations) of the Christmas season throughout American history, from the earliest years to modern times.
Geographically, too, we traverse the country through each era's music and narrative.
This program has been a seasonal favorite with audiences across the U.S.
(We've already performed this program in New Hampshire this Season...
and now we swing South!)
Friday, December 21, 2007 3-5:30 P.M.
Christkindlmarkt, Bethlehem, PA
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Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007 2:30 & 4:30 p.m.
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia "Where History Lives"
"300 Years of Christmastide in America"
JOIN US at our Cornerstone Books booksigning event Oct. 7, 2007
BOOKSIGNING! Cornerstone Books, 45 Lafayette Street, Salem, MA 978-744-1831,
We will perform samples of the music from our new book, THE MEASURE OF THE YEAR: SINGING THROUGH THE SEASONS at a booksigning event to be held at Cornerstone Books, 45 Lafayette Street, Salem, 978-744-1831, (http://cornerstonebooks-salem.com) on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007, at 3 p.m.
We've performed our concert series "The Measure of the Year" throughout the United States for over two decades. Our new book, "The Measure of the Year: Singing Through the Seasons," features original ritual music to celebrate the Wheel of the Traditional and Celtic Year.
It is enriched with historical information and folklore, for use in any kind of seasonal celebration regardless of denomination or spiritual path. However, there is an emphasis on nature and Pagan spirituality, and a focus on Celtic traditions.
We will perform samples of the music from the book during the booksigning event and will remain for a discussion period afterwards. A companion CD will be issued in Spring 2008. If you purchase the book at the concert and booksigning you will receive a coupon for a discount on the CD.
###The opening of the exhibit
Cotton, Coal, and Communidad at Old Town Hall
in Salem, Massachusetts,
featuring a performance by Jim and Maggi Dalton. Sunday, September 23, 2007.
Salem musicians and historians, Jim and Maggi Dalton, provided music illustratingƯ the experiences of the Salem's 19th- and early 20th-century immigrants
including French Canadian, Polish and Irish workers
at the opening reception for a new exhibit,
"Salem, Massachusetts - Global Crossroads in a Changing Economy -- Cotton, Coal and Comunidad.
Visit his website: Salem History Online
And thanks, too, to Avi Chomsky, for inviting us to share music and thus in the work of keeping this important mission alive!
Here's a sample from the concert (the song is "Hard Times Come Again No More" by Foster.)
You can catch 3 excerpts from the show on YouTube and on Google.
Here are the links:
Google Video: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Jim+and+Maggi+Dalton
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results? search_query=Jim+and+Maggi+Dalton&search=Search
~And finally, we have the show on our Blog.The reception was held Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007, from 2 to 4 p.m., at Salem's Old Town Hall, Derby Square, Salem, MA. Jim and Maggi were introduced by Mayor Kim Driscoll..
Speakers included: Salem's Mayor Kimberly Driscoll, followed by remarks and comments by the exhibit organizers and special guests, including Representative John Keenan; Salem City Councilor Lucy Corchado; North Shore Labor Council President Jeff Crosby; Lynn Nadeau from HealthLink; Claudia Chuber; Carmen Ruiz R̀os; and Yoleny Ynoa. Food will be provided by Rincon Macorisano.
"Salem, Massachusetts - Global Crossroads in a Changing Economy -- Cotton, Coal and Comunidad" was conceived and authored by Salem State College professor Aviva Chomsky, Jim Haskell and Gray Fitzsimons, illuminates the challenges and contributions made by Salem's immigrant communities historically and contemporaneously. From colonial times through the Age of Sail, through Industrial Revolution to the present, Salem has been an active participant in -- and at the crossroads of -- the global economy.
The exhibit will be displayed in the Old Town Hall from September 23 to October 18.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2007 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION
Join Jim and Maggi as they perform at the 19th Annual Salem Maritime Festival (10 am)
Hosted by the Salem Maritime National Historic Site
(National Park Service, Department of the Interior)
Date: August 4, 2007 Time: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Location: Derby Wharf, Salem, Massachusetts
Free, and open to the public
Details: Jim and Maggi will perform for about an hour at 10 AM on Saturday. Celtic music, sea music, and a sampler of other genres of songs and stories.
ON FRIDAY: Salem Gazette readers,
look for Maggi's regular history column, "Naumkeag Notations"
-- for a little historical overview of the Maritime Festival's roots.
"Naumkeag Notations: New England's Winds Fill Those Sails: Salem's Maritime Festival"
will be published on August 3rd in the Salem Gazette.
You can find it, and other articles by Maggi, online at the Salem Gazette site.
(Maggi has several recent articles online there--look through the categories.)
COME AND JOIN US AS WE CELEBRATE SALEM AND NEW ENGLAND IN SONG AND STORY!
Where: The Lawrence Heritage State Park Visitors Center
Concert Program: "A Celebration of Liberty: Music of Washington, Lincoln, and Martin Luther King"
July 4, 2007 1 p.m. Free, and open to the public
We return for a third concert appearance to this wonderful State Park. Come and join us as we celebrate in narrative and song ideals of Liberty as seen through the eyes of those in Washington, Lincoln, and Martin Luther King's times.
Lawrence Heritage State Park
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Peace Pole Dedication Ceremony
Monday, June 4, 2007 6 p.m. Salem's Winter Island
Free and Open to the Public
Community Invited
With this event, Salem wins official designation
as a "No Place for Hate Community"
and will be honored as such in a ceremony on June 6th, in Boston
Music provided by Jim and Maggi Dalton
http://singingstring.org
For More information about this event
contact Girl Scout Megan Woodcock
at megazillion@netzero.net 978 741-1484
OR
Thomas P. Watkins Project Manager
Office of Mayor Kimberley Driscoll
93 Washington St. Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-9595 Ext. 5601 (978) 744-9327 Fax
twatkins@salem.com
ROARIN' TUNEFULLY THROUGH THE '20s"
Take a musical and historical tour of the 1920s with Maggi and Jim Dalton.
Hearken to the sounds and story of the triumph of the temperance movement
with the passing of the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act in 1919.
This inauguration of the era of Prohibition also spawned speaksasies, gangsters, and flappers.
and travel with the Daltons
through the hectic decade of the Jazz Age --
savor the golden musical treasures of Tin Pan Alley;
marvel at the movies and radio; celebrate women's suffrage;
take a peek at presidential politics;
and rev up the Model T as we hurtle through this "Strange Interlude"
towards the crash of '29.
Friday, May 11, 2007 7 PM
Montgomery Center For The Arts at the 1860 House
(In the Princeton area of NJ)
Put us on your "winning ticket"! Contact us for booking information;
Nominated as one of our most popular programs!
We know, we know: we haven't written in a while...
there's so much going on...
hey, where do we sign up for the 15-day week and the 40-hour day? :-D
However: Our first 2007 SSNO newsletter
should come your way soon (it's in draft form even as I write)
and we'll catch you all up with things!
we'd love to see you.
Come join us this Friday night...Jim and I will be doing two Irish songs, an Irish story, and reels and jigs.
Colleagues and students will perform great stuff too.... This annual event is a great deal of fun!
at The Boston Conservatory
Friday, Feb. 2, 7:30 pm to midnight, Seully Hall
NEED DIRECTIONS?
and may be purchased
at the International Student Affairs office
24 The Fenway 617-912-915
Enjoy:
--World music and dance performances by students and faculty
--A catered dinner with foods from Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East
--Salsa dancing into the night to the live beat of Curubande!
December 7 , 2006 Concert for North Shore Women in Business
Go here for info: North Shore Women in Business
Call them at: 781-665-3169 Here's a PDF copy of their beautiful website flyer: Dec. 7 ConcertNorth Shore Women in Business Holiday Celebration--Jim & Maggi Dalton
"300 Years of Christmastide in America" concert program
Spinelli's Function Facilities Route 1 South, Lynnfield, MA
7:00 - 9:00 a.m. (registration begins at 7:00 a.m.)
Members with Reservations: $20 Guests: $30
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED!
East Sandwich, Massachusetts
Special Guest: Butch Baldassari
"The Cape Cod Mandolin Camp
is a focused teaching and performance camp
for mandolin players of all levels and learning styles --
from absolute beginners to advanced."
CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR NEXT YEAR'S SESSION!!!
GO TO: Cape Cod Mandolin Camp
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