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In Concert ~ Peter Mintun Friday,
November 20, 2009 - 8:00 PM DANCE! Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 8 PM Davies Symphony Hall A
superb roster of guests brings special panache to SF Symphony’s
New Year’s Eve concert. After the concert, don’t miss dancing
with the Peter Mintun Orchestra with Jesters Trio. Bramwell
Tovey, principal guest conductor of the famed Hollywood Bowl, is on the
podium for a program of cheery waltzes and polkas evoking old Vienna.
Audience favorite tenor Alfie Boe offers sparkling selections from Viennese
operettas, and 14-year-old violin prodigy Chad Hoopes—seen on The
Early Show and NPR’s From the Top—will dazzle listeners with
his musical fireworks. After the concert, don’t miss dancing with
the Peter Mintun Orchestra and a San Francisco favorite, Tainted Love.
"ALL ABOUT EVE" - A reading by Charles Busch: SATURDAY,
AUGUST 15, 2009 - 8:00 P.M.
"A Spring Cabaret" at The Beaux Arts Alliance! Monday,
April 27, 2009 ~ 6:30 - 8:30 P.M. Details upon reservations.
Peter Mintun has devised and performed the incidental music for the audio book series of “Olivia” by Ian Falconer, gorgeously read by Dame Edna Everage. Mintun has provided the piano music for the following titles: Olivia, ?Olivia...and the Missing Toy, Olivia Forms a Band, Olivia Saves the Circus, Olivia Helps with Christmas. Share in the antics and adventures of Olivia, everyone’s favorite hyperactive piglet, as she spins tall tales about lion taming and tightrope walking, plays amateur detective, starts her own one-pig band, saves Santa from being cooked in the fireplace, and creates more than her fair share of havoc that will amuse and delight listeners of all ages. The Olivia book series has been translated into more than 20 languages. New Yorker illustrator Ian Falconer, meanwhile, was recently voted “Favorite Illustrator” by over 50,000 children at the Children’s Choice Book Awards. Audio books directed by Elisa Shokoff for Simon and Schuster.
DANCE! Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 8 PM Davies Symphony Hall
Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 1:30 to 3:30 PM and Sunday, December 14, 2008 - 1:30 to 3:30 PM The
Plaza Hotel The Plaza Retail Collection
Sunday, November 23, 2008 1:00 - 4:35, 8:20 PM
NOB HILL 80TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! Thursday, June 19, 2008, 6:00 P.M. The
University Club
MIDTOWN JAZZ AT MIDDAY! Wednesday,
March 12, 2008 1:00 PM DANCE! MONDAY,
DECEMBER 31, 2007
FROM WASHINGTON HEIGHTS TO AVENUE "A" Tuesday, October, 30 2007 The
Musicians’ Union, Local 802 Theatre Composers represented include Irving Berlin, Bert Kalmar, Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, George & Ira Gershwin, Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson, Gus Kahn and Victor Herbert. Songs of Manhattan: "The Streets of New York," "Harlem Serenade," "Down On Avenue ’A’," "Fifth Avenue," "Slumming On Park Avenue," "Breakfast In Harlem" are a few titles be enjoyed. More info at http://www.actorsguild.org/Events.html
RETURN TO
CASABLANCA Arium PETER MINTUN at the Piano. A free screening of the classic black-and-white film, "Casablanca," complimented by red wines and wine cocktails and Moroccan-inspired treats from ARIUM's new wine bar menu. Special musical appearance by pianist, Peter Mintun. 7.00 PM-11.00 PM. Film screening at 9.00 PM. Admission is free. ARIUM is a new downtown venue for classical music and the performing arts in an intimate setting. ARIUM's Sunday afternoon recital series features some of today's most gifted pianists performing on an 1905 Steinway piano by Klavierhaus, as well as an ongoing program of chamber orchestras, vocalists and solo instrumentalists, poetry and theatrical readings.
April 28,
2007 8:00 PM Silver Anniversary of the Art Deco Society of California -- The ADSC is a non-profit organization that endeavors to increase public awareness of Art Deco and to preserve and promote the art, music, fashion, architecture and transportation of the era (roughly 1919-1941). The Art
Deco Preservation Ball is held each Spring to recognize those who have
preserved, or are in the process of preserving or restoring, Art Deco
in areas including architecture, music and fashion. Past awardees include
Peter Botto & Jack Bethards (Paramount Theatre), The Art
Deco Preservation Ball also includes dancing to Don Neely's Royal Society
Jazz Orchestra, hosted appetizers and continuous cabaret entertainment
(including Peter Mintun, Frederick Hodges, Sara Klotz
de Aguilar and Ann Gibson). Along with the excitement of the awards presentation,
the fabulous dance group The Decobelles. -- For tickets and information,
call (415) 982-DECO (3326) or email zelda1927@artdecosociety.org. -- The
City Club is housed in a historic Art Deco building in downtown San Francisco,
and the interior includes a major mural painted by famed artist Diego
Rivera, known for his work during the Art Deco period.
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER FUND RAISER May 7, 2007 6:00 PM University Club
PETER MINTUN has written
the notes for the new Shellwood (U.K.) CD SWCD32 Michael Feinstein, who was twelve years old when Walter died, added, "Listening to Cy Walter's recordings is one of the most fulfilling experiences I have ever had."
DANCE!
A SPECIAL LIVE MUSIC AND MOVIE EVENT ! Peter
Mintun's Movietone Follies of 2007
Peter Mintun is one of America's favorite society pianists. Peter began his career in San Francisco, where for twenty five years his playing graced such rooms as Masons in The Fairmont Hotel and L'Etoile in the Huntington Hotel. In 1994, at the suggestion of Michael Feinstein, he came across the United States to his first New York engagement, performing at The Madison Room at the New York Palace Hotel. Shortly thereafter he moved uptown to the Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle, where he entertained some of New York's most toney guests and visitors through 2002. Since then he has appeared at the famous Greenbrier Hotel and Resort in West Virginia, inaugurating their newly designed Old White Lounge (designed with Peter especially in mind by Carlton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper Incorporated - it was Mrs. Draper who redesigned The Greenbrier after the Second World War in her own inimitable and fanciful taste). In 1999 Peter picked up and left his San Francisco home and bought a brownstone in upper Manhattan. Always an original one family residence, it has provided a home for Peter's various pianos (including multiple player pianos and Dana Suesse's concert Steinway), and his vast collection of paper perforated piano rolls, wind-up phonographs, and miles of vintage sheet music. On January 30, 2005 the house and Peter were profiled in the New York Times in a feature by Christopher Gray. In 2003 Peter visited London, supervising concerts of the "classical" music of the late Dana Suesse. The music of this composer, who was represented by Mr. Mintun, has been revived recently by the BBC Concert Orchestra (conducted by John McGlinn), and the Albany Symphony (conducted by David Alan Miller - piano soloist Kevin Cole). Dennis Colwell conducted Suesse's Jazz Concerto (1956) with the River City Brass Band in Pittsburgh, PA. The soloist was Donna Amato. A profile on Mr. Mintun was written by Will Friedwald for the New York Sun in the issue of January 25, 2005. Peter finishes
off the year, as he has done for over a decade, conducting his own Peter
Mintun Orchestra for the San Francisco Symphony's New Year's Eve Gala
at Davis Symphony Hall.
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