It all begins to unfold Friday at the Kennedy Center in Washington, where the Sondheim Celebration opens with Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd".
The celebration opens here with "The Seasons," by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky commissioned for the occasion and performed by the cellist Y0-Yo Mandnd the Silk Road Ensemble.
This annual celebration opens its 10th year on Sept. 25 at City Center, and heralding it are free performances hosted by the Public Theater at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park this week.
The 103rd Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival, California's longest running harvest celebration, opens Sept. 22 with a patron's night; wine and food tasting costs $40 a person.
The exhibition, "'57 Collects: A 50th Anniversary Celebration," opens May 19 and runs through Aug. 12. Kusserow said it will include about 40 works, from 15 to 20 members of the class, that range in style from African to pre-Columbian to Greek, Old Masters, and a number of American pieces.
In late 1995, when the sales office for Celebration opened, Donald Killoren, the Disney executive in charge of the $2.5 billion, 10,000-acre development, emphasized the company's interest in economic and ethnic diversity.
Celebration – Open Your Heart (From Arthur Mag) Lilting psychedelia from a Baltimore trio happy to not only quote St Francis of Assisi ("for it is in giving that we receive"), but live by his ethos.
When Celebration opened its doors in 1996, it was one of the first master-planned communities modeled on traditional small towns, with houses that looked old-fashioned, all within walking distance of a central business district.
On the day of celebration, open a bottle.
The 12 commissioned artists were named to coincide with the one-year countdown to next year's London 2012 festival – part of the Cultural Olympiad celebrations – which opens on 21 June.
