For over 40 years, concert pianist Janina Fialkowska has enchanted audiences and critics around the world. She has been praised for her musical integrity, her refreshing natural approach and her unique piano sound thus becoming “one of the Grandes Dames of piano playing” (Frankfurter Allgemeine).

Born in Canada, she began her piano studies with her mother at age 4 continuing on in her native Montreal with Yvonne Hubert. In Paris she studied with Yvonne Lefébure and in New York at the Juilliard School with Sascha Gorodnitzki, experiencing the best of both French and Russian piano traditions. Her career was launched in 1974, when the legendary Arthur Rubinstein became her mentor after her prize-winning performance at his inaugural Master Piano Competition, calling her a “born Chopin interpreter” laying the foundation for her lifelong identification with this composer.

The 2018/19 season sees Janina Fialkowska concertizing in England and Poland (two London recitals and a celebration of the Republic of Poland’s 100th anniversary with the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing the Paderewski piano concerto in London’s Barbican as well as in the award-winning Philharmonic Hall of Szczecin, Poland). She will also perform several recitals and orchestral concerts in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Spain. In spring of 2019 she will return to her native Canada for a tour in the provinces of Manitoba and Onatrio as well as later that year for a tour of summer festivals. A new recording of French piano music will appear in October on the ATMA Classique label. In September she will continue with the 6th edition of her own “International Piano Academy” in Bavaria and will be once again acting as a juror of the world’s most prestigious piano competitions.

With a legendary career spanning more than four decades, KANSAS has firmly established itself as one of America’s iconic classic rock bands. This “garage band” from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 after being discovered by Wally Gold, who worked for Don Kirshner, and have gone on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide.

Composing a catalogue that includes fifteen studio albums and five live albums, KANSAS has produced eight gold albums, three sextuple-Platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, Best of KANSAS), one platinum live album (Two for the Show), and two one million-selling gold singles, ‘Carry On Wayward Son’ and ‘Dust in the Wind.’

$39/$49/$69/$125, VIP package available $235-$285

With a legendary career spanning more than four decades, KANSAS has firmly established itself as one of America’s iconic classic rock bands. This “garage band” from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 after being discovered by Wally Gold, who worked for Don Kirshner, and have gone on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide.

Composing a catalogue that includes fifteen studio albums and five live albums, KANSAS has produced eight gold albums, three sextuple-Platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, Best of KANSAS), one platinum live album (Two for the Show), and two one million-selling gold singles, ‘Carry On Wayward Son’ and ‘Dust in the Wind.’

VIP tickets available for purchase through the Elsinore Theatre website.

Season 7 of Dancing with the Salem Stars promises to be the best yet.

This year’s contestants are:
Collin Box, Executive Director Of Capital FC Timbers,
Tiffany Bulgin, Isaac’s Room,
Soraida Cross, General Manager of Bentley’s Grill,
Isacc Parker, Willamette Univerity Head Football Coach,
Mikki Trowbridge, Yoga Beer Founder,
Conrad Venti, co-owner of Venti’s Restaurants and Basil & Board.

These six contestants, each paired with a professional partner, have one week to learn a dance routine and compete for the coveted Mirror Ball Trophy! YOU, the audience, decides the winner.

There will also be an amazing performance by the Utah Ballroom Dance Company in the second half of the show.

Come for a night that promises to be an entertaining evening and support your Downtown. This is an annual fundraiser for the Salem Main Street Association, which puts on events such as First Wednesday, On Your Feet Friday and recently named the Downtown Alleys. Come cheer on the dancers and come to celebrate Downtown Salem.

We are pleased to bring to Oregon Freedom From Fear, a new symphony by local composer Kevin Walczyk, which was premiered by The University of Kansas Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble in performances in Kansas and at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In a rare fusion of wind and jazz ensembles, this four-movement piece flows among varied musical styles, including classical, Delta blues, jazz improvisation, Syrian folk music and the voices of soprano and boy soprano. Salem Symphonic Winds will be joined for the performance by the Salem Big Band and soprano soloist Clare Hudkins. Read more below.

The work pursues a programmatic idea that centers on displaced peoples and the global concept of Freedom from Fear — one of the Four Freedoms Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke of in his 1941 United Nations inaugural address. FDR’s Four Freedoms became so emblematic of the United Nations that they were added to its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This symphony is unified by the concept of Freedom from Fear as it impacts displaced peoples. The focus of the symphony’s four movements range from the experience of adoptees represented by the biblical story of Moses to the beacon of hope the Statue of Liberty offers the displaced: the Courage and Freedom from Fear to relinquish their homeland and start again, adopted by their new country.

Martin Ellerby’s Cane River Murals were inspired by the spirituality of the African House Murals by Clementine Hunter. Her nine murals depict the colorfully rich daily life of the Cane River Country’s Creole inhabitants in the early 20th century, near the Melrose Plantation in Louisiana. This five-movement suite comes alive in a celebration of dance and color, but also encompasses a darker and more spiritual truth that their initial innocence somewhat shrouds.

The five movements are:
Springtime Planting (Spiritual)
Wash Day (Scherzo)
Baptism, Wedding and Funeral (Triptych)
Honky Tonk (Blues)
Pecan Harvest (Celebration)

“Cows that type? Hens on strike! Whoever heard of such a thing!” Farmer Brown cries.

When his granddaughter Jenny comes for a visit, Farmer Brown declares the farm a tech-free zone. He takes her laptop in the cold barn with the shivering cows who use her computer to type messages requesting blankets.

“No way,” replies Farmer Brown. “No blankets!”

So the cows go on strike and the chickens join them in solidarity. No blankets? No milk! No eggs!

Will Farmer Brown give in to the animals’ demands? Will Jenny get her computer back? Find out in a hilariously moving musical about negotiation and compromise, based on the Caldecott Honor Book by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin.

Recommended Ages: Grades K through 4

Every year the Irish and the Irish-at-heart across the globe observe St. Patrick’s Day. What began as a religious feast for the patron saint of Ireland has become an international festival celebrating Irish culture with parades, dancing, special foods and all things green! Due to popular demand, we’ve brought back the St. Patrick’s Tea and look forward to lifting our tea cups in a toast to the Irish traditions. We’ll have fun learning some Irish lore during the tea. Don’t forget to join us for a home tour after the tea!

Set menus, no substitutions available. Tickets are non-refundable. Pre-registration is required. Purchase tickets on our website: www.DeepwoodMuseum.org or by calling our office at 503.363.1825.

The world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra brings timeless classics like In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Pennsylvania 6-5000, String of Pearls and Tuxedo Junction back to the stage. Even 80 years after founding his famous orchestra Glenn Miller’s music is alive and well.

Over 18 musicians and singers bring the unforgettable Glenn Miller sound and perform those songs that everyone remembers… This is a show not to miss for jazz and swing fans alike or the incurable romantics who want to step back in time. The legendary Glenn Miller was the most successful of all the dance bandleaders back in the Swing era of the 1930s and 1940s.

From the minds of improv and comedy legend Colin Mochrie and Master Hypnotist Asad Mecci comes a brand new, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping, side-splitting show.

Hypnosis and Improv — two art forms that have mystified and entertained fans, skeptics and everyone in between for decades worldwide – come together as two masters of their crafts unite for a totally unique comedy experience, HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis.

How it Works: 20 random volunteers from the audience will be put under hypnosis by Master Hypnotist Asad Mecci (the process of which is a show in its own right), their inhibitions evaporated and their minds no longer their own. The contestants are methodically and hysterically whittled down until the five best are left on stage when one of the world’s leading improvisers enters! Co-Creator Colin Mochrie takes the stage to improvise with the top five while they are still under hypnosis, turning the show into an improv extravaganza!

Since their formation in the early 2000’s initiated by composer Einar Selvik, WARDRUNA have had vast worldwide success, transcending music genres, cultures and languages while being renowned for their innovative and genre-creating renditions of ancient Nordic traditions.

The group’s massive musical contributions to History Channel’s TV series VIKINGS—which consists of over 60 placements and substantial work on the show’s musical score in addition to appearances by EINAR, who starred and performed on two occasions in Season 3 and 4—has exposed their music to a broad audience worldwide.

WARDRUNA merge academics with pop culture, and their thorough and serious approach has made them one of today’s foremost communicators of Norse culture. Today’s top international scholars on Old Norse studies use EINAR’s work to exemplify how music might have been executed in earlier times in Scandinavia and he has lectured about his work with historical music in prestigious universities such as Oxford, University of Denver, Reykjavik University and University of Bergen. Alongside fellow Norwegian metal band Enslaved, WARDRUNA was commissioned by the Norwegian government to write and perform a music-piece for the 200-year anniversary of the Norwegian constitution in 2014.