From the Harford County Center for the Arts:
[Bel Air, MD] February 11, 2015— Recognized for their extensive solo and orchestral experience, Mindy Dalmas Cutcher, Principal Harpist with the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra and a Bel Air native, and Janet Witman, Principal Harpist with the Kennett Symphony, will perform “Principally Harps!”—a program of stunning adaptations of some of the best-known works from opera, ballet, and orchestral repertoire in the sanctuary of Bel Air United Methodist Church (21 Linwood Ave., Bel Air, Md. 21014) on Saturday, April 18th at 7 p.m.
The concert will be 90 minutes long and will include a question and answer session. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $13 for Center for the Arts Members and free for children ages 12 and under. To purchase tickets, visit the Events page on www.harfordcfa.org. All ticket proceeds benefit the Center for the Arts.
“We are honored to welcome world-renowned musicians like Mindy and Janet to perform here in Harford County,” said Center for the Arts CEO Kathy Smith. “We believe that Harford County residents should not have to travel into the city to take in cultural experiences of the highest artistic caliber. The Center’s mission is to create a performance space where exceptional programs like this will be available for the community to enjoy close to home.”
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About the Center for the Arts (www.harfordcfa.org)–Founded in 2005, the Center for the Arts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing a permanent site for performance, display, and education in the arts in Harford County, Maryland. The mission of the Center for the Arts is to nurture art and artists, and positively impact the community at large by providing a broad range of experiences in music, dance, theater, visual and literary arts.
About Principally Harps (http://www.harpexcellence.com/principally_harps.html) – “Principally Harps!” offers audiences a unique opportunity to see and hear concert grand harps on center stage, as opposed to “hidden” among the instruments in an orchestra. The duo is comprised of two of America’s finest harpists, Mindy Cutcher and Janet Witman. Mindy is principal harpist with the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra and has appeared with the Baltimore, Delaware and St. Louis Symphonies. Janet is Principal Harpist with the Kennett Symphony and has been soloist with Allentown, Kennett, Hilton Head and Savannah Symphonies; and the Copeland Quartet of Delaware. Read more about the artists at http://www.harpexcellence.com/principally_harps.html
Can someone please, please, please answer these very simple questions for me. The Center for the Arts owes us that… agreed?:
How much money has the Center for the Arts raised since its inception?
How much do they have in the bank now?
DO we have a basic accounting of the balance sheet and transaction/expense ledgers for the past 7 years?
Other than continuing to put the arm on generous donors in the county for even more donations, and erecting a few signs, what substantive steps have been taken and what substantive steps are planned? Other than a gravel parking lot.
Why don’t we as donors know the answers to these questions already?
Have you tried asking them? Rather than blathering on about it with backhanded accusatory questions, get some information and state your agreement/disagreement with their answers. Any idiot can post on here including you.
Nice, but pathetic, try JJJohnson. Heh heh. First of all JJ, I’ll the ignore the ad hominem attempts at misdirection on your part. Hasn’t your high school teacher told you that the best way to prove that you have no good argument is to name-call?. Second of all, I have asked them as have others and the answer was basically stonewalling. But if YOU have any of the answers I would love to see them posted here (you obviously don’t or you would taken a different approach). Third of all, anger and defensiveness and name-calling without making any cogent argument (and frankly all of the other smoke and mirrors that the Center for Arts has employed) doesn’t change the fact that our money’s gone, a lot of good and generous people have been taken advantage of, and there’s no one driving the bus who can lucidly communicate or stop the bleeding. The ONLY bright side to this is that each day, week and month, more and more smart, caring people in the county are realizing whats going on (or not going on); and that telling us arts are good does NOT constitute a plan or strategy. Truly a shame.