The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art is inviting the public to an evening of classical music featuring two accomplished artists and former winners of Astral’s National Auditions.
Clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois (left) and pianist Andrea Lam will perform at the Brandywine River Museum of Art on Thursday.
Clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois and pianist Andrea Lam will perform on Thursday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. The program will include works by Beethoven, Francis Poulenc, Robert Schumann, and Leonard Bernstein, according to a museum press release.
Praised as “extraordinary” and “a formidable clarinetist” by the New York Times, de Guise-Langlois has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician on major concert stages throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. She won Astral Artists’ 2011 National Auditions and was awarded first prize in the 2009 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition, the release said.
She has also appeared on the concert series of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music Northwest, Boston Chamber Music Society, Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, the Kennedy Center, the Royal Conservatory, and the Ravinia Festival. She currently serves as an adjunct professor of clarinet at Montclair State University.
Lam, described as a “real talent” by the Wall Street Journal, has earned consistent acclaim as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician for her “great style and thrilling virtuosity.”
She made her orchestral debut at age 13 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and was a semifinalist in the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition, winner of the 2010 Astral Artists Auditions, silver medalist in the 2009 San Antonio Piano Competition, winner of ABC’s ‘Young Performer of the Year’ Award in the keyboard section and the ABC Quest Competition Viewers’ Choice Award. She holds degrees from the Yale School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music.
Tickets, which cost $12 for members, $15 for non-members and $8 for students, can be reserved by calling 610-388-8112 or by clicking here.
The museum and galleries will open at 6 p.m. Cash bar and small plates will be available for purchase. The Brandywine River Museum is located on Route 1 in Chadds Ford.
Residents of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District are waking up to the sleep science that says teenagers need extra shut-eye in the morning. That was the basic takeaway from a presentation at Patton Middle School on Monday night.
The presentation was part of the district administration’s decision to study whether or not to change school start times.
Judith Owens, a medical doctor and the director of sleep medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, gave the presentation. Owens said that while younger children tend to wake up earlier — often being the first ones awake in the morning — that changes when they reach adolescence. The onset of puberty coincides with a change in a human’s internal clocks.
Owens, who is also on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the lead author on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ 2014 policy statement on school start times, told the audience that sleep is really “a health imperative.”
Dr. Judith Owens makes her presentation on the need for later school start times for teenagers. She said it’s almost impossible for a teenager to falls asleep before 11 p.m.
“The conversation on school start times has shifted from being solely focused on the academic implications, to really seeing this as a public health issue,” she said.
In order to understand why that is so, Owens said people need to understand the impact of deficient sleep, sleep that is insufficient for sleep needs and that doesn’t align with the body’s normal circadian rhythms, our internal clocks.
Deficient sleep — which she described as social jet lag — has a negative impact on student health, safety and function, she said.
Owens explained that people have myths and misconceptions regarding teenagers and sleep. Having teens go to bed earlier won’t help the situation, nor should people think that a teenager could get sufficient sleep in less than nine hours. Sleeping later on the weekends won’t help either, she said.
“Sleep is essential to health, safety, productivity and well being,” she said. “A sufficient amount to meet sleep needs and appropriately-timed sleep is as important as nutrition and exercise. The only thing that replaces sleep is sleep.”
Owens also said sleep time and timing are biological needs. Every cell in the body has its own clock that must be synchronized with one another and with the environment. A misalignment between those internal clocks and the external light-dark cycle, she said, “results in profound impairments in physiological function and health…Violating those influences has its consequences.”
She spoke about a two-process model of sleep regulation. One part of that is the sleep drive, which is low after a good night’s sleep, but then builds throughout the day. Sleeping dissipates that drive.
But there is also the circadian system, the internal clock that fluctuates periods of alertness and sleepiness throughout the day. “Siesta time,” between 3 and 5 p.m., brings a drowsy period, but then the alertness kicks back in until later and then spikes about 8 or 9 p.m. when there’s a burst of alertness just before drowsiness returns.
That burst of alertness is called “the forbidden zone or the second wind phenomenon. That allows us to stay up a little bit later even though our sleep drive has been building all day long,” she said.
The lowest time for alertness is between 3 and 5 a.m.
Why teenagers have a more difficult time in getting to sleep and waking up early is based on natural changes to their internal clocks. Those circadian rhythms shift about two hours later.
“Many of these changes are linked to the onset of puberty,” Owens said. “This results in a biologically-based delay of up to several hours in both the natural fall asleep and morning wake-up times,” Owens said.
She said this shift makes it almost impossible for a teenager to fall asleep when?? A change in school start times would help teens get the appropriate amount of sleep. Owens said a start time of 8:30 a.m. or later is “the sweet spot that not only allows kids to get the right amount of sleep, but also aligns their sleep/wake patterns with their normal biological underpinning.”
Optimally, teenagers need eight to 10 hours of sleep per night, while kids 6 to 12 need nine to 12 hours of sleep.
Ken Batchelor, the assistant to the superintendent, stressed that the district administration has made no decision one way or the other regarding a change in school start times, but would make a decision and recommendation by the spring.
To view the video of Owens’ presentation, go here.
This weekend starts off with an exciting steel sculpture show in Kennett Square. “The Magic of Metal: The Transformation of Steel to Fine-art Sculpture” opens at Vinewoods Forge located at 376 West Street Road in Kennett Square. Artist sculptor Rob Sigafoos leads the list of 7 highly regarded metal sculptors including: Stan Smokler, Dave Beck, Jeff Bell, Karen Delaney, Lisa Fedon, and Lele Galer.
Rob Sigafoos says that he “is honored to have these six spectacular metal artists showing their work at the Vinewoods Forge studio this weekend.” Rob is famous for his beautiful sign that he made with Katee Boyle for Philter in downtown Kennett Square. Lele designed the large heart sculpture that was outside Mala Galleria for half a year and now found its home at the Kennett Square Creamery. Stan Smokler is an internationally famous steel sculptor who has taught, mentored and inspired most of the new metal artists on the East Coast. This is an exciting sculpture show for anyone who loves metal sculpture. The Magic of Metal show reception is Friday November 11 from 6 to 8 p.m. and continues Saturday November 12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Steel Heart by Lele Galer is a new installation at Galer Estate Vineyard & Winery
Also this weekend in Kennett Square, November 11 to 13, Galer Estate Vineyard and Winery is celebrating their 5th year anniversary with a combination of art, music, food and wine events, including an art show by painter, metal sculptor and co-owner Lele Galer in the fermentation room at the winery. The winery is located at 700 Folly Hill Road in Kennett Square. Open on the weekends only, Sundays usually have art events and pop up art shows from 2 to 6 p.m.
This Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., The Episcopal Church of the Advent, at 401 North Union Street in Kennett Square is having their annual Artisan Fair. Fifteen artists and artisans will be showing and selling their work, including silver jewelry by Hattie Weselyk, pottery by George Watson and Frank Downer, woodwork by Greg Teter, fused glass work by Patsy Keller, as well as paintings, photography, drawings and more. This is a very nicely organized art event with something for everyone on your gift list.
In West Chester, Church Street Gallery at 12 South Church Street has its opening reception for respected outdoors painter Elise Phillips, entitled “Beauty in the Open.” The cocktail reception is this Friday November 11th from 5 to 9 p.m., and the show continues through December 3rd. Elise Phillips’s work is shown in many galleries up and down the east coast, from Martha’s Vineyard to Maryland. She is considered to be a contemporary impressionist painter, who focuses on seashore and rolling hilled vistas, and the people and animals that inhabit the bucolic Chester County landscape.
In Aston, Heron Studios holds its holiday art show and sale November 11 through 13 and 19 and 20, The opening reception 6 to 9 p.m. on November 11. Fifteen local artists will be exhibiting and selling their work that ranges from paintings, to jewelry, ceramics, wood, sculpture, fiber and more. Heron Studios is a collective of working artist studios in an old industrial building at Red Hill and Mount Road in Aston. It is a cool space with a great vibe and draws many hundreds of art lovers and holiday shoppers every year for this great annual art event. It is just about 5 minutes off of Route 1, and they have plenty of parking.
Before this weekend’s art happenings, check out Blue Streak Gallery in Wilmington for their annual “Clothing Trunk Show” Wednesday November 9 from 1 to 6 p.m. and Thursday November 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Blue Steak Gallery has monthly featured fine artists in their main gallery, but they also have a very fun, eclectic selection of handmade clothing, jewelry and fiber art. Owner Ellen Bartholomaus has a great eye and is sure to make this event lots of fun for all the attendees. This would make a great evening out with your gal pals, maybe to celebrate an election?
On the Main Line there are two great art events this Thursday. The Main Line Art Center’s community exhibition and fundraiser preview party for “Flip Side” is this Thursday November 10th from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The Main Line Art Center is located at 746 Panmure Road in Haverford, PA, and the show continues through November 19th. “Flip Side” features all 8″ x 8″ paintings at $40 each, by hundreds of artists, professional painters, student artists and celebrities “Flip side” means that the names of the artists are not revealed until you purchase the painting. That sounds like fun! The preview party will have food, live music, locally made spirits, and lots of evening surprises including a gift bag stuffed with over $100 worth of local certificates and treats. Tickets are $40 in advance or $50 at the door, and proceeds benefit the Main Line Art Center’s programming, including their scholarship fund.
Also on Thursday on the Main Line in Rosemont, local abstract painter and art teacher Eo Omwake has a solo show that opens this Thursday November 10th from 4 to 7 p.m. at The Lawrence Gallery at Rosemont College. The gallery is located at 1400 Montgomery Avenue in Rosemont, on the Main Line. If Eo’s opening starts at 4 p.m., you could pop in there first before heading over to the Flip Side party!
Christine A. Krebs Kennedy, 81, of West Grove, died Friday, Nov. 4, at Pocopson Home in West Chester. She was the wife of John R. Kennedy, with whom she shared 44 years of marriage.
Christine A. Krebs Kennedy
Born in Delaware County she was a daughter of the late Wolfgang and the late Christina Ann Krebs.
In her early years, Christine worked for Bell Telephone and Burrows Manufacturing. She later worked for Oxford Royal. She loved riding horses, motorcycling with her husband, going to the drag races and vacationing in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania with her family.
Survivors include in addition to her husband, five sons, John, Rob, Rick Jimmy and Tom; two daughters, Jean and Suzanne; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren and her sister Lisa. She was predeceased by a brother Frederick and a sister Johanna.
You are invited to visit with Christine’s family and friends from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, at the Foulk & Grieco Funeral Home Inc. (610-869-2685) 200 Rose Hill Rd. West Grove, PA 19390. A funeral service celebrating her life will follow at 7. Interment will be held privately. To view her online tribute and to share a memory with her family, please visit www.griecocares.com
