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director of Fulton Opera House,
said the play will weave threads of
on e family’s legacy quilt with
music as funny, bold, and tender as
the mothers and daughters it
defines.
“It is a patchwork of strength,
perseverance, determination, and
love," Simmons said of the musi
cal that will open April 27, 2000
and run through May 7.
Tickets, from $l2 to $29, will be
on sale at die box office. Cadi (717)
397-7425.
. Heritage Center Museum of
Lancaster County will be the site
of an exhibition called “The Stars
of Pennsylvania: Lancaster Coun
ty Quilts." Almost all the historic
quilts to be featured in the exhibi
tion will be from private
collections.
Peter Seibert, executive director
of the Heritage Center, said, “From
the broad stripes of Amish quilts to
the intricate piecing of Mennonite
and other work, the rich and end
less variety of county quilts have
captured the interest of collectors,
writers, quills, and the..,,curious.
Accompanying the./ixhibition
will be a publicadOfrOf the' same
title written by local textile scholar
Dr. Patricia T. Herr. The publica
tion will feature 200-300 quilts. A
day long symposium relating to the
history and creation of quilts is
being planned.
Heritage Center Museum is
open April through December,
Tuesdays through Saturdays, from
53 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is
&ee.
Seibert said a county-wide stu
dent contest will also be held in
conjunction with the Heritage
Center display. Three students will
be given savings bonds for their
award-winning original quilt pat
tern accompanied by a brief
description of the quitting design.
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• Lancaster Galleries, 34 N.
Water SL, will conduct an exhibi
tion on quilt patterns used in art
through the centuries. Mike
Heberlein, owner of Lancaster
Galleries, said the patterns will
range from primitive old drawings
to contemporary realistic wood
carvings of quilts by Fraser Smith.
The exhibition is free and open to
the public during the month of
April 2000.
• Lancaster Museum of Art
will feature contemporary quilts
by national artists in an exhibition
scheduled from April 14-May 29,
2000. Cindi Morrison, director of
the Museum of Art, said uncom
mon threads or unusual materials
will be used in a variety of ways to
create contemporary quilts.
An artists’ discussion is also
slated for Saturday April 29,2000,
from noon to 1 p.m.
• Lancaster Symphony
Orchestra will create a musical
quilt representing a patchwork of
musical styles, JCristie Davis,
executive director of the
Orchestra,-, sajki “performances
will feature three distinctively dif
ferent styles of music, quilted
together into one program, to form
a Musical Quilt, scheduled April
8-9, 2000.
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Subscriptions to the Sym
phony’s Millenium Season as well
as single tickets for this perfor
mance an available fay calling the
Symphony's subscription mana
ger at (717) 291-4420.
• Pennsylvania School of Art
and Design (PSA&D) is planning
for nationally-known quilt makers
to bring a mixed-media approach
during an exhibit that will incorpo
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draw thousands of countjans and
tourists. More information will be
released closer to the year 2000
celebration.”
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