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Discover a New World of Fragrance as Disney Store Launches Its First Exclusive Collection

Jun 3, 2011 by Administrator / 1,504 Views

PASADENA, Calif., June 2, 2011 – Disney Store today announced the launch of its new fragrance collection, a captivating array of scents and associated products, each inspired by some of Disney's most timeless and beloved characters and stories. The premium personal fragrances, home scents, candles and unique gifts were created in conjunction with some of the world's leading fragrance houses, perfumers and an award-winning design team.
"The power of fragrance is truly magical–it can evoke memories and convey dreams and aspirations. Disney's rich heritage and most beloved characters also have that same allure", says Jim Fielding, President of Disney Stores Worldwide. "With the launch of Disney Store's own fragrance collection, we're touching all of the senses for the first time in a uniquely Disney way."
The first fragrance in the collection will be available in Disney Store locations nationwide beginning from June 2011 with other fragrances introduced throughout the rest of 2011.
Discover a new world of…..Imagination
Imagination, the signature fragrance used throughout the newly designed Disney Store, is described as an enchanted forest of sequoia trees, cool moss and green leaves. Inspired by the trees that line the route of the magical path within the new stores, the fragrance gives the sense of being in an enchanted forest. It's a timeless scent inspired by nature that instills a feeling of natural calm, allowing the imagination to soar.
Imagination products are available as home fragrances, including candles and room scents, in Disney Store locations nationwide in June 2011.
Discover a new world of…..Magic
Magic, an unforgettable blend of icy blue mint, rich chocolate and invigorating sea spray, epitomizes the adventure of Disney and all that is Mickey Mouse. Along with Imagination, its inspiration comes from the outside world to give it a refreshing sense of nature. Magic is the freedom of children playing outdoors; it's a breeze of fresh, cool, minty air, green grass, clean woods and a surprise of chocolate.
Magic home fragrances, candles and room scents will launch in stores in July 2011.
Discover a new world…… Pixie Dust
Pixie Dust, a shimmering scent of citrus sorbet, candied fruits and summer rain, is the fragrance inspired by Tinker Bell. It's the fragrance one could imagine floating through the air as Tinker Bell showers the earth with her Pixie Dust, causing nature to blossom. Pixie Dust captures Tinker Bell's personality perfectly – it charms with a shimmering sweetness yet it also has a subtle hint of sassiness that we love about this beloved Disney character.
Pixie Dust comes as a range of personal products including Eau de Toilette, Body Mist and Body Lotion, available in all Disney Store locations in Fall 2011. Gift sets with body glitter, a roll on Eau de Toilette and lip gloss will also be available.
To find a Disney Store, guests can visit www.DisneyStore.com/storelocator or call (866) 902-2798. Guests can also sign up for email alerts at www.DisneyStore.com/Updates, become a fan on www.facebook.com/DisneyStore or follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/DisneyStore tostay connected to your favorite destination.
ABOUT DISNEY STORE The Disney Store retail chain, which debuted in 1987, is owned and operated by Disney in North America, Europe, and Japan. Disney Store is the retail merchandising arm of Disney Consumer Products, the business segment of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) and its affiliates that extends the Disney brand to merchandise. Disney Store carries high-quality products, including exclusive product lines that support and promote Disney's key entertainment initiatives and characters. Disney Store opened its first store in Glendale, California and, in doing so, originated the themed retail business model. There are currently more than 200 Disney Store locations in North America; more than 40 Disney Store locations in Japan; and more than 100 Disney Store locations in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Ireland, Italy and Portugal, plus online stores www.DisneyStore.com and www.disneystore.co.uk. Each Disney Store location offers a magical shopping experience that can only be delivered by Disney, one of the world's largest and most successful entertainment companies. For more information, please visit www.disneyconsumerproducts.com/press/us/disneystore or follow us at www.facebook.com/DisneyStore and www.twitter.com/DisneyStore.
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Spring Soiree 2011, by Angeli Kakade

May 31, 2011 by Administrator / 1,522 Views

Three sisters on a mission to save their father's life build an organization that continues to give hope and save lives. It's the kind of story you would expect to watch on a made for TV movie. Yet the Flood sisters are very real and so is their story. Desperate to help their father find a kidney donor, the sisters posted an ad on Craigslist leading to both a donor for their father as well as media attention. From this, The Flood Sisters Kidney Foundation of America was born.

The foundation held their annual benefit last night at the fashionable Gansevoort Park Hotel. Guests sipped Chambord cocktails, enjoyed horderves from The One Group Catering, and danced to the tunes of celebrity DJ, Ani Quinn. The gift bags were provided by Glitter Magazine. The gift bags included items from SalonTea and Kelvin Natural Slush Co. Flood Sisters Spring Soiree was sponsored by All Island Gunite Pools. Honoring life was certainly the theme through out the night as the foundation celebrated their 6th transplant this month!

For more information on the Flood sisters visit: http://www.floodsisters.org/
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Disney Store's new line of premium fragrances, lotions and candles for the home is launching in June By James Andrew

May 28, 2011 by Administrator / 1,755 Views

When I was invited to attend an exclusive Disney Store fragrance event in March at the beautiful penthouse suite of The London Hotel in New York City, I was a little skeptical about the products. Was it going to look like a kids fragrance with cute Mickey Mouse packaging? To my surprise it is a great looking collection and creative packaging for all ages! I tested the products myself and I have to say that Disney stores have a big winner! Each of the new fragrances expresses the essence of a classic Disney character or favorite story.

Disney Store's first exclusive fragrance collection, featuring three signature scents that define Disney. Inspired by the trees that line the magical pathways within the newly designed Disney stores, Imagination allows for you to get a sense of nature inside your home or office. From the spirit of an enchanted forest complete with sequoia trees to the hints of cool moss and green leaves, you'll feel a calming sensation tickle your nose and course through your body.

Inspired by Mickey Mouse himself, Magic is a combination of fresh minty air and sea spray, with a surprise of chocolate flavor lingering in the end notes. It's called Magic because it was motivated by the Disney classic, The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

The last scent from the new collection is Pixie Dust. It was inspired by Disney favorite fairy, Tinker Bell! This fragrance was created to capture the heart of what would come out of the end of Tinker Bell magic wand. With the delicious aroma of citrus sorbet, candied fruits, and summer rain, this sweet scent epitomizes all that is Peter Pan's sidekick Pixie Dust is the only one so far from the new line that comes in a body mist, body lotion, body glitter and lip gloss. I'm sure the ladies will love the Lip gloss!

This collection will be introduced in the beginning of June with the debut of Imagination. These fragrances will only be sold in Disney Stores, so be sure to keep a look out in Disney stores and for our giveaway!

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The Collegiate Chorale presents its 2011 Spring Concert Something Wonderful: An Evening of Broadway with Deborah Voigt

May 21, 2011 by Administrator / 1,222 Views

The featured guest artist Paolo Szot, conducted by Ted Sperling with the American Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall.

Deborah Voigt, one of the world’s favorite international opera luminaries, will turn her estimable vocal talents toward the world of musical theater to provide us with a delightful evening of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Gershwin, Kern, Sondheim and others. Teaming up with Ted Sperling, one of Broadway’s foremost conductors, arrangers and directors, Ms. Voigt will prove her flawless ability to move and captivate audiences in this musical genre as well. See her strut her Broadway stuff with The Chorale just before she begins her widely anticipated debut in Annie Get Your Gun at Glimmerglass. Paulo Szot, critically acclaimed baritone who starred last season in both The Nose at the Met and South Pacific on Broadway, will join in this Special Event.

This season, Voigt made her role debut as Brünnhilde in Robert Lepage’s new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera; her house role debuts as Minnie in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West at the Met and Lyric Opera of Chicago; and her Washington National Opera debut as Salome in a new production by Francesca Zambello. In concert she performed with the Staatskapelle Dresden at Lincoln Center, and will present Schoenberg’s Erwartung with the New York Philharmonic. As the first artist-in-residence at upstate New York’s Glimmerglass Festival next summer, she stars in Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun and in a one-woman show written by Terrance McNally and directed by Francesca Zambello.

A devotee of Broadway and American song, Voigt has given acclaimed performances of popular fare, including benefit concerts for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and New York Theatre Workshop.

Paulo Szot is one of the most versatile baritones in the world, winning great acclaim both as an opera singer and as an actor. He won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Emile De Beque in the Broadway revival of South Pacific at Lincoln Center Theatre. He also made his highly acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut in a new production of The Nose by Shostakovich conducted by Valery Gergiev, and his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Pops Orchestra in a program of Lerner and Lowe.

During the 2010/2011 season Paulo Szot made his debut at Dallas Opera in the title role of Don Giovanni and returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Escamillo in Carmen, He will debut with the Paris Opera Cosi Fan Tutte and at the Festival de Aix-en-Provence as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro.

Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the son of Polish immigrants, Mr. Szot made his New York Philharmonic debut in a concert conducted by Marvin Hamlisch appearing alongside Liza Minnelli, and he debuted at the Ravinia Festival in concert with Kelli O’Hara. He appeared in concert in the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center as part of the American Songbook Series.

Ted Sperling won the 2005 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his orchestrations of The Light in the Piazza, for which he was also music director. Broadway credits as music director / conductor / pianist include: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Angels in America, My Favorite Year, Falsettos, Drood, Les Miserables, Roza and Sunday In the Park With George. Mr. Sperling was also an original cast member of the Broadway musical Titanic. Off-Broadway credits as music director include: A Man of No Importance, Wise Guys, A New Brain, Saturn Returns, Floyd Collins, Falsettoland, and Romance in Hard Times. As a stage director, his credits include: Charlotte: Life? Or Theater? and Striking 12, as well as a revival of Lady in the Dark starring Andrea Marcovicci. Mr. Sperling conducted the musical scores for the films The Manchurian Candidate and Everything Is Illuminated, and directed the short musical film Love, Mom, starring Tonya Pinkins. He has conducted The Collegiate Chorale twice, in critically acclaimed performances of Weill’s The Firebrand of Florence and Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath.

Roger Rees created the title role in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby for the Royal Shakespeare Company (Olivier Award) and on Broadway (Tony Award, Best Actor in a Play). Other Broadway credits include Indiscretions (Tony & Drama Desk nominations) and Uncle Vanya and The Rehearsal at the Roundabout. Off-Broadway: A Man of No Importance (LCT); The End of the Day (Obie Award) and The Uneasy Chair (Playwrights Horizons); The Misanthrope (CSC). In London: the original productions of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and Hapgood; Double Double; Waiting for Godot w/ Ian McKellen; and for the RSC: title role in Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Cymbeline, Much Ado About Nothing and The Suicide. Film: Julie Taymor's Frida, The Scorpion King, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Invasion, The Prestige, Next Stop Wonderland, Sudden Manhattan, Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Bob Fosse's Star 80, If Looks Could Kill. Television: "Cheers," "The West Wing," "Boston Common," "My So-Called Life," "The Ebony Tower," "The Crossing," "Double Platinum," "Titanic," "Liberty!" His theatrical directorial credits include Peter and the Starcatcher (with Alex Timbers, NYTW); Arms and the Man (Roundabout); Here Lies Jenny; Love's Labour's Lost and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Old Globe). Williamstown Theatre Festival (Artistic Director, 2005-07), as director: The Taming of the Shrew (playing Petruchio opposite Bebe Neuwirth's Katherine), The Rivals, Anything Goes, Late Middle Classes, Herringbone, The Film Society. He enjoys touring his one-man Shakespeare show, What You Will, throughout America and Britain.

The mission of The Collegiate Chorale, led by Music Director James Bagwell, is to enrich its audiences through innovative programming and exceptional performances of a broad range of vocal music featuring a premier choral ensemble. Founded in 1941 by the legendary conductor Robert Shaw, The Chorale has established a preeminent reputation for its interpretations of the traditional choral repertoire, vocal works by American composers, and rarely heard operas-in-concert, as well as for commissions and premieres of new works by today’s most exciting creative artists. The many guest artists with whom The Chorale has performed in recent years include: Bryn Terfel, Stephanie Blythe, Nathan Gunn, Kelli O’Hara, Victoria Clark, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, and Deborah Voigt. Last season’s highlights included the world premiere two-act concert version of Ricky Ian Gordon’s opera The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall. In addition to The Chorale’s presentations, the chorus is performing in five programs during the American Symphony Orchestra’s 2010-11 season, will return to Verbier in the summer of 2011, and will perform with the Israel Philharmonic in Salzburg and Israel in July 2012.

The company’s 2010/2011 Season began with Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, Op.53 and A German Requiem at Carnegie Hall in October and continued with Knickerbocker Holiday in January at Alice Tully Hall and We Remember Them: Choral Music from the Camps and the Ghettos in March at Central Synagogue.

For more information, visit www.collegiatechorale.org.
Here are the photos from the concert. Photos by Erin Baiano are Deborah Voigt and Paulo Szot.

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The Town Hall 90th Anniversary Gala

May 17, 2011 by Administrator / 1,404 Views

May 2, 2011

The Great Town Hall 90th Anniversary Gala

Tonight, we went to the Town Hall to attend its 90th Anniversary Gala. It starts with a brief introduction of Town Hall's history, after a few words about the chairmen and sponsors then the show starts.

For tonight, the music setup is just a grand piano. This is an excellent setup to showcase the singer's voice.

Show starts with Tovah, an excellent Broadway singer, powerful and energetic.

Then comes Emily, another powerful singer. Listening to her singing is like watching a doctor performing a delicate surgery. She has such good control; her every tone is in such detail and every pitch is precise. It is a flawless Performance.

I'm sorry to say that Jason, our next performer, is under the weather, and it shows on a few high notes on his Parade song. However, he picked the next song Perfectly. The Vegas song suited him well. I sincerely wish him a speedy full Recovery, and looking forward to see him perform again.

Next comes Bucky and John. I have to give Scott credit for arranging this great lineup. After a few powerful Broadway style performances, it is very nice and refreshing to have something lighter. Bucky and John's guitar combo is just what we need.

Their jazzy performance is like the perfect wine that compliments the main entree. And the crowd showed their love with a standing ovation!

Now comes the bomb. I have to say I'm biased in this case... (Recently, I got the Les Misérables 25th Anniversary concert DVD, and I have been playing it at home over and over.) So, when Norm Lewis came out as a special guest, my jaw just dropped on the floor. And that he also sing the song "Bring him home". Personally, this has just made my night!!!

And just when you think how anyone can keep topping the scale, Scott arranged Jeffrey and Noah, who are not only talent in singing, but also tap dancing. It sure brings the entertaining value to another level when you're singing and dancing.

Liz, our next performer, is a powerful singer, but unlike Tovah who is
Energetic, or Emily who precise and delicate, Liz's singing is smooth and sweet. And she also showed her strength in her song "Another hundred people" who not only require good acting; it is also a tongue twister. I think she just sang for a minute or two with just one breathe.

Then Tovah, who was our first performer, comes out again and does a finale. It was perfect ending to a great night of music!

Overall, another wonderful performance written and hosted by Scott Siegel. I very much look forward to another show of his (especially when there are any unplug performances...)

Last but not least, Happy 90th Birthday, Town Hall!!!!
Best Wishes!!! And many more to come!!!

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