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Homer Folks – Join us in Seldovia for a Special Concert
by Robin Giossi
This special sailing will give folks an option to come to Seldovia for the day/evening to be a part of our Strings At Sunset Concert – with the Madison String Quartet and return to Homer when the concert is through!
Strings at Sunset – The Madison String Quartet
by Tania Spurkland
The Madison String Quartet is returning to Seldovia on Sunday, August 3rd as part of the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra Summer Music Festival. There will be a pre-concert reception beginning at 7:30 pm on the Seldovia Village Tribe deck. Champagne and hors d’oeurves will be served. The concert will begin at 8:30 pm at the SVT Conference Center. The Madison String Quartet concert is made possible with funding by Rasmuson Foundation through the Harper Arts Touring Fund, and is administered, under contract, by the Alaska State Council on the Arts.
The Madison String Quartet, praised for its energetic performances and inventive programming, is bringing a new side of classical music to the New York metropolitan area and Seldovia, AK. Drawing on the international experience of its members, the Quarter “has carved a niche out for themselves by exploring Hispanic literature from both sides of the Atlantic” (Paul Somers, Classical New Jersey). The Quartet is involved in blurring the line between performer and audience, creating a comfortable performance atmosphere for masterworks from past and present. The Madison String Quartet is essential listening.
The Quartet’s 2004 recording, Life is a Dream, was received with rave reviews, and displays the eclectic programming that has become its hallmark. It included the world premiere of pieces by award-winning composers Miguel del Aguila and Dave Rimelis, as well as quartets by Silvestre Revurltas and Peter Schickele. In addition to championing Latin works, the Quartet has also collaborated with many composers in its home state of New Jersey, including Dale Trumbore, Paul Moravec, and Charles Griffin. New York-based poet Kate Light has worked with the MSQ to present her collection “Einstein’s Mozart”, a performance including poems from her book intertwining the two mens’ lives and work.
Since 2008, the MSQ has been quartet-in-residence at the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra Summer Music Festival in Alaska. In 2012, the Quartet was presented at the Museum of the City of New York by Musica de Cámara, highlighting the quartet by 19th-century Venezuelan composer Teresa Carreño. Highlights of recent seasons include a performance at Carnegie Hall of Imitación Serial para Cuerdas by composer Modesta Bor, as well as engagements with several chamber series, including the Friends of Westchester, Mozart and Friends in Princeton, and the Rhinebeck Chamber Series. In Rhinebeck, the Quartet gave “a mesmerizing performance of Schubert’s ‘Death of the Maiden’ a quartet the house listened to like a story heretofore untold” (Kitty Montgomery, Kingston Daily Freeman).
Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission Public Hearing
by Bruce Wall, Planner
Public notice is hereby given that a conditional land use permit application has been received for material extraction on a parcel in the Seldovia area. This notice has been sent to landowners or leaseholders of property located within the required one-half mile notification radius of the subject property. All members of the public are invited to comment. The project under consideration is described as follows:
Applicant: Kenai Peninsula Borough
Landowner: Kenai Peninsula Borough
Parcel ID#: 191-130-67
Legal Description: Government Lots 9, 10, 17, 19, & 20, E½ NW¼ NW¼ SE¼, S½ NW¼ SE¼, NE¼ NW¼, and the portion of S½ SE¼ lying west of Rocky Road, Section 6, Township 9 South, Range 14 West, Seward Meridian, State of Alaska.
Location: The extraction area will be on the west side of Rocky Road one mile south of Seldovia, adjacent to the existing Borough landfill.
Proposed Land Use: The applicant wishes to obtain a permit for a material extraction site on approximately 13 acres within the parcel listed above.
KPB Code: Conditional land use permit applications for material extraction are reviewed in accordance with KPB Code 21.25 and 21.29. Copies of these ordinances are available from the Planning Department or on the KPB website at: borough.kenai.ak.us
Public Hearing: A hearing will be held by the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission to consider the application on Monday, August 11, 2014, commencing at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as business permits. The meeting will be held in the assembly chambers of the borough administration building located at 144 N. Binkley Street, Soldotna, Alaska.
Public Comment: Those wishing to comment may come to the above meeting to give testimony or may submit a written statement addressed to: Planning Commission Chairman, 144 N. Binkley, Soldotna, Alaska 99669. A statement addressed to the chairman may also be emailed to: bwall@kpb.us, or faxed to (907) 714-2378. Please provide written statements by Friday, August 8, 2014. Persons, who participate in the public hearing, either by written or oral statement, may appeal the Planning Commission’s decision within 15 days of the date of notice of the decision.
For additional information about this application, please call the planning department at (907) 714-2206, or 1-800-478-4441 (toll free within the Kenai Peninsula Borough).
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