[Cravindogs] Strathmore - Wednesday, April 18 - Artist in Residence Performance

[Caldwell Gray]

Caldwell Gray with special guest Cravin' Dogs
Wednesday, April 18, 7:30-9:00 PM
The Shapiro Music Room
The Mansion at Strathmore
10701 Rockville Pike
North Bethesda, Maryland
All ages.
$10

This special performance is part of the Strathmore Artist in  
Residence Program.  Alpha Dog Caldwell Gray will be presenting a  
commissioned work that evening as well as more new songs with Cravin’  
Dogs and other special guests.

We're very excited to have the opportunity to play in the historic  
Corby Mansion (more info and history included below).  And while  
you’re there be sure to enjoy the wonderful gallery exhibits and gift  
shop.

The Music Room only holds 100 and the show will likely sell out in  
advance, so please plan to purchased tickets ahead of time. For  
ticket info, directions and more info on Strathmore, visit  
www.strathmore.org or call (301) 581-5100x1 (no service charge!!).

NEXT FULL DOG SHOW - FRIDAY, MAY 4 @ CHICK HALL'S SURF CLUB

For more info visit
www.cravindogs.com

Thanks! CDs

Cravin' Dogs
verndon at aol.com
703.798.3647 cell

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A Brief History of Strathmore
The Mansion at Strathmore is one of Maryland’s most gracious homes  
for the arts—a home first created on August 14, 1899 when prominent  
Washingtonian Captain James Frederick Oyster and his wife purchased  
the land and began to form the foundation of the mansion. Working  
under the guidance of architect Appleton P. Clark, Jr., the Oyster’s  
nine-bedroom summer home was constructed in a Colonial Revival style.  
The Oysters enjoyed their summer home until August 1908, at which  
time they sold the house and 99 acres to Charles I. Corby, a business  
professional who had patented machinery and techniques that would  
revolutionize the baking industry. After Charles Corby’s death in  
1926, his wife, Hattie, remained in the residence until her death in  
October 1941. Land records show that on July 23, 1943 two parcels of  
the original Corby estate, including the mansion, were conveyed to  
St. Mary’s Academy, who developed the Corby mansion as a convent and  
school named St. Angela Hall. In April 1977, the Sisters sold the  
mansion and remaining 30 acres to the American Speech-Language- 
Hearing Association for use as its headquarters.

The story of Strathmore as a destination for the arts begins in 1979,  
when ASHA relinquished the mansion and eleven acres of land to  
Montgomery County, Maryland. Shortly thereafter, the house was  
renamed Strathmore Hall and an agreement was made with the newly  
created Strathmore Hall Foundation, Incorporated to develop the  
mansion and grounds as Montgomery County’s first center for the arts.  
After extensive restoration, Strathmore opened its doors to the  
public in 1983.

In 1988, Strathmore dedicated its Gudelsky Gazebo to celebrate its  
fifth anniversary. This classically-styled six-column, copper-roofed  
structure can hold up to 30 musicians for outdoor concerts. More  
renovations of the mansion in 1997 added a new state-of-the-art  
gallery, an expanded gift shop and an improved mansion exterior.

Over the past 21 years under the visionary leadership of President &  
CEO Eliot Pfanstiehl, Strathmore has hosted more than 5,000 artists  
and hundreds of thousands of guests at its signature exhibitions,  
concerts, teas, educational events and outdoor festivals. The Mansion  
currently consists of the 100-seat Dorothy M. and Maurice C. Shapiro  
Music Room, the Strathmore Tea Room, the Shop at Strathmore, the  
Gudelsky Concert Pavilion and Gazebo, and the first floor galleries  
and Gudelsky Gallery Suite for Strathmore Fine Art.

In April of 2001, a long-time dream was realized when Strathmore  
broke ground on a new 1,976-seat concert hall and education center— 
the Music Center at Strathmore. Supported by a public and private  
venture between the State of Maryland, Montgomery County, and  
corporate and individual philanthropists, the Music Center at  
Strathmore boasts unprecedented partnerships between Strathmore, the  
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Washington Performing Arts Society,  
National Philharmonic, Levine School of Music, CityDance Ensemble,  
and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra.
Architects William Rawn Associates Architects, Inc., acousticians  
Kirkegaard Associates, theater designers Theatre Project Consultants— 
the same team that designed Seiji Oszawa Hall at Tanglewood for the  
Boston Symphony Orchestra—and associate architects Grimm & Parker of  
Calverton, MD, join together to create a 1,976-seat concert space  
that is warm, embracing, and acoustically superb.

Strathmore will continue its mission of nurturing art, artists, and  
community through creative and diverse programming of the highest  
quality in the new 1,976-seat concert hall and education complex, the  
Music Center at Strathmore, as well.

Learn More:
A History of Performance Programs at Strathmore
A History of Fine Art Programs at Strathmore




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