Ernie Ragogini is an acclaimed classical pianist and a professor at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. He has performed across the U.S., Europe and South America, as well as recorded for National Public Radio, WGMS in Washington and WQXR in New York. Mr. Ragogini's next concert is March 29th at 7pm in LeClerc Auditorium, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, located at 4701 North Charles St. in Baltimore. Admission is free.

College of Notre Dame of Maryland & Ernie Ragogini

Camelot is Lerner & Loewe's classic about the legendary King Authur and the Knights of the Round Table. Lou Diamond Phillips wears the crown, and this accomplished actor of more 80 films and television programs handles the role with aplomb. He joins us today to talk about the role. Camelot runs at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore through April 6th.

The France-Merrick Performing Arts Center

The Baltimore Jewish Film Festival selects the best films from around the world that explore Jewish and international interests. Celebrating 20 years, the festival opens with "Sixty Six," a comedy about a boy's dream bar mitzvah—that unfortunately coincides with the 1966 World Soccer Cup—and finishes with the poignant documentary, "Strange Fruit," which explores the controversial legacy of the song. The festival runs April 1 through May 18. The majority of films show at the Gordon Center for Performing Arts in Owings Mills, but check with the schedule to confirm. Tickets are $9 at the box office. For more information, call (410) 542-4900.

Baltimore Jewish Film Festival

Our Salon Art this week is by Judith Fulmer. Ms. Fulmer is a Maryland artist best known for her still lifes, seascapes, landscapes and portrait paintings using her style that blends impressionism and realism. Her interest in impressionism took her to Provincetown, Massachusetts where she continues to work on her artistic studies every summer. She studied at the Cape Cod School of art and hones her techniques at Maryland's Schuler School of Fine Arts. The media she is most fond of are pastels, watercolors and oils. Ms. Fulmer is a member of the Maryland Pastel Society and participates annually in the fall event, Paint Annapolis. To see more of her work, you can visit the Whitehall Gallery on 57 West Street in Annapolis, Maryland. Gallery hours are Mon. – Sat., 10am – 5pm. Call 410-269-6161 for Sunday appointments.

Judith Fulmer website
Whitehall Gallery

Veteran stage and screen actress Polly Bergen, who resumed singing in 2001 after a long hiatus, joins Rhea Feikin to talk about her latest musical role—as the retired courtesan, Madame Armfeldt, in Stephen Sondheim's Little Night Music at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE. The bouyant Bergen fills Rhea in on the romantic liaisons in this play, as the young, and not-so-young, search for love on a magical midsummer night.

CENTERSTAGE

On ArtChat This Week, Nate and Rhea discuss some great musicical performances on the horizon. Legendary recording artist Judy Collins will be in concert in Baltimore on Saturday, March 29th to benefit Sheppard Pratt’s “Care for Kids Concert” at 8pm at Goucher College. Tickets are still available. Next Week MPT will be celebrating Chesapeake Bay Week. Artworks will feature Tom Chapin and his bay-inspired song Chesapeake Bay. If you’re a Tom Chapin fan, he will also be performing at the Barnes at Wolf Trap on April 5th. But you can see him performing again, here on Artworks This Week during our 2008 Chesapeake Bay Volunteerathon, April 27th from 6pm to 8pm—live on MPT.

An Evening with Judy Collins