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New West Coast Chapter for ART |
The new West Coast
Chapter of ART is planning to produce a visual arts
exhibit (see
Announcements) in a Beverly Hills Medical
building lobby. It will feature West Coast painters
and sculptors. The exhibit is scheduled for 2008.
Tracey Darroll of
Beverly Hills will begin her activities for a West
Coast Chapter of ART by sponsoring fundraising
events in Los Angeles, which will include cocktail
and dinner parties and speaking engagements for
Alexandra York to introduce ART to audiences in her
area. She will also begin working with Alexandra to
produce an art exhibit in one of her Medical
building lobbies, which is planned to focus on West
Coast painters and sculptors. In connection with the
show, she will spearhead a publicity campaign to
promote it.
The exhibit is planned for early in 2008. Many
Hollywood celebrities come through this lobby to see
their doctors, so the visibility to both the
foundation and the artist's works displayed will be
noteworthy.
Painters and sculptors from California, Oregon,
Washington State, Texas, Colorado, Arizona and New
Mexico are invited to submit images of their work
electronically to:alexandra@art-21.org. To send
images by postal mail, please visit the contact area
of this site for address. Bios must be included and
any material to be returned must include a SASE.
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OVER THE
YEARS
Poems, Lyrics, Songs and Prose |
Similar in format to
FROM
THE FOUNTAINHEAD TO THE FUTURE and Other Essays on Art and
Excellence (2000) and SILVER ROSE ANTHOLOGY OF AWARD-WINNING
SHORT STORIES (2002), both of which continue to sell
steadily via ART and Amazon.com, bringing both revenues and
recognition to the foundation, all proceeds from these new
books also go entirely to ART. The first book, OVER THE
YEARS: Poems, Lyrics, Songs and Prose, is slated to come out
later this year. It will contain a selection of poems,
lyrics, songs and various forms of prose that Alexandra York
has written over the past twenty-plus years.
Some of the
work appeared in various magazines and books, and others
have never been published before. The selections span a time
from when she was quite young in the mid-1970s and still
performing on Radio, TV and stage, along with writing
articles and nonfiction books. Others were written fairly
recently, but most of them to be included, here, end in the
early 1990s because 1992 marked the establishment of ART.
From then on her work was
devoted primarily to furthering the mission of the
foundation, so most of her own writing during that decade
appeared in ART's quarterly magazine ART Ideas
(1994-2000) either as original work or reprinted from other
publications such as Vital Speeches of the Day or
from art exhibit catalogues that accompanied shows produced
by ART. OVER THE YEARS, however, will end with a
“beginning" by including a children's book and the opening
poem, the prologue and the first chapter of her next novel
as a "sneak preview" of what is yet to come.
Most of the poetry selected for OVER THE YEARS was written
in the 1980s, as were the lyrics and songs. Regarding the
songs, she says (with a smile) that she wrote the music to
go along with her lyrics when the music could be simple
enough for her to do so. But when the lyrics demanded
complex talent, the music was written by her close friend
and colleague John Massaro, who is an award-winning composer
and international conductor of note; John also serves on
ART's Board as Music Advisor. OVER THE YEARS will include
"lead sheets," with musical notation along with the lyrics
for those readers who play an instrument or sing in order to
offer an extra "note" of pleasure.
The lyrics, of course,
will be printed in poetic form for those who do not read
music. We hope that this innovative touch will be fun for
those who can participate directly or who have friends or
family and can hear the songs played for them by others.
Certain "surprise selections" from Alexandra's former work
will also be included.
The Early
Alexandra
New Book Planned for
2007
The book will be titled THE EARLY ALEXANDRA and will contain
two novels that Alexandra wrote in the late 1970s for the
single purpose of creating acting roles for herself at a
time when demanding, "brainy" principal parts for females on
TV series were still rare, a fact hard to believe today but
sadly true at the time. These novels, the first, ADAMAS, is a
story about the diamond industry (her role was that of a
defense attorney) and the second, THE INNOCENT, is about the
mafia (her role was a singer who turns against her mafia
family).
The novels are captivating, dramatic stories with
intriguing plots, serious, value-based themes and colorful
characters, but they hold extra interest because they are
fully "dated"; not only do they exhibit her early attempts
to develop fiction writing skills but also reveal in
countless ways the era during which they were written.
A lot has happened in the last twenty-five years, including
the fact that both novels were written on a typewriter, if
any of us remember what that was. In fact, because so much
has changed, not only technologically but culturally in less
than three short decades, that beyond their story-reading
pleasure they actually provide absorbing interest as period
pieces.
From a writing point of view, since these novels
were written in order to create acting roles for herself and
since they were her first forays into long works of fiction,
they proved to result in an unexpected yet pivotal change in the
focus of her career. Once immersed in the form, it became
and remains to this day, her chosen venue of expression,
which culminated in her first published novel,
CROSSPOINTS A
Novel of Choice in 2004. Alexandra is donating these early
novels to ART to be used as fundraisers and to offer
additional works of reading interest. These will be limited
editions, sure to become collector’s items. |