Outstanding Performances in double bill showing of Margherita and The Folk Opera Lincoln and God at the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival August 30th

National Press Club on Rising College Costs

Come to the National Club on September 10. http://lnkd.in/dEVJynb

Opera Rehearsal

Rehearsal  for folk opera Lincoln and God  to be presented at Kennedy Center on August 30, 2014      Read more    http://lnkd.in/d2jtBsW.

Rehearsal for Margherita

View rehearsal for Margherita to be presented at Kennedy Center on August 30, 2014 at http://lnkd.in/dskBDe5 Read more http://lnkd.in/d2jtBsW.

Vedder

NPC Newsmaker Program

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

TO: Daybooks/Calendar/Correspondents/Assignment Editors/Press Offices

FROM: Herb Perone, NPC Newsmakers Chairman, 301-512-7636, herb@peronecomm.com

  

THE REAL REASON COLLEGE COSTS SO MUCH

 

Washington, DC –  Why are college and university Costs escalating so rapidly? At a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on September 10, Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and economics professor at Ohio University, will discuss the reasons college costs have continued to explode despite 50 years of ostensibly benevolent government interventions.

In 1964, federal student aid was a mere $231 million. By 1981, the federal government was spending $7 billion on loans alone, an amount that doubled during the 1980s and nearly tripled in each of the following two decades – and amounts to about $105 billion today. Taxpayers now stand behind nearly $1 trillion in student loans.

Meanwhile, grants have increased to $49 billion from $6.4 billion in 1981. By expanding eligibility and boosting the maximum Pell Grant by $500 to $5,350, the 2009 stimulus bill accelerated higher ed's evolution into a middle-class entitlement. Fewer than two percent of Pell Grant recipients came from families making between $60,000 and $80,000 a year in 2007. Now roughly 18 percent do.

This growth in subsidies, Mr. Vedder argues, has fueled rising prices: "It gives every incentive and every opportunity for colleges to raise their fees."

Like all NPC Newsmaker events, this news conference is open to credentialed media and NPC club members. It is free of charge and no advance registration is required. This NPC Newsmakers news conference is scheduled for Wednesday, September 10 at 10 a.m. in the club’s Zenger Room, on the 13^th Floor of the National Press Building, 529 14^th St. NW, Washington DC 20045. 

 

Contact:

Tony Gallo NPC Newsmakers Event Host

202 -544-6973, agallo2368@verizon.net

Rehearsals

We are rehearsing for two Kennedy Center presentations this coming Saturday ongoing. You are invited. http://lnkd.in/d2jtBsW.

Margherita and Lincoln Folk Opera at Kennedy Center on August 30: You are invited.

THE KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Hosts as Part of the 2014 Page-to-Stage Festival 

A SEVENTH STREET PLAYHOUSE and GALLO MUSIC COMPANY PRESENTATION OF A DOUBLE BILL

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014, 1:00 TO 3: 30 PM   MILLENNIAL STAGE NORTH

MARGHERITA

 

By ANTHONY E. GALLO

THE JEWISH MOTHER OF FASCISM COMES TO WASHINGTON AND GUESS WHO’S FOLLOWING (OR STALKING?) HER)

This historically- based two-act drama examines the 25-year relationship between Margherita Sarfatti and Benito Mussolini between 1911 and 1936 during a three-day encounter in 1939.  Margherita, both Benito’s former muse and mistress, is trying to leave the country.  This play is under contract to Browne-Nederlander for New York production.  Visit web site:  http://margherita.aegallo.com

CAST

Margherita Sarfatti                                       Tarpley Long

Benito Mussolini                                            Steven Rosenthal

James Bullock                                                Tim Wolf

Major Karl Klemmer                                   David Weaver

Radio Announcer                                          Shirl Weaver

Sound Design and Narrator                         Beatrix Whitehall

And

A PREMIERE:  MUSICAL EXCERPTS FROM

THE FOLK OPERA LINCOLN AND GOD

 

By ANTHONY E. GALLO and JOHN WARD

This folk opera examines the complex relationship between the Nation’s sixteenth President and his God during the Civil War.  Hear fully orchestrated  songs from Love Is Eternal to This is America.   Visit web site:     http://aegallo.com/lincop.html

CAST

Reverend Phineas  Gurley                             Tim Wolf

Abraham Lincoln                                           David Weaver

Benjamin Helm                                              B. Whitehall 

Mary Lincoln                                                  Shirl Weaver

Sculptor Jones                                                B. Whitheall

 

Questions:   Anthony E. Gallo   (202) 544-6973 agallo2368@verizon.net  No Charge Free Shuttle From GW Metro Stop Or Park At The Kennedy Center