News from Mark G Auerbach Public Relations / May 2018

We’re proud to share our clients’ activities.

Kevin Rhodes begins the month at The Vienna State Opera Ballet conducting performances of a program of ballets by George Balanchine, John Neumeier, and Jerome Robbins on May 3-5, before returning to the USA to conduct performances with Boston’s Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra on May 12, and Rachmaninoff programs with the Springfield Symphony on May 19, and the Traverse Symphony in MI on June 2. Then, it’s back to Vienna for ballet.  For details: http://kevinrhodesconductor.com/

Jeanne Yocum, publisher of the award-winning blog Succeeding in Small Business, released her new book, The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss, published by Rowman and Littlefield. I’m quoted in the book! Jeanne’s book tour continues on May 4 at Recyclique in Durham, NC and May 17 at the Durham Public Library. She’ll be the featured speaker at the South Shore Women’s Business Network on June 21 in Hingham, MA and at AmherstWorks in Amherst, MA, and she’ll appear at Blue Umbrella Books in Westfield, MA on June 23. And, the audio book has been released. For details: https://www.succeedinginsmallbusiness.com/the-self-employment-survival-guide/

The Capitol Steps perform every Friday and Saturday in the Amphitheater at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, DC. Metro Stop: Federal Triangle. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. They also perform throughout the year at theatres coast-to-coast. Look for them at Cranwell in the Berkshires this summer. from June 29-August 31. Their new CD, Make America Grin Again, comes out next month, and they'll have a new Politics Takes a Holiday radio special in July.. For details: http://capsteps.com/

And, we're pleased to welcome Benjamin Jacek onboard to help us part-time with social media. Ben has worked with us on two productions of The Big Broadcast! with The Jazz Ensembles of Mount Holyoke College. He's about to graduate from Minnechaug Regional High School, and will be a member of the University of Wyoming Class of 2022. 

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89.5fm/WSKB’s ArtsBeat Radio will return to airwaves weekly on Fridays at 8AM beginning on May 25. Chester Theatre’s Daniel Elihu Kramer, and Graham Rowat, star of Berkshire Theatre Group’s Church and State, join me. Meanwhile, the next program airs on Wednesday, May 16 at 9AM, I’ll be talking with North Hall Festival’s Peri Sossaman. Maestro Kevin Rhodes previews the 75th Springfield Symphony Orchestra season; actor James Barry from Berkshire Theatre Group and Chester Theatre, talks about his music. Tune in on 89.5fm/WSKB, on Comcast Ch.15 in Westfield, or streamed via www.wskb.org or www.westfieldtv.org

My ArtsBeat columns and theatre reviews for Westfield News Group, Succeeding in Small Business and Take Magazine are catalogued at Random Notes From a P.R. Guy: http://mgauerbach.blogspot.com/

Here’s counting down to summer.