The Vincibles present Aging Grace on stage at Renaissance Center Sept. 15
Release Date: 9/3/2003. Expired: 9/15/2003
“There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.”
Irish playwright and essayist Sir Richard Steele expressed his contempt at the human aging process in The Spectator in 1712. Of course, at the time he was just 40 years old.
The joys, frustrations, satisfactions, hopes and fears about growing old will be presented Sept. 15 when The Vincibles present a selection of songs from Aging Grace, a musical play written by Dikkie Schoggen of Nashville.
Tickets for the 7 p.m. show in the Performance Hall are $5 each. The program will be videotaped by The Renaissance Center’s award-winning Multimedia Department for broadcast on The Renaissance Channel in Dickson.
“It is a show with a lot of variety,” said Phil Schoggen, a member of The Vincibles. “We call it a seminar in song about growing old.”
Schoggen said the songs range from sweet and sentimental ballads to tango to “raucous and irreverent,” and “they all have a message.”
The Vincibles is a seven-member group of singers and a keyboardist from the Nashville area who perform Aging Grace about once a month as a “public service,” Schoggen said.
Some of the songs in Aging Grace take a humorous look at the realities of growing old.
“Time goes faster when you’re old and gray. Sit a minute and a year flies away. I thought I wrote the checks for lights and the rent, but that was weeks ago and I never sent ’em,” says the song Time Goes Faster.
The song Ironies touches on some of the aspects of old age that leave senior citizens especially challenged to face life.
“I’d like to be independent and a little help would do. Philosophic’ly transcendent, but experience lasers through. I’ve lots of time to sing, but I’m not wanted in the choir. Too many ironies in the fire.”
The group offers advice to the younger generation in song as well: “You can powder and paint, try to be what you ain’t. And think you’re better than I am. You may be able to fool Mother Nature but you sure can’t fool Father Time.”
The Vincibles consist of Phil and Dikkie Schoggen, Carl Haywood, Judith Lovin, Dona Tapp, Dan and Jan Rosemergy and keyboardist Barbara Santoro.
The group takes its name from one of its songs, Vincible.
“All people can be sorted, I’m convinced. Those who shout ‘Invincible,’ and those who know they’re vinced. I used to be the former, but now you see, after what happened to me I know I’m vincible.”
Incidentally, Sir Richard Steele, who bemoaned the lack of grace in the seniors of his time, died at age 57. The Vincibles range in age from late 40s to 80.
For more information on Aging Grace (I Feel Like a Summer Sunshine Trapped in an Autumn Rain), contact Elaine Sherrill, senior director of Music at The Renaissance Center, at (615)740-5545. The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.
Visit the Events - Concerts and Recitals page for more about musical performances.
News
| Date Released | Expiration | Headline |
|---|---|---|
| No Press Releases to show... | ||