Archive for February 2010

February 1, 2010

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Classical Music Highlights for February

Spreading a little love of classical music in the month of February.

February 1, 2010

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‘Cadillac’ at the Bloomington Playwrights Project

Cadillac is a fascinating inside look at a car dealership, the forces that drive it, the sales people the customer, the strategies of the business.

February 2, 2010

interview

Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor"

IU Opera Theatre’s Tale of Scottish Horror “Lucia di Lammermoor’

I think that there are things in the staging of the mad scene that have never been done before.

February 2, 2010

interview

Sylvia McNair

Come to the Cabaret with the Columbus (IN) Philharmonic

I guess I’d have to say that in some ways my idol was always sort of Julie Andrews. And today I do sing some of the songs that she made her own.

February 2, 2010

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wonderlab cololrs

Creating Beyond Borders: Wonderlab’s Art and Science of Color

With the Art and Science of Color, WonderLab is creating a situation that might allow grownups, bringing their kids to play, to stumble upon their creativity.

February 3, 2010

interview

Long Dusty Road

Woody Guthrie’s American Song

Part of the pleasure of working on this has been learning more of and about the songs.

February 3, 2010

interview

Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss

The pride that the director feels is founded, but smug and its break down is a key to the arc of the drama.”

February 8, 2010

review

Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti

Lucia… can easily become an exercise in black and white a sort of dark Dark Shadows, but stage director Marvel has resisted that to I think very good effect.

February 9, 2010

interview

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the Terre Haute Symphony

It’s a concert that conductor David Bowden affectionately calls “love those strings.”

February 9, 2010

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maria bamford

Comedian Maria Bamford Visits Bloomington

One of the stars of "The Comedians of Comedy" comes to town, outfitted with an arsenal of surreal vignettes and wicked impersonations.

February 10, 2010

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Perlman, Ax and Ma collaborate on Mendelssohn Trios

With the Super Bowl recently passed, and the Olympics gearing up, I started trying to put together a sort of classical music “dream team.”

February 11, 2010

review

Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss

Director McFadden has marshaled all the tools of theatre to make Marat/Sade as entertaining and vitally theatrical as it is meaningful

February 11, 2010

interview

Michael Shelden

ISU Prof: Mark Twain’s ‘White Period’ More Wild Than We Think

A new biography by ISU Professor Michael Shelden challenges the traditional notion that Mark Twain spent his last years bitter and depressed.

February 12, 2010

featured classical recording

Powerful Music Delivered in ‘Letters from Lincoln’

For the Lincoln bicentennial, the Spokane Symphony commissioned American composer Michael Daugherty to write Letters from Lincoln for baritone and orchestra.

February 15, 2010

interview

Urinetown, the Musical

Urinetown is a dystopia about a future world where a single company controls all the water and everyone has to pay to use the toilet.

February 15, 2010

interview

“The Drawer Boy”: A Little-Known Hit

"It’s kind of amazing, but this show that many have never heard of is one of the four most produced plays of 2000."

February 15, 2010

interview

Artsweek Event Gives Insight Into ‘The Composer’s Perception’

Composers are often drawn to the natural world as a source of inspiration for their works. They then create sound environments to depict the world around them.

February 16, 2010

interview

“The Welcome Table” Returns

Song, dance, light verse and an excursion for pie

February 17, 2010

interview

Fondly Do We Hope: Composer Christopher Lancaster

“I was playing electric cello. Neither classical nor jazz players were very interested in what I could do. Working with dancers just was a natural fit."

February 17, 2010

angles from the IU art museum

Caleb Weintraub's "Prelude to a Beatdown".

Painting Today Is Judged By New Criteria

When you wander into an exhibition of contemporary art these days, it might occur to you to ask, where have all the paintings gone?

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