Three composers, including Cedar Rapids native Robert Lindsay-Nassif, were given rare access to Grant Wood works by the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art as they worked on a commission for the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre. To aid them in creating the works that would become “Strokes of Genius,” the composers were able to view works by Wood in storage at the Museum, in an area usually reserved only for staff.
CRMA director Sean Ulmer says the community will get its first taste of the product of these labors at the “Grant Wood Birthday Bash,” Feb. 13 at the CR Museum of Art, at 6pm. The composers will introduce segments of their pieces, which will be sung by Jessica Pray Patel, whom we interviewed in Culture Crawl #414.
There will be more Museum/Opera tie-ins in March and April, prior to the Opera premiere April 12-14. More information at www.crma.org and www.cr-opera.org.
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