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Culture Crawl 738 “What Would Zappa Do?”
Poet Cecile Goding first heard her words set to music for a class at the Iowa Writers Workshop. This led her to the idea of creating a new opera inspired by the E.M. Forster short story, “The Machine Stops,” whose setting is a world where people never meet physically, but create relationships through the screen …
Culture Crawl 737 “Calypso & Disco”
Percussionist Creighton Gaynor has been a part of the Corridor music scene for some years, in bands such as OSG and The Fez, as well as his own group, Jumbies. Jumbies plays in the “Soca” style, short for “Soul Calypso.” Soca originated in Trinidad-Tobago, and fuses traditional Caribbean Calypso with seventies Disco. Jumbies will join …
Culture Crawl 736 “Juggler’s Equivalent to ‘Play Misty’”
Culture Crawl 736 “Juggler’s Equivalent to ‘Play Misty’” Juggler Benjamin Domask-Ruh and Luke Lovegood, new Director of Choral Activities at Coe College, join the Cedar Rapids Municipal band this week. Luke Sings “Bring Him Home” and . Benjamin surprised Steve Shanley a bit, when the internationally award-winning juggler saw Leonard Bernstein’s “Slava” on the program …
Culture Crawl 735 “They Tune To ‘A’”
Culture Crawl 735 “They Tune To ‘A’” A team of recent Liberty High School grads are spending part of their summer staging the Jason Robert Brown musical Songs for “A New World.” Deuce Martin, Posey Stoeffler, and Killian Ritland say the process has been fun and challenging, and they’re excited for an audience to see …
Culture Crawl 734 “Regular With A Twist”
Week 5 of the Cedar Rapids Municipal season will take you around the world and to a galaxy far, far away, with selections from the Star Wars film “Rise of Skywalker,” and Coe professor Rose Bishop featured on “Piccolo Español.” Plus Vaughn Williams, and a spotlight on the clarinet section for a spirited polka. July …
Culture Crawl 733 “Programs Itself”
Culture Crawl 733 “Programs Itself” Steve Shanley says programming the CR Municipal Band concerts the week of July 4 is pretty easy, since there is a wealth of patriotic-themed music that are crowd favorites. For the first time in recent memory, the Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale joins the band for the national anthem and a …
Culture Crawl 733 “Programs Itself”
Steve Shanley says programming the CR Municipal Band concerts the week of July 4 is pretty easy, since there is a wealth of patriotic-themed music that are crowd favorites. For the first time in recent memory, the Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale joins the band for the national anthem and a standout arrangement of “America The …
Culture Crawl 732 “Not Just the ‘Wife Of’”
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art celebrates the season with Free Summer admission, beginning July 1. You can check out all nine galleries, including the summer exhibitions featuring Tomás and Charlie Lasansky, and Eve Drewelow. Information and Museum hours at www.crma.org.