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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.
Culture Crawl 731 “Just Enough to Not Break Copyright”
This week, the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band showcases the winner of their annual Young Artist competition, recent Linn-Mar graduate Arjun Palaniappan on a composition that Steve Shanley says is about as close as you can get to Toto’s “Africa” without having to give David Paich and Jeff Porcaro a writing credit. Also on the program …
Culture Crawl 730 “Fights, Whiskey, and Sex”
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A woman achieves the highest honor in her field, and then is torn down by the male-dominated community. Except it’s 1912 and the woman is Marie Curie, asked to not travel to Sweden to accept her second Nobel Prize after allegations of an affair with a married man. …
Culture Crawl 729 “Throw Out The First Bagel”
Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids is 100 years old this year, and June 23 is Jewish Heritage Night with the Cedar Rapids Kernels. Organizer Lena Gilbert has several activities planned before the game. The Jewish community in Cedar Rapids has been around since the late 1800s, and founded or have been involved in many of …