This week, the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band celebrates America with a show featuring patriotic music. The Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale joins the band to add their voices to “American The Beautiful” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic, as well as a Samuel Barber march and Glenn Miller medley. Steve and Dennis also discuss recent …
Craig Erickson and Gerard Estella have been busy cooking up a unique to them album, “Dream Tracks” and are in the studio today to tell you all about it. The album release concerts will be Friday, June 28 and Saturday, June 29, 7:30pm at the Opus Concert Café. Tickets are $17 and can be purchased …
Rich Wagor, Phil O’Connor & Brett Copeland are in today to give us the rundown on this year’s Five Seasons Chamber Music Festival. Concerts are June 27, 7pm and June 28, 5pm and 7pm at Ballantyne Auditorium (Kirkwood) and June 29, 7pm at Ellis Park. Concerts are free and open to the public. For more …
Week 4 of the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band season features the band’s (and Orchestra Iowa principal) Andy Harris on horn. Andy and the horn section are working pretty hard this season. They had a feature last week, and Steve Shanley also works them pretty hard on a Malcom Arnold composition entitled “Scottish Dances.” Plus, music …
Classmates turned collaborators Akwi Nji and L.D. Kidd have teamed up to breathe new life into “enuf,” a poetry album released last year by Akwi. This one of a kind live performance will feature vocalist Alicia Strong and percussionist EJ Swavv, as well as Akwi and L.D., as they invite you to explore what it …
This week the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band features its Horn section, performing a piece that Steve Shanley describes as “flashy” to highlight a section of the band that doesn’t always get an opportunity to shine. Also on the program is young artist competition winner Emma Bennett performing the Artie Shaw Concerto for Clarinet, and music …
Cedar Rapids Opera is bringing back popular modern opera, Too Many Sopranos, and here to tell us a little more about it is Katie Stuelke, Jeffry Goldberg, and Gwen Sell. Originally commissioned for the CR Opera, Too Many Sopranos will be celebrating its 150th production right back where it all started. Shows are Thursday, June …
Riverside Theatre’s Kathleen Johnson, Elliott Bales and Max Cline are in today ahead of the kick off of Riverside’s 2024 Free Summer Shakespeare series. This year’s show is Julius Caesar, but if you were envisioning togas and grape leaves, think again. The production will be set in 1930s Italy which will make the famous story …
