Singer Lynne Rothrock met guitarist Paul Binkley when she lived in Nashville. He has toured with the band Alabama, and writes the orchestrations for Alabama shows with orchestra. (The Teddy in the show title is Alabama’s Teddy Gentry) Paul joins Lynne for an all-new show featuring the music of singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith, as well as …
Week 8 of the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band season will divide the band into a Woodwind Choir and a Brass Choir, each giving its own program. Leslie Fleer will direct the woodwinds, and Steve the brass. The program will include Mozart, Queen, and the “Quidditch” theme by John Williams from the Harry Potter films, which …
When Steve Shanley played in the Cedar Rapids Municipal band, he often wondered why the band members weren’t featured more as soloists. Now that he is the director, he sets aside one concert every year to showcase members of the band. This week, Christine Bellomy, clarinet; Caleb Lambert, euphonium, and Thiago Ancelmo, clarinet; will all …
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 …
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’” 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’” 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 …
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 …
