Red Cedar Chamber Music presents the final concert in their summer series of live-streamed events, “Biber, Bach, and Beethoven,” June 24-27. The centerpiece of the concert is “Sonata Representative,” a work performed with narration written by Janet Burroway and multimedia images. Watch beginning at about 4:45 for Carey’s performance of one of the verses! Four …
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Culture Crawl 574 “Arts Fest in Your Living Room”
The Iowa Arts Festival will take place online this weekend, but will still have opportunities for you to browse and buy quality art pieces, and hear great music. Summer of the Arts Executive Director Lisa Barnes says you can go to the Artists page at www.summeroftheARTS.org to see work by the artists invited to this …
Culture Crawl 573 “Pick Up The Spare”
The Civic Music Association of Des Moines has announced it’s 2020-21 season. Jazz highlights include a concert with Jazz at Lincoln Center lead trumpeter Sean Jones, and tributes to Ray Charles (featuring Take 6), as well as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone. But first, we need to “pick up the spare” from 2019. …
Culture Crawl 572 “Dinner and a Show—at Home”
Revival Theatre presents a retrospective featuring some of the most memorable performances from their first five years called “When the Curtain Rises Again.” It’s an online concert on Sunday, May 31 at 7pm on Facebook Live. Artistic director and co-founder Brian Glick says performers from past Revival shows have sent in recordings to reprise their …
Culture Crawl 571 “Disinfected Tiara”
Old Creamery Theatre presents the second edition of their online cabaret, “Songs to Make You Smile: A Virtual Encore,” May 23 at 7:30pm. The show will benefit four area theatres: Old Creamery, Riverside, City Circle, and Theatre Cedar Rapids, with performances from more than a dozen of the Corridor’s favorite performers. In this show, several …
Culture Crawl 570 – “Alien Possession – Just Screams Mother’s Day”
Mirrorbox Theatre continues its weekly “Out The Box” streamed series with alive reading of “Chalk” by Walt McGough. Caroline Price and Marcia Hughes star in this new play about a mother eking out an existence post-Apocalypse, when her daughter, now possessed by the aliens who have taken over the world, returns home. Like all Mirrorbox …
Culture Crawl 569 “Had to Teach the Boys the Blues”
Miera Kim and Carey Bostian of Red Cedar Chamber Music continue their in-home concerts with “All in the Family.” Performing once again with their sons Oliver and Adrian, who are both accomplished high school musicians, Carey and Miera say the program will be fun variety in a variety of styles, from an early Baroque piece …
Culture Crawl 567 “Counts as School in Our House”
Family Folk Machine, Iowa City’s intergenerational folk choir, is rescheduling their spring concert for fall. And while they are unable to meet in person, have hosted a “virtual open mic” for their members, continue to hold their songwriting classes, and more. For more information or to get involved, visit www.familyfolkmachinge.org.