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Key for Production Locations
GBPAC: Great Hall - GH, Davis Hall - DH, Jebe Hall - JH
Russell Hall - RH
Strayer-Wood Theatre - SWT
Oster Regent Theatre - ORT
Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre - Salome
Friday, January 15, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, January 17, 2 p.m.
Salome’s biblical story was first used by Oscar Wilde as the basis for a play that was banned in London until 1907. Richard Strauss was so taken by the images of lust, color, familial intertwinement and the shocking final scene, that he set the story as an opera, which premiered in Dresden in 1905.
Most famous for the Dance of the Seven Veils, “Salome” is a compact one-act opera written in the style of Wagner’s late-Romantic Germanic style, using leitmotifs (melodies with textual connotations) and continuous musical textures. Salome’s character as a femme fatale, who called for the head of St. John the Baptist, makes for one of the highest emotional values in opera.
Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre’s production will feature stage direction by Gregory Keller of The Metropolitan Opera and Daniel Kleinknecht as conductor.
Faure Piano Quartet
Friday, January 29, 7:30 p.m.
The musicians founded the Fauré Piano Quartet in 1995 taking on his name out of appreciation for the composer's two piano quartet pieces. It did not take the quartet long to win top prizes and awards for their interpretations at prestigious internationalchamber music competitions including the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis and the Parkhouse Award in GreatBritain.
"There is no such thing as perfection, but the Fauré Piano Quartet is dangerously close to challenging this notion. The group's success is each member's inborn musicianship, the sense of friends making music together sublimely and perceptively, and the musicians' collective ability to say so much in the most natural way. The Fauré Quartet has been beautifully recorded too, with a mix of immediacy, space and judicious balance between the foursome who play as equals and who care deeply about what they do and about each other." - ClassicalSource.com
Master Class
Where: Jebe Hall, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center
When: January 30, 2010, 10 a.m.-11 a.m.
RSVP: No RSVP required
Who: Chamber ensembles from the University of Northern Iowa and UNI Suzuki School will perform. All ages are encouraged to attend and observe.
Pilobolus
Sunday, January 31, 3 p.m.
A BUCK A KID!
Imagine a visual sculpture of human bodies or a configuration of dancers so entangled you can’t count them. For nearly four decades, the Pilobolus dance troupe has been acclaimed for a non-traditional but powerful set of skills with which to make dances. Pilobolus has evolved into a unique American arts organization of international influence, dubbed by the New York Post as “the most popular modern dance company in the country.” With notable appearances in commercials, on the Academy Awards and innovative theatrical productions that result in die-hard dance fans, Pilobolus makes modern dance accessible and fun for all.
“The purest Pilobolus experiences have involved metamorphosis . . . one image merges into another, organically, poetically, inexplicably.” The New York Times
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