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Patricia Smith to open UMN English Writers Series; Irish Fair coming to...
Pamela EspelandPhoto by Beowulf SheehanPatricia SmithThe Fall UMN English Writers Series is never long – this time, it’s just four writers – but it’s always mighty. The U being the U, it can draw big...
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Preparing for South Africa: This is why we sing
Scott ChamberlainIt was one of those Moments … the kind of moments you are lucky to have every once in a rare while as a performing musician. Funny enough, it came not at a performance, but at a...
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VocalEssence to perform in Mexico City; BodyCartography Project at WAM
Pamela EspelandIf you want to see the Minnesota Orchestra in August, you’ll have to go to London or South Africa. Same for the Minnesota Chorale, which will send 50 singers to South Africa to perform...
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Big, busy summer for Minnesota Orchestra; St. Kate's Art Festival coming up
Pamela EspelandThe Minnesota Orchestrawon’t get much of a vacation this year. The season finale in mid-June, where they performed Mahler’s Fourth, was followed a week later by an appetite-whetting...
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Park Square announces new artistic director; how to get 'Hamilton' tickets...
Pamela EspelandCourtesy of Park Square TheatreFlordelino LagundinoChanging the guard, passing the torch, handing over the reins; whatever you call it, Twin Cities theater is doing it. Since summer...
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Historical Society names new director; 'Carry-on Homes' to grace Commons
Pamela EspelandIn November, the Minnesota Historical Society announced that its director since 2011, D. Stephen Elliott, would retire in June. On Friday, we learned that Kent Whitworth will become...
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Women and American composers stand out in Minnesota Orchestra's 2018-19 season
Pamela EspelandOne big surprise of the Minnesota Orchestra’s 2018-19 season, announced today, takes place in January. Yes, January. Following a January 2016 Beethoven marathon and a January 2018...
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Sommerfest to salute Mandela and South Africa; Lila Downs at the Ordway
Pamela EspelandPast Sommerfests have looked to Vienna for inspiration. For summer 2018, the focus will shift to South Africa. Announced Friday, the Minnesota Orchestra’s annual summer music festival...
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33 Minnesota groups get NEA grants; Graywolf author wins big PEN prize
Pamela EspelandSoon after the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced its first round of grants for fiscal year 2018, we started hearing from Minnesota arts organizations.The Mankato Symphony...
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All the Capitol's a stage in 'Our House'; A Common Thread 2018 at the Textile...
Pamela EspelandSet in the newly restored Minnesota State Capitol, “Our House: The Capitol Play Project,” the new play from Wonderlust Productions, moves from the vault beneath the Rotunda to a public...
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Minnesota Orchestra to tour South Africa; 'Carmina Burana' coming to the Cowles
Pamela EspelandIn May 2015, the Minnesota Orchestra was the first U.S. orchestra to play Cuba since 1999. This summer, it will be the first professional U.S. orchestra ever to tour South Africa. Soon...
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State Arts Board awards nearly $1.6 million; T2P2 to take show on the road
Pamela EspelandThanks to Minnesota legislators, voters and taxpayers, and to the Minnesota State Arts Board, stewarded by Sue Gens, Jim Denomie will create a series of paintings in response to Standing...
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SongSlam comes to Minnesota; indie films at the Walker
Pamela EspelandThe first SongSlam took place last April in New York City, presented by Sparks and Wiry Cries. Mark Bilyeu, artistic director of the Source Song Festival in Minneapolis, heard about it...
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'Faces Places' is exquisitely beautiful; Tchaikovsky Marathon at Orchestra Hall
Pamela EspelandIn May 2015, 180 black-and-white head shots of Lowertown artists appeared on walls around the St. Paul neighborhood. They were large (36" x 53"), generally cheerful, and just there. None...
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Guthrie reports budget surplus, more donors, greater diversity
Pamela EspelandWhen Joseph Haj was named artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in 2015, succeeding Joe Dowling, who had held that position for 20 years, we knew change was gonna come. The son of...
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Leadership changes in local arts; 'Godot Has Come' at the U
Pamela EspelandLeadership changes are taking place in Twin Cities arts and culture.After a six-month commitment that turned into four years, Minnesota Orchestra President and CEO Kevin Smith will...
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'Brimstone & Glory' is a dreamy, almost hallucinatory experience; Holidazzle...
Pamela EspelandIn real life, fireworks are here, KABOOM, then gone. In “Brimstone & Glory,” a documentary that opens Friday at the St. Anthony Main Theatre, they linger, tracing slow patterns of...
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U of M hosts event on the father of Southdale; ‘Feast of Fools’ at the Lab
Pamela EspelandCourtesy of Peggy GruenVictor GruenThe man who designed Southdale, the world’s first modern, fully enclosed, climate-controlled shopping mall, narrowly escaped being captured by the...
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Charles Chamblis show to open at Mill City Museum; MCAD Art Sale turns 20
Pamela EspelandCourtesy of the Minnesota Historical SocietyPhotograph by Charles Chamblis.In May 2014, we went to see an exhibit at the Minnesota History Center called “Toys of the ’50s, ’60s and...
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Cine Latino to focus on Mexico; 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' at Century College
Pamela EspelandThe Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul has never cared much for walls, which makes this a perfect year to embrace films from and about Mexico by Mexican directors. The 5th Annual Cine...
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