Music, fashion, wine, art fill local slate
The show, based on Brooks’ film of the same title, centers on two theatrical impresarios who attempt to bilk backers out of their investments by overselling a flop. Their game is foiled when their hoped for flop, “Springtime for Hitler,” becomes a smash hit.
Civic Music is advising its subscribers the show may be inappropriate for children age 10 and younger.
Doors open at 6:45 p.m., with seating at 7 p.m. Curtain is 7:30 p.m.
Admission will be by season membership.
The 2007-08 season will conclude Tuesday, May 6 with “Simply Sinatra,” featuring Steve Lippia and his big band. That program will be offered as a bonus to new subscribers. The eight attractions on the 2008-09 season will be announced in early April.
Symphony to feature clarinetist
Clarinet virtuoso Rob Patterson, a 2007 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and guest artist in residence with the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, will be featured soloist for the orchestra’s trio of spring concerts.
Patterson will perform Weber’s “Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in f minor” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Burlington’s Memorial Auditorium, and March 30 at Ottumwa (3 p.m.) and Fairfield (7:30 p.m.). The evening performance was moved to Fairfield’s Sonheim Performing Arts Center because of renovation work on the Iowa Wesleyan College Chapel Auditorium in Mount Pleasant.
The orchestra, under the direction of Robert McConnell, will perform Mahler’s “Symphony No. 1 in D major (Titan).”
Patterson also will perform a full recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Zion United Church of Christ in Burlington. The program will be free to the public.
Patterson is currently a graduate student in clarinet performance at the University of Southern California.
Fashion show fund-raiser
Tickets are on sale for “Steppin’ Out for the Arts,” a fine dining and fashion show fundraiser for the Fort Madison Area Arts Association scheduled April 5 at Meier’s Den, Eighth Street and Avenue G, Fort Madison.
The event will allow guests to enjoy the interior splendor of Meier’s Den and to check out the fashion lines of many area clothiers. The show will showcase the styles of Melissa’s of West Burlington, Original Cyn’s of Burlington, Little Black Dress of Keokuk, Quarry Creek of Fort Madison, and Studio 1 of Lake of the Ozarks, Mo. — a clothing boutique owned by former FMAAA president Sarah Crabtree.
The event will include wine tasting, hors d’oeuvres and wine, an entree from The Wild Whisk, runway style show, dessert from the Ivy Bake Shoppe and a short auction. Afterwards the boutiques in Meier’s Den and Dana Bushong’s will be open for shopping, and clothing vendors will be available to meet with guests.
Tickets are $50 single and $90 couple. Call (319) 372-3996 for more information.
The event is designed to fill the place of the annual art auction, which has moved from an annual to a biennial event.
Tickets are available at the locations mentioned and at The Bookmark, Fort Madison.
Guest artists for KGS concert
The Knox-Galesburg Symphony will feature world-class trumpeter David Washburn of California and Knox College senior Olivia Cacchione, harp, as soloists for its Saturday concert.
The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. at the historic Orpheum Thjeatre in Galesburg, Ill.
Washburn will perform Torelli’s “Sonata No. 1 in G for Trumpet, Strings and Continuo” and Albinoni’s “Concerto for Trumpet and Strings, Opus 7, No. 3.”
Cacchione will perform Debussy’s “Sacred and Profane Dances for Harps and Strings.”
She will be joined by three other harpists for Bantock’s “Celtic Symphony for String Orchestra and Four Harps.”
Maestro Bruce Polay will conduct the program.
Washburn, principal trumpet of the Pasadena Pops Orchestra, has performed on a number of motion picture soundtracks, including “The Legend of Zorro,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “Windtalkers,” The Perfect Storm,” and “Titantic.”
Additionally at noon on Friday, Washburn will be featured at a Knox College Music Department Colloquium and at 7:30 p.m. in a recital accompanied by Polay in the Carl Sandburg College Fine Arts Theatre as part of the Carl Sandburg College Concert Series. Tickets will be available at the door.
Luther Chorale date
Fans of choral music are advised to mark Thursday, April 17 on their concert calendar.
That’s the date Luther College’s Collegiate Chorale will perform a concert at First Lutheran Church, 1101 Blondeau, in Keokuk.
The Chorale, directed by Timothy Peter, Luther professor of music, will perform Gabriel Faure’s “Requiem” and sacred and secular choral works by Handel, Caccini, Hassler, Christiansen and Joyce.
A freewill offering will be collected. For more information, call (319) 524-3475.
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