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The season: Alvin Aily American Dance Theater & Paul Taylor Dance
Among the big news items coming up in 2008-2009 arts season is the re-opening in January of UT’s Bass Concert Hall. The 3000-seat theater is undergoing a much-needed $14.7 million restoration that will bring it up to code, increase the size of its lobbies and other patron service areas (i.e., restrooms) and otherwise give the 1980s-era hall some new polish.
With Bass’s re-opening, Austin will see the return of some really stellar international arts companies and individuals. We’re particularly excited that a couple companies founded by twof titans of modern dance are headed our way.
March 24 and 25 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater along with vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock will return. Ailey — who was born in Rogers, Texas — created 79 ballets in his lifetime (1931-1989) including the now legendary “Revelations” that draws on gospel, spirituals and African American culture.
“Revelations.”
Then on April 1, Paul Taylor Dance Company lands at the Bass. Taylor, known for a style of modern ballet characterized by a kind of grotesque beauty that reveals volumes about the human condition.
Now, these are the kind of sophisticated touring arts shows Austin deserves — and needs.
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Review: ‘A Bronx Tale’
Sweet and sharp, tender and tough Chazz Palminteri delivered an entire world in just 90 minutes Wednesday night at the Long Center when he premiered the national tour of “A Bronx Tale,” his semi-autobiographical one-man show about growing up in a Mafia-managed Bronx neighborhood.
Slipping effortlessly in and out of more than a dozen characters, sometimes impressively orchestrating a conversation between three or four of them, Palminteri unwinds his tale with tenderness — and also a master storyteller’s flare for charming, captivating and surprising.
Sure, “A Bronx Tale” story may feel like it covers little new ground in a post-Sopranos cultural landscape — a young boy caught between his fascination with a Mob boss and his upright father, the insular Italian American community cracking under the social upheavals of the 1960s. But Palminteri’s clear affection for his characters gives his tale heft and sincerity.
Indeed it was Palminteri’s earnestness that enthralled the near-capacity audience Wednesday night.
Began in 1989 as an off-Broadway play then made into a movie in 1993, Palminteri revived the stage show on Broadway last year.
Still, this isn’t some shop-worn solo show. Instead, “A Bronx Tale” is reaffirmation that good storytelling and theater thrive.
“A Bronx Tale” continues 8 p.m. tonight and Friday and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday. Long Center, 701 W. Riverside Dr. $40-$80. 474-5664. www.thelongcenter.org.
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Okay Mountaineers conquer Austin Ventures
We don’t have many corporations here in Austin commissioning site-specific work for their offices. That’s why it’s exciting to hear the Austin Ventures hired some of the artists of Austin collective Okay Mountain — Sterling Allen, Tim Brown, Peat Duggins, Justin Goldwater, Nathan Green, Ryan Hennesse, Josh Rios, Michael Sieben and Cory Sinks — to create a big mural for the offices of the venture capitalist firm in downtown Austin.
The work is a series of tableux that, according to a statement by participating artist Tim Brown “is an allegory about how an idea is brought to the marketplace and the pitfalls and rewards along the way.”
Way to go Okay Mountain and good work Austin Ventures.
Here’s a photo of the work in progress courtesy of Brown’s Web site which also lots more images of the mountineers hard at work on the mural.
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Texas Biennial artists to be announced Saturday
After careful deliberation of more than 500 applicants from all over the state, Texas Biennial 2009 guest curator, Michael Duncan, has come to the final selection of only 62 artists.
And the Biennial coordinator will announce the artists this Saturday at an ice cream social and public gathering. The shin-dig is Saturday, Sept. 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. with the announcement of the artists at 2:30 p.m.
It’s at The Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River Street, one of several location of the upcoming Texas Biennial.
Duncan is Corresponding Editor for Art in America and his writings have focused on maverick artists of the twentieth century, West Coast modernism, twentieth century figuration and contemporary California art.
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Texas seeks artist to represent states
From the Texas Commission on the Arts comes this official release:
The Texas Commission on the Arts Announces Call for Nominations for State Poet Laureate, Musician, Visual Artists
The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is seeking nominations for the positions of 2009 and 2010 State Poet Laureate, State Musician, State Two-dimensional Artist and State Three-dimensional Artist. Any Texas citizen may make up to three nominations per artist category; however, self-nominations will not be accepted. Nomination forms and complete information are available online at www.arts.state.tx.us/stateartist. Deadline for Texas State Artists nominations is October 5, 2008.
Chosen artists will join the company of previous state artists such as Ray Benson, James Surls, Red Steagall, and Kathy Vargas and receive statewide recognition. Texas State Artists also have the opportunity to participate in TCA events and promotions, including participation in TCA’s Diplomacy and Protocol Program and other state initiatives in relation to their respective art discipline.
Poet laureate nominees must have developed a substantial body of work, including at least one publication that is not self-published. State musician nominees must have a substantial body of work, including at least two nationally available records, or at least 20 years experience teaching music in a formal classroom, or receive the majority of their income from musical endeavors. Visual artist nominees must work in two- or three-dimensional art mediums, must have been represented in at least one, one-person show and must have an extensive history of exhibiting in recognized museums and galleries.
Nominated artists will be asked to submit samples of their work to provide to the TCA advisory panel. The advisory panel will review all nominations and submit 10 names per category to the Texas Poet Laureate, State Musician and State Artist Committee in December. The Committee, composed of members appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the House of Representatives, will make the final selections in 2009 when the 81st Legislature convenes.
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‘Paper: A Conversation’
Five nationally-recognized female artists — Melissa Jay Craig, Sandra Fernandez, Stephanie Hunder, Karen Kunc, and Jill Lear — show their new work in ‘Paper’ on view now at Gallery Shoal Creek through Sept.
And each has a different creative approach to using paper as an artistic medium — from crafting paper as a sculptural three-dimensional material to combining photography with traditional printmaking methods.
Fernandez, by the way, is the only Austin artist among the featured quintet. She teaches printmaking at UT and is the director of UT’s respected Guest Art in Printmaking Program.
This Friday, join noted Austin artist and UT art professor Ken Hale as he leads a panel discussion with exhibit artists Fernandez, Craig and Lear.
6 p.m. Friday. Gallery Shoal Creek, 2905 San Gabriel St. Free. 512-454-6l671, www.galleryshoalcreek.com.
Sandra Fernandez, detail from ‘The Landscape of Memory Series.’ mixed media book art
Karen Kunc, “Orb Weaving.”
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The season: ‘Caroline, or Change’ at Zach
Another highlight of the upcoming arts season…
Zach Theatre will stage its own new production of Tony Kushner’s critically acclaimed musical, “Caroline, or Change.”
A through-composed musical with book and lyrics by Kushner, the score, by Jeanine Tesori, combines, among other styles, gospel, blues, Motown and Jewish klezmer music.
Set in Lake Charles, Louisiana during the civil rights movement, the story centers on Caroline Thibodeaux, a black maid for a Southern Jewish family, the Gellmans. When the family can’t give Caroline a raise, they invite her to keep the change the young Noah Gellman absentmindly leaves in pockets when Caroline does the laundry. But when a $20 bill goes missing from the household, the situation gets complicated. Outside the house, the assassination of John F. Kennedy shakes the world — and the tide of change inevitably sweeps the Gellman house as well.
Janis Stinson will star as Caroline.
Kushner — best known for the epic “Angels in America” — was born and raised in Lake Charles. Zach produced “Angels” in 1999.
“Caroline, or Change” runs September 18-November 9 on Zach’s Kleberg Stage. Shows are 8 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Opening weekend, tickets are just $20 for the Thursday, Friday and Sunday shows.
By the way, Zach Theatre is the new streamline name of the organization formerly known as Zachary Scott Theatre Center. Their new URL is www.zachtheatre.org.
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The season: Blanton Museum of Art
Despite its mind-numbing title “Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York,” actually promises to be an interesting exhibit.
It opens Sept. 28 at the Blanton Museum of Art and runs through Jan. 18.
From 1963-67 a group of ten artists in New York formed a collective and a gallery known as Park Place. And it was the epitome of 1960s experimentation. Free jazz, the architecture of the city, the utopian visions of Buckminster Fuller and exploration of the so-called “fourth dimension” of cosmic consciousness — this was the fodder of Park Place. From urban space to outer space, the Park Place people reimagined space in every possible way.
Think large sculptures made of industrial materials and with mind-bending geometries.
Anthony Magar, “Cardinal IV,” 1966. Painted steel.
Think paintings in explosive hues and jazzy patterns.
Tamara Melcher. “Untitled,” 1965. Acrylic on canvas.
It all seems so groovy, is what.
Edwin Ruda. “Redball,” 1965. Oil on plywood.
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Mark di Suvero loans UT major sculpture
Renowned American sculptor Mark di Suvero is loaning the University of Texas one of his major sculptures for long-term exhibition.
UT intends to purchase the piece — “Clock Knot” — for its new public art collection. Like other di Suvero sculpture, “Clock Knot” is monumentally scaled and constructed primarily from steel pieces welded and bolted together.
About 41-feet tall, “Clock Knot” will be installed on the northeast corner of Dean Keeton Street and Speedway in front of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Building. Once “Clock Knot” is installed, it will be painted red.
“Clock Knot”
Di Suvero — a key figure in the development of postwar American sculpture — will install the piece himself Sept. 26 with a dedication at 1:30 p.m.
The event is timed to coincide with the opening of the Blanton Museum exhibit “Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York.” Di Suvero was founding member of the Park Place Gallery.
Austin’s certainly not the first Texas city to get a di Suvero. There are several di Suvero works in the collection of Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Garden, at the Dallas Museum of Art and one on view at Dallas Meyerson Symphony Hall as at the Northpark Center Mall. Di Suvero’s “Pranath Yama” is a the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Corpus Christi claims one at the Bayfront Arts and Science Park.
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The season: It’s here
The arts season is here. Well, almost.
Next Thursday in XL we’ll run our 2008-2009 art season planner that provides an a look ahead at what’s coming up in dance, visual arts, music and theater. Until then, we’ll drop info into this blog about a few of things we’re especially looking forward to.
Such as…
Every single show on Austin Classic Guitar Society’s International Concert Series. Once again, this sharp organization has lined up a stellar roster of some of the best instrumentalist on the world scene.
Matthew Hinsley, Sept. 27 — ACGS’s own executive director performs a recital in an elegant private home. Eliot Fisk and Angel Romero, Oct. 4 — Two stupendous talents will undoubtedly make for one outstanding concert.
Manuel Barrueco , Dec. 6 — The Grammy-nominated master.
Duo Erato, Jan. 31 — Martha Masters and Risa Carlson make beautiful music together.
Marcin Dylla , Feb 28 — The Polish-born rising star with lightning-speed fingers.
Roland Dyens, April 25 — The Tunisian composer and performer seamlessly fuses popula, jazz and classical stylings.
Duo Erato. Photo by Charles Masters.
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Long Center names managing director
The Long Center for the Performing Arts has hired Paul Beutel, veteran Texas theater professional and former longtime manager of the Paramount Theatre, as managing director, Long Center officials will announce Monday.
Beutel is currently managing director of the Miller Outdoor Theatre in Houston.
The new managing director position will oversee all programming, marketing, finance and operations and will report to Long Center executive director Cliff Redd. As part of his job, Beutel will assume the duties of Tammie Ward, Long Center director of programming, who resigned several weeks ago.
Beutel will start at the Long Center September 15 on a part-time basis while he finishes the duties of his current position. He will begin full-time at the Long Center November 10.
Beutel is credited with rescuing the Paramount from closure in the late 1980s and reviving the theater’s popular summer movie series. He stepped down from the Paramount job in 2003 and joined the Miller in 2005.
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Yo-Yo Ma sells out the Long Center
The upcoming concert by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma hosted by the Austin Symphony Orchestra at the Long Center has sold out, symphony officials have announced today.
Tickets went on sale to symphony subscribers in June and to the general public on August 11.
The concert on Sept. 11 will feature Ma on Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E.
In May, Ma was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.
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‘The Met: Live in HD’ returns to Austin screens
Opera fans, get our your calendars:
National CineMedia has announced its third season of the popular and critically-acclaimed “The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD” series which is transmitted live, in high-definition, to more than 440 movie theatres and performing arts centers in the United States.
Five theaters in the greater Austin region will play host to the opera broadcasts this year:
Tinseltown Pflugerville Cinemark Hill Country Galleria Cinemark Southaprk Meadowns Cinemark Cedar Park Metropolitan 14
Ticket sales begin tomorrow, August 22. Visit www.FathomEvents.com to purchase. Last season, several of the broadcasts sold out here in Austin
The schedule is as follows:
Sept. 22 — “Opening Night Gala” - Starring Renée Fleming in fully staged performances of scenes from three different operas: Verdi’s La Traviata (Act II), Massenet’s Manon (Act III), and the final scene from Richard Strauss’s Capriccio. Tenor Ramón Vargas and baritones Thomas Hampson and Dwayne Croft co-star. Met Music Director James Levine and Marco Armiliato conduct.
Oct. 11 — “Salome” - Starring soprano Karita Mattila with baritone Juha Uusitalo. Mikko Franck conducts.
Nov. 8 — “Doctor Atomic” - The latest by John Adams. Directed by Penny Woolcock and starring Gerald Finley and Sasha Cooke, with Eric Owens and Richard Paul Fink. Alan Gilbert conducts.
Nov. 22 — “La Damnation de Faust” - Directed by Robert Lepage and starring Marcello Giordani, with Susan Graham and John Relyea. James Levine conducts.
Dec.20 — “Thais” - Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Massenet’s Thaïs, with Thomas Hampson in John Cox’s production. Jesús López-Cobos conducts.
Jan. 10, — “La Rondine” - Nicolas Joël directs Puccini’s La Rondine, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna. Marco Armiliato conducts.
Jan. 24, “Orfeo ed Euridice” - Stephanie Blythe and Danielle de Niese star in Mark Morris’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. James Levine conducts.
Feb. 7, “Lucia di Lammermoor” - Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón star in Mary Zimmerman’s acclaimed production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Marco Armiliato conducts.
March 7, — “Madama Butterfly” - Cristina Gallardo-Domâs sings the title role of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in Anthony Minghella’s stunning production. Marcello Giordani stars as Pinkerton. Patrick Summers conducts.
March 21 — “La Sonnambula” - Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez star in Mary Zimmerman’s new production of Bellini’s La Sonnambula, conducted by Evelino Pidò.
May 9 — “La Cenerentola” - Elīna Garanča stars in Rossini’s bel canto Cinderella story, La Cenerentola. Lawrence Brownlee stars as her Prince Charming, Don Ramiro. Maurizio Benini conducts.
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Freescale Semiconductor donates $1 million to Long Center
Freescale Semiconductor has pledged $1 million to the Long Center for the Performing Arts, as reported today.
Specifically, the money will go towards making events at the Long Center more accessible to children and to support diverse cultural offerings. The contribution will go towards the establishment of the Freescale Fund which will provide approximately 2,500 to 3,500 tickets annually over the next four years.
From the official release comes this statement:
“Freescale is committed to enhancing the quality of life in the communities where we live and work,” said John Torres, senior vice president of Freescale and chairman of the company’s global community relations council. “When we started working with the Long Center last year, we concluded they had done a terrific job of fundraising for the construction and operation of the facility. We wanted to direct our donation to where it could have the biggest impact; which for us is increasing access to the performances and promoting diversity. The building itself was designed to promote inclusiveness and accessibility to the arts.”
Freescale will also officially present the Long Center Children’s Series by providing better pricing and accessibility for children programming. The 2008-2009 Children’s Series currently features “The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley,” ” -Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy” and “Bob the Builder Live.”
In addition, Freescale also plans to be the presenting sponsor, along with the Austin Area Heritage Council, of “The Last Day in the Life of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As Devised By Waterwell: A Rock Operetta” which plays Jan. 19, 2009.
Freescale is also lined up to be the presenting sponsor of the Long Center/Austin Asian Cultural Center’s Asian American Festival in May 2009.
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Blanton to open second building Nov. 16
The Blanton Museum of Art will officially open its second building with a big public festival on Nov. 16.
The 56,000-square-foot Edgar A. Smith Building that will feature a cafe, museum shop, classrooms, auditorium and offices. It joins the 124,000-square-foot space James A. Michener Gallery Building that houses all of the galleries as well the print study center. The Michener building opened in 2006.
On the party schedule for the Nov. 16 opening is a talk by Jed Perl, art critic for The New Republic in the new auditorium followed by a book-signing with Perl in the new bookstore. Several to-be-announced bands will rock it out, probably on the sublime 145,000-square-foot public plaza and garden between the two buildings that was designed by noted landscape architect Peter Walker.
Dean Fleming, “Lime Line,” 1965. From “Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York,” opening Sept. 28 at the Blanton.
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Golden Hornet Project goes non-profit, with a bang
After years of doing it all on their own, composers Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski are taking their Golden Hornet Project to a new level. To unveil the Project’s new status as an official nonprofit organization — one that will be committed to offering opportunities to musicians to present their new music to audiences— Reynolds and Stopschinski will host an evening of all-new percussion music for chamber ensembles. A reception follows the concert.
“Percussion VI” plays at 8 p.m. Saturday. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road. Tickets are $10-$30. www.goldenhornet.org.
On the Project’s newly formed board of directors are Dana Friis-Hansen, executive director of ther Austin Museum of Art; Alamo Drafthouse owner Tim League; Graham Williams, founder of Transmission Entertainment; playwright and Rude Mechs co-founder and co-producer Kirk Lynn; David Wyatt of Wyatt Brand media and Lorranie Chammah.
The organization will be led by executive director John Riedie with Reynolds and Stopschinski serving as artistic directors,
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Cynthia Camlin @ D. Berman Gallery
Former Austin resident Cynthia Camlin returns with new watercolors now on view at D. Berman Gallery.
There’s an opening tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibit continues through Sept. 20.
There’s nothing conventional about Camlin’s watercolors. She builds her images out of layers of small geometric shapes of transparent color, the accumulation culminating in luminous paintings that are simultaneously filled with depth and clarity.
Camlin’s latest fixation is with glaciers and icebergs. Hers are creepy and very, very beautiful.
Cynthia Camlin, “Melted 8.”
Cynthia Camlin, “Melted 8.”
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Conspirare new CD online today
“Threshold of Night,” the new CD by two-time Grammy-nominated Austin choir Conspirare won’t hit stores until Sept. 9. But record company Harmonia Mundi has made the recording of seven premieres by the rising young British composer Tarik O’Regan available for online listening as of today.
Mesmerizing and sublime, O’Regan’s music layers voices with brilliant intricacy and he deftly combines airy melodies and subtle dissonances to a powerful effect.
Hear for yourself at Harmonia Mundi’s “Threshold of Night” Listening Party.
Three of the 11 pieces on “Threshold” were commissioned by Conspirare director Craig Hella Johnson — two set to poems by Emily Dickinson and one to a poem by Pablo Neruda. Conspirare performed the program here last September before heading to the famed Troy Music Hall to record. It was at the Troy Music Hall that Conspirare recorded it’s Grammy-nominated CD “Requiem.”
The title work— “Threshold of Night” — is set to a poem by Kathleen Raine and earned O’Regan the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters Award in the Liturgical category. It was written for Advent and completed on the eve of the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
By the way, though Conspirare has many CDs to its credit, “Threshold of Night” marks the Austin choir’s debut with the prestigious classical music label.
In other Conspirare news, Dana Patterson has joined the group as assistant director of Conspirare Youth Choirs. A native of Indiana, Patterson has taught at both elementary and high-school levels. Professional credits include membership in the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir; director of the Bach Chorale Youth Chorus and assistant to the artistic director of the Bach Chorale, Lafayette, Ind.. She is married to Kevin Patterson, general director of Austin Lyric Opera.
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Symphony reports uptick in season ticket sales
According to recent press release issued by the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the 98-year-old arts organization has seen a jump in season ticket sales.
No exact numbers were released, but the symphony reports that its subscribers have increased more than 15 percent over last year and that it now has more than 2,700 season subscribers.
The symphony also reported that it has raised close to $2 million towards its annual fund which symphony executive director Jim Reagan says is “a record amount.”
On the horizon for this season is the world premier of Austin Symphony Orchestra-commissioned new piece by noted composer Christopher Theofanidis Sept. 19-20. On May 1-2, the symphony also will premiere a new symphony by Austin-based composer Dan Welcher.
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Seven chosen for Texas Biennial outdoor project
Seven artists have been chosen for the Texas Biennial Temporary Outdoor project.
The artists chosen by jurors Michael Duncan and Risa Puelo are Ryah Christensen, Colin McIntyre and Jill Pangallo of Austin; Bill Davenport and Sasha Dela of Houston; Buster Graybill of Huntsville and Ken Little of San Antonio.
The artists are charged with creating temporary, site-specific works of public art.
The locations of the projects are the Great Meadow area of Butler Park, Auditorium Shores, the grounds of Mexican American Cultural Center and Fiesta Gardens. The artwork will go on exhibit March 7, 2009.
The artist-run Texas Biennial smartly partnered with the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places program to produce this innovative effort to bring a new kind of public art to Austin.
And with this roster of artists, we can expect exciting, challenging and forward-thinking projects. Forget those goofy giant guitars that popped up all over town awhile ago.
Davenport, if you recall, was a finalist for the 2007 Texas Prize and created the giant “Stealth Pinata” for the exhibit at Arthouse.
By the way, Austin’s was the first municipal government in Texas to make a commitment to include works of art in construction projects when it established the Art in Public Places program in 1985.
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Review: ‘Twelfth Night’
“Twelfth Night” at the Scottish Rite Theatre is solid, straight Shakespeare. Men are men; women are men; and everyone falls in love and wears pale makeup. The production is period through and through, from the doublets and hose to the jig at the end.
With the focus on Shakespeare as it was mostly originally practiced, the play can either sparkle with his words or turn into a workaday history lesson. This “Twelfth Night” does a little of both.
As Viola disguises herself as Duke Orsino’s servant boy to win his love by wooing his beloved Olivia, the emotion is there, but can feel understated. Likewise, as Olivia’s house is beset by fools, foreigners and puritanical stewards, that’s exactly what you get. Everything is performed well and comically—especially in Judd Farris’ naïve Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Robert Matney’s bipolar Malvolio—but too often just at face value.
The final act, though, absolutely pops. Nathan Jerkins’ Orsino speaks in starts and rushes as he accuses Viola of stealing his Olivia and, in turn, threatens to kill her. Suzanne Balling’s Olivia leaps in to defend Shannon Grounds’ Viola, who is just as quick to sacrifice herself to her love. It’s intense, emotional and wonderful.
There’s no ulterior motive or interpretation, and none is needed. With a performance like that — and one that will hopefully fill the rest of the play — Shakespeare still sparkles.
(“Twelfth Night” continues at 8 p.m. Friday-Saturdays and 5 p.m. Sundays through Aug. 30 at the Scottish Rite Theatre, 207 W. 18th St. $15. 472-5436, scottishritetheatre.org)
Joey Seiler is an American-Statesman freelance theater critic.
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