Matisse Cutouts Highlight Free Form of Master’s Later Work
At the St Louis Art Museum through March 12, Henri Matisse’s brightly colored paper cutouts mark a defining late phase. Fifty five works, begun in the 1940s during illness, reveal his shift from model based drawing to pure paper cuts and line driven, vivid compositions.
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Henri Matisse
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St. Louis Art Museum
Jack Cowart
Scheherazade
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Matisse Cutouts Revealed Through Private Process
Cowart and colleagues catalogued a hidden body of Matisse cutouts, showing how he trimmed paper in a precise circle to form contours. Pinholes and glued scraps reveal the artist’s method, reflecting a new art form and his controlled public image. The touring show, ending in St. Louis, underscores the works' fragility and impact.
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Matisse
Cowart
St. Louis
Met Opera Festival Comes to Minneapolis Stage
Beverly Sills leads Met stars in the 34th Metropolitan Opera Festival at Northrop Auditorium May 15-20 with eight grand operas. Casts include Sherrill Milnes, Tatiana Troyanos, Cornell MacNeil, Shirley Verrett, Jerome Hines and more from the New York company. Tickets $7 to $23. contact Don Brenner before March 10.
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Beverly Sills
Metropolitan Opera
Northrop Auditiorium
Upper Midwest
Sills
Sherrill Milnes
Drake University
Massenet
Leoncavallo
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Puccini
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New York
U.S
University of Minnesota
Minnesota Orchestral Association
Cedar Rapids
Don Brenner
Maple Drive
Brenner
Jean van Ree
John Pritchard
Cavalleria Rusticana
Tatiana Troyanos
Isola Jones
Gianfranco Cecchele
Cornell MacNeil
Pagliacci
Mariana Niculescus
James McCracken
Ryan Edwards
Michelangelo Veltri
Boris Godunov
Jerome Hines
Mignon Dunn
Misha Raitzin
Robert Nagy
John Macurdy
Don Giovanni
Donald Gramm
Joan Carden
Elizabeth Harwood
Evelyn Mandac
Allan Monk
Madama Butterfly
Gilda Cruz-Romo
Shirley Love
William Walker
Lemon Cinders dances with six choreographers at Hancher
The University of Iowa Dance Company presents Lemon Cinders in Hancher Auditorium with 41 dancers in five ensembles performing ballet modern and restricted movement. The program features an electronic score by Peter Elsen and interwoven Saint-Saens music. performances are Friday 8 and 10 pm and Saturday 2 and 8 pm.
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Lemon Cinders
Hancher
University of Iowa Dance Company
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Peter Elsen
Camille Saint-Saens
Alicia Brown
Iowa dancer Brym joins defector line with U of I show
Kathy Brym, a University of Iowa dancer who fled Czechoslovakia in 1966 with her family, will perform in Lemon Cinders with the U of I Dance Company at Hancher Auditorium. She competed for the United States in modern rhythmic gymnastics world championships in 1973, 1975, and 1977, and has made two return visits to Czechoslovakia since escaping.
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University of Iowa
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America
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Downers Grove
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Switzerland
U of I
U of I Dance Company
Hancher Auditorium
Concertmaster named for last three Cedar Rapids concerts
Leopold LaFosse of the University of Iowa School of Music will serve as concertmaster for the final three Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra performances of the 1977-78 season. He has guest hosted and soloed with the orchestra before and recently toured Europe studying violin pedagogy.
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Old Brick hosts paper-fiber art exhibit in Iowa City
The Johnson County Iowa City Fine Arts Council presents an 86 piece paper and fiber exhibition in Old Brick 121 year old building. 72 artists from Iowa and neighboring states display drawings paintings prints tie-dye weaving batik and more. Awards up to 250 and a 250 Popular Choice Purchase Award will be announced and voted today at noon and Sunday March 19.
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Johnson County
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Milwaukee Art Center
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Old Brick
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Market Streets
Dual recital by UI graduate students at Coe College
Violinist Lisa Robertson and pianist Mary Neil present a program of Bach Brahms Stravinsky and Schubert in Daehler Kitchin Auditorium on the Coe College campus Monday at 8 p m The event is free and open to the public Robertson is a UI teaching assistant and first violinist in the Graduate String Quartet Neil is in the DMA program and previously performed with the UI Chamber Orchestra
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Mary Neil
John Simms
Robertson
U of I
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U of Chamber Orchestra
Assessment in the Arts seminar at Iowa University
The University of Iowa will host a year long interdisciplinary seminar titled Assessment in the Arts for 1978-79. British drama educator Brian Way will serve as distinguished visiting professor, with support from the Iowa Measurement Research Foundation, guiding graduate and faculty participants across art, dance, English, music, speech, dramatic art, and education. Way will teach a creative dramatics course and collaborate with area schools and teachers during the year.
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University of Iowa
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Sweden
U of I
Kantorei Concert at Clapp Hall Iowa City
The University of Iowa Kantorei will perform Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Clapp Recital Hall conducted by Don V Moses. The select chorus of 31 voices performs works by Verdi Byrd Ligeti Bialas Glinka. Admission is free.
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University of Iowa Kantorei
Clapp Recital Hall
Don V Moses
Verdi
William Byrd
Gyorgy Ligeti
Johann David
Gunter Bialas
Glinka
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