Freedom rings at Cedar Rapids Starlight Pops concert
Cedar Rapids Symphony’s Starlight Pops opened with The Star Spangled Banner and closed with fireworks as thousands share in Freedom Festival. Iowa works dominated, including Glee by Jerry Owen and MXYZPTLK by Michael Daugherty. Nassif sang Elegy, while CRSO flutists Jane Walker and Elizabeth Sadilek impressed. Principal trumpet Randy Grabowski, UNI professor, delivered a challenging finale.
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Cedar Rapids
Christian Tiemeyer
Jerry Owen
Coe College
Michael Daugherty
University of Michigan
Mixius Pitilik
Robert Nassif
CRSO
Nassif
Bellstedt piece ends season with 1812 Overture finale
The program builds to the windup with Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture and a dazzling fireworks finale by the Freedom Festival Brass Band directed by Earle Dickinson of Jefferson High School. Sousa The Free lance March and The Stars and Stripes Forever close the show as audiences cheer. Photo on Back Page, 10B.
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Freedom Festival
Earle Dickinson
Jefferson High School
Sousa
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom review captures life rhythm
Iowa City audience sees August Wilson play set in a 1927 Chicago recording studio. Follows Ma Rainey’s band members Cutler Levee and others as they negotiate art, race and control under a white-dominated world. The piece emphasizes blues as cultural force and character conflict.
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Chicago
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Opens Iowa Summer Rep 99
August Wilson’s play opens at The David Thayer Theatre on the University of Iowa campus as part of Iowa Summer Rep 99. The production is described as powerful, vibrant, gritty with an undercurrent of life’s contradictions and a cast praised for their illumination and sensitivity.
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August Wilson
Ma Rainey
Iowa
Rural areas and Martelle voters weigh 1 percent local tax
Voters in rural Jones County and the town of Martelle will decide Tuesday on a 1 percent local option sales tax. The measure appears on the constitutional amendment election ballot for those areas. In unincorporated areas most revenue would fund roads.
Jones County tax proposal backed by Farm Bureau
Jones County Supervisor Merlin Moore pitches a local option sales tax plan aimed at funding road and bridge work and property tax relief. If approved it would yield about 400 000 yearly for the county with Martelle voting separately on the measure and earmarking funds for streets parks and water. The proposal has faced past opposition including defeats in 1998 in Martelle and rural areas.
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Jones County
Merlin Moore
Martello
Martelle
Merlin
Moore
Jones County Farm Bureau
What freedom means to blacks lecture topic at Cedar Rapids Library
Herman Blake, director of African-American studies at Iowa State University, will lecture on freedom and its meaning to African-Americans tonight at 7 at the Cedar Rapids Public Library. The 1999 Freedom Festival event is free and open to the public.
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Herman Blake
Iowa State University
Cedar Rapids Public Library
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Kirkwood Community College
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Kathy Alter
Iowa City
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Theater Review
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Levee
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State of Iowa
Tax Education Foundation
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