Today, the University Theatre on the University of Montana campus announced a return concert by Greg Brown, the husky-voiced singer/guitarist who has played the UT a bazillion times. It’s starting to seem like he must like this place or something; it probably doesn’t hurt that Missoula audiences love him. Anyway, here’s the press release direct from the source with show details… [Read More...]
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It’s known as one of the most rollicking comic operas in all of history; and this summer, it will come to Missoula. Montana Lyric Opera has announced that tickets go on sale today for its production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” which runs at the Montana Theatre on the University of Montana campus August 10, 12, and 14. The centerpiece of Montana Lyric Opera’s third annual Summer Opera Festival, the production promises a full immersion in Mozart’s classic score, with full sets, costumes, and a pit orchestra, said Luis Millan, music director for the Missoula-based professional opera company. “It’s simply one of the great operas; that’s the most basic reason we chose to do it,” said Millan, who will conduct the performances. “It has this broad public appeal, with beautiful music, a funny story; and it’s touching in the end.” [Read More...] Advertisement
In the concert hall, that might seem a tough row to hoe. Over the past 100 years, contemporary classical music has developed an increasingly bad reputation among audiences. Starting, ironically, at the very point in history when orchestral, operatic, and chamber music had reached its zenith of public popularity – at a time when the daily doings of the local symphony was considered relevant news for the masses by newspapers; and when the names of notable conductors, singers, and composers had become household names in much of the Western world – composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern and others began to experiment in new forms of music that at times induced passionate public outcry and even, in some instances, riots. Yet the types of music in question here – those works that break with traditional notions about rhythm, melody, harmony, and texture – are hardly unfamiliar to modern ears. [Read More...]
Given their complimentary creative focus, it’s only fitting that the two groups eventually found reason to collaborate. And it’s even more fitting that they found that reason via a musician from the small West African country of Mali. [Read More...] The Montana Museum of Art and Culture will have to wait a little longer to find a proper showcase for its trove of art. Monday’s news that a Virginia-based developer has purchased the Macy’s building in downtown Missoula means that the MMAC, Montana’s only state-owned museum devoted to art – and the only state-owned museum that lacks a public building of its own – likely won’t be moving into the 134-year-old building in the heart of Missoula. “We’re disappointed, certainly,” said Barbara Koostra, director of the MMAC, the UM-based art collection that, for 117 years, has been a museum by name only. [Read More...] For those who seek a good way to pass the cold days of winter, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UM has announced a new class aimed at 50-plus folks who want to increase their appreciation of art. It looks like a great class, as it will be centered around the great exhibit of masterworks currently on view at UM. Here’s the full press release about the class from UM. [Read More...] On Thursday afternoon in the University of Montana Music Recital Hall, San Francisco violinist Ian Swensen raised his instrument to his neck, caught the eyes of cellist Tonya Tomkins and pianist Eric Zivian, lifted his upper body with a subtle jerk; and suddenly, a tempest erupted. For several minutes, a musical torrent pelted three dozen UM students and faculty as they listened to the visiting trio run through the first movement of Johannes Brahms’ famous Third Piano Trio – a piece that Swensen described moments later as “a growling, clear storm.” The rapt audience erupted in loud clapping at the end. And then, the musicians onstage began to tear their performance apart. [Read More...] One of Missoula’s most consistently fun holiday sales comes around again later this week, when the UM Emerging Ceramic Artists and Student Sculpture Association present the 23rd annual Art Annex Holiday Juried Show. It’s a good way to support student artists, and to score some great and unique holiday loot, often for insanely cheap prices… [Read More...] |
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