Beauty and Politics, Summer Art All Around
1. Compton and Long Concerts
2. Howie Alexander in Katz Plaza
3. CMU's Summer New Play Festival
4. Too Hot to Handle @the Warhol
5. Summertime at Phipps
6. Important Notice
1. Mike Compton and David Long Concert
Sunday, July 6, 2003
214 Main Street, Lawrenceville
Co Sponsored by Calliope and Green Mannequin Productions
MUSIC IN THE HOUSE: Live music where the TV used to be
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED DUE TO LIMITED SEATING
For info or reservations, please email ben@greenmannequinproductions.com
*SHOWTIME - 8:00PM *
TIX $10 [available night of show only]
* MANDOLIN WORKSHOP - 6:30PM *
TIX $25 [or $30 for workshop and show]
-----THE PERFORMERS -----
MIKE COMPTON: Born in 1956 in Meridian, Mississippi-Jimmie
Rodgers' hometown-
Mike Compton is acknowledged to be one of the finest, most
esoteric interpreters
of the Bill Monroe mandolin style. (John Hartford once said
Mike Compton knew more
about Bill Monroe's style than Bill Monroe.) In his 25 years
of performing, Mike has performed
with the premier musicians in the business including John
Hartford and Ralph Stanley
among many other and has won countless awards including five
Grammy Awards
for his work with The Nashville Bluegrass Band, "O Brother
Where Art Thou," and "Down from the Mountain."
DAVID LONG: Though Pittsburgh native David Long has been
studying and performing on the mandolin
for just seven years, he has sought out many of the most
storied, insightful mentors around
including Frank Wakefield, David Davis, Mike Compton and
legendary fiddler Art Stamper.
His recent debut solo release "Midnight from Memphis" has
garnered national airplay and critical praise,
establishing David as one of the premier young talents on the
national bluegrass circuit.
The concert will feature a one-of-a-kind performance of
mandolin duets exploring the untamed roots
of bluegrass music from old-time fiddle tunes, gospel, and
country blues to straight up-tempo bluegrass.
David and Mike will likely trade off between mandolin, tenor
guitar, tenor banjo and banjolin throughout the show.
-----THE WORKSHOP-----
The workshop is intended as a hands-on session for
Intermediate and Advanced players,
but beginning students are encouraged to sit in and observe at
a discounted rate
($15 for the workshop or $20 for workshop and show).
-----DIRECTIONS-----
Take Penn Avenue to Main Street (between cross-streets 40th
and 43rd).
Turn downhill onto Main Street toward the Allegheny River.
214 Main Street is the second to the last house on the left
before the bottom of the hill.
Look for the orange, star-shaped light in the front window.
You can park in the Citizen's Bank lot across the street.
-----MORE INFO------
http://www.bigevemusic.com
http://www.greenmannequinproductions.com
http://www.calliopehouse.org
2. Howie Alexander: Downbeat in the District-Jazz at
Katz Plaza
July 8, 2003, Tuesday, 5:00 pm
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and WDUQ 90.5 FM
Katz Plaza, Corner of 7th Street and Penn Avenue
Free and Open to the Public
Stop by after work, join us before dinner, or come listen
to hot jazz before going to the theater. Bob Studebaker, WDUQ
90.5 FM's program director, is our weekly host.
www.pgharts.org/events
3.
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama
Summer New Play Festival
Helen Wayne Rauh Theatre
Purnell Center for the Arts
Carnegie Mellon University Campus
FREE! 1/2 hour before the show
FRIDAY, JULY 11
2:00 The Baby Is Blue
8:00 Pinhole of Joy
Carnegie Mellon School of Drama will host the 2003 Summer New
Play Festival with two new plays opening the festival Friday,
July 11, 2003. New productions, written by dynamic Carnegie
Mellon play writes, will be performed over two weekends at
Helen Wayne Rauh Theatre in the Purnell Center for the Arts on
the Carnegie Mellon University campus. Tickets to the
productions are free and will be available a half an hour
before opening. For additional information contact
412-268-2407, seating is limited. The Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts sponsors the Summer New Play Festival.
The Summer New Play Festival will showcase three plays per
weekend displaying the work of Carnegie Mellon School of Drama
alumni and students. This collaborative effort between alumni
and students gives audiences the opportunity to see budding
work of leading regional play writes. The Festival will
showcase a body of new work ready to hit theatres around the
country. The Festival is designed to help writers prepare
their scripts for theatre?s around the country, primarily New
York City.
?The Annual Carnegie Mellon University Summer New Play
Festival offers the audience a diverse theatrical experience
through comedy, drama and everything in between with new works
by six dynamic writers,? said Rob Ripley producer of Among
Cannibals.
The Festival becomes a crucial step in the development process
for a writer to have the chance to see what an audience
responds to in the play. Through response sessions following
each performance, the audience also gets the rare opportunity
to hear a little bit from the playwright about their work. New
work is the cornerstone of American theatre and Carnegie
Mellon?s School of Drama provides this unique experience to
regional audiences.
The featured plays are:
The Baby Is Blue, written by Matt Schatz and directed
by Stuart Carden, is new work about a popular song haunts the
lives of four intertwined characters and unearths a dark past.
Pinhole of Joy, written by Tara Meddaugh and directed
by Denise Pullen, is new work about a wife who charges her
husband to satiate her obsession for human hair.
4. Andy Warhol Museum
Too Hot to Handle
June 15-August 31
The Summer of Andy
117 Sandusky Street
412-237-8300
Adults $8
Students with ID $4
Children 3-18 $4
www.warhol.org
Exercise your right to freedom of the press!
Too Hot to Handle: Creating Contorversy through Political
Cartoons is an exhibition of more than 50 contemporary
political cartoons that were either sensored by newspaper
editors, or created a particularly strong public response
because of their approach to sensitive or controversial
subject matter. Cartoonists in the exhibition include: Aaron
MacGruder (Boondocks), Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury), Dan Perkins
(a.k.a. Tom Tomorrow, creator of "This Modern World) and
Pulitzer Proze winning editorial cartoonists Pat Oliphant,
Joel Plett, and Rob Rogers, and MORE!
5. Phipps Conervatory & Botanical Gardens
One Schenley Park
Oakland
$6 for adults
$4 for students with ID
$3 for children 2-12, under 2 yrs old go free!
www.phipps.conservatory.org
Don't forget our beautiful jewel right here in
Oakland! In the summer it is breathtaking with outdoor gardens
to please the eye, and of course the many rooms within the
conservatory, not the least of which is butterfly garden. It
features various species of butterflies such as monrachs,
zebras, julia and queens, all thriving in a natural habitat--
it's a great--it's a great advanture for adults and for the
entire family. For those of you with children, "Art Gecko"
places beautifully hand-painted geckos all over the gardens--
tons of fun for the kids to find as they walk through.
6. IMPORTANT NOTE: We have had a difficulty with our
graduate student database. If you have a graduate student
friend who is no longer receiving our emails, please have them
contact us at pittarts@pitt.edu
Thanks, and have a great 4th of July!
ndy Warhol
Museunoo Hot to Handle: Creating Controversy Through Political
Cartoons
6/15/03 - 8/31/03
With the tools of satire, parody, exaggeration and humor,
political cartoonists have enjoyed a long history as
influential contributors to the free press. It is
precisely these tools that sometimes cause a cartoon to be
branded "tasteless," "offensive" or even "unpatriotic" by
newspaper editors and their public. Too Hot to Handle is
an exhibition of 50 contemporary American political
cartoons that were either censored by newspaper editors or
created a particularly strong public response because of
their approach to sensitive or controversial subject
matter. Whether dealing with the aftershock of September
11, 2001 or criticizing the government in the face of the
war in Iraq, these cartoons touched a raw nerve with
readers, editors and politicians and reveal the current
mood of the country. Cartoonists in the exhibition
include: Aaron MacGruder (Boondocks), alternative
cartoonist and columnist Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury),
Dan Perkins (a.k.a. Tom Tomorrow, creator of This Modern
World), and Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists
Pat Oliphant (Universal Press Syndicate), Joel Pett
(Lexington-Herald Leader), and Signe Wilkinson
(Philadelphia Daily News). The exhibition is co-curated by
art historian Sylvia Rhor and cartoonist Rob Rogers. |
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