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    Jun 13, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Classical Corner

    Chicago Philharmonic: Mattia Rondelli is guest conductor for a program of favorite Italian and American orchestral works by Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Gershwin, Bernstein and others. Susan Merdinger is the piano soloist. Sponsored by the Italian Consulate...

    Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Colleges and Universities, Loyola University Chicago, Entertainment Events, Pink Martini (music group)

    2. Jun 3, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. 'The Second City Guide to the Opera' at the Lyric ★★★

    THEATER REVIEW: No Second City revue of the last 54 years has been held in more gorgeous surroundings ...
    No Second City revue of the last 54 years has been held in more gorgeous surroundings than "The Second City Guide to the Opera," a summer partnership between the famed comedy theater and the increasingly open-minded Lyric Opera of Chicago — that...

    Tags: Poetry, Barack Obama

    3. Jun 6, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. Norbert 'Chip' Zapinski, construction engineer, 1932-2013

    Norbert "Chip" Zapinski's first big assignment as onsite project engineer was at Marina City, an ambitious project whose design was considered impossible to build by some critics.
    Norbert "Chip" Zapinski's first big assignment as onsite project engineer was at Marina City, an ambitious project whose design was considered impossible to build by some critics. "His focus was on just getting it built," said his wife of 54 years,...

    Tags: Illinois General Assembly, Chicago Skyline, University of Detroit Mercy, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Technology

    4. May 30, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. A moment to talk arts parking

    There are many reasons to complain about the notorious parking deal made between the City of Chicago and Chicago Parking Meters LLC, some four years ago under Mayor Richard M. Daley.
    There are many reasons to complain about the notorious parking deal made between the City of Chicago and Chicago Parking Meters LLC, some four years ago under Mayor Richard M. Daley. The rates are outrageously high; the profits for the private-sector...

    Tags: Goodman Theatre, Union Pacific Corporation, Public Transportation, The Book of Mormon (musical), Metra

    5. May 10, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Lyric's passion must extend to musical theater

    In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward, as waves ebb upon a shore. As it receded, hordes of musicians were revealed, all playing the glorious music of Richard Rodgers. You could see tears in people's eyes. As the Russian formalists used to put it, the familiar was made strange, and the strange made intensely familiar.
    In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward,...

    Tags: Palace Theater, Les Miserables (movie), Music Theater, Anna Leonowens, Entertainment Events

    6. Mar 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. Mariachi the heart and soul of Lyric's 'Cruzar'

    The combination of opera and mariachi is not as unlikely as one might think. Both art forms, in the view of Lyric Opera General Director Anthony Freud, tell human stories about love and loss, family and country. Beyond that, said Freud, "mariachi is a unique, joyful, sorrowful cocktail that has the emotional immediacy of Puccini and a sound world as distinct as that of any great composer."
    The combination of opera and mariachi is not as unlikely as one might think. Both art forms, in the view of Lyric Opera General Director Anthony Freud, tell human stories about love and loss, family and country. Beyond that, said Freud, "mariachi is a...

    Tags: Arts, Pilsen, Entertainment Events, Poetry, Mexico

    7. Apr 8, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. 'To Cross the Face of the Moon': Lyric's fusion of opera, mariachi brings crowd to its feet ★★★ 1/2

    Nothing like the exuberant dazzle of mariachi to explode operatic stereotypes.
    Nothing like the exuberant dazzle of mariachi to explode operatic stereotypes. The shouts and cheers that went up from the sold-out audience Sunday afternoon at the Civic Opera House said it all. What was billed as the world's first mariachi opera...

    Tags: Music, Pilsen, Mexico, Poetry

    8. Apr 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. 'Oklahoma!' comes sweepin' into Lyric Opera

    If ever a musical theater work deserved its exclamation point, it's “Oklahoma!”
    If ever a musical theater work deserved its exclamation point, it's “Oklahoma!” Breathes there a man or woman of a certain age who hasn't at one time or another succumbed to the nostalgic charms of this classic American show, whose spirit...

    Tags: Concerts, Music Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Entertainment Events, Poetry

    9. Mar 27, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. Though not blindingly original, 'Streetcar' music surprises

    “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Andre Previn's adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, has come in for such scathing notices from some critics following its premiere by the San Francisco Opera in 1998 that one approached the Chicago premiere Tuesday night at the Civic Opera House, where it received a semi-staged production under auspices of Lyric Opera, expecting the worst.
    “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Andre Previn's adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, has come in for such scathing notices from some critics following its premiere by the San Francisco Opera in 1998 that one approached the Chicago premiere...

    Tags: Music, Carnegie Hall, Culture, Poetry, Students

    10. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. 'Oklahoma!': Gemze de Lappe here to bring out true colors

    “It's not ‘rah, rah, rah,'” Gemze de Lappe says in explaining how you sing “Oklahoma!”
    “It's not ‘rah, rah, rah,'” Gemze de Lappe says in explaining how you sing “Oklahoma!” The 91-year-old de Lappe hops up from her chair and stoops, bowing low and dusting the air with her hands as if foraging through...

    Tags: James Mitchell, Music Theater, Carnegie Hall, John Philip Sousa, Chicago Shakespeare Theater

    11. Mar 31, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. 10 things you might not know about razed Chicago

    Ever since the Great Fire of 1871, a cycle of destruction and rebuilding has been central to the Chicago story. This month, Northwestern University secured a permit to tear down Prentice Hospital so that it can build a biomedical research facility. Also this month, speculation arose (and was quickly squelched) about tearing down Wrigley Field's iconic scoreboard. And today is the 10th anniversary of one of the most unusual acts of demolition in city history — Mayor Richard M. Daley's middle-of-the-night destruction of Meigs Field.
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    Ever since the Great Fire of 1871, a cycle of destruction and rebuilding has been central to the Chicago story. This month, Northwestern University secured a permit to tear down Prentice Hospital so that it can build a biomedical research facility. Also...

    Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Newspapers, Art Institute of Chicago, New York City, St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929)

    12. May 5, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune - Hold from PM

  12. "Oklahoma" at Lyric Opera of Chicago ★★★

    THEATER REVIEW: "Oklahoma" at Lyric Opera of Chicago ★★★ ... Early in "Oklahoma!" the 1943 masterpiece by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II now at the Lyric Opera of Chicago ...
    Early in "Oklahoma!" the 1943 masterpiece by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II now at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the traveling peddler Ali Hakim asks the naive young farm girl Laurey Williams if she wants something. He means trinkets from his...

    Tags: Music, Robin Williams, Dance, Entertainment Events, Poetry

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