Photography is the focus of UMBC show
The University of Maryland Baltimore County's "A View from Baltimore to Washington" is an annual exhibit of selected area artists built around a certain focus, whether theme, medium or subject matter. This year's show is devoted to work in the medium of the photograph as it relates to other media, such as painting and installation. Its seven artists include: Ann McMurray, who creates installations in which pictures are hung in a bird cage; Vasant Nayak, whose photo montage, reproduced above, is one of those that have origins in southern India; and Lawley Paisley-Jones, who projects computer-altered photos onto a gallery wall and then paints them. Curated by fine arts gallery director David Yager, the show runs through March 11 at UMBC, 5401 Wilkens Avenue. For information call (410) 455-3188. "Free at Last: Images of Emancipation," a multimedia play about African-Americans who fought for emancipation during the Civil War, is touring several Maryland locations over the next two weeks. Based on the archival anthology "Free at Last, A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War," the stage play premiered at the 1994 Columbia Festival of the Arts.
The tour schedule is: 6 p.m. today at the Medical School Teaching Auditorium, University of Maryland at Baltimore; noon tomorrow at the Pascal Center for the Performing Arts, Anne Arundel Community College; 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; 6:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Chesapeake Room, Towson State University; and 7:30 p.m. March 1 at the Alumni Hall Theatre, Western Maryland College. All performances are free. For more information call (410) 715-3044.
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J. Wynn Rousuck Emily Controulis has been one of our most valued musicians since she became the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's principal flutist in 1988. Controulis will give music lovers an opportunity to hear her apply her beautiful tone and remarkable technical facility to the flute's solo repertory this afternoon at 3:30 in a free recital at the Second Presbyterian Church (4200 St. Paul St.). With the fine young pianist Brian Ganz -- who is himself a winner of several important international competitions -- she will perform Bach's Sonata No. 5, Schubert's "Arpeggione" Sonata and Franck's great Sonata in A major. For more information, call 889-6819.
Stephen Wigler