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Sitting one behind the other at the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, two woodwinds joined tempos and exchanged vows. Andrea Banke, the company’s principal oboist, recently married Scott Charles Oakes, the principal bassoonist.
Exaggerated movements, over-the-top wit and sensational music mark Gioacchino Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims (The Trip to Reims).” Wichita State University’s opera department, consisting of both graduate and undergraduate students, will perform this beloved Italian classic.
Led by music director Daniel Hege, the Wichita Symphony Orchestra performed a beautifully balanced program of works on Saturday evening in the Century II Concert Hall. The composers of the three presented works developed the concept of theme and variation to the level of the sublime.
James McNamara, stage director at the Frankfurt Opera in Germany, is on a mission to introduce opera to more Americans.
Today’s guest photographer is Sonia Greteman, president and creative director of Greteman Group, a Wichita branding agency. She and her husband, Chris Brunner, recently spent two weeks in Egypt on a National Geographic tour.
The Newman University Theatre Department will present the musical “Pippin” at 8 p.m. today and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday in Performance Hall of the De Mattias Fine Arts Center on the Newman campus, 3100 McCormick. The show features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and focuses on the character Pippin, a soldier in the army of his father, King Charlemagne, who isn’t sure he wants his warring way of life. Pippin is played in the Newman production by student Matt Riedl. Tickets are $10, $8 for seniors, $5 for students college age and younger, and free for Newman students with ID. Tickets will be available at the door 45 minutes before each show.
As Wichita State University’s Ulrich Museum of Art temporarily closes its galleries to focus on indoor repairs, internationally renowned artist Tony Feher will be heightening the aesthetics of the campus with a series of eye-catching installations. His “Extraordinary Ordinary” outdoor exhibition will color not only the spot above the museum left vacant by the now-in-repair Miro mural, but also augment other unassuming areas.
Listen to the eight programs in the Wichita Symphony Orchestra’s 2012-2013 season and call conductor Daniel Hege in the morning.
After disassembling the 600-piece bridge of blown glass at the Wichita Art Museum, Rollin Karg and his staff at Karg Art Glass clean each piece Tuesday in the museum’s great hall.
Act I needs some punching up. And the overall book could stand more exposition so we know who and what we’re listening to. But Act II of Cabaret Oldtown’s original jukebox musical, “Dueling Divas! The Women of Rock ’n Roll,” is dynamite — and it plays right into one of the troupe’s major strengths: fabulous female voices.
The Wichita Symphony Orchestra has put together a program that explores the variations of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s masterful “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” Edward Elgar’s beloved “Variations on an Original Theme – Enigma” and a new classical gem. Award-winning composer Christopher Theofanidis’ 21st-century crowd-pleaser “Rainbow Body” took the music of Hildegard von Bingen and put his own spin on it.
Contralto Suzanne Hendrix, a 32-year-old who attended the Wichita Grand Opera’s Young Artist Program for the last four years, was one of four winners of the prestigious George London Foundation Award. It was presented Feb. 17 in New York City.
Tickets for the popular outdoor concert Symphony in the Flint Hills will go on sale at 10 a.m. March 10.
Dale Chihuly’s “Persian Seaform Ceiling” — the monumental and colorful bridge of blown-glass pieces just inside the Wichita Art Museum — will be disassembled and cleaned this week for the first time since its installation.
There’s no escaping the infectious high-stepping, hip-shaking rhythms and rib-tickling ribaldry of Thomas “Fats” Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” — even when body mics occasionally couldn’t keep pace with energetic cast members.
It’s an entrancing time for the Friends University Ballet. Sparkling fairies are frolicking to enthralling music. Love-struck couples are wading into a moonlit wilderness. Mischief, merrymaking, and mayhem abound as audiences are invited to the center of a magical, mysterious evening.
Virginia actress Trish Epperson admits she’s feeling a bit of pressure playing Dorothy Gale from Kansas in Crown Uptown’s “The Wizard of Oz.”
“First they break your crayons, then they bully you on the playground. It just grows from there.”
Saturday evening’s performance in the Century II Concert Hall by the Wichita Symphony Orchestra was exciting and well balanced. Erudite and engaging music director Daniel Hege welcomed the audience and provided a context for the music before launching into the first piece.
The Wichita Art Museum’s inner core galleries are brimming with more than 80 prints, paintings and drawings by African-American artists whose works span nearly 120 years.
