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The Democracy! Suite Featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis OCT 30
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Texas Performing Arts Executive Director and Tony AwardÂŽwinning producer, Bob Bursey, is happy to bring The Democracy! Suite Featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis.
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Program About Jazz at Lincoln Center
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About Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Meet the Artists Building a Bridge with Robots
The Democracy! Suite Featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis
Stay after the concert for a Q&A with Wynton Marsalis moderated by Jeff Hellmer, UT Austin Director of Jazz Studies.
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The Democracy! Suite
Featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis Oct 30, 2020
Program to be announced from the stage. Artists subject to change. Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. jazz.org facebook.com/jazzatlincolncenter twitter.com/jazzdotorg youtube.com/jazzatlincolncenter 4 texasperformingarts.org
Wynton Marsalis
Dan Nimmer
Elliot Mason
Carlos Henriquez
Ted Nash
Obed Calvaire
Trumpet / Music Director Trombone
Alto Saxophone and Flute
Piano Bass
Drums
Walter Blanding
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Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
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Program Tonight’s performance of The Democracy! Suite aims to
entertain, inspire, and uplift audiences with the full vigor, vision, and depth of America’s music. Led by trumpeter / composer Wynton Marsalis and featuring seven of jazz’s finest soloists, the concert’s unique repertoire celebrates jazz’s embodiment of freedom and democracy. The evening will feature the premiere of The Democracy! Suite, a new Marsalis composition written during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis as a response to the political, social, and economic struggles facing the nation. The Democracy! Suite is a swinging and stimulating instrumental rumination on the issues that have recently dominated our lives as well as the beauty that could emerge from a collective effort to create a better future. THE DEMOCRACY! SUITE: Part I, Be Present THE DEMOCRACY! SUITE: Part II, Sloganize, Patronize, Realize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matters) THE DEMOCRACY! SUITE: Part III, Ballot Box Bounce THE DEMOCRACY! SUITE: Part IV, That Dance We Do (That You Love Too) THE DEMOCRACY! SUITE: Part V, Deeper Than Dreams THE DEMOCRACY! SUITE: Part VI, Out Amongst the People (for J Bat) THE DEMOCRACY! SUITE: Part VII, It Come 'Round 'Gin THE DEMOCRACY! SUITE: Part VIII, That’s When All Will See
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About Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz at Lincoln Center is
dedicated to inspiring and growing audiences for jazz. With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio programs, television broadcasts, recordings, publications, an annual
high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, jazz appreciation curricula for students, music publishing, children’s concerts and classes, lectures, adult education courses, student and educator workshops, a record label, and interactive websites. Under the leadership of Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman Clarence Otis, and Executive Director Greg Scholl, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces thousands of events each season in its home in New York City, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and around the world. For more information, visit jazz.org.
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FREE ZOOM CLASSES
J azz at Lincoln Center's Swing University
Thursdays from Oct 29–Nov 19
Jazz 101: A Beginner's Guide to Jazz
Join Texas Performing Arts for one of today’s best introductions to our nation’s greatest art form! In this class, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Swing University will help you develop your ears to hear the many details and intricacies that make this music so endlessly fascinating and guide you through the history and development of the styles on Zoom. Instructor and Swing University curator Seton Hawkins will provide your introduction to jazz; no musical knowledge is required.
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About Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra The Jazz at Lincoln
Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) comprises 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today. Led by Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs a vast repertoire ranging from original compositions and Jazz at Lincoln Centercommissioned works to rare historic compositions and masterworks by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others. The JLCO has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988, performing and leading educational events in New York, across the United States, and around the globe. Alongside symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students, and an ever-expanding roster of
guest artists, the JLCO has toured over 300 cities across six continents. Guest conductors have included Benny Carter, John Lewis, Jimmy Heath, Chico O’Farrill, Ray Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Faddis, Robert Sadin, David Berger, Gerald Wilson, and Loren Schoenberg. The JLCO has been voted best Big Band in the annual DownBeat Readers’ Poll from 2013–2016. In 2015, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the launch of Blue Engine Records, a new platform to make its archive of recorded concerts available to jazz audiences everywhere. The first release from Blue Engine Records, Live in Cuba, was recorded on a historic 2010 trip to Havana by the JLCO and was released in October 2015. Big Band Holidays was released in December 2015, The Abyssinian Mass came out in March 2016, The Music of John Lewis
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Symphony, performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson was released in July 2019. To date, 14 other recordings have been released and internationally distributed: Vitoria Suite, Portrait in Seven Shades; Congo Square, Don’t Be Afraid...The Music of Charles Mingus, A Love Supreme, All Rise, Big Train, Sweet Release & Ghost Story, Live in Swing City, Jump Start and Jazz, Blood on the Fields, They Came to Swing, The Fire of the Fundamentals, and Portraits by Ellington.
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was released in March 2017, and the JLCO’s Handful of Keys came out in September 2017. Blue Engine’s United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas features the Wynton Marsalis Septet and an array of special guests, with all proceeds going toward Jazz at Lincoln Center’s education initiatives. Recent album releases include 2018’s Una Noché con Ruben Blades, 2019’s Betty Carter’s The Music Never Stops, 2019’s Bolden (Official Soundtrack), composed and performed by Wynton Marsalis. Wynton Marsalis' Swing
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Meet the Artists WYNTON MARSALIS
Trumpet / Managing and Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Wynton Marsalis is the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a world-renowned trumpeter and composer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and then joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than 60 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine Grammy Awards. In 1983 he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammys in the same year and repeated this feat in 1984. Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman
for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. universities and colleges. He has written six books; his most recent are Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!, illustrated by Paul Rogers and published by Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life with Geoffrey C. Ward, published by Random House in 2008. In 1997 Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 2001 he was appointed Messenger of Peace by Mr. Kofi Annan, SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, and he has also been designated cultural ambassador to the United States of America by the US State Department through their CultureConnect program. Marsalis was
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instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event raised more than $3 million for the Higher Ground Relief Fund to benefit the musicians, music industry-related enterprises, and other individuals and entities from the areas texasperformingarts.org
in Greater New Orleans who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Marsalis helped lead the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home — Frederick P. Rose Hall — the first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened in October 2004. 13
ELLIOT MASON Trombone, JLCO
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Elliot Mason was born in England in 1977 and began trumpet lessons at age four with his father. At age seven, he switched his focus from trumpet to trombone. At 11 years old, he was performing professionally, concentrating on jazz and improvisation. At 16, Mason received a full tuition scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, and after graduating he moved to New York City. Mason is a member of The Juilliard School Jazz Faculty as a jazz trombone professor, and he is also a part of the Jazz Faculty at New York University. Mason
has served as a clinician worldwide, performing workshops, master classes and clinics. Mason is endorsed by B.A.C. musical instruments and currently plays his own co-designed custom line of trombones. Mason has performed with the Count Basie Orchestra, the Mingus Big Band, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, the Maynard Ferguson Big Bop Nouveau, Chick Corea, Kenny Garrett, Bobby Hutcherson, Ahmad Jamal, Randy Brecker, and Carl Fontana. A member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 2006, Mason also continues to co-lead the Mason Brothers Quintet with his brother Brad. The Mason Brothers recently released their second album, entitled Efflorescence.
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TED NASH
Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet, JLCO
Ted Nash enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Los Angeles into a musical family (his father, Dick Nash, and uncle, the late Ted Nash, were both wellknown jazz and studio musicians), Nash blossomed early, a “young lion” before the term became marketing vernacular. Nash has that uncanny ability to mix freedom with accessibility, blues with intellect, and risk-taking with clarity. His group Odeon has often been cited as a creative focus of jazz. Many of Nash’s recordings have received critical acclaim, and have appeared on the “best-of” lists in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and The Boston Globe. His recordings, The Mancini Project and Sidewalk
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Meeting, have been placed on several “best-ofdecade” lists. His album Portrait in Seven Shades was recorded by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and was released in 2010. The album is the first composition released by the JLCO featuring original music by a band member other than bandleader Wynton Marsalis. Nash’s latest album, Chakra, was released in 2013. His most recent big band recording, Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom, won the 2017 Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Grammy Award. The album includes “Spoken at Midnight,” which won the 2017 Best Instrumental Composition Grammy Award. Nash’s arrangement of “We Three Kings,” featured on the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis’ Big Band Holidays album, was nominated for the 2017 Best Instrumental Or A Cappella Arrangement Grammy Award.
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WALTER BLANDING
Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, JLCO
Walter Blanding was born into a musical family on August 14, 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio and began playing the saxophone at age six. In 1981, he moved with his family to New York City; by age 16, he was performing regularly with his parents at the Village Gate. Blanding attended LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and continued his studies at the New School for Social Research, where he earned a B.F.A. in 2005. His 1991 debut release, Tough Young Tenors, was acclaimed as one of the best jazz albums of the year, and his artistry began to impress listeners and critics alike. He has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 1998 and
has performed, toured, and/or recorded with his own groups and with such renowned artists as the Cab Calloway Orchestra, Roy Hargrove, Hilton Ruiz, Count Basie Orchestra, Illinois Jacquet Big Band, Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus Roberts, Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Isaac Hayes, and many others. Blanding lived in Israel for four years and had a major impact on the music scene while touring the country with his own ensemble and with US artists such as Louis Hayes, Eric Reed, Vanessa Rubin, and others invited to perform there. He taught music in several Israeli schools and eventually opened his own private school in Tel Aviv. During this period, Newsweek International called him a “Jazz Ambassador to Israel.�
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DAN NIMMER Piano, JLCO
Dan Nimmer was born in 1982 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With prodigious technique and an innate sense of swing, his playing often recalls that of his own heroes, specifically Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, Erroll Garner, and Art Tatum. As a young man, Nimmer’s family inherited a piano and he started playing by ear. He studied
classical piano and eventually became interested in jazz. At the same time, he began playing gigs around Milwaukee. Upon graduation from high school, Nimmer left Milwaukee to study music at Northern Illinois University. It didn’t take him long to become one of Chicago’s busiest piano players. Working a lot in the Chicago scene, Nimmer decided to leave school and make the big move to New York City
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where he immediately emerged in the New York scene. A year after moving to New York City, he became a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Quintet. Nimmer has worked with Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Dianne Reeves, George Benson, Frank Wess, Clark Terry, Tom Jones, Benny Golson, Lewis Nash, Peter Washington, Ed Thigpen, Wess “Warmdaddy” texasperformingarts.org
Anderson, Fareed Haque, and many more. He has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, The View, The Kennedy Center Honors, Live from Abbey Road, and PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center, among other broadcasts. He has released four of his own albums on the Venus label (Japan).
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CARLOS HENRIQUEZ Bass, JLCO
Carlos Henriquez was born in 1979 in the Bronx, New York. He studied music at a young age, played guitar through junior high school, and took up the bass while enrolled in The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program. He entered LaGuardia High School of Music & Arts and Performing Arts and was involved with the LaGuardia Concert Jazz Ensemble which went on to win first place in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival in 1996. In 1998, swiftly after high school, Henriquez joined the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, touring the world and featured on more
than 25 albums. Henriquez has performed with artists including Chucho Valdés, Paco De Lucía, Tito Puente, the Marsalis Family, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz, Marc Anthony, and many others. He has been a member of the music faculty at Northwestern University School of Music since 2008, and was music director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s cultural exchange with the Cuban Institute of Music with Chucho Valdés in 2010. His debut album as a bandleader, The Bronx Pyramid, came out in September 2015 on Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine Records.
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OBED CALVAIRE Drums
Obed Calvaire, a native of Miami and of Haitian descent is a graduate with both a master and bachelor degree of music from one of America’s premiere private music conservatories in the nation, Manhattan School of Music. He received his bachelor’s degree in 2003, completing the undergraduate degree requirements in three years and receiving his master’s in 2005. Mr. Calvaire has performed and recorded with artists such as Wynton Marsalis,
Seal, Eddie Palmeri, Vanessa Williams, Dave Holland, David Foster, Mary J. Blige, Stefon Harris, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Cincotti, Music Soulchild, Nellie McKay, Yellow Jackets, Joshua Redman, Steve Turre, and Lizz Wright to name a few. He has also performed with large ensembles such as the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Metropole Orchestra, The Clayton Brothers, The Mingus Big Band, Roy Hargrove Big Band, and the Bob Mintzer Big Band.
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2020–21 VIRTUAL EVENT
LIVE FROM THE WEST SIDE: WOMEN OF BROADWAY
Laura Benanti
Nov 14 at 7 pm
Join us for the second of the three-part virtual concert series, Live from the West Side: Women of Broadway featuring Tony Award® winner Laura Benanti on November 14, 2020. Streamed live from New York’s Shubert Virtual Studios, the show will feature a mix of Broadway showtunes, pop songs, and personal stories. You can also submit questions in advance for her to answer during the show.
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Building a Bridge with Robots University of Texas at Austin students enrolled in the Performance Robots course will collaborate with AISD Metz-SĂĄnchez Elementary School to design robots that can be controlled remotely via the internet. On top of an already busy virtualclass-filled schedule, Eva Rosenthal, 2nd grade teacher at Metz-SĂĄnchez, enthusiastically agreed to be the robot club sponsor, and developed a STEAM-centered lesson plan for the club.
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The elementary students will create initial drawings and stories, and the UT Austin students will bring these robot designs to life in consultation and collaboration with their young design partners. Controllability and expressiveness to tell these robots’ stories will guide all automation and fabrication decisions of our UT student team. The robots will make their debut performance in December, with their elementary school
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designers controlling them remotely via the web. This project unleashes creativity in the UT students as well as young learners. In this especially challenging time, we want to explore how simultaneously investing and elevating children and UT students’ creativity might support the mental well-being of all ages and inspire all those who watch the collaborative performance. Through this virtual collaboration, building hands-on, IoT (internet of
things) connected projects, our multi-generational community of students will practice artistic expression, design, and storytelling. In these uncharted times, these little robots remind us of the power of collaboration and play, raising the spirits of us all. Follow their work on the Texas Performing Arts Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.
This program is part of the Texas Performing Arts mission to enlighten, educate, and inspire young artists. To support work like this, visit texasperformingarts.org/support
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2020–21 VIRTUAL EVENT
LIVE FROM THE WEST SIDE: WOMEN OF BROADWAY
Vanessa Williams
Dec 5 at 7 pm
Join us for the final performance in a threepart virtual concert series, Live from the West Side: Women of Broadway featuring critically acclaimed actress and singer Vanessa Williams on December 5, 2020. Streamed live from New York’s Shubert Virtual Studios, the show will feature a mix of Broadway showtunes, pop songs, and personal stories. You can also submit questions in advance for her to answer during the show.
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Want to know what’s happening backstage at Texas Performing Arts? During this extended intermission on our stages, we invite you backstage for a look at what goes on behind the scenes and to meet the staff and students who bring you the performances you love. So, until we can be together in the theater again, put on your backstage pass and enjoy this behind-the-scenes journey. Visit texasperformingarts.org to subscribe today! Let’s Connect!
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Director’s Council Volunteer Leadership in Action
The Texas Performing Arts Director’s Council is a group of dedicated donors, sponsors, and volunteers committed to presenting world-class performances, providing students access to every performance we present, and building the next generation of audiences, artists, and presenters. We are grateful for their extraordinary support and dedication. 2020–21 COUNCIL MEMBERS Robert and Jannis Baldwin Becky Beaver Edwina Carrington Marianne and Mario Davila Laura Estes and Joyce Lauck Cynthia Glover and Dwight Williams Joanne Guariglia Stephanie Guariglia Rob Hagelberg Rhonda Hall Dan Jackson and Jeremy Guiberteau Julia Marsden Ashlee Olsem Stephanie L. Perkins Rachel Tocker Rebecca Van Den Berg Annie Solomon Zucker Brian Zucker
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The Team Bob Bursey
Amber Goodspeed
J. E. Johnson
Executive Director
Broadway Events Manager
Scenic Studio Supervisor
Rachel Durkin-Drga
MARKETING
Kenny Kuykendall
Senior Associate Director
Tara Vela
Lizzie Choffel
Assistant Audio Supervisor
Senior Graphic Designer
Michael Malak
Associate Director
Erica De Leon
Audio Supervisor
BUSINESS OFFICE
Marketing Specialist, Digital Media
Karen Maness
Business Operations Manager
Romina Jara Marketing Coordinator, Media Buying & Settlements
Ashton Bennett Murphy
Lisa Carothers
Kristi Lampi
Administrative Associate, Business Affairs
Leigh Remeny Administrative Associate, Business Operations EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT
Tim Rogers
PRODUCTION
Yvonne Kimmons Assistant Director, Performance Logistics
Scott Bussey Technical Director
Scenic Art Supervisor Assistant Scenic Charge Artist
Dani Pruitt Production Events Manager
Hank Schwemmer Master Carpenter PROGRAMMING
Will Shirey Talent Buyer
Assistant Director, Student Engagement
Seb Boone Master Electrician
Brenda Simms
TICKET OFFICE
Sarah Cantu
Susan Griffin
Program Coordinator, Education & Curriculum Development DEVELOPMENT
Natalia Morgan Development Assistant Rachel Schoen Stewardship Manager
Sarah Weidler Young Interim Director of Development GUEST SERVICES
Sarah Andrews Theatre & Dance and Guest Services Manager
Master Electrician
Ticketing Services Manager
Jeff Ellinger
Dianne Whitehair
Lighting Supervisor
Ticketing Systems Manager
Phoebe Greene
Margaret Badasci
Event Operations Manager
Conrad Haden
Assistant Ticketing Services Manager, Event Operations
Stage Supervisor
Carolyn Hardin Assistant Prop Shop Supervisor
Jason Huerta Associate Scenic Studio Supervisor
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As an educational institution committed to the free exchange of ideas, Texas Performing Arts is proud to present a rich array of performing arts for the Austin and Central Texas community. Sponsorship of Texas Performing Arts does not imply endorsement of artists or their performance content by sponsors or their representatives.
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2020–21 ART EXHIBITION
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ollywood’s Sistine Chapel: H Sacred Sets for Stage & Scene
Sep 10–Apr 4
McNay Art Museum San Antonio, TX CO-ORGANIZED BY THE MCNAY ART MUSEUM AND TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS
Six hand-painted, sound-stage backdrops from MGM Studios will “guest star” alongside exquisite artworks from The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts. The backdrops, on loan from Texas Performing Arts, were created for MGM’s 1968 papal drama, The Shoes of the Fisherman. Nearly discarded, more than 200 backdrops were saved through the 2017 Art Directors Guild’s Backdrop Recovery Project. Texas Performing Arts owns 50 backdrops from Hollywood’s Golden Age of film for use in support of our educational mission.
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