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In this issue: Kid friendly finds, Nearby Vacation destinations, the Mimir Chamber Music Festival, Dallas Summer Musicals and more
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July 2009
Family fun from Fair Park on the 4th!
A Fair Park Fourth begins at 5 p.m. July 4 on the State Fair grounds. Throughout the afternoon the Texas Skyway will be open for rides and the museums at Fair Park will offer free admissions from 4:30-8 p.m. At 8:15 p.m. the Dallas Wind Symphony takes the stage for an evening under the stars with a performance of patriotic favorites with a special appearance by The Hellcats of the West Point Military Academy on the 40-yard line in the historic Cotton Bowl. The evening closes with a spectacular fireworks display by the Grucci Brothers, America’s First Family of Fireworks. WRR will broadcast the Dallas Wind Symphony “live” from the
State Fair grounds during Fair Park Fourth, but no matter where you are when the sun goes down, you’ll want to watch your fireworks while tuned to 101.1 fm. Directions and event details may be found on the Fair Park web site at www.fairpark.org, or by calling 214-871-0783. Our Fair Park Fourth broadcast is brought to you by your Metroplex Cadillac Dealers.
A look at Diego’s Cubist Portraits
Just a day trip away... The Santa Fe Opera
Inspired by a key piece from the Meadows permanent collection, the Portrait of Ilya Ehrenburg (1915), Diego Rivera, The Cubist Portraits 1913-1917 explore Rivera’s artistic production during the formative years he spent in literary and art circles in Paris during World War I. The exhibition provides a new perspective on this lesser known and crucial period of the Mexican artist’s career. The Portrait of Ilya Ehrenburg (1915) is one of the only paintings by a Portrait of Ilya Ehrenburg, 1915 non-Spanish artist Algur Meadows bought Oil on canvas, 43 1/2 x 35 1/4 in. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, for the museum, and it remains one of Texas, Algur H. Meadows Colleconly a handful of Cubist portraits by Rive- tion, 68.12 ra in an American collection. The painting demonstrates Rivera’s attentiveness to Cubism, defying his painting’s two dimensionality by giving each of its colors and shapes its own, frequently three-dimensional, texture. The aim of this exhibition is to re-establish and highlight the emotional connections, as well as the professional and ideological ties, that bound Diego Rivera to the circles he frequented on a daily basis during his tenure in Paris. The exhibition celebrates not only the Meadows’ Cubist portrait by the artist, but places Rivera within a broader framework of the European and avant-garde artistic traditions upon which he would later draw in the development of his own unique style. The exhibition is curated by prominent Mexican scholar Sylvia Navarrete. She and other Rivera specialists from France and the United States will contribute to the scholarly catalogue.
This summer, WRR listeners can thrill to the drama and passion of grand opera amid the glory of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Santa Fe Opera season begins on July 3 and for the following eight weeks, great opera will electrify audiences under the clear night sky. As so often happens in opera, great love drives the stories of this year’s Santa Fe Opera season. In Verdi’s La Traviata, superstar soprano Natalie Dessay takes on the role of the doomed courtesan Violetta for the first time. You’ll fall for the intoxicating music that Donizetti wrote about a lovelorn loser and a more-or-less effective potion: The Elixir of Love. Love takes a darker road in Mozart’s Don Giovanni; he starts off the opera having made 2,065 conquests, and there will be more in the course of the evening, you can count on it. In a world-premier production, passion will create even more crisis in The Letter, based on the Somerset Maugham story that inspired one of the great Bette Davis film roles. Soprano Patricia Racette’s career so far proves that her performance will reveal both obsession and a determination to literally get away with murder. Finally, Santa Fe Opera favorite Christine Brewer will recreate her signature role of a faithful wife prepared to face down even the gods in order to save her beloved husband, in Handel’s Alceste. Getting to Santa Fe is easier than ever with new direct flights from Dallas. If you choose to drive, consider visiting the Sangre de Cristo mountains: It’s well worth the extra time. Visit the web site at for WRR has a special offer for opera www.santafeopera.org the complete season and to fans, now through July 4, register to win a pair of tickets to the Santa Fe Opera purchase tickets for a a specperformance of your choice with travel by tacular view both inside and American Airlines and accommodations outside the opera house this from Encantado Spa & Resort. Register summer at The Santa Fe Opto win at wrr101.com and at FairPark 4th. era.
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WRR will present a special live broadcast from the Meadows Museum celebrating the life and times of Diego Rivera. Fans of last month’s 13th International Cliburn Competition will be delighted to learn there will be a competitor performing during our broadcast in the Dr. Bob Smith Auditorium. See wrr101.com for details and dates of this exciting afternoon of art and music.
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