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Arts 2T The Gazette, March 12, 2000 Recital opens I conference Broadway debut a new start for classical dancer Julio Bocca I I I i DOWA CITY A free public recital by organist Marilyn Reiser will open "Institute for Sacred Music 2000," a conference on the role of music in worship, at 8 p.m. Thursday at the University of Iowa's Clapp Recital Hall. The conference, hosted by the organ area of the School of Music, continues through Sunday, March 19. Participants include Reiser, UI Director of Choral Activities Timothy Stalter and theologian and author Marva Dawn from Vancouver, Wash. A LA ARTS The program for Reiser's recital will comprise eight pieces spanning the 18th through 20th centuries: the Prelude and Fugue in minor, by Felix Mendelssohn; Concerto in major, op.

4 no. 5 by George Frideric Handel; Prelude on It is directed by Mike Moynihan. Luther orchestra performs CEDAR RAPIDS The Luther College Symphony Orchestra, one of the top college orchestras in the Midwest, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Washington High School, 2205 Forest Dr. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students.

The performance is sponsored by the Washington High School Orchestra. Conducted by professor of music Daniel Baldwin, the 85-member Luther Symphony Orchestra will perform Academic Festival Overture by Brahms, Cello Concerto in major by Haydn with Edward Gant, faculty soloist, and Symphony No. 5 in minor by Tchaikovsky. The Cedar Rapids concert is part of the Luther Orchestra's winter tour of Wisconsin, Indiana, Rentucky, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Iowa. The orchestra tours nationally or internationally each year and in 1999 held a three-week residency in Vienna, Austria.

Baldwin joined the Luther music faculty in August 1997. He holds the bachelor of music from Furman University and the master of music and doctor of musical arts from the University of Texas-Austin. Book wins award "Method for the One-Reyed Flute," a book by Marion classical musician Jan Boland, is a winner of the 2000 Newly Published Music Competition of the National Flute Association. By Daniel Zadunaisky Associated Press NEW YORR Argentine classical dancer Julio Bocca, a star of American Ballet Theater productions including "Sleeping Beauty" and "Don Quixote," says he's off on a new career with his recent debut in the Broadway show Invited by co-choreographer Ann Reinking to replace Desmond Richardson, the 32-year-old Bocca says he accepted without hesitation. He was interviewed recently in his dressing room at the Broadhurst Theatre.

"This is a new beginning for me," he says. "It's a new experience that allows me to grow as an artist. I've always wanted to do musical comedy, but I never thought I would begin on Broadway." In 1995, Bocca rejected an invitation to act in "Carousel" because he felt he wasn't -ready. "This time I accepted because I feel more sure of myself and I know I'll enjoy myself, no matter what the audience thinks or critics say." The transition hbmbbm fn In i j. i fC Psalm 34:6 by Herbert Howells; Sonata No.

8 in minor for organ by Joseph Rheinberger; movements from "Windows of Comfort," by Dan Locklair; two hymn-tune preludes, by Mark Jones; "Pieces de Fantasie," op. 54, by Louis Vierne; and "Carillon Sortie," by Henri Mulet. Reiser is on the faculty of the Marilyn Kelser Organist Indiana University School of Music, where she teaches sacred music and Boland's book, published in 1998 by the University of California PressBerkeley, instructs modern flute players how to play the 18th century, one-keyed wooden Sixteen new publications were selected from more than 300 entries from publishers around the world. New works for flute, new editions, solos, chamber organ performance. Her performance is sponsored by the UI School of Music and the Frederick T.

Rahn Memorial Fund. Conference sessions "will be offered on a variety of topics of interest to church musicians, clergy and worship leaders. Registration forms and information on the conference may be obtained from the UI organ department, (319) 335-1630. Interactive theater CEDAR RAPIDS Mount Mercy College will present "Strange Like Me," by the Gestic Theatre Company, at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

The performance, at McAuley Theatre, is free to the public. To reserve tickets, call 363-1323, ext. 1229. "Strange Like Me" is an interactive theater, production that addresses subtle prejudice. Using dramatic scenes from experiences of students on college campuses, the troupe of five actors help the audience address assumptions based on race, gender and sexual orientation.

Audience participation is encouraged during discussions. Actors remain in character, which allows audience members to confront them about their behavior. Jan Boland Book honored music, studies and educational materials were eligible. The winners' editions AP Argentine dancer Julio Bocca is pictured In his dressing room at the Broadhurst Theater In New York. Bocca, a classical dancer, has taken a role in "Fosse." My body has absorbed the steps, the movements, the relaxation techniques for 'Sleeping 'Swan Lake and 'Don Quixote.

This is completely different. Julio Bocca from the stately, classical style of Marius Petipa, with its leaps, entrechats and pirouettes, to the crisp, jazzy style of Fosse was far from effortless, Bocca acknowl- edged. "My body has absorbed the steps, the movements, the i will be honored at the annual National Flute Convention in August. Boland specialists in performance of 18th and 19th century music on antique flutes. She has performed through the United States, the Far East and Europe, primarily with her husband, guitarist John Dowdall.

C.R. native honored Cedar Rapids native Michael Daugherty is one of two composers awarded the Stoeger Prize. The $10,000 award is given annually by the Chamber Music Society to each of two composers in recognition of distinguished achievement in chamber-music composition. medal at Moscow's prestigious international ballet contest. After his stint ori Broadway ends April 9, Bocca will perform in Milan with Alessandra Ferri.

Then it's back to New York for the May-June season with the ABT, followed by European and American tours with the Ballet Argentino, the company he founded and leads in Buenos Aires. The Ballet Argentino is best known for modern choreographies to music by Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla, Cuban mambo composer Damaso Perez Prado and classic pieces such as Mahler's Adagietto. In the meantime, Broadway offers a change of pace and what a pace it is. "Eight shows a week!" he sighs, "That's also a novelty for me." "Julio is a brilliant dancer with eclectic qualities that make him great for the role," Reinking says. "And he has been simply superb." Bocca's classical technique the majestic poise, the back arched slightly backwards were especially evident in numbers like "Take Off With Us" and the haunting "Mr.

Bojangles." He won ovations for his leaps in the trombone solo he shared with Byron Easley and Holly Cruikshank during the finale, Bennv Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing." "I've wanted to work with Julio for a long time," Reinking says. "In Fosse, he showed again that he is a truly gifted dancer." Bocca joined the ABT in 1986 on the invitation of Mikhail Baryshnikov, A year earlier, he had won the gold Daugherty is an associate professor of composition at the University of Michigan. His compositions include "Flying the opera "Jackie which was commissioned for the Houston Grand Opera; and "Le Tombeau de Liberace," commissioned for the London Sinfonietta. Li 'Gin Game' ANAMOSA Starlighters 2000, the studio theater group of Starlighters II, will present a readers' theater, production of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "The Gin Game." The play by D.L. Coburn is billed as a tragi-Comedy in two acts.

The single performance will be at 7 p.m. Saturday on the Starlighters main stage, 136 E. Main. The presentation is free to the public. The New York production of "Gin Game" starred husband and wife Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy as retirees Weller and Fonsia, who meet over a deck of cards at a nursing home.

They begin by playing a game of gin, but soon it's apparent that other games are being played as well. The Starlighters 2000 production features Ray Dougherty and Gerry Rollinger as Fonsia and Weller. relaxation techniques for 'Sleeping Lake' and 'Don This is completely different," he says. In "Fosse," which Bocca joined Feb. 15, his first solo is "Percussion 4." an explosive number danced to drums.

Reinking cast him in it because "it is appropriate that it should go to a dancer with real ballet training," she says-. Daugherty's work has been Michael performed by the New York Daugherty Philharmonic, the Tonhall Wins stoeger Orchestra Zurich and orchestras prize in Baltimore, Los Angeles and San Francisco. His music has been recorded by the Rronos Quartet and the Baltimore Symphony. Gijsbrechts, master artist of illusion, deceives the eye 7 4 verse. Other pictures in the show depict paintings with their canvases peeling off and a wooden cutout shaped like an artist's easel with all the painter's paraphernalia on it palette, brushes, paints and even miniature paintings used for There also are paintings of musical instruments, hunting trophies that pear to be hanging from boards, and hunting equipment, which the artist copied and which can still be seen at Rosenborg Palace in Copenhagen.

Gijsbrechts' specialty was paintings "of letter racks, crisscrossed with red -tape, into which letters, combs, scissors, seals and other bits and pieces of everyday life were tucked. l'oeil is most effective when it shows a shallow space and ob-' jects depicted life-size. The shallowness is part of the deception, so a letter rack is ideal," Bomford says. Gijsbrechts also painted glass-fronted cupboards and their contents, and one cupboard painting has a real hinged door that can be opened with a key to extend the illusion. When the door is opened, the shelves, the objects inside and the cupboard back are discovered to all be on a flat canvas.

Gijsbrechts, who was probably born in Antwerp, was enthusiastically taken up by Ring Frederick III and his sue- cessor, Ring Christian V. Both mon-archs employed him to paint these pictures of illusion, Other painters skilled in the technique include the Dutchman Samuel van Hoogstraten, who painted a popular peepshow in London's National Gallery, and the Frenchman Louis-LeoT pold Boilly. An American illusionist school in the 19th century was headed by Michael Harnett, John Frederick Peto and Charles William Peale. By Graham Heathcote Associated Press LONDON Flemish painter Cornelius Gijsbrechts made mystery his art. His specialty: getting people to.

see what isn't there. Gijsbrechts' mastery of illusion made him famous more than 300 years ago and delighted the two kings of Denmark for whom he served as court painter in Copenhagen. After four years, he left the city, first for Sweden and then for Germany. "His last dated work is from 1675, then he disappears from the record," says David senior restorer at National Gallery in aren't sure where he was born or when and we don't know where or when he died." Bomford has curafed a show about Gijsbrechts that includes works from the Statens Museum for Art in Copenhagen never before sent out of The 23 paintings on show were done in the style of trompe a French term meaning. ''deceives the eye." Viewers are fooled, even if only for a few seconds, into thinking the object depicted on a flat canvas is real, that it is in three dimensions rather than two, with depth as well as height and width.

"Still life depicts inanimate objects in a different space from that of the spectator," Bomford explains. "In trompe l'oeil, things have to be life-size in order to deceive and in a very shallow space so that the eye does not detect the lack of depth. "There is no real dividing line between the painted space and our space," he says. "In some trompe l'oeil works, the illusion is continued by hanging the painting without a frame on a wall which looks exactly like the wall in the painting. To achieve that, the artist has to be clever enough to 1 .5 This work by artist Cornelius Gijsbrechts is part of an exhibit of his paintings at the National Gallery In London.

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