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• 18 events found out of 18 total events.
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Arlo Guthrie – Boys Night Out
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Gainesville
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February 23, 2012 - February 23, 2013
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Born into incredible artistic influence, American folk singer Arlo Guthrie is the eldest son of America’s most beloved singer/writer/philosopher Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington’s Disease.
In addition to being a masterful musician in piano, guitar, harmonica and a dozen other instruments, he is a natural-born storyteller, whose off-beat anecdotes and personal tales weave seamlessly into his performances. Arlo Guthrie artfully crafts political commentary and spiritual musings into lively, thoughtful folk music.
A career that has spanned decades and countries has confirmed Guthrie’s international stature and wide popularity. Arlo Guthrie performed at Woodstock in 1969 and released a landmark 1967 album, Alice’s Restaurant, whose title song gave a powerful voice to the ‘60s generation that would shape music’s importance in bringing forth social justice and activism.
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Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
315 Hull Rd • Gainesville, FL 32611 • 352-392-2787
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Ronald K. Brown, Artistic Director Evidence, A Dance Company
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Through the blending of African, modern ballet and social dance movements, Artistic Director Ronald K. Brown choreographs a masterpiece dance vision of African culture. He was admired by The New York Times as “one of the most profound choreographers of his modern dance generation” for his distinctive style.
Evidence is a Brooklyn-based dance company that focuses on the human experience in the African Diaspora, connecting history and traditions into a storybook of music, movement and spoken word. Through his choreography, Brown emphasizes the importance of community in African-American culture while combining his passion for traditional African forms and rhythms to deliver works that both entertain and inspire. His seamless fusion of traditional African dance and contemporary choreography highlights human struggles, tragedies and triumphs relatable to all audiences.
After celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2010, Evidence, A Dance Company continues to enlighten more than 30,000 audience members across the nation annually. Evidence has also toured internationally to Cuba, Brazil, England, Ireland, France, Greece, Hungary, Mexico and Senegal, all the while teaching master classes and fostering arts education to communities that have historically lack these experiences.
Ultimately, Brown wants audiences to see his work represent “all the information that has gone into us – the stories, the history. It is really the human experience.”
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Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
315 Hull Rd • Gainesville, FL 32611 • 352-392-2787
In a premiere collaboration between the Boston Brass and UF’s award-winning composer Paul Richards, the ensemble celebrates its 25th anniversary through thrilling classical arrangements to renowned jazz standards, along with the best of the original brass quintet repertoire.
Boston Brass is known to entertain audiences of every generation with their humor, personality and lively repertoire. Its members regularly perform at concerts, educational venues and jazz festivals in more than 100 performances each year. Boston Brass’ members have performed in 49 states and 21 countries, and also been featured on The CBS Early Show and NPR’s Performance Today along with several diverse albums.
In addition, UF’s professor of composition and theory Paul Richards will combine his artistic talents in this special performance with the Boston Brass. His compositions have been heard across the United States and internationally on six continents. Recognized as a perennial favorite numerous competitions, Richards has been awarded the Special Distinction in the 2006 ASCAP Rudolph Nissim Prize, Second Prize in the International Horn Society Composition Competition in 2001 and two First Place prizes in the Guild of Temple Musicians Young Composers Award, among many others.
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Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
315 Hull Rd • Gainesville, FL 32611 • 352-392-2787
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The Pink Floyd Experience
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With its record-breaking hits and sellout tours, Pink Floyd remains one of the most influential rock bands of all time. The Pink Floyd Experience – complete with 200,000 watts of light, full quadraphonic sound and six brilliant musicians – performs Pink Floyd’s greatest hits including: Money, Have a Cigar, Time, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell and many rarities not often heard live. Conceived by Annerin Productions, the PFX tour combines the talent and tenacity of its musicians, psychedelic lighting in the original band’s true style and unsurpassed sound to create the ultimate show for Floyd fans.
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Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
315 Hull Rd • Gainesville, FL 32611 • 352-392-2787
The New Orleans-based band will play its most popular children’s songs, capturing the magic of its television series.
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Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
315 Hull Rd • Gainesville, FL 32611 • 352-392-2787
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Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie
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Eugene Tzigane, Music Director and Conductor
Amit Peled, Cello
Formed 60 years ago, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie is based in the German city of Herford and is one of three orchestras in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The orchestra plays more than 120 concerts each year, both at home and abroad, and has accompanied such renowned vocalists as Placido Domingo and Renée Fleming.
PROGRAM
Peer Gynt Suite No. – Grieg
Cello Concerto No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 30 – Herbert
Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 70 – Shostakovich
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Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
315 Hull Rd • Gainesville, FL 32611 • 352-392-2787
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
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The renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra features 15 of the finest jazz musicians in the world. Led by Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, the group has been the resident jazz orchestra at Lincoln Center since 1988. Its vast repertoire consists of rare historic compositions as well as commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Chick Corea, Theolonius Monk, Benny Goodman and more.
This performance is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.
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Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
315 Hull Rd • Gainesville, FL 32611 • 352-392-2787
With more than 40 years of imaginative creative exploration, the Pilobolus Dance Theatre has evolved into a pioneering cultural fixture in American dance. Its three artistic directors and more than 25 full and part-time dancers are entirely devoted to contributing to one of the most popular and varied bodies of work in the history of the field. Born in 1971 from a fringe company of acrobats, athletes and architects, Pilobolus has achieved monumental recognition for its radically innovative performances onstage and onscreen, most notably for the Academy Awards and the NFL Network. This groundbreaking collective works to create three original works each year, featuring its distinctive choreography and gravity-defying formations that challenge the limits of the human body and leave viewers enthralled.
Pilobolus works appear in the repertories of major dance companies – the Joffrey, Feld, Ohio, Arizona, and Aspen/Santa Fe Ballets in the United States; the Ballet National de Nancy et de Lorraine and the Ballet du Rhin in France; and Italy’s Verona Ballet.
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Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
315 Hull Rd • Gainesville, FL 32611 • 352-392-2787
Celtic Crossroads is critically acclaimed as one of Ireland’s best stage music shows, incorporating the talents of seven world-class musicians—playing more than 20 instruments on stage—accompanied by thunderous Irish percussion and dance. This stunningly fresh representation of Celtic art and culture returns to Gainesville after momentous international success, quickly doing to Irish music what RIVERDANCE has done to Irish dance. With a focus on keeping traditional music alive, each performer nurtures this bygone concept, but by virtue of their youth and raw talent, they high-kick this tradition into the 21st century. The show promises a wonderful fusion of genres in the Irish music family, such as eastern European Gypsy, North American Bluegrass, world Classical and Jazz, as well as the various forms of Celtic music from around Europe and the rest of the world. The Celtic Crossroads spectacle features inventive arrangements, infectious rhythms and awe-inspiring choreography that promises to bring audiences to their feet in ovation.
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Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
315 Hull Rd • Gainesville, FL 32611 • 352-392-2787
Since their Western debut more than 25 years ago, the Peking Acrobats have redefined public perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. This troupe of China’s most gifted performers returns to the Phillips Center to share its nation’s 2,000-year-old spectacle.
Brightly costumed tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclists and gymnasts perform daring stunts with tremendous agility and control, delighting audiences of all ages. The company has built a tremendous reputation with its far-reaching global tours, popular television appearances, symphonic collaborations and feature films.
The ability to perform the astounding is rooted in centuries of Chinese history and folk art. Records of acrobatic acts can be found as early as the Ch’in Dynasty (221 B.C. – 207 B.C.) and Chinese acrobats through the ages have continued to perfect what has become an evolving folk art form, made stronger by artistic innovation and athleticism.
A performance by the Peking Acrobats brings with it the opportunity to experience a rich and ancient folk art and the allure of the modern Chinese theatrical circus.
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Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
315 Hull Rd • Gainesville, FL 32611 • 352-392-2787
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