Cocktails with the Curator
Cocktails with the Curator
Modern Contemporaries members (The Modern’s Under-Forty Friends!)
February 21; 6 pm
Cocktails with the Curator
Modern Contemporaries members (The Modern’s Under-Forty Friends!)
February 21; 6 pm
PROGRAM
“Travels” (version for Violin, Cello and Piano 2017): Infectious melodies and driving rhythms contrast with plaintive soliloquies in this metaphysical journey of an optimistic person who who strives to retain that optimism throughout times of life’s inevitable difficulties. First movt won the Grand prize at The Ear competition in New York City in November 2016. (4 movements-25 minutes)
Learn with local artists as they lead informal basic drawing classes in the galleries. This free class is open to adults at all skill levels—just bring a sketchbook and pencils. Registration is not required, but participants should sign in at the information desk. 2-3:30 pm
WITH WORKS BY SAINT-SAËNS, POULENC, DEBUSSY, RAVEL, FAURÉ, FRANCK, & MORE
Featuring pianists Dasol Kim, Louis Schwizgebel, and Joyce Yang; and the Rolston String Quartet
Private Collection Visit
Donor’s Circle members and above
February 12; 6:30 pm
“Stan & Ollie, the story of the bittersweet final bow of legendary duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, should move and delight fans of the beloved performers while enjoyably exposing the less initiated to these comedy giants.” Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times.
A Clockwork Orange, 1971
136 minutes
Enjoy happy hour at Café Modern before the film!
Learn with local artists as they lead informal basic drawing classes in the galleries. This free class is open to adults at all skill levels—just bring a sketchbook and pencils. Registration is not required, but participants should sign in at the information desk. 2-3:30 pm
Photography and Reality: Walking through the Simmons exhibition with artist Leigh Merrill
Join Leigh Merrill for a gallery discussion of the work of Laurie Simmons. Merrill is a photographer based in Dallas, Texas, where she is Assistant Professor of Art at A&M University-Commerce. Her photographs incorporate fantasy and reality, calling into question ideas of beauty, class and romanticism in our urban environments.
The work of great Broadway composers—from Gershwin to Sondheim to Rodgers & Hammerstein—has helped to define the American experience. We learn many of their songs when we’re very young; they often become the soundtrack of our lives. Join us as we dive into the Great American Songbook, with piano transcriptions of many of its famous pieces by some of today’s most prolific composers (Stephen Hough, Earl Wild, Mason Bates, Jake Heggie, Ricky Ian Gordon) and performed by several of our favorite pianists.