2011 Weekend Summer Concert Series
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Spend part of each summer weekend in a peaceful country church converted to bring you the finest concerts in outstate Minnesota. As water splashes over the millpond dam and warm summer breezes ebb through the gardens, you'll enjoy classical, inspirational, folk, vocal and instrumental music or stellar spoken word performances. Peruse the gallery exhibits during intermission or visit with the locals who never miss a summer performance at Pope Art. |
Admission $15 unless otherwise noted.
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Saturday, May 14 Noon (note time!) 
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The Perpich Center for Arts Education High School
Music, dance, literature, and theater students present, "...And Only The Land Shall Remain." The performance is inspired by Minnesota writer Will Weaver's short story, "Gravestone Made of Wheat," which students studied prior to creating music, poetry, dance, and theater for the performance based on themes of ritual seen in the story. The Terrace setting is a key element of the performance, altering the way in which the performance is perceived. Does it look different while standing and listening within the landscape of west central Minnesota? The landscape is transformed, literally, into the performers' playground as they move about the defined landscape of Pope Art, a landscape which has its ultimate roots in the memory of the piece's given time and space, circa 1920. |
Saturday, June 18 
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Tim Sparks
An afternoon master class is followed by an evening performance. This program is funded by an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature. |
Saturday, June 25 
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Eli Bentley
Singer songwriter Eli Bentley, from the small farm town of Twin Valley, makes a second appearance at Pope Art after performing in the Perpich Center for Arts Education production, 'And Only The Land Shall Remain.' "As real as rain," says a fan of Bentley's work, "proud as wheat, and true as dirt on the back forty." |
Saturday, July 9 
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Connie Evingson and Mary Louise Knutson
Join us for an evening of vocal and piano jazz. This program is funded by an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature. |
Friday, July 15 
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Skilly & Duff
Douglas County's Irish combo features Mikko Cowdery, Annie O'Flynn, and Bruce Kelly. |
Friday, August 12 
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Accende
Formed in 2006, Accende is fast becoming a staple of Chicago's chamber music scene. Their repertoire covers a wide range of musical styles and expressions from Baroque to Contemporary. Pope Art has a particularly warm place in Accende's heart, as it was their first performance at Pope Art in the summer of 2007 that acted as the catalyst for their very first tour. |
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Sunday, August 21 2:00 p.m. (note time!) 
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Music and poetry
Athena Kildegaard and Ann DuHamel, faculty members at the University of Minnesota, Morris, will present an afternoon of poetry and music to tame the wild summer beast. The event will feature the works of Bill Holm, William Blake, Jane Hirshfield, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, J.S. Bach (transcribed by Busoni), Lowell Liebermann, Joseph Dangerfield, and Alberto Ginastera. |
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