August 2, 2005 - MPR’s Marianne Combs profiles painter, and now composer, Matthew Smith. Combs talks with Smith about the physical and mental transition from painting to composing. Combs also interviews other artists about Smith’s work.
July 13, 2005 - MPR’s Marianne Combs reports that The MacPhail Center for Music is building a new home in Minneapolis…and a new future while breaking down old walls. MacPhail unveiled the design for an expanded music education center in the Mill District, in what's becoming a new cultural corridor.
June 9, 2005 - What would you do if you woke up one morning, and didn't recognize where you were? Not only that, you didn't know WHO you were? A new Lee Blessing play at the Guthrie Lab in Minneapolis explores the fluid nature of memory.
April 8, 2005 - The Pulitzer prize committee announced it's awards this week. The Pulitzers for journalistic and artistic excellence usually draw a healthy dose of public interest. For novelist Marilynne Robinson, it means a spike in sales for her novel "Gilead". For Poet Laureate Ted Kooser it means yet more attention to his poetry. But what about the pulitzer prize for music? Do you know who won this year's award? Do you care? Joining me by phone is Tim Page, classical music critic for the Washington Post.
February 8, 2005 - MPR’s Marianne Combs reports on Suzen Murakoshi’s play “Slippery When Wet.”
February 3, 2005 - MPR's Marianne Combs reports on "Mozart in Manhattan," a new opera premiering in St. Paul. So what if Mozart had travelled to America? Combs interviews performers and composer on their thoughts.
February 2, 2005 - MPR’s Marianne Combs profiles the Art Shanty Project, a collection of ice houses with an artistic flair. Visitors to Minnesota often stop and wonder at the strange collection of ice fishing shacks that appear on the lakes each winter. On this year, even the locals are stopping to stare at a group of shacks on Medicine Lake in Plymouth.
January 21, 2005 - On this State of the Arts, MPR’s Marianne Combs talks with poet Donald Hall tabout how he came to be a poet, why he writes, and culture. Segment includes Hall reading his poems.
December 16, 2004 - The Guthrie Theater Company has revealed new details for the look of its three-stage complex on the riverfront. Eight scenes from the company's past will light up the exterior of the new building once its completed. The images feature some of the Guthrie's early work with actors Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, as well as more recent productions. Artistic Director Joe Dowling says it's a remarkable visual statement.
December 15, 2004 - The Guthrie Theater Company has revealed new details for the look of its three stage complex on the riverfront.