Coffee with Kaizer... Musical happenings for the week of September 23...

The Bellagio Hotel Conservatory

Monday-Thursday and Sunday
September 23rd-26th, and 29th 5:00-6:00pm
beautiful classical harp music by Kim Glennie
Friday-Saturday September 20th-21st 5:00pm-6:00pm
Violinist James Harvey and Cellist Mert Sermet
performing a light mix of classical music
in the beautiful Autumn Garden of the
Bellagio Conservatory (large garden near the front desk, and self parking)
3600 Las Vegas Blvd
Las Vegas NV 89109
Free and open to the Public
http://www.bellagio.com/attractions/botanical-garden.aspx

Christ the King Catholic Community Church

Monday September 23rd 7:00pm
Piano recital by Jae Ahn-Benton with guest pianist Grace Kim, program includes Shostakovich's Concertino for Two Pianos Op. 94, Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E Major Op. 14 No. 1, Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28
4925 S. Torrey Pines Dr.
Las Vegas NV 89118
no admission, donations will be received to help Jae's Grandfather who lives in South Korea and was recently paralyzed from the chest down due to a neck fracture
more info 702-871-1904

UNLV Artemis Ham Concert Hall

Tuesday September 24th 7:30pm

UNLV Symphony Orchestra concert includes Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faun," Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite" and Beethoven's Symphony No. 8, conducted by Taras Krysa
4505 Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154
$8-$10, 1 free ticket per student with valid student ID
702-895-2787
http://www.unlv.edu/node/24834

UNLV Artemis Ham Concert Hall

Thursday September 26th 8:00pm

Traditional Hungarian Gypsy music and dance in traditional costumes with the Hungarian State Folk and Gypsy Orchestras
4505 Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154
$26-$76
702-739-3267http://unlvtickets.com/eventInfo/pac/447/hungarian-state-folk-ensemble/

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts

Saturday September 28th 7:30pm
Las Vegas Philharmonic Concert featuring conductor Case Scaglione, soprano Suzanne Vinnik and tenor Cody Austin, program includes selections from Verdi's Aida and La Traviata, Puccini's La Boheme, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, and Strauss' Rosenkavalier Suite, pre-concert talk at 6:45
Smith Center
361 Symphony Park Ave.
Las Vegas NV 89106
$25-$94more info 702-749-2000

UNLV Doc Rando Hall

Sunday September 29th 5:30pm
Flute recital by UNLV Artist-in-Residence Christina Castellanos with pianist Jed Moss, program includes Ballade No. 4 by Chopin, "Canzone" by Barber, 3 Romances by Schumann, Sonata in A Major by Cesar Franck
4505 Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154Free and Open to the Public
702-895-3332
http://www.unlv.edu/node/27502

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Prominent South Korean Sculptor Wook Jang Cheung headlines on the Las Vegas Strip

Dr. Laura Henkel

There is little doubt that Dr. Laura Henkel, proprietor of Sin City Gallery and former curator of the Erotic Heritage Museum is becoming a force to reckon with in the local art scene. Not just has she curated exceptional and provocative art exhibitions in her modest gallery at the Arts Factory in Downtown but she is now breaking into the international art scene. Co-curating with Shunmei Jin of JSM Art in China, Dr. Henkel brings to the Las Vegas Strip the works of Wook Jang Cheung, one of South Korea's most prominent sculptors.

The faunal works of Mr. Cheung, that will be exhibited inside The Shops at Crystals, ever so slightly remind me of the surrealist anthropomorphic figures of Alberto Giacometti and Dali's famed elephants. The stunning sculptures are completed in an exceptional quicksilver finish that almost channel Mia Lin's "Silver River" just around the corner at Aria. With the James Turell installation and now with the Cheung collection City Center continues its tradition of exhibiting thought provoking contemporary art.

Wook Jang Cheung

The Las Vegas Strip's trifecta of culture that includes City Center, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and the Bellagio, not to mention the 18b Arts District in Downtown could potentially make Las Vegas an international art destination in the near future. I am thinking a biennale in the next ten years. Stay tuned...

Long Journey Home
The Shops at Crystals
3720 Las Vegas Boulevard South
http://crystalsatcitycenter.com/
Through October 13, 2013

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Nevada Public Radio

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Fiesta Las Vegas Parade and Festival this weekend in Downtown

There is little doubt that September marks the beginning of Las Vegas' Cultural season. With the Gay Pride parade behind us and now the Fiesta Parade upon us we are ready to celebrate the great diversity that makes Southern Nevada so special. 

This Saturday, beginning at 10am, the community will come out to celebrate the great diversity of Latin America with a parade of colors and music. The parade begins at 10am and will follow Downtown's official parade route along 4th Street from Gass Avenue to Stewart Avenue. The parade will be followed by a an all day festival beginning at 12:30 on Fremont Street.

Saturday in Downtown should be magical! So come out get your Latin on!

The parade will be broadcast live by Cox Las Vegas on Cox Channel 96 and simultaneous web-streaming at www.cox96.net

For more information - http://www.fiestalasvegas.org/

Nevada Public Radio

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Coffee with Kaizer... Musical happenings for the week of September 9...

Here is Laraine Kaizer's weekly update of musical happenings about town and beyond. With the season well under way the Fall of 2013 is shaping up to be a great end of the year full of performances and shows ready to WOW the masses. So get out of the house and get some culture!

Have a great and culturally filled week everyone!

Monday September 9th 10:30pm
Hot Club of Las Vegas, gypsy jazz with guitarists Mundo Juillerat and Marlow Valentin, vocalist Noybel Gorgoy, bassist Chris Davis and jazz violinist Adrianna Thurber
The Palms Casino, the Lounge
4321 W. Flamingo Rd.
Las Vegas NV 89103
Free and Open to the Public
702-944-3200

Friday-Sunday September 13th-15th 5:00pm-6pm
Daily Live classical music starts back up at the Bellagio including Violinist Laraine Kaizer and Cellist Mert Sermet (on Friday-Saturday 13, and 14th) performing a light mix of classical music.
in the beautiful Spring Garden
Bellagio Conservatory (large garden near the front desk, and self parking)
Bellagio
3600 Las Vegas Blvd
Las Vegas NV 89109
Free and Open to the Public
http://www.bellagio.com/attractions/botanical-garden.aspx

Saturday September 14th 5:30pm
Organ Recital by Master's student Laurie Swain and guest Oboist Nathan Swain
program includes J.S.Bach, Jehan Alain, Max Reger, Cesar Franck, and Harold Owen
UNLV "Doc" Rando Hall
4505 Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154
Free and Open to the Public
702-895-3332
http://www.unlv.edu/node/25907

Saturday September 14th 8:00pm
Henderson Symphony Concert features UNLV flute professor Jennifer Grim performing
Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major K. 314, also on the program: Diego Vega's
"Red Rock" and Smetana's "Ma Vlast: Vltava" ("My fatherland: The Moldau") Taras Krysa, conductor
Henderson Pavilion
200 S. Green Valley Pkwy.
Henderson NV 89012
Free and Open to the Public $10 donation suggested
702-267-2171

upcoming

Thursday September 19th 7:30pm
Chamber Music recital by UNLV faculty and guest musicians including UNLV's
violin professor Weiwei Le
program includes Bohuslav Martinu's ballet suite "La Revue de Cuisine," a great
piece that infuses elements of jazz and popular dance-from the Tango to the Charleston
UNLV Artemis Ham Concert Hall
4505 Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154
$25 all seats, discounts available
702-895-2787http://pac.unlv.edu/calendar.php?event_id=2562

Saturday September 21st 2:00pm
Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Concerto for Four Violins and Angel Mahler's "Dunes Overture"
violin soloists include Genevieve Dube, Lenka Sanchez, Laraine Kaizer-V
and Patrick Hsieh, the Camerata Orchestra is directed by Oscar Carrescia
Winchester Community Center
3130 S. McLeod Dr.
Las Vegas NV 89121
$10 in advance $15 at the door
more info 702-455-7340

Sunday September 22nd 3:00pm
Chamber Music by "Zirna Piano Trio:" violinist Rebecca Ramsey, cellist Moonlight Tran and pianist Damaris Morales they will perform a program of all women composers including Clara Schumann
Amy Beach, Fanny Mendelssohn, Rebecca Ramsey, Mel Bonis, and Von Paradis
Mountain View Presbyterian Church
8601 Del Web Blvd.
Las Vegas NV
Free and Open to the Public
donations will be accepted for the musicians

The Palms Casino

Nevada Public Radio

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First Friday Has Arrived!

Its nice to report that the monthly arts festival in Downtown has finally arrived. September marks the de-facto cultural month in Southern Nevada when many of the cultural organizations around the community begin their fall programming. From the San Genaro Feast to Gay Pride the season is well under way.

Though in Las Vegas the weather is still pretty warm at this time of the year, evenings are finally becoming a bit more bearable. With First Friday and the Gay Pride Parade happening at the same time tonight Downtown Las Vegas will be saturated in colors! So there is no excuse not to party and have some fun!

So get out of the house and come Downtown! The soul of the city...

First Friday September - Charleston and Art Way Between Main and Las Vegas Boulevard
Gay Pride Parade - 4th Street from Gass to Fremont Street

Nevada Public Radio

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Bruner & Bondi: Suspicious Evidence @ RTZVegas

Two insatiable Las Vegas art makers, Ginger Bruner and Anthony Bondi, team up for an exhibition, Suspicious Evidence, opening Thursday, September 5, 6:00 - 9:00 pm, at RTZvegas, 1017 S. First Street. The exhibition will feature photographs drawn from each artist's expansive body of work. Individually and together the photographs reveal a keen interest in producing images of environments for which documentation and perception are suspect.

Bruner's suite of images, exhibited for the first time, present a series of diffused and abstracted objects charged by their luminescence and intensity of color. The artist has long held that "it is always about the light," and these new photographs of somewhat ordinary objects encountered in the daily environment possess an ambiguity of visual cues: it is a call to the viewer for further scrutiny and examination.

Bondi's work is comprised of nine photographs of interactive screen sets, a series of sculptures he has has constructed over many years. A number of photographs document the dizzying still life topography of the constructions. Others capture an iconic female figure "in the flesh" enmeshed in both the visual and physical circuitries of the screens. Bondi's narrative is one of plasticity and artifice tempered by a gravitas informed, as he says " by a Vegas goosing of the images."

Ginger Bruner and Anthony Bondi have been an integral and highly visible part of the local arts community for many years. Bruner, a musician and radio producer, has for the past year served as the lead photographer for Our Las Vegas, The Daily Frame, an online public art project sponsored by the Las Vegas Arts Commission. Bondi has been engaged in the local arts scene for almost two decades. Many of his enigmatic assemblages were created for the Burning Man festival and later were installed as part of First Friday. A number of his constructions will be included in the exhibition.

RTZvegas,
1017 S. First Street
Las Vegas, Nevada 89101
702-592-2164
http://rtzvegas.com/
rickricklv@aol.com

Nevada Public Radio

For more information on the Cultural Arts in Las Vegas please visit Nevada Public Radio. NPR has detailed listings of many cultural and civic events hosted by area non-profits click on this link http://www.knpr.org/common/psa/listNEW.cfm and if you are planning an event in the next few months, be sure to get your free listing in Nevada Public Radio's Desert Companion magazine by submitting the information here at http://www.knpr.org/common/psa/listNEW.cfm

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