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Music and Dance through March 17
Mon, Mar 08, 2010
Those who enjoy fine dance performances have a treat in store this weekend with an opportunity to see the famed Martha Graham Dance Company perform at JCCC in one of its founder’s classics, "Clytemnestra," the ancient Greek legend of the murder of King Agamemnon by his wife. Originally performed in 1958, it became something of a cause célèbre among early feminists and is regarded today as one of the cornerstones of Graham’s creativity. Opera fans have four performances of Donizetti’s delightfully comic "l’Elisir d’Amore" (The Elixir of Love) to entertain them at the UMKC Conservatory of Music this weekend, while chamber music aficionados can bask in the strains of the world-famous Artemis String Quartet performing works of Beethoven for The Friends of Chamber Music. If Beethoven is too conservative for your taste, check out the newEar Contemporary Music Ensemble’s collection of modern pieces by Chinese American composers for the zheng. What’s a zheng, you say? Go to the concert and find out!