The Austin arts community turned out in huge numbers to pay tribute to one of
their own, founder and longtime Managing Artistic Director of Capitol City
Playhouse, Michel Jaroschy, at a memorial service on Wednesday, October 16.
Hundreds of artists and friends of the arts packed Cedar Street to hear more
than a dozen speakers celebrate Jaroschy's life, which was suddenly cut short
last Friday by a fatal heart attack. Directors, actors, designers, technicians,
administrators, volunteers, and patrons stood elbow-to-elbow in the open-air
club and on the stairs leading to it as CCP volunteer Ken Murphy introduced the
speakers. Most recalled Jaroschy's generosity and passion. Live Oak Theatre
Artistic Director Don Toner exhorted the crowd to keep Jaroschy's dream of a
theatre alive and to support his family by giving to a trust fund created for
them. He announced that his theatre's November 5 performance of On Golden Pond
would benefit the fund. Donations may also be made to the Jaroschy Family Trust
Fund, c/o NationsBank. And a fundraiser for Capitol City Playhouse will go
forward on Thursday, October 24, at the Austin Music Hall. Ruben Ramos &
the Texas Revolution, Joe "King" Carrasco, Los Pinkys, Los Jazz Vatos, and the
Matt Powell Band will play to benefit the theatre, which must vacate its
current home. Concert tickets are $7. Call 472-2966 for info.
Honors
Novelist James Michener and his late wife Mari have been named recipients of
the Medal for Distinguished Philanthropy from the American Association of
Museums for 1996. The medal, presented annually to persons or organizations who
have made outstanding contributions to museums, recognizes the couple's gifts
of $100 million to museums, including their art collections (such as their
Twentieth Century Painting Collection, housed at UT's Archer M. Huntington
Gallery). A formal presentation of the medal will take place Saturday, October
19, during a luncheon at the Huntington.
Opera Online
Question: If you sing an aria in cyber-space, is there a sound? You can find
out next Wednesday, October 23, when the cyberspace opera honoria in
ciberspazio is broadcast over the World Wide Web. The opera, a comedy about
five lonely humans looking for love on the Internet, is an Austin creation,
developed by Madelyn Starbuck, aka honoria, a mail artist, grad student, and
member of the Advanced Communication Technologies Lab. She drew the libretto
from rhyming couplets submitted to the opera's website, added electronic loops
of opera music, then in April of this year, broadcast the work on the Web using
videoconferencing technology. This week's webcast, which features some new
material, can be found at http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~slatin/opera and begins
at 3pm. Call 441-4496 for more info.
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