On Sunday, Oct. 3 at 3 p.m., the Englert Theatre will host an exclusive performance of John Rapson’s final work, Esteban and the Children of the Sun. Tickets are $25 for general admission, $10 for students, with masks and proof of vaccination/negative COVID test required. Esteban is a suite of 14 songs performed by 13 […]
John Rapson
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In memoriam: John Rapson, 1953-2021
I’m tearing my house apart looking for a piece of paper. The hunt delays the grief. That paper led me to take all of Ira “John” Rapson’s classes and to gratefully leap when he called me back into his ensembles years after graduation, playing first in jazz vespers, then in Hot Tamale Louie and now […]
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The weird and inspiring story of Hot Tamale Louie will come to musical life for Iowa City Jazz Fest
Iowa City Jazz Festival: Hot Tamale Louie Main Stage, Downtown Iowa City — Friday, June 29 at 9 p.m. “Over and over we forget what being American means,” Kathryn Schulz writes in a 2016 New Yorker essay about Zarif Khan, an immigrant to the U.S. in 1907 from the mountains of Afghanistan who built a […]
