A favorite bass-clef-based Iowa City tradition returns on Friday, as Holiday Tubas oompahs in the festive season on the steps of the Old Capitol. Robert Yeats, a University of Iowa music professor in the ’70s and founder of Holiday Tubas, called it “a lark” that became a tradition: brass musicians gathered to perform year after […]
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Two holiday traditions, Holiday Tubas and the DVIP Holiday Store, return
Holiday Tubas, a 50-year-old Iowa City tradition, returns to the steps of the Old Capitol on Friday. Since 1973, tuba, sousaphone (the wrap-around tuba for marching) and euphonium (think tuba, but smaller) players have gathered to play holiday tunes in what Robert Yeats, a University of Iowa music professor in the ’70s and founder of […]
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Holiday Tubas return to Iowa City to oompah in the holidays
Holiday celebrations in December may have become a bit more homogenous since the advertising department of Coca-Cola helped standardize the image of Santa Claus in America’s public imagination starting in the early 1930s, and the advertising department of Montgomery Ward invented Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer at the end of that decade. But there are still […]
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Holiday Tubas, a 46-year local tradition, will perform on the Pentacrest Friday afternoon
In most places around the country, sleigh bells and carolers (who may or may not be “a-wassailing“) are the sounds of the season, but in Iowa City, there are also tubas. Since 1973, tuba, sousaphone (the wrap-around tuba for marching) and euphonium (think tuba, but smaller) players have gathered on the Pentacrest for Holiday Tubas. The
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Interviews form basis of new play about the legacy of Sudan in Iowa City
On Friday, Feb. 15 from 4:30-6 p.m. in the Senate Chambers of the Old Capital Museum, the African Studies Program and the Office of Outreach and Engagement at the University of Iowa will present My Daughters Are My Writings, a new play based on oral histories of seven Iowa City residents from Sudan.
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Iowa City memorializes those who died of HIV/AIDS-related illnesses during IC Red Week
Memorializing the dead by speaking their names is usually a very personal act, but sometimes it’s also a political one. The recitation of names on the steps of the Old Capitol on Friday will combine both those aspects.
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Light artist Gerry Hofstetter illuminates the Old Capitol
Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter has an ambitious goal: Over the course of 2017-19, he and his daughter Céline (who is based in Los Angeles) will bring their Light Art Grand Tour USA to all 50 states. The tour identifies a key landmark in each state to work with, a place of historical and political significance, and transforms it into a transitory light art sculpture.
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Old Capitol Museum celebrates four decades as a museum and historic landmark
Old Capitol Museum 40th Anniversary Celebration Old Capitol Museum — Sunday, July 3 at 2 p.m. On Sunday, the Old Capitol Museum will celebrate 40 years of being a National Historic Landmark — the only one in Iowa City — and a museum. From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., visitors can enjoy a historic atmosphere […]
