Arts News

The Arturo Sandoval concert scheduled for Friday night has been moved from the Allerton Music Barn in Monticello to the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana because of hot weather.

One of the first images youll see in Krannert Art Museums 50th anniversary exhibition is John Singleton Copleys portrait of Mrs. Robert Hyde, painted 1778. Just behind her, mounted on the same hanging wall, is one of Andy Warhols boldly colored portraits of Marilyn Monroe. Why would this artwork occupy the same space as Copleys Mrs. Hyde? Its because guest curator Michael Rush wants viewers to discover the connections in art across time and mediums.

A new book co-written by University of Illinois dance professor Rebecca Nettl-Fiol presents what at first glance seems like a counterintuitive concept for people whose work necessarily requires movements large enough to be seen by the back row of a theater. The book shows dancers they can dramatically improve their artistry through the Alexander Technique a system of tiny, subtle changes.

The creators of the new musical 1787: We the People dont mind if audiences compare this homegrown original to 1776, a 1969 Broadway hit. In fact, executive co-producer Lucinda Lawrence hopes the new show, about the Constitutional Convention, will be thought of as the sequel to the show that inspired it the musical version of the drafting and ratification of the Declaration of Independence.

Four-time Grammy-winner Arturo Sandoval has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, the Boston Pops, the London Symphony, Celine Dion, Alicia Keys and Justin Timberlake. On Sept. 2, hell be playing in an old hay barn.