‘The Little Foxes’ at the Bodley-Bullock House
October 31, 2008
Voices from the past have filled the Bodley-Bullock House for the past few weeks, whispering and occasionally shouting about familial treachery.
This would be the right time of year for such spirits to arise in a nearly 200-year-old house, and people do say a ghost haunts the premises.
But more chatter floats to the high ceilings of the historic downtown Lexington house, which has been the home of a mayor and a general and even housed Union and Confederate troops at times during the Civil War.
These conversations are about props and costumes and scenes: The Bodley-Bullock House is now home to the inaugural performance by On the Verge Productions. That plot of family infighting and intrigue is the story of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, which the company is bringing to life on the first floor of the house. Each performance will play to a tiny audience that will move around the house as the action of the play changes rooms.
Multimedia Show: Opera House Makeover
October 16, 2008
Take a look inside the 122-year-old Lexington Opera House. It’s been closed since June as workers installed new seats, lights and a state-of-the-art sound system. There’s a new lobby, and dressing rooms were completely revamped. The Opera House reopens Friday, Oct. 17. Rich Copley has the story, with information about upcoming performances at the Opera House, on Lexgo.
Fall Arts 2008
September 12, 2008
For our fall arts preview, we took a look at how artists in Central Kentucky make all or a portion of their living from the arts. As part of that, we profiled five area artists whose work supports them to some extent. The profiles included portraits by Herald-Leader staff photographer Mark Cornelison. In the slide show, you can see the portraits as well as pictures of the artists at work and hear and read their comments about their art and life.
Click here to go to LexGo.com, for more of our 2008-09 arts preview and more information about arts and entertainment in Central Kentucky.
Chamber Music Festival of Lexington’s new work
August 27, 2008
For its second season, the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington has commissioned a new work, Book of Songs and Visions for Piano Quintet by Michigan-based composer Daniel Thomas Davis. Davis had a chance meeting with festival president Charlie Stone in New York, and after he was commissioned to write the piece, he visited Lexington a few times for inspiration. The piece was written in Italy, Virginia and Ann Arbor, where Davis teaches at the University of Michigan. This week, he was in Lexington for the rehearsals of the piano quintet which will receive its world premier Aug. 30 at the festival at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion.
Photos, audio and production by Rich Copley; music from Book of Songs and Visions for Piano Quintet by Daniel Thomas Davis, performed by the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington Quintet — violinists Nathan Cole and Akiko Tarumoto, cellist Priscilla Lee, violist Burchard Tang and pianist Alessio Bax.
Read our story about Davis and the composition.
Woodland Art Fair 2008
August 18, 2008
Artists and art lovers filled Lexington’s Woodland Park this weekend for the 33rd Annual Woodland Art Fair, featuring more than 200 vendors from around the country as well as music and dance from area artists. Most participants said you couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful weekend of sun and highs in the low 80s.
“Yesterday was superb,” John Hart, an artist from Louisville, said Sunday afternoon. “Any day’s good when you have beautiful weather like this, and financially it was good too.”
Photographs by Pablo Alcala and Rich Copley / Audio and production by Rich Copley
