Enjoy live music with your murals in downtown Tucson this Monday | Arts and Theater
“Sagrada Corazon de Tucson” by Rachel Slick at 54 E. Pennington St., will serve as a musical backdrop this Monday.
Gabriella Beltran, 22, left, plays the oboe during a rehearsal at the Fred Fox School of Music on the University of Arizona campus. Beltran is a member of the Fred Fox Graduate Wind Quintet. They will join nine other chamber ensembles from the University of Arizona to perform near downtown murals as part of the Nov. 8 Meet Me At Maynards event.
Ignacio Garcia’s Bill Walton riding a jackalope is on one of the walls of the Rialto Theatre in downtown Tucson. Find it on the east wall, 318 E. Congress St.
Members of the University of Arizona Symphonic and Arizona Choirs — from left, Matt Kezer, Laura Gonzalez, Josh Elias, Inho Eom, Stefan Vikingur, Deltrina Grimes and choral director Elizabeth Schauer — are part of the Musical Murals on Monday, Nov. 8.
In what can only be described as a perfect convergence of art and exercise, 10 chamber music ensembles from the UA Fred Fox School of Music will serenade hundreds of Meet Me At Maynards walkers following a path along a series of downtown murals.
“Musical Murals” is the latest in the University of Arizona music school’s efforts to take its act into the community.
“Art is for everyone, and if you can bring it to people where they are, they get to experience it,” said Elizabeth Schauer, director of choral activities who came up with the idea to team up with Meet Me At Maynards on Monday, Nov. 8.
Schauer tapped her University of Arizona colleague Marissa Olegario, who teaches bassoon and regularly participates in the weekly Meet Me At Maynards events. Schauer said Olegario did the heavy lifting, mapping out the route and picking the murals where the student musicians will set up to perform.
“She’s really creative and energetic and smart and she has an interest in the arts and health,” Schauer said of Olegario, who she said was also deeply connected to the school’s chamber music community.
The 10 ensembles — 7Reed5 Reed Quintet, Beat-Cats! from the UA Percussion Studio, Fred Fox Graduate Wind Quintet, Creosote Saxophone Quartet, Q’iru Clarinet and Guitar Duo, Arizona and Symphonic Choir members, Fred Fox Graduate String Quartet, Fred Fox Brass Ensemble, UA Double Reed Ensemble and the Fred Fox Jazz Ensemble — will perform about 10 minutes apiece along the route, which Schauer said will give participants a chance “to experience our art.”
