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Season tickets for the Performing Arts Series, which includes six shows, are $133, $184 and $234 and are available at the box office. Season tickets for the Braithwaite Music Series are $27, $39 and $51. Distinguished Lecture Series season tickets, which include valet parking and a reception before the lecture, are $102. For more information about tickets, call the Cowan Center box office at 903-566-7424 or visit www.uttyler.edu/cowan. Performing
Arts Series Other performances this season include The Sound of Music, Saturday, Oct. 4, sponsored by The Vaughn Foundation; Bowfire, Saturday, Nov. 15, sponsored by Joyce Buford and Dermatology Associates of Tyler; Dance Theatre of Harlem, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004, sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Z. Ornelas; and the Montana Repertory Theatre’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire, sponsored by Jack and Debra King.
All proceeds from Cirque Éloize will fund scholarships for the UT Tyler School of Visual and Performing Arts. Now a household name, Womack was born and raised in Jacksonville. After spending several years as a professional songwriter, she became one of the breakout contemporary country stars of 1997 with her debut album. Its release created a buzz in the country music industry for its originality and contributions by standouts like Mark Chesnut, Ricky Skaggs, Sharon White and Tony Brown. Shortly after its release, her debut album reached the Top Ten on the country chart. “I Hope You Dance’’ won Single of the Year at the Country Music Awards in 2000, and she won the coveted Female Vocalist of the Year in 2001. This year, Womack and Willie Nelson, took the "Collaboration" Grammy Award for the song "Mendocino County Line" from Nelson’s "Great Divide" album.
In “Opus Cactus,’’ MOMIX Artistic Director Moses Pendleton has choreographed a show consisting of 21 images – all based on the great landscape of the American southwest and the “Sunflower of the Desert,’’ the saguaro cactus. This multimedia event transports audiences into a theatrical fantasy world featuring MOMIX’s trademark use of props, light, shadow, humor and the never-ending beauty of the human body. Nomade, a striking new production from the Canadian company Cirque Éloize, offers a festive celebration of song and dance. Providing audiences with an insider’s look into the “cirque’’ world of enchantment, humor and wonder, the theatrical, artistic show has a gypsy flavor and is similar to other great cirques touring the country. www.uttyler.edu/cowan/season/performingarts.html Braithwaite
Music Series The series will open Friday, Dec. 5, with internationally acclaimed pianist Leon Bates. The Ahn Trio will perform on Thursday, May 6, performing contemporary classical works. Both performances are sponsored by Waller Broadcasting.
In addition to his acclaimed solo concerts, Bates performs regularly with the major U.S. symphonies including the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony.
Natives of Korea, the trio took the international music scene by storm after graduating from the Julliard School of Music one decade ago. They have been featured in numerous magazines including Time, Vogue and GQ, and were recognized this year by People as being among the 50 Most Beautiful people in the World. www.uttyler.edu/cowan/season/music.html Distinguished
Lecture Series The series will conclude with Col. Oliver North, combat-decorated Marine, best-selling author and former U.S. counter-terrorism coordinator, on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004.
Seen daily on CNN as a military analyst, Clark provides expert commentary on the war on terrorism and American foreign policy. He is the author of the Washington Post bestseller, “Waging Modern War.’’ From the podium, Clark uses his expertise to offer insight into current military conflicts around the world and offers a singularly informed view of leadership based on honor, conviction and action.
Born in San Antonio, North graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served 22 years as a U.S. Marine. His awards for service in combat include the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for valor and two Purple Hearts for wounds in action. North has written three bestsellers, “Under Fire,’’ “One More Mission’’ and his latest “Mission Compromised.’’ www.uttyler.edu/cowan/season/lecture.html Contact person: Emily Battle, (903) 565-5604
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Grammy Award winning country artist Lee Ann Womack will return to
her native East Texas on Friday, Sept. 12, to kick-off this year’s
Performing Arts Series. The performance is sponsored by Citizens
First Bank and Waller Broadcasting.
MOMIX
– Opus Cactus will be presented on Thursday, March 18, 2004.
The Performing Art Series event is sponsored by the late Mrs. David
G. Braithwaite as A Braithwaite Performing Arts Program jointly
presented by UT Tyler Cowan Center and East Texas Symphony Orchestra.
A
special event this season will be Cirque Éloize Nomade on
Thursday, Feb. 26, sponsored by NBC 56. Tickets are $16, $26 and
$36. These tickets are available only to season subscribers at this
time. 
Popular
with audiences of all ages, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The
Sound of Music tells the story of Maria, a spirited young novice
who leaves the abbey to become a governess, endears herself to a
family of seven motherless children and warms the heart of their
stern widowed father. The production features a glorious score including
“My Favorite Things,’’ “Do Re Mi’’
and “Climb Ev’ry Mountain.
Eleven
sizzling violinists join fiddle forces to make Bowfire one of the
hottest acts currently touring North America. This high-octane fiddling
festival features electrifying music with solos by violinists in
genres like jazz, classical, bluegrass, Celtic and modern.
Dance
Theatre of Harlem is a world renowned, multicultural, neoclassical
ballet company with an eclectic repertoire of 125 works, from pure
dance to powerful dance dramas. Considered one of ballet’s
most exciting undertakings, the company was formed 34 years ago
as a ballet school to provide opportunities for young people in
Harlem to study and excel in classical technique.
An
American classic by Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
is recognized as one of the greatest American plays ever written.
Streetcar chronicles the mental and emotional demise of Blanche
Du Bois, which mirrors the disintegration of the antebellum south.
The Montana Repertory Theatre has been touring since 1968 and has
presented more than 300 performances in more than 100 communities
from California to New York.
Bates
will open the series with an elegant candlelight concert featuring
works by Rachmaninoff and Chopin. A veteran musician, he has traveled
the globe and won critical and audience raves in the most respected
halls, including Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, New York
City’s Carnegie Hall and Philadelphia’s Academy of Music.
The
Ahn Trio has been credited with bringing new life to standard piano
trio literature and giving first life to pieces by contemporary
composers such as Schoenfield, Ewazen, Bunch, Nyman and Musto.
Clark
retired as one of the nation’s most highly decorated military
officers since Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. His leadership experiences
have taken him from Vietnam to Latin America and ultimately to the
position of NATO’s supreme allied commander. At that post,
Clark commanded all NATO forces in the Kosovo conflict, saving 1.5
million Albanians from ethnic cleansing without a single Allied
casualty.
North
is the founder of a small business, an inventor with three U.S.
patents, a syndicated columnist, host of a nationally syndicated
daily radio show and host of “War Stories’’ on
the Fox News Channel.