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nilo
cruz
 State
of the Arts senior producer Amber Edwards
recently talked with playwright Nilo Cruz.
The 42-year-old Cuban-born writer recently
became the first Latino to win the Pulitzer
Prize in Drama. Cruz won the prestigious
prize for his play "Anna in Tropics,"
a lyrical story of impossible love set in
a Cuban cigar factory in Ybor City, a section
of Tampa, Florida, in 1929. Other finalists
for this year's Pulitzer Prize in Drama
included the celebrated playwrights Edward
Albee and Richard Greenberg. Cruz' win was
an enormous surprise. His play has not been
performed in New York and, in fact, none
of the Pulitzer judges had seen a live performance.
Cruz now lives in New York but has significant
ties to New Jersey. He has been a writer-in-residence
at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, where
his earlier work "Two Sisters and a
Piano" was premiered. "Anna in
the Tropics" will have its New York-area
premier at the McCarter Theater in September
2003. Cruz' earlier plays include "Night
Train to Bolina", "Dancing on
her Knees", "A Park in Our House",
"Two Sisters and a Piano", "A
Bicycle Country", "Hortensia and
the Museum of Dreams" (World premiere
at New Theatre 2001), "Lorca in a Green
Dress", "Beauty of the Father",
and translations of Lorca's "Doña
Rosita the Spinster" and "The
House of Bernarda Alba."
- where
to see
anna in the tropics
by Nilo Cruz, directed by Emily Mann
Tuesday Sep 9, 2003 - Sunday Oct 19, 2003
www.mccarter.org
609.258.2787
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 dodge
poetry
High
school students and teachers across New
Jersey benefit from the Dodge Poetry Program,
a year long series of workshops, mini-festivals,
and other events designed to deepen their
experience of poetry. The program began
soon after the first Dodge Poetry Festival
in 1986, when teachers expressed a desire
to bring more contemporary poetry into their
classrooms.
 According
to director Jim Haba, the intent of the
program is to bring back the pleasure of
poetry -- too often, he says, poetry in
high school is presented as a "test,"
that you either get or you don't. In this
story, two teachers are followed from the
"high school" day at the 2002
Dodge Poetry Festival: one to a "mini-poetry
festival" held at Cumberland Regional
High School and the other to a "Clearing
the Spring, Tending the Fountain" session
held specifically for teachers.
 Visit
Poetry 180 (www.loc.gov/poetry/180),
"a poem a day for American high schools."
All 180 poems have been chosen by U.S. Poet
Laureate Billy Collin with high school students
in mind. They're meant to be read over the
public announce system following the end
of daily announcements by members of the
school community -- from students to principals.
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 the
art of structural design
Is
a bridge a work of art? Absolutely, according
to Princeton Professor David Billington,
who has been making the case for more 45
years that Structural Engineering is a new
modern art form that grew out of the Industrial
Revolution. As proof, he has organized an
exhibition at the Princeton University Art
Museum, centered on the work of four acclaimed
structural engineers--all of them Swiss
born and trained--who brought new aesthetic
standards to the field, and forever changed
America's landscape, from the George Washington
Bridge to Boston's new Bunker Hill Bridge.
 where
to see
the art of structural design: a swiss
legacy
through june 15
the princeton university art museum
princeton, nj
www.princetonartmuseum.org
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golden
age of violins
 The
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has acquired
one of the most prestigious collections
of rare stringed instruments in the world.
The acquisition positions the Symphony as
the only orchestra in the world to procure
a large performance collection of such extraordinary
strings. In the first of a two-part story,
this edition of State of the Arts takes
viewers to one of the first performances
during which the entire collection was played
at one time, and explores what makes these
instruments so extraordinary in craftsmanship
and sound. The collection has been valued
at $50 million.
The
string collection, offered to the NJSO last
spring by New Jersey philanthropists Dr.
Herbert and Evelyn Axelrod, includes 30
Italian violins, violas and cellos created
in the 17th and 18th centuries by Antonio
Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù,
Antonio and Girolamo Amati, and others.
The instruments will be used in Orchestra
performances on a regular basis, beginning
in the 2003-04 concert season. All but one
of the instruments was produced in and around
Cremona, Italy, during the "Golden
Age" of violin making, generally regarded
as the years between 1550 and 1744. The
collection includes 24 violins by Gragnani,
Guadagnini, Guarneri del Gesù, Montagnana,
Rogeri, Ruggieri, Stradivari and Testore;
two violas by Amati and Pressenda; and a
cello by each of the following builders:
Balestrieri, Goffriller, Grancino and Stradivari.
- where
to see
mahler's symphony no. 5
thursday, may 1, 2003 at 7:30 pm,
prudential hall - njpac, newark
friday, may 2, 2003 at 8:00 pm,
prudential hall - njpac, newark
saturday, may 3, 2003 at 8:00 pm,
patriot's theater - war memorial, trenton
sunday, may 4, 2003 at 3:00 pm
state theatre, new brunswick
njsymphony.org
1-800-allegro
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