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If you have questions, wish more details or want to make a reservation about any of these tours, please call me at (520) 881-1638 or email me at info@krusearizona.com.
Featured Tour
Cezanne and American Modernism
and the
Musical Instrument Museum
Saturday, August 14th and Saturday, September 18, 2010; $72
This tour combines two wonderful exhibits in the Phoenix area. We start first with the brand new Musical Instrument Museum (opened on April 24th). Its mission is little short of astonishing: to represent the musical culture of every country on the planet, both with displays of the instruments on which that music is played and with regular live performances by those who play them.
To realize that, former CEO of Target Stores Robert Ulrich, his staff of five curators and more than 100 consultants have put together one of the largest instrument collections in the world in barely three years. The 4 1/2 -acre building now houses more than 13,000 music-making contraptions, including ancient German krumhorns and sackbuts (an early trombone), Kenyan mbiras (thumb pianos), Chinese pipas and some of the coolest electric guitars Leo Fender ever made.
Among the latter, on short-term loan, is "Brownie," one of the Holy Grail Stratocasters played extensively by one Eric Clapton. MIM's inaugural celebrity collection also includes the banged-around upright piano on which John Lennon wrote "Imagine."
In the afternoon, we are off to the Phoenix Art Museum to see their exhibit Cezanne and American Modernism. Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) profoundly influenced Cubism and the direction of 20th-Century modern art. However this is the first exhibition to examine Cézanne’s influence upon the development of American modernism in this country and abroad. It includes an intimate display of a dozen key paintings and works on paper by Cézanne. The gallery will recreate, in part, important exhibitions (Alfred Stieglitz's renowned gallery 291 in 1910 and 1911, the Armory Show of 1913, the Montross Gallery in 1916, and the Museum of Modern Art in 1929) in which his work was introduced to American artists.
The core of the exhibition focuses upon 75 paintings, works on paper and photographs by a diverse group of major American Modernists—among them Max Weber, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, Morgan Russell, Man Ray and Arshile Gorky—to show how American artists, critics, dealers and collectors from 1907 to 1930 responded to Cézanne's themes, process, and style. The primary emphasis is on the work of American artists; selected works by Cézanne are included to illustrate his impact on their work.
Walking
Tours Summer 2010
Twilight Walking Tour of Barrio Viejo
Tuesday, May 18th, 5:45-7:45 pm, $15. We will meet in front of La Pilita (420 S. Main). We’ll explore an area of Hispanic cultural and architectural traditions. Some of the colorful and interesting characters include Leopoldo Carrillo, Pete Kitchen, Lalo Guerrero, John Spring, Sam Drachman, and of course El Tiradito Shrine. Afterwards there will be an optional no-host margaritas/dinner at Cushing Street Café and Bar. Free parking is available on Main.
Twilight Walking Tour of the Mansions of Main Street
Tuesday, June 1, 6:00 – 8:00 PM, $15
After meeting on the NW corner of Main and Alameda , we’ll stroll down Main Street viewing the homes and hearing stories of the movers and shakers of early Tucson including
· Hiram Stevens who tried to kill his wife and then turned the gun on himself
· Sam Hughes who is called by some the “father of Tucson ”
· Annie Cheyney whose newly restored 1905 home is the talk of the town
· Albert Steinfeld of department store fame whose son Harold was a top scorcher
· Frank Hereford, an attorney who represented the defendants in the Wham Robbery
· William Herring who was at one time Wyatt Earp’s lawyer
· and of course the Owls
Afterwards there will be an optional, no-host dinner at El Charro (311 N. Court). Free parking is available on Main or near El Charro restaurant.
Twilight Walking Tour of
Armory
Park
Monday, June 7th, 6:00 – 8:00 PM; $15. We will meet in front of the Royal Elizabeth B & B (204 S. Scott).
Armory
Park is south of Broadway and east of Stone. Homes started to go up in this area with the arrival of the railroad in
Tucson in 1880. Architectural styles vary from
California bungalow to Victorian with Henry C. Trost and Annie Rockfellow being the most renowned architects. This tour will include the Carnegie Library, Safford School, Willard Hotel, Temple of Music and Art, Scottish Rite Cathedral, and “The Hut” with the story of Isabella Greenway. There will be an optional, no-host dinner at The Cup in the Hotel Congress immediately following the tour. Free parking is available near the B & B.
Twilight Walking Tour of Barrio Viejo
Thursday, June 24, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, $15. See above for description.
Walking Tours - Fall 2010
Twilight Walking Tour of the Mansions of Main Street
Monday, September 20, 4:45 – 6:45 PM, $15. See above for description
Twilight Walking Tour of Armory Park
Wednesday, September 29,4:30 – 6:30 PM; $15. See above for description
Twilight Walking Tour of Barrio Viejo
Tuesday, October 5, 4:30 – 6:30 pm, $15. See above for description.
Holy Hope Cemetery Walking Tour
November 2, 9:00 – 11:00 AM; $15 Details to be announced
Historic Tucson Women Walking Tour, Part I
Thursday, November 4, 10:00 – Noon; $15 Details to be announced
Inside the Presidio Walls Walking Tour
Friday, November 5, 10:00 – Noon; $15 Note date change; Details to be announced
Downtown Heritage Walking Tour, Part I
Monday, November 8, 9:30 – Noon; $18 Note date change; Details to be announced
University of Arizona Walking Tour
Wednesday, November 10, 9:00 – 3:00 PM; details to be announced
Walking Tour of Barrio Viejo
Thursday, November 11, 10:00 - Noon, $15. See above for description.
Downtown Heritage Walking Tour, Part II
Wednesday, December 1, 9:30 – Noon; $18 Details to be announced
Historic Tucson Women Walking Tour, Part II
Tuesday, November 23, 10:00 – Noon; $15 Details to be announced
Coach Tours Summer & Fall 2010
In the Heights
And
Hall of Flame
Museum of
Firefighting
Saturday, June 19, 2010; $109
In the afternoon, we will be seeing In the Heights at Gammage Auditorium on the ASU campus. This musical boasts an infectious, bouncy Latin-pop score by a gifted young composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and a stage full of energized, energetic performers you can’t take your eyes off and won’t want to.
The audience enters the world of Washington Heights through bodega owner Usnavi, who knows everyone’s story because his shop is the centerpiece of the neighborhood. He is the modern version of Tevye, the milkman at the center of “Fiddler on the Roof.” In the terrific title number that opens the show, he introduces us to the men and women whose daily troubles — overdue bills, overheated romances and overtaxed hearts — will form the episodic story that provides a slender spine for Miranda’s musical valentine to the barrio. Usnavi dreams of returning to the Dominican Republic, yet is tied to the neighborhood by his devotion to the woman who raised him and the woman he loves.
It’s a love letter to a changing neighborhood. Tony Awards in 2008 for best musical, original score, choreography and orchestrations
In the morning we will have a docent-led tour of the Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting. Here’s a chance to get a close-up view of almost 100 restored fire engines and firefighting apparatus dating from 1725 to 1961 – said to be the world’s largest such display.
Santa Fe Opera, Flamenco, & Folk Art Market - July 8-12, 2010; SOLD OUT
Highlights Include
Mozart’s Opera The Magic Flute
Folk Art Market
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
Chimayo Weavers
Juan Siddi Flamenco Performance
Walking Tour of Downtown Santa Fe
International Museum of Folk Art
New Mexico History Museum & Palace of the Governors
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, Old Town, & Acoma Pueblo
Dates: Oct 7-11, 2010
Hotel: Hyatt Place at the Airport
Activities: Special Shape Glowdeo with fireworks on Friday (Back-up on Saturday)
Dawn Patrol Show & Mass Ascension on Saturday morning (Back-up on Sunday)
The new Balloon Museum
Old Town including historic walking tour
Coach tour of Albuquerque
Turquoise Museum
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center including lunch
Albuquerque Museum of History and Art
Acoma Pueblo – tentative
Price: To be determined
Young Frankenstein at ASU’s Gammage Auditorium
Saturday, October 2, 2010 Details to be announced
Dolly Steamboat and the Arizona Opry
Friday, December 3, 2010 Details to be announced
Fort Huachuca Historic Officer's Quarters' Christmas Home Tour
Sunday, December 5, 2010 Details to be announced
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