In Wednesday’s (6/1) Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota), Kathy Berdan writes, “Orchestra musicians set up in Macy’s and start playing chamber music. A pair of trained guitarists surprise the skyway lunch crowd with a performance. How random. You can expect to see and hear more ‘Random Acts of Culture’ in Minnesota’s capital city through the end of 2011. St. Paul is one of eight cities in the United States where the Knight Foundation is funding pop-up performances. The Macy’s musicians were members of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. The guitarists were winners of the Schubert Club’s Bruce P. Carlson Scholarship Competition. Their performances were tests of random acts of culture, said Kathleen van Bergen, artistic and executive director of the Schubert Club. … In St. Paul, the random acts are being produced by the Arts Partnership, a strategic alliance of the Ordway, Minnesota Opera, Schubert Club and SPCO. The purpose is to get ‘art from some of the great St. Paul arts organizations out of the concert hall and into unexpected public spaces,’ Van Bergen said. … The Knight Foundation has pledged to fund 1,000 Random Acts of Culture in the eight cities, Van Bergen said.”
Posted June 1, 2011
