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The 2011 Downtown Tyler Art Walk

May 28th, 2011

Downtown Tyler Art Walk

On June 2nd, Tyler will be holding its much praised Downtown Art Walk. The concept is basically this: ten downtown businesses open their doors for more than thirty local artists to display their original wares. Patrons can browse the shops for free and catch a glimpse of the kind of art their fellow East Texans are producing. There is also a public mural, where visitors to the event, can leave their own artistic mark. The mural will be on display on a temporary basis on the Tyler Square.

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This event offers an opportunity for everyone. Art lovers from all over East Texas will come spend money here. The city of Tyler has the chance to continue its rejuvenation of the downtown square. Business owners there, get some great advertising (particularly those participating in the Art Walk). And of course the artists themselves receive some much deserved recognition. The businesses opening their doors to the artists include: Downtown Coffee Lounge, Subway,Balance Studio, Gallery Main Street, Cue:creative, Mango Express, Edward Jones Investments, East Texas Symphony Orchestra, Jakes, Salon Verve, and of course, T.B. Butler Plaza. I won’t list the artists, (there are too many) but suffice to say there should be something for everyone. There are also a number of sponsors of the event, including: The City of Tyler, Tyler Junior College and Austin Bank. The Art Walk’s hours run from 4pm until 8pm on June 2nd. Hopefully the turnout will continue to be large.

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UT Tyler’s Cowan Center

December 10th, 2010
UT Cowan Center

Disney Music in Tyler Texas at the UT at Tyler Cowan Center

The UT Tyler’s Cowan Center opens its stage to many different performances through out the year. Some of the most popular people and plays have preformed on the Cowan Center‘s stage. This past year comedian John Lithgow, Deal or No Deals’ Howie Mandel, and even the United States former president George W. Bush, have all preformed at the Cowan Center. January brings a whole new variety of shows and performances.

January 15, 2011 the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, along with music director and conductor Per Brevig, introduce Disney in Concert at the UT Tyler Cowan Center. This event will feature many different songs and music from popular Disney movies such as The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, and Pirates of the Caribbean. The concert is a multi-media extravaganza that will display pictures of the Disney films on a large screen behind the orchestra. The Disney in Concert is a great way to introduce young children to the world of classical music and symphonies. All songs are performed by the East Texas Symphony Orchestra along with a quartet of guest vocalists. Matinee tickets are on sale now of $10-$15 dollars, or you can buy tickets at the door for $15-$20. Tickets for the evening show are on sale for $10-$55, you can find discounts for groups and students. Your whole family will enjoy this concert of the most magical movies and songs.

January 13, 2011 UT Tyler presents an Evening with Jon Landau. Jon Landau is best known for producing two of the most famous movies, and the two highest grossing movies of all time, Titanic and Avatar. Landau has won an Academy Award and two Golden Globe awards. He has played part in creating and producing many great films over the years and is known for his understanding of visual effect technologies (even the most complex and complicated visual effects), and his motivation, and his ability to motivate others. This lecture will be a motivating look into the profession world of producing and the behind the scenes of some of the most popular movies of all times.

January 27, 2011 the amazing talent of violinist Joshua Bell. He stole the attention of America at the age of 14. He is a winner of a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra. Joshua Bell is one of the biggest and well-know performers in the classical music industry. His beautiful music has caught the attention of the nation and the Cowan Center is bringing his talent to Tyler.

Tickets are already on sale for all of these shows and also for musical show The Color Purple. The Color Purple has been nominated and won many different awards for the Broadway musical. The Cowan Center has shows for all different people and for all ages. The Cowan Center’s stage has had many great musicals, plays, and performers. Students can get discounts or can get in free to some of the shows, for information about the shows and discounts contact the Cowan Center Box Office.

The Nutcracker comes to Tyler

November 19th, 2010

Tyler Texas Nut Cracker PlayDecember 4, 2010 the famous ballet The Nutcracker is coming to Tyler. The East Texas Symphony Orchestra along with the Tyler Junior College Academy of Dance are putting on the beautiful ballet. The matinee will be at 2:00 and the evening concert will be at 7:30 at UT Tyler Cowan Center.

The popular German ballet is known all over the world and has been preformed by all different ballet groups. The story is about a young German girl, Clara, who dreams about being with a Nutcracker. But she can not be with her love without fighting off an evil mouse king with seven heads, which ended up only taking nothing more that hitting him in the head with a shoe.

It starts off with Clara at Christmas, she breaks a dear toy, a Nutcracker. Once the clock strikes midnight she begins to shrink and the Nutcracker, and tree and everything around her starts to come to life.

The Nutcracker wakes up and leads an army into war with the Mouse King and his army of mice. The Nutcracker is not match for the mice army as they quickly start to take him away. Clara then throws her shoe at the Mouse King and kills him. The Nutcracker turns into a prince and sweeps Clara off her feet.

There are many different worlds that you will travel through during the story from snow lands to candy worlds. While traveling these worlds they meet a Sugar Plum Fairy and dancing snowflakes. The ballet has everything from fight scenes to love stories. The beautiful costumes will bring the story to life in front of your eyes.

This ballet is a winter favorite. The Nutcracker has become a big part of Christmas. You can not walk through a Christmas decoration store without seeing something on the story. This is a great date idea for the winter season, it is something different in Tyler than going out to eat or to a movie.

East Texas Symphony Orchestra

July 23rd, 2010

After a summer of investigating Tyler’s cultural events and institutions, I’m going to be forced to change my mind about the opportunities in our area. I’m beginning to think that those who complain about a lack things to do either have not looked very hard, or simply never take advantage of the existing activities. I’ve been told that many or most, of those who live in New York City, have never actually been to a Broadway play, or visited the many museums in town on the basis that those are tourist attractions. Most New Yorkers are simply too busy with the day to day business of life to mingle with the City’s visitors or take in opportunities that surround them all the time. Perhaps in a small way we Tylerites are the same way. Well, there is a particular series of concerts beginning this fall that I hope East Texans will take the opportunity to enjoy. It’s one of our greatest area traditions, and it’s beginning its sixty seventh season. Of course I’m referring to the East Texas Symphony Orchestra (ETSO).

            The ETSO was first formed in 1930, but took a fourteen year hiatus during the Second World War, and reopened again in 1950. It came to be known by its current name the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, in 1954. Over the years the Symphony has had tremendous community support. Financial support comes from the generosity of individuals in the community, corporate giving and local civic organizations. In a year of economic turmoil, the Symphony finds itself in greater need of financial contributions and has launched a public fund raising campaign to that end. As of the 1997- 98 season the Orchestra has performed largely at the Cowan Arts Center at the University of Texas at Tyler, but in the past some of the favorite performances were its concerts in the park.

            The 2010- 2011 concert series kicks off on September twenty- fifth with a performance by 2009 Van Cliburn Competition winner, Haochen Zhang. On December fourth, the ETSO partners with the Tyler Junior College, Academy of Dance to present Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. On January fifteenth, the East Texas Symphony Orchestra presents Disney in Concert, a performance of some of the production company’s best loved music. Finally, on April thirtieth the ETSO will say goodbye to music director and conductor, Per Brevig, with a performance entitled Bravo Brevig, featuring guest musicians, Elena Urioste and Derek Hawkes.

Season tickets and packages are on sale now. For more information or to make a donation to the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, visit their web site at http://www.etso.org/index.php. Or for reservations, call their office at 903-566-7424.      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Don’t Mess With Texas

February 15th, 2010

Tyler Texas Information and Things To Do Here

I choose to write just about Tyler, Texas in general. Tyler has a population of around 20,617 or probably more by now. This number was from the last census, I know we have been growing very rapidly. The funny thing is that when I was younger I hated Tyler and could not wait until I could move somewhere else. I thought the city life was more exciting, which overall you have more stuff, crazy traffic and things are double in price compared to a smaller place like Tyler, I recently moved back here and realized its not a bad place at all. It is a place where you can raise a family, make a decent living and still there is plenty of fun stuff to do right here. Some of the main attractions in Tyler are: Azalea Spring and Flower Trail, Tyler Chamber Golf Tournament, Festival on the Square, Four Winds Renaissance Faire. There are lots of Museums: Brookshires World of Wildlife, Tyler Museum of Art, Rose Garden Museum, Harold’s Model Train Museum and others which you can easily find on line for the most part and they are free.

If you prefer music or performing arts, then you might be interested in something like East Texas Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Tyler, The Civic Theater Center, Caldwell Auditorium, etc.

There is a beautiful Tyler Public Library where you can go and you pay a small price for a members card, but after that you can go use their computers, check out any of their books, movies or books on CD or tape, and bring it back on the due date. Although, if you are late it will cost you or if you loose any of their stuff.

In the uptown area their is The Discovery Science Place that is filled with different displays. Kids and their parents can have an enjoyable day exploring the things they have to see.

Tyler has several places to enjoy a game of golf. There is Arrowhead Golf Course, The Cascades, Embassy Hills Golf Course, Eagle’s Bluff, Hideaway Lake Golf Course, Willow Brook Country Club just to name a few. In addition, there are many other recreation places: Resorts and Campgrounds, City Parks with playgrounds, swimming pools, baseball fields, soccer fields and movie theaters. There are a multitude of restaurants to choose from. Every city could always improve, which Tyler is.

If you like the water, Tyler has several lakes right here. Bellwood Lake, Lake Palestine, Tyler State Park, Lake Tyler, and Tyler East Lake. There is a public pool and water park located on Glenwood.

There are banks and churches on every corner. For the most part, Tyler is a safe place to live. We do have our ups and downs, just like any other town. For instance, we have someone who has been setting fires to church buildings. But anywhere you choose to live, you probably will experience something similar. We live in a world that is not perfect, with people with serious issues and we will suffer the consequences around the world. I don’t think you can find one place where nothing bad happens. It’s still worth living here. People are friendly and small enough where the traffic is not too bad and are able to get all your needs right here, and not have to shop in another town.

There is a nice zoo which used to be free, but now costs a small fee. It is worth the price to see all that they have at the Caldwell Zoo. There are good public school and some nice private schools that will give your children a good education and some spiritual life will be taken seriously. Home schooling is also a choice if that is what you prefer.

The cost of living in Tyler is not too bad. Things do cost money no matter what you do, but grocery index is 89.9. In a bigger city if you guy groceries there, they escalate the prices because it how the bigger cities work. Many of the other services are much lower on their index numbers, such as: health care 91.7. There are several health care providers here that make this an ideal place to live, whether you are young or older. If you have been thinking of moving to a new place. Check out our town, I think you would be impressed and enjoy it here.