As part of the opening reception for Electronics Alive V — University of Tampa's biennial exhibit of experimental computer animations, interactive 2D and 3D digital art, and multimedia computer graphics and installations — UT art professor Lew Harris and retired UT music professor Terry Mohn present an original, “mind-expanding” performance piece featuring live and pre-recorded visual images and a soundtrack created by Harris and Mohn. Fri., Feb. 20, 7-9 p.m., works on display through March 24, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery located in the R. K. Bailey Art Studios, Tampa, free admission. Pictured below: From the short animated film, "Tarboy," by James Lee & Hania of Australia, on display at the gallery.
You’ve heard Johann Strauss Jr.’s On the Beautiful Blue Danube in anything from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Airplane II to countless commercials with clean, triumphant finishes. Danube is a quality waltz and it’s performed along with other Strauss waltzes during The Florida Orchestra’s Austrian-German night program. For Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17, German pianist Markus Groh and German conductor Klauspeter Seibel sit in as guests. 8 p.m. Fri., Feb. 20, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Tampa; 8 p.m. Sat., Feb. 21, Progress Energy Center for the Arts – Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg; and 7:30 p.m. Sun., Feb. 22, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, $19-$65.
This article appears in Feb 18-24, 2009.