Comments on: Deep Portland history: Lawrence Halprin and Ira Keller http://www.artscatter.com/general/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller/ a Portland-centric arts and culture blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:04:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Pioneering spirit | Gardenvisit.com Blog http://www.artscatter.com/general/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller/comment-page-2/#comment-36468 Pioneering spirit | Gardenvisit.com Blog Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:37:50 +0000 http://www.artscatter.com/?p=469#comment-36468 [...] architectural interests and Bauhaus teachers influenced his sense of formal spatial design.  http://www.portlandtribune.com/features/story.php?story_id=122098201532999900 and [...] [...] architectural interests and Bauhaus teachers influenced his sense of formal spatial design.  http://www.portlandtribune.com/features/story.php?story_id=122098201532999900 and [...]

]]> By: commerical led fountian lighting | Collection of lighting-related keywords http://www.artscatter.com/general/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller/comment-page-1/#comment-3574 commerical led fountian lighting | Collection of lighting-related keywords Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:54:14 +0000 http://www.artscatter.com/?p=469#comment-3574 [...] Deep Portland history: Lawrence Halprin and Ira Keller Monday night, Randy Gragg and Portland Spaces magazine staged another of its Bright Light City Discussions, this one featuring historian Carl Abbott and part of the Time-Based Art Festival. We took notes! More importantly we learned a … [...] [...] Deep Portland history: Lawrence Halprin and Ira Keller Monday night, Randy Gragg and Portland Spaces magazine staged another of its Bright Light City Discussions, this one featuring historian Carl Abbott and part of the Time-Based Art Festival. We took notes! More importantly we learned a … [...]

]]> By: Art Scatter » Sunday in the park with the Halprins (while Rome burned) http://www.artscatter.com/general/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller/comment-page-1/#comment-3097 Art Scatter » Sunday in the park with the Halprins (while Rome burned) Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:16:38 +0000 http://www.artscatter.com/?p=469#comment-3097 [...] of economic crisis. We’ve already set up the fountains, and to a lesser extent the dances, in a post below. To summarize, L. Halprin was hired by Ira Keller and the PDC to provide some public spaces for [...] [...] of economic crisis. We’ve already set up the fountains, and to a lesser extent the dances, in a post below. To summarize, L. Halprin was hired by Ira Keller and the PDC to provide some public spaces for [...]

]]> By: Art Scatter » Thursday scatter: cool nicknames, a new guy at the Met http://www.artscatter.com/general/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller/comment-page-1/#comment-3063 Art Scatter » Thursday scatter: cool nicknames, a new guy at the Met Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:37:44 +0000 http://www.artscatter.com/?p=469#comment-3063 [...] One of our favorite Portland writers, Fred Leeson, has a sweet cover story in the inPortland section of today’s Oregonian on Sweet Baby James Benton, the smooth-singing jazz guy who is one of the last links to the great old days of the city’s North Williams Avenue jazz scene. That scene was pretty much wiped out, along with the thriving black neighborhood that nourished it, by the midcentury sweep of urban renewal that also obliterated the bustling working and ethnic neighborhoods of south downtown, which at least led to the terrific Lawrence Halprin fountains that will be celebrated this weekend. [...] [...] One of our favorite Portland writers, Fred Leeson, has a sweet cover story in the inPortland section of today’s Oregonian on Sweet Baby James Benton, the smooth-singing jazz guy who is one of the last links to the great old days of the city’s North Williams Avenue jazz scene. That scene was pretty much wiped out, along with the thriving black neighborhood that nourished it, by the midcentury sweep of urban renewal that also obliterated the bustling working and ethnic neighborhoods of south downtown, which at least led to the terrific Lawrence Halprin fountains that will be celebrated this weekend. [...]

]]> By: MightyToyCannon http://www.artscatter.com/general/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller/comment-page-1/#comment-3061 MightyToyCannon Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:21:20 +0000 http://www.artscatter.com/?p=469#comment-3061 This morning, I caught a bit of Randy, TBA's Mark Russell and others talking about the City Dance project and other TBA topics on OPB's call-in show "Think Out Loud." It should be available by streaming or podcast, and is worth a listen. This morning, I caught a bit of Randy, TBA’s Mark Russell and others talking about the City Dance project and other TBA topics on OPB’s call-in show “Think Out Loud.” It should be available by streaming or podcast, and is worth a listen.

]]> By: Martha Ullman West http://www.artscatter.com/general/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller/comment-page-1/#comment-3060 Martha Ullman West Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:40:16 +0000 http://www.artscatter.com/?p=469#comment-3060 An additional note on Janice Ross's book on Anna Halprin, really on both Halprins, in which she writes vividly of their early influences, which include the Bauhaus. It's a very well-written, interesting piece of intellectual history as well as a fine portrait of both Halprins. Janice had incredible access to the Halprin materials and she used them well. I remember when the then Forecourt fountain first opened, and if you went to an event on a summer evening at the then Civic Auditorium you would see women dressed to the nines wading in the fountain, holding their evening sandals in one hand, their skirts up in the other--very charming. If elitist. In the daytime, people, including me, took their children to play in the water. Why isn't this done any more I wonder? An additional note on Janice Ross’s book on Anna Halprin, really on both Halprins, in which she writes vividly of their early influences, which include the Bauhaus. It’s a very well-written, interesting piece of intellectual history as well as a fine portrait of both Halprins. Janice had incredible access to the Halprin materials and she used them well.
I remember when the then Forecourt fountain first opened, and if you went to an event on a summer evening at the then Civic Auditorium you would see women dressed to the nines wading in the fountain, holding their evening sandals in one hand, their skirts up in the other–very charming. If elitist. In the daytime, people, including me, took their children to play in the water. Why isn’t this done any more I wonder?

]]> By: Barry Johnson http://www.artscatter.com/general/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller/comment-page-1/#comment-3056 Barry Johnson Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:34:37 +0000 http://www.artscatter.com/?p=469#comment-3056 Randy, thanks for the book suggestion and filling out the schedule for us. Among many other things. Oh, and you know I love to quibble and that even my hindsight is far from 20-20! Randy, thanks for the book suggestion and filling out the schedule for us. Among many other things. Oh, and you know I love to quibble and that even my hindsight is far from 20-20!

]]> By: Randy Gragg http://www.artscatter.com/general/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller/comment-page-1/#comment-3055 Randy Gragg Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:47:32 +0000 http://www.artscatter.com/?p=469#comment-3055 Nice piece. Thanks. I'll quibble with your nostalgia and 20-20 hindsight some other time. The book you were wishing for is Anna Halprin: Experience As Dance. It's a lively intellectual biography of the person and a rich portrayal of her and Larry Halprin's milieau written by scholar/journalist who will be here Friday to offer a walking tour of the fountains at 4:30 and will be part of a panel with other scholars of the era Saturday at 4:30. Walking Tours: Lawrence and Anna Halprin’s Fountains Fri. Sept 12. 4:30 – 6:30pm, Ira Keller Fountain, SW 3rd Ave and Clay St Walking tours of the Halprin-designed plazas with Stanford University Associate Professor, Janice Ross, author of the biography, Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance; architecture critic Randy Gragg and others. Free. Panel Discussion: Anna Halprin’s Collaborations with Composers Sat. Sept 13. 4pm, AIA Portland, 403 NW 11th Ave Informal panel discussion with Janice Ross, Charles Birnbaum, David Bernstein, director of the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College in Oakland, CA, in Berkeley, archive of the composers Morton Subotnik, Terry Riley, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros and others who frequently collaborated with Anna Halprin. Free. Lecture/Presentation: David Bernstein Sat. Sept 13. 6pm, AIA Portland, 403 NW 11th Ave Lecture/music presentation by David Bernstein on the music of the mid-1960s Bay Area scene, milieu of the Halprins. Free. For the whole list of events go to www.Thirdangle.org Nice piece. Thanks. I’ll quibble with your nostalgia and 20-20 hindsight some other time.

The book you were wishing for is Anna Halprin: Experience As Dance. It’s a lively intellectual biography of the person and a rich portrayal of her and Larry Halprin’s milieau written by scholar/journalist who will be here Friday to offer a walking tour of the fountains at 4:30 and will be part of a panel with other scholars of the era Saturday at 4:30.

Walking Tours: Lawrence and Anna Halprin’s Fountains
Fri. Sept 12. 4:30 – 6:30pm, Ira Keller Fountain, SW 3rd Ave and Clay St
Walking tours of the Halprin-designed plazas with Stanford University Associate Professor, Janice
Ross, author of the biography, Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance; architecture critic Randy
Gragg and others.
Free.
Panel Discussion: Anna Halprin’s Collaborations with Composers
Sat. Sept 13. 4pm, AIA Portland, 403 NW 11th Ave
Informal panel discussion with Janice Ross, Charles Birnbaum, David Bernstein, director of the
Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College in Oakland, CA, in Berkeley, archive of the
composers Morton Subotnik, Terry Riley, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros and others who frequently
collaborated with Anna Halprin.
Free.
Lecture/Presentation: David Bernstein
Sat. Sept 13. 6pm, AIA Portland, 403 NW 11th Ave
Lecture/music presentation by David Bernstein on the music of the mid-1960s Bay Area scene,
milieu of the Halprins.
Free.

For the whole list of events go to http://www.Thirdangle.org

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