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Lake Harriet Bandshell Park

When a streetcar line first reached the shores of Lake Harriet (Bde Unma) in Minneapolis in the 1880s, it triggered decades of building projects designed to accommodate visitors who could reach the site easily from other Twin Cities locations. Beginning in 1888, five successive structures occupied the northwest corner of the lake—the most recent being the fanciful Milo Thompson-designed bandshell, which opened in 1986.

Exerpt from The Diary of Virginia Woolf

An excerpt from Dario Argento's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera The Diary of Virginia Woolf. From the CD Dario Argento: The Andrée Expedition & From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (Brian Mulligan, baritone, and Timothy Long, piano), Naxos, 2017.

Dominick Argento memorial concert program

The cover of the program distributed at the memorial concert for Dominick Argento, held at Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis on June 18, 2019.

Dominick Argento at work

Dominick Argento at work, October 10, 2017. Photograph by King Elder, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dominick Argento

Dominick Argento, April 3, 2016. Photograph by King Elder, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Argento, Dominick (1927–2019)

Though he originally hoped to accept a position on the East or West Coast, American musician-composer Dominick Argento began his career in 1958 at the University of Minnesota, where he taught composition and theory. He spent the next sixty years as Minnesota’s resident composer, crafting works for nearly every Minnesota performing group and gaining international acclaim.