Legion Calendar http://www.famsf.org/legion/calendar/day.asp New Legion Events en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT webmaster@famsf.org webmaster@famsf.org <![CDATA[Docent Tour: "Fit for a King: European Decorative Arts"]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: The Path to Picasso: European Sculpture at the Legion of Honor]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <em>Women Impressionists</em>]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <em>Women Impressionists</em>]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: "Highlights of the European Collection"]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <i>Highlights from the Israel Antiquities Authority: The Dead Sea Scrolls and 5,000 Years of Treasures</i>]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: "Ceramics through the Ages"]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <em>Women Impressionists</em>]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Sunday Jazz Brunch, Featuring Hélène Attia]]>
Savor Sundays at the Legion of Honor with a special Legion Cafe brunch, live jazz, and exhibition tours. Enjoy a sumptuous three-course prix-fixe menu of inventive seasonal selections as you listen to the sounds of local jazz artists. The first seating is at 11 a.m. and the last seating is at 2 p.m.


Sundays in July
Hélène Attia
The French singer, songwriter, and guitarist performs the classic songs of Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Yves Montand, Charles Aznavour, and Charles Trenet, as well as contemporary songs by such current popular French artists as Maurane, Claude Nougaro, Francis Cabrel, and Michel Fugain. Attia has been influenced by such singers as Nana Mouskouri, Joni Mitchell, and Carole King, as well as Piaf and Nougaro.
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Cinema Supper Club: <em>What's Up, Doc?<br /></em>]]>
What's Up, Doc? (1972, 90 mins)
Mixed-up suitcases add to the screwball zaniness when a trouble-prone college dropout (Barbara Streisand) pursues a musicologist (Ryan O’Neal) at a San Francisco hotel.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
Keith Thompson plays an organ pops concert, including Broadway favorites, programmatic works, and highlights from organ literature.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Pocket Opera Presents: <em>La Bohème</em>]]>
La Bohème, by Puccini
Four roommates share life in a garret on the Left Bank in Paris. This is the most ebullient, romantic, and beloved of Puccini's operas, and one of the most heartbreaking.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "The Feminine Touch: Impressionist Paintings by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond"]]>

With the advent of Impressionism, female artists began to come to the forefront of the art world. The exhibition Women Impressionists and this lecture look at more than 150 works from four women Impressionists, whose work will be shown together for the first time in the United States.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Cinema Supper Club: <em>So I Married an Axe Murderer</em>]]>
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993, 93 mins)
Mike Myers plays a beat poet afraid of commitment until he meets a butcher (Nancy Travis) who may also be a serial killer.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Misachibanakai 2008]]>
The Kiyama School of Japanese Dance, led in the United States by Sachiko Bando of Misachibanakai, presents some artful performances by students, teachers, and the master from Japan, accompanied Bay Area singers.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
David Hegarty plays a pops concert, including light classics and favorites from Hollywood and Broadway.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Sunday Jazz Brunch, Featuring the Josh Workman World Jazz Trio]]>
The Legion of Honor sparkles on Sundays with a sumptuous prix-fixe brunch menu and live music by local artists. The first seating is at 11 a.m. and the last seating is at 2 p.m. 


Sundays in August
The Josh Workman World Jazz Trio
Guitarist Josh Workman is joined by some of the Bay Area's finest musicians in a program of classic standards from the great American and Latin songbooks, as well as a special tribute to the music of the French cafes of yesteryear. Along with the fare of Gershwin, Ellington, and Jobim, you will be treated to selections associated with legendary French performers Edith Piaf and Django Reinhardt.

After your brunch, enjoy the special exhibition Women Impressionists.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Mary Cassatt: French Impressionist"]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "The Impressionist Era: Fashion and Culture"]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Cinema Supper Club: <em>Harold and Maude<br /></em>]]>
Harold and Maude (1971, 91 mins)
An unusual love blossoms when 20-year-old, death-obsessed Harold (Bud Cort) befriends Maude (Ruth Gordon), a 79-year-old woman with a zest for life.
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
Robert Gurney plays Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Morricone.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "The Feminine Touch: Impressionist Paintings by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond"]]>

With the advent of Impressionism, female artists began to come to the forefront of the art world. The exhibition Women Impressionists and this lecture look at more than 150 works from four women Impressionists whose work will be shown together for the first time in the United States.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Art of the Ancient World]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Cinema Supper Club: <em>The Game<br /></em>]]>
The Game (1997, 129 mins)
For his birthday, an investment banker (Michael Douglas) is given access to a game that integrates with his life in strange and chilling ways.
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[City College of San Francisco<br />Art 123W:19th-Century Paintings at the Legion of Honor]]>
This course will highlight 19th-century paintings in the permanent collection at the Legion of Honor and as represented in the special exhibition Women Impressionists. Paintings will be discussed from both a critical and historical perspective and within the cultural context of the Impressionist period.

Dr. Maria Cheremeteff, Chair, Art Department, CCSF, will conduct this course, which runs August 15 to December 12, 2008
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Artist Demonstration at the Legion, “New Expressions in Ways of Impressionism”]]>
A painting demonstration by Ivy Jacobsen and Marius Starkey displays a contrast of styles. Jacobsen will show her processes by bringing a number of her paintings at different stages: the first stage is her bronzing technique with bronzing powder. Next, she uses acrylic and oil paints to achieve her impressions of plant forms. Then she applies thin layers of oil over the top of the shapes to produce distance, atmosphere and fog. The final stage of the demonstration shows how she achieves a rich sunlit atmosphere full of life, air teeming with moisture.

Marius Starkey paints in the tradition of Impressionism. Using Ivy as a model, he will paint a portrait of her on the spot, demonstrating how he color-mixes his oil paint to prepare for the painting, and then drawing on the canvas with a brush. He also shows how to produce a landscape working with different types of brushes and his own unique brushstrokes. He will work between the two paintings, showing how each is developed, and finish them during the demonstration.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
John Karl Hirten plays Young, Handel, Falla, and Dubois.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "French Impressionism: The Artists and Their Paintings"]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Cinema Supper Club: <em>Bullitt<br /></em>]]>
Bullitt (1968, 114 mins)
Detective Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) is hired by a shady Senator (Robert Vaughn) to protect a Mafia witness. When the witness ends up dead, Bullitt decides to take matters into his hands.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
Keith Thompson plays an organ pops concert, including Broadway favorites, programmatic works, and highlights from organ literature.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "The Feminine Touch: Impressionist Paintings by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond"]]>

With the advent of Impressionism, female artists began to come to the forefront of the art world. The exhibition Women Impressionists and this lecture look at more than 150 works from four women Impressionists whose work will be shown together for the first time in the United States.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
Jonathan Dimmock plays Chopin, Shearing, and Sousa.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "The Feminine Touch: Impressionist Paintings by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond"]]>

With the advent of Impressionism, female artists began to come to the forefront of the art world. The exhibition Women Impressionists and this lecture look at more than 150 works from four women Impressionists, whose work will be shown together for the first time in the United States.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
David Hegarty plays a pops concert, including light classics and favorites from Hollywood and Broadway.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "The Feminine Touch: Impressionist Paintings by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond"]]>

With the advent of Impressionism, female artists began to come to the forefront of the art world. The exhibition Women Impressionists and this lecture look at more than 150 works from four women Impressionists, whose work will be shown together for the first time in the United States.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "The Feminine Touch: Impressionist Paintings by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond"]]>

With the advent of Impressionism, female artists began to come to the forefront of the art world. The exhibition Women Impressionists and this lecture look at more than 150 works from four women Impressionists, whose work will be shown together for the first time in the United States.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
Robert Gurney plays Bach, Widor, and Purvis.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[<p>Art History Lecture: "From Mantegna to Courbet: European Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from the James Simon Collection"</p>]]>
Richard Mann, PhD, Art History Department, SFSU]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "The Feminine Touch: Impressionist Paintings by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond"]]>

With the advent of Impressionism, female artists began to come to the forefront of the art world. The exhibition Women Impressionists and this lecture look at more than 150 works from four women Impressionists, whose work will be shown together for the first time in the United States.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Organ Concert  ]]>
John Karl Hirten plays Johnson, Bach, Dvorak, Daquin, Joplin, and Fletcher.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Art History Lecture: "Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture from the James Simon Collection, Berlin"]]>
Richard Mann, PhD, Art History Department, SFSU]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Artists Embassy International Presents: The 15th Annual Dancing Poetry Festival]]>
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
Keith Thompson plays an organ pops concert, including Broadway favorites, programmatic works, and highlights from organ literature.]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01 PDT