The myths and monsters of Ray Harryhausen arrive in Tucson.
Featured on the October 9th, 2025 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- Visit a traveling exhibition at the Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures that celebrates the groundbreaking special effects created by a filmmaking legend, the late Ray Harryhausen. Mark talks with Harryhausen’s daughter Vanessa, and the curator of this one-of-a-kind collection, Connor Heaney.
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- Mark talks with Evan Williams, an African American composer, conductor and professor at the Berklee School of Music, about writing a contemporary concerto for harpsichord called “Dead White Man Music”. It will be performed on October 17th at The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix.
- And, learn about a new immersive stage presentation of “Night of the Living Dead” happening at Pima Community College that blends live performance with actual footage from the 1968 George Romero horror masterpiece.
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