Spin Doctors booked for block party
The Reading Royals hockey team announced Monday that the Spin Doctors will be performing at the Opening Night Block Party before the team’s ECHL home opener against the Indy Fuel on Oct. 29 at Santander Arena.
The Spin Doctors are an alternative American rock band originating from New York City. The band began in the late 1980s and consists of singer Chris Barron, guitarist Eric Shankman and bass player and percussionist Aaron Corness.
The band is best known for its early 1990s hits “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong,” which charted on the Billboard Top 100 at No. 7 and No. 17, respectively. Additionally, the band was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for “Two Princes.”
The concert is a free show at the team’s pregame block party event. Tickets to the game, which begins at 7 p.m., can be purchased by visiting the Royals’ box office at Santander Arena or by calling 610-898-7825.
Art
An unveiling reception will be held Sept. 15 in the Reading Public Museum’s European Gallery for two stained and painted glass panels depicting the Crucifixion and the Virgin and Child that have been in the museum’s collection since they were purchased in 1933.
The panels will be displayed in custom-built light boxes, and accompanied by text detailing their newly discovered history and attribution.
The windows were last displayed in 2012 in the museum’s Arms and Armor Gallery, before being removed for gallery renovations. At that time, they were described as “16th century Baumgartner panels from Nuremberg” with the artist unknown and the patron only identified by his last name.
In early 2022, in preparation for reintroducing the windows in the galleries, research was undertaken to determine if more information could be learned using the panels’ inscriptions and known provenance as clues.
Catharine Ingersoll, Ph.D., associate professor of art history at Virginia Military Institute and a scholar whose research focuses on southern German visual and material culture in the late medieval and Renaissance periods, was contacted to contribute her professional opinion.
Ingersoll confirmed the museum’s Hans Wertinger attribution and was able to offer identities for the patrons. According to Ingersoll, the panels were likely made by Hans Wertinger alone or with his workshop, in Landshut, Germany. They were commissioned by Peter Baumgartner and his wife Anna von Trenbach for their family burial chapel in the parish church in Mining, Austria, and completed in 1524.
At the unveiling, Ingersoll will speak on the rediscovery and attribution of the windows, the Baumgartner family and the making of stained glass in 16th century Europe. The reception and lecture will be open to all and costs $10 for museum members and $20 for nonmembers. It will include tastings of German-style beer. Contact Lindsay Crist at Lindsay.Crist@readingpublicmuseum.org to register.