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2008 Price Key: General Public/Rutgers alumni and employees and Seniors /Students Adobe Acrobat required to read many of the links. Tuesday, March 25-Friday, April 4 Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Reception: Thursday, March 27, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square FREE Friday, March 28-Saturday, April 5 Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Rutgers Theater Company Purée By Rutgers Emerging Artist Demetra Kareman Directed by Darrell Larson What really makes us happy? Is a good relationship enough? Or are we empty without career success? In this bright and funny comedy two young couples dive into the Mixmaster of life and fate hits the button marked “purée.” Philip J. Levin Theater $25/$20/$15 Tuesday, April 1, 5:00 p.m. Student Recital Hsin-Yi Tsai, D.M.A. Lecture Piano Schare Recital Hall FREE Wednesday, April 2, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Dana Hoey Dana Hoey makes photographs, digital inkjet works and digital videos dealing with notions of femininity and corrupted idealism. She presents windows into the troubled and invisible dynamics of female relationships and recently published “Profane Waste”, a book of her works in 2006. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, April 2-Saturday, April 5, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, April 5 and Sunday, April 6, 2:00 p.m. Preview performance: Tuesday, April 1, 8:00 p.m. The Jameson Project An Evening of One-Acts Directed by Maryna Harrison and Greg Seal Jameson Theater $15/$15/$10 $5 for preview performance Thursday through Saturday, April 3-5, 8:00 p.m. BFA Senior Dance Concert World premieres by emerging choreographers. Loree Dance Theater $15/$15/$10 (student price available during regular ticket office hours only, Monday through Saturday) Friday, April 4-Saturday, April 12 Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Rutgers Theater Company Right Place, Right Time by Rutgers Emerging Artist Lia Romeo Directed by Douglas S. Hall Richard Lamparsky, divorced, unsuccessful and forty, wins life’s lottery when a wealthy woman suddenly needs a stand-in son-in-law. But the rich are not like you and me. Can he hold onto his good fortune? A mordant comedy from the heart of our materialistic society. New Theater $25/$20/$15 Friday, April 4, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir Patrick Gardner, conductor Bach Cantata 161: Komm du susse Todestunde Daniel Pinkham: Wedding Cantata Other works by Brahms and Mendelssohn Nicholas Music Center FREE Saturday, April 5, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. M.F.A. Open Studios Civic Square Building FREE Saturday, April 5, 3:00 p.m. Student Recital Undergraduate Composers Recital Schare Recital Hall FREE Saturday, April 5, 7:00 p.m. Student Recital Jacob Miller-Hoesly, tuba Schare Recital Hall FREE Sunday, April 6, 2:00 p.m. HELIX! Paul Hoffmann, director Modern music ensemble performing original compositions. Nicholas Music Center FREE Wednesday, April 9, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Tom Nozkowski Described as a “post-minimal formalist,” Tom Nozkowski’s abstract paintings involve the interplay of biomorphic and geometric forms. He makes small and medium sized paintings on panel or paper that are based on forms found in nature or the urban environment and characterized by color and composition. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, April 10-Friday, April 18 Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Reception: Thursday, April 10, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square FREE Thursday, April 10, 1:00 p.m. Student Recital Junko Ichikawa, A.D. piano candidate Nicholas Music Center FREE Friday, April 11, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Percussion Ensemble She-e Wu, director Nicholas Music Center FREE Saturday, April 12, 6:00 p.m. Student Recital Justin Bulava, B.M. clarinet candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Saturday, April 12, 8:00 p.m. Around the World with Mason Gross Musicians Min Kwon, director Concert I Musicians from Belgium, Costa Rica, Japan, Korea, Poland, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, and US perform solo and chamber works by various composers Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple 222 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick Call 732-545-6484 for tickets and information. Sunday, April 13, 3:00 p.m. Student Recital Leslie Godfrey, M.M. oboe candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Sunday, April 13, 3:00 p.m. Around the World with Mason Gross Musicians Min Kwon, director Concert II Musicians from Belgium, Costa Rica, Japan, Korea, Poland, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, and US perform solo and chamber works by various composers Watchung Arts Center 18 Stirling Road, Watchung Call 908-753-0190 for tickets and information. Sunday, April 13, 7:00 p.m. Student Recital Christina Sorgi, clarinet Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 14, 10:00 a.m. Student Recital Sokang Park, A.D. chamber cello candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 14, noon Student Recital Melissa Healy, D.M.A. flute candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 14, 6:00 p.m. Student Recital Melinda Grant, B.M. flute candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 14, 8:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Rutgers Jazz Ensemble and Rutgers Jazz Faculty Blue Note Jazz Club Please visit the Blue Note website for pricing information. Tuesday, April 15, 1:00 p.m.. Student Recital Grant Gardner, M.M. jazz guitar candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Tuesday, April 15, 3:00 p.m.. Student Recital Seth Johnson, M.M. jazz guitar candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Tuesday, April 15, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Jazz Ensemble Ralph Bowen, director Featuring jazz stars of today and tomorrow. Nicholas Music Center FREE Wednesday, April 16, 2:00 p.m. Student Recital Sooyeun Lee, D.M.A. violin candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Wednesday, April 16, 3:00 p.m. Student Recital Rudy Royston, M.M. jazz drum candidate Nicholas Music Center FREE Wednesday, April 16, 4:00 p.m. Student Recital Minkyung Shin, A.D. chamber violin candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Janet Bergstrom This lecture/reception will celebrate the Libraries acquisition from New Yorker Films of a newly struck 16mm motion picture print of Chantal Akerman's landmark film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Belgium, 1976), which came to epitomize the practice of feminist filmmaking. The film has never been commercially available but is extensively written about and shown (mostly in poorly dubbed versions) in film classrooms all over the world, and Rutgers is one of only a few institutions to own a print of this landmark film. The lecture and films will be shown at Rutgers throughout the month of April and will celebrate the film’s maker, Chantal Akerman, an artist who continues to make important films and museum installations. The speaker for this event is Janet Bergstrom, a Professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television who specializes in cross-cultural studies of European film directors. SCC Teleconference/Lecture Hall, Archibald S. Alexander Library FREE Friday, April 18, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Symphony Orchestra Andrew Grams, conductor Back to the Russian Masterworks Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3, Opus 30 in D minor Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Op. 74, B minor (Pathetique) Nicholas Music Center $25/$20/$15 Saturday, April 19, 3:00 p.m. Student Recital Keith Carne, B.M. jazz drum candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Saturday, April 19, 5:00 p.m. Student Recital Andrea Nowalk, oboe and Jennifer Brush, clarinet Schare Recital Hall FREE Saturday, April 19, 7:00 p.m. Student Recital Amanda Nagy, voice Schare Recital Hall FREE Sunday, April 20, 1:00 p.m. Student Recital Rachel Zatcoff, voice Schare Recital Hall FREE Sunday, April 20, 3:00 p.m. Student Recital Ariana Ciolino, M.M. voice candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 21, 10:00 a.m. Student Recital Cheng-Hsun Tsai, D.M.A. violin candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 21, noon Student Recital Stephen Miahky, D.M.A. violin candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 21, 2:00 p.m. Student Recital Ching-Yuan Chen, D.M.A. viola candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 21, 4:00 p.m. Student Recital Liana Gedeliya, M.M. violin candidate Voorhees Chapel FREE Monday, April 21, 6:00 p.m. Student Recital Susanna Loewy, D.M.A. flute candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 21, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Jazz Ensemble Too The top undergraduate jazz ensemble. Nicholas Music Center FREE Tuesday, April 22, 5:00 p.m. Student Recital Dave Miller, M.M. jazz trombone candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Tuesday, April 22, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Chamber Jazz Ensemble Jazz in an intimate setting. Schare Recital Hall FREE Wednesday, April 23, 2:00 p.m. Student Recital Daeil Young, D.M.A. chamber cello candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Wednesday, April 23, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Peter McGough and Jeffrey Uslip, a conversation Peter McGough and David McDermott were both part of the famous East Village New York art scene of the 1980s, and are renowned for their practice of appropriating imagery and objects from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and reconstructing their lives as Victorian gentlemen. Their photographs, paintings and installations refer to a culture of suppressed or subverted homoeroticism and explore culture, both high and low, from moral hypocrisies and sex to the new industrial age. Jeffrey Uslip is an independent curator and Curator At Large of LAXART, Los Angles. He has recently curated Nina In Position currently on view at Artist Space, New York. His other projects include Log Cabin, 2005, Artist Space, New York, November, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York Civil Restitutions, 2006, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 2004 The Project, New York.Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, April 24, 5:00 p.m. Student Recital Matt Teitelman, B.M. jazz drum candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Thursday, April 24, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Chamber Jazz Ensemble Jazz in an intimate setting. Schare Recital Hall FREE Thursday, April 24-Friday, May 9 Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Reception: Thursday, April 24, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square FREE Thursday-Saturday, April 24-26, 8 p.m. Sunday, April 27, 2 p.m. DancePlus Spring FORMATS I and V (Major Revival) Choreography: Brenda Way Reconstructed by: Jeff Friedman Music: Randolph Coleman FORMATS I and V are post-modern dances reconstructed for DancePlus from their original scores, created by Oberlin Conservatory of Music composer Randolph Coleman in the mid-1970s; choreographer Brenda Way translated Coleman's aleatoric musical scores into choreography. Reconstructed by dance professor Jeff Friedman, one of Way's former dancers, the FORMATS use pedestrian movement to accomplish next-to-impossible tasks, frequently resulting in absurdly humorous dance situations. Supporting this humor, costumes recall Oberlin College winters, including thermal underwear and hiking boots. Lurch Beneath the Surface (World Premiere) Choreography: Samuel Pott (Guest Choreographer) Music: Erik Friedlander: improvisational cellist; "Rachel's" and "Esmerine" This contemporary ballet piece is created through the exploration of movement that is initiated from spaces within: within the physical boundaries of one's own body, within the space between two people, and within the stage space created by formations of groups of people. The dancers throw themselves and each other through space with a clear focus on the internal space within themselves as individuals and as a group. Samuel Pott has performed as a lead dancer with multiple ballet and contemporary dance companies including New Jersey’s American Repertory Ballet and the Oakland Ballet. He has appeared in works by renowned choreographers such as Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Marius Petipa and Twyla Tharp, and has created new roles with many choreographers working today. A member of the New Jersey Arts Council Arts in Education roster of artists, Mr. Pott has taught and choreographed at the youth, high school, college and professional level. He founded Nimbus Dance Works in 2005. THIS WILL HURT NOBODY (World Premiere) Choreography: Christian von Howard Original Music Score: Peter J. Saleh This new work is a visual feast of delicious movement. Using an ensemble of twelve dancers swirling through the space to the electric score of composer Peter J. Saleh's music that will be performed live, von Howard explores a pedestrian movement vernacular that expresses the simple, yet complex nature of the human spirit. Fuechtet Euch Nicht (2007) Choreographed and performed by Wallie Wolfgruber Music: Kurt Weill Wolfgruber's poise and grace as a dancer and her boldness as a choreographer produce an emotional and sensual dance. Ghost Trees (World Premiere) Choreography & set by John Evans Music by: Michael Nyman, Michael Galasso Ghost Trees is a duet shrouded in the darkness of the forest. Creatures mythical or real, live and die watched by the ghost trees perpetually standing sentinel. With music by Michael Nyman and Michael Galasso, at times light and airy, at times driving and powerful, the dancers travel through a cycle of their life. the heart is a lonely hunter (World Premiere) Choreography: Randy James Music: Philip Glass, Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson, Techno This new work will mesmerize and excite audiences with the cascade of 18 dancers and their sheer physicality. A hauntingly beautiful, emotionally charged undertone pervades as the dancers literally leave the darkness and come into the light. New Theater $25/$20/$15 (student price available during regular ticket office hours only, Monday through Saturday)Thursday, April 24, 8:00 p.m. Voorhees Choir Barbara Retzko, conductor Annual spring concert by this all-female choir. Voorhees Chapel FREE Friday, April 25, 1:00 p.m. Student Recital HyangSoo Heo, A.D. voice candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Friday, April 25, 3:00 p.m. Student Recital Anthony Ciccone, clarinet Schare Recital Hall FREE Friday, April 25, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir Patrick Gardner, conductor Durufle: Requiem The top vocal ensemble at Rutgers. Kirkpatrick Chapel $10/$10/$5 Friday, April 25, 8:00 p.m. Sounds of Chamber Music Karina Bruk, coordinator Featuring the winners of the Mason Gross Chamber Music Competition. Piano, vocal, string, brass and woodwind duos, trios, quartets, quintets as well as larger ensemble groups will present chamber works of the centuries. Nicholas Music Center FREE Friday, April 25-Saturday, May 3 Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Rutgers Theater Company Stones In His Pockets By Marie Jones Directed by Lenard Petit In this tour de force of Irish comic minimalism, two young men deliver a village full of characters and the Hollywood film crew that invades their corner of County Kerry. Philip J. Levin Theater $25/$20/$15 Saturday, April 26, 2:00 p.m. Student Recital Elissa Beddia, flute Schare Recital Hall FREE Sunday, April 27, 2:00 p.m. Opera Scenes Pamela Gilmore, producer Schare Recital Hall FREE Sunday, April 27, 8:00 p.m. Student Recital MENC Chamber Recital Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 28, 8:00 p.m. Collegium Musicum Andrew Kirkman, conductor A Renaissance vocal ensemble. Christ Church FREE Wednesday, April 30, 11:00 a.m. Student Recital Jack Bradley, D.M.A. clarinet candidate Schare Recital Hall FREE Wednesday, April 30, 12:30 p.m. Student Recital Daniel Temkin, B.M. percussion candidate Rehearsal Hall 104 FREE Wednesday, April 30, 4:30 p.m. Student Recital Martin Eck, B.M. percussion candidate Recital Hall 104 FREE Wednesday, April 30, 4:30 p.m. Mason Gross Presents Walid Raad Walid Raad grew up in Lebanon and his work concentrates on the Lebanese civil wars, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, and documentary, theory and practice. Walid Raad established the Atlas Group in 1999 and is a member of the Arab Image Foundation, started in 1996 to promote historical research of the visual culture of the Arab world, and to promote experimental video production in the region. The Atlas Group Archive’s public forms include mixed media installations, single channel video screenings, visual and literary essays, and lecture/performances. Crossroads Theatre FREE Wednesday, April 30-Saturday, May 3, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, May 3 and Sunday, May 4, 2:00 p.m. Preview performance: Tuesday, April 29, 8:00 p.m. The Jameson Project New One-Act Festival Written by William Burton Henline and Carrie Louise Nutt Jameson Theater $15/$15/$10 $5 for preview performance Wednesday, April 30, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Symphony Band Darryl Bott, conductor Frank L. Battisti, guest conductor Bach: Fantasia in G Major Russell: Theme and Fantasia Persichetti: Chorale Prelude: Turn Not Thy Face, Op. 105 Dello Joio: Satiric Dances Delle Cese: Inglesina Persichetti: Pageant Gillingham: Concertino for Percussion and Wind Ensemble Nicholas Music Center FREE Price Key: General Public/Rutgers alumni and employees and Seniors /Students Adobe Acrobat required to read many of the links. |
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