School of Performing Arts Announces Spring 2007 Schedule
Contact: Karen Cole, 581-4704
ORONO — The University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts has announced its spring 2007 music, performance and dance events scheduled at Minsky Recital Hall or Hauck Auditorium.
Admission is $6 and UMaine students are admitted free with a MaineCard, unless otherwise noted. Exceptions may occur. For more information, please call the Maine Center for the Arts box office at 581-1755 or check us online at www.umaine.edu/spa.
The schedule is as follows:
MUSIC
Saturday, Jan. 20
Cadenzato Faculty Ensemble
Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 31
Faculty Recital — Trumpet/Piano
With Jack Burt and Laura Artesani, Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 3
Silver Duo – Faculty Piano/Cello Recital
Featuring Phillip and Noreen Silver, Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 10
Music Student Showcase
A Family & Friends Weekend celebration, Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 11
Faculty Violin Recital
Featuring Anatole Wieck & friends. Minsky Recital Hall, 2 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 23
Faculty Piano Recital
Featuring Baycka Voronietsky. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 22
Faculty Piano/Voice Recital
With Phillip Silver and Ludlow Hallman. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 24
University Singers Concert
After their spring break tour throughout the northeast, the singers perform this concert for friends back home. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 27
Three Bands Concert
A local middle school, a high school, and the UMaine Concert Band will join together on the Hutchins Concert Hall stage, under the baton of a guest conductor in a benefit for Acadia Hospital. Maine Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 3
Chamber Jazz Concert
Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 4
Student Composers Concert
Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 10
Chamber Music Concert
The concert is the culminating activity for our chamber music course. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
April 12 & 13
Opera Workshop
In Opera Workshop, students perform music from the standard opera, operetta and musical repertoire, as well as chamber operas and experimental works in a workshop setting. Minsky Recital Hall, April 12 at 12 p.m. and April 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 14
Collegiate Chorale
The 50-plus voice Collegiate Chorale’s repertoire is drawn from all style periods from the middle ages to the present. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 17
Brass Night
Presenting the UMaine Brass Ensemble, as well as the UMaine Trumpet Ensemble, Horn Quartets, Trombone Quartets, Brass Quintets, and any other possible combination of brass instruments. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 19
Symphonic Band and Concert Band
The two bands play separately, then together, for this concert at Maine Center for the Arts. Maine Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 21
School of Performing Arts Gala
Hauck Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 22
Athena Consort/Black Bear Men’s Chorus
Sing into spring with the unique sounds of UMaine’s women’s and men’s choruses. Minsky Recital Hall, 2 p.m.
Tuesday, April 24
Percussion Ensemble
This ensemble draws its literature from a wide variety of styles from transcriptions to contemporary music for percussion. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 26
Jazz Ensemble
Big band at its best! The ensemble is devoted to performing a wide variety of challenging, significant, diversified and contemporary literature within the genre. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 28
Orchestra Concert
The UMaine Orchestra will perform works from a standard repertoire. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 29
University Singers, Oratorio Society and Bangor Symphony Orchestra
Maine Center for the Arts, 3 p.m.
Sunday, April 29
Guitar Ensemble
Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Monday, April 30
Music of Iosif Andriasov
Anatole Wieck, Victor Romasevich and Arshak Andriasov bring the music of this 20th century master to the University of Maine. Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 2
Broadway Nights
Students perform a selection of songs straight from Broadway stages of yesterday and today. 7:30 p.m., Minsky Recital Hall
THEATRE
Bat Boy
Based on a story in The Weekly World News, “Bat Boy: The Musical” is a musical comedy-horror show about a half boy-half bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, W.Va. For lack of a better solution, the local sheriff brings Bat Boy to the home of the town veterinarian, where he is eventually accepted as a member of the family and taught to act like a “normal” boy by the veterinarian’s wife and teenage daughter. Bat Boy is happy with his new life, but when he naively tries to fit in with the narrow-minded people of Hope Falls, he faces hatred, fear and jealousy. Directed by Marcia Douglas. Hauck Auditorium. Intended for mature audiences. Feb. 16-17, 22-24 at 7:30 p.m.; Feb 18 and 25 at 2 p.m.
Betty’s Summer Vacation
Looking for a little rest and time by herself, Betty rents a summer share at the beach. But Betty’s luck turns to delicious lunacy when she gets drawn into the chaotic world of some very unsavory housemates – her friend Trudy, who talks too much; the lewd, semi-naked Buck, who tries to have sex with everyone; and Keith, a serial killer who hides in his room with a mysterious hatbox. With sand between her toes, walking a thin line between sanity and survival, poor Betty will leave her summer vacation more terrorized than tan. Death, destruction, mayhem — Betty finds it all in her seaside retreat. This is the annual Maine Masque production, designed, directed and acted by students in the play, April 11, 12, 13, 14, 7:30 p.m. and April 15, 2 p.m. – Hauck Auditorium.
Readers’ Theatre — productions to be announced
Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m.
March 28, 7:30 p.m.
DANCE
May 4 & 5 Dance Concert, Hauck Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Admission $8