School of Performing Arts Lists Fall 2007 Events

Contact: Karen Cole: 581-4704; George Manlove, 581-3756

ORONO — The University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts has announced a fall schedule for music, dance and theatrical performances by UMaine faculty members and special guests.

Performances are in Minsky Recital Hall unless otherwise noted. Admission is $6 and students with a MaineCard are admitted free.

The schedule is as follows:

MUSIC

Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m.

“From the Workbench”

Faculty Piano/Voice Recital

Musical settings of new poetry and famous old poems by American composers, featuring settings by Mary Ann Joyce, Binnette Lipper, Donald Hagar, Jan Gilbert, Arnold Berleant, and the first performance of “Hurrahing in Harvest” by Joyce Hope Suskind;

also well-loved poems of Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Emily Dickinson in new settings by William Goldberg, Robert Baksa, Cary John Franklin and Dace Aperans, with Nancy Ellen Ogle, singer, Ginger Yang Hwalek, pianist, and George Van Deventer, poet, with special guests Anatole Wieck, Lisa Nielson and Elizabeth Downing

Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m.

Faculty Oboe Recital

Featuring Louis Hall, with guest oboist Laura Estey, pianist Surya Mitchell and UMaine music faculty members Laura Artesani, Ginger Hwalek, Anatole Wieck, Jack Burt, Liz Downing and Lisa Nielson

Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m.

SPA Homecoming Recital

Come join current students, faculty and alumni in this musical celebration hosted by the 30-year reunion Class of 1977

Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.

Women Composers Concert

The 10th annual Women Composers Concert features the Athena Consort, directed by Heidi Corliss, and faculty and students from the School of Performing Arts performing works from a wide variety of styles and time periods

Oct. 21, 2 p.m.

“Thwarted Voices”

Phillip Silver’s annual concert highlighting music by victims of Nazi and Soviet anti-Semitism; included in this year’s concert is a performance of Shostakovich’s extraordinary song cycle: “Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok,” sweet and deeply personal meditations about love, intimacy, friendship and the power of art, all surrounded and threatened by prophetic intimations of disaster and the darkness of the night; Paul Ben-Haim’s wonderfully atmospheric “Melody and Variations” for piano solo; and Maurice Ravel’s “Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano.” Featured performers are Ferdinand Liva, first violin of the DaPonte String Quartet, internationally acclaimed soprano Deborah Cook and cellist Noreen Silver.

Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m.

Piano Recital — Guest Artists Ludmilla Lifson and Eda Shlyam

Performing to rave reviews across the United States, pianists Lifson and Shlyam are known for impeccable musicianship, harmonious unity, vitality and virtuosity. Thoroughly enchanted by this duo, faculty member Baycka Voronietsky arranges for them to perform at UMaine.

Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.

Chamber Jazz

The University of Maine’s newest ensemble presents great jazz standards and new literature in an intimate setting; join us for another wonderful evening filled with student improvisations, accompanied by Karel Lidral on piano

Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m. & Nov. 11, 2 p.m.

University Singers Concert

Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m.

Percussion Ensemble

Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m.

Collegiate Chorale

Nov. 18, 2 p.m.

Oratorio Society

Nov. 27, 7:30 p.m.

Chamber Music Concert

Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m.

UMaine Jazz Ensemble Concert

Hauck Auditorium

Dec. 15, 7:30 p.m.

Opera Workshop

Dec. 1, 2 p.m. & Dec. 2, 3 p.m.

“Magic of Bangor”

Magic will be in the air when 200 singers from three UMaine groups join Bangor Symphony Orchestra to perform Robert Shaw’s “Many Moods of Christmas,” Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” from “The Messiah” and other traditional holiday favorites. Performing groups include University Singers, Oratorio Society and Collegiate Chorale. Bangor Auditorium; Tickets available by calling the Bangor Auditorium box office at 942-5555.

Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.

Brass Night

Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.

Guitar Ensemble Concert

Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m.

Symphonic Band Concert

Hauck Auditorium

Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m.

Athena Consort & Black Bear Men’s Chorus

THEATRE

“Hedda Gabler”

Ibsen’s great social drama of a caged woman in the late 19th century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom; directed by Sandra Hardy

Nov. 2-3 and Nov. 8-10 at 7:30 p.m., and Nov. 4 & Nov. 11, 2 p.m., Hauck Auditorium; Admission $10

READERS’ THEATRE SERIES

Reader’s Theatre

Two original one-act plays written by William S. Yellow Robe Jr.: “Falling Distance” and “A Great Thing.” In “Falling Distance,” two young lovers and their need to be together carries them from one world of the living to the great emptiness. “A Great Thing” is a hidden love story that embraces two people, two communities, two nations and two cultures. Free admission; Minsky Recital Hall, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m.

Reader’s Theatre

“Symposium” by Plato

Sponsored in part by the UMaine Classics Club; free admission

Minsky Recital Hall, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.

DANCE

Oct. 18 & Nov. 15

Emerging Dance Works

These sessions give the aspiring choreographer at UMaine the chance to exhibit works-in-progress in an informal setting as well as providing an opportunity for individual dancers to test their performance skills in a more relaxed and supportive atmosphere Minsky Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.; free

Dec. 14

Works-in-Progress Dance Showcase, Hauck Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

TICKET INFORMATION

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

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