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CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES LECTURE: RICHARD ALDRICH October 15 Richard Aldrich (b. 1975) is a Brooklyn-based painter and La Traviata, Fringe Festival, 2012 one of the most acclaimed young artists working today. He was featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and has 17TH ANNUAL FRINGE FESTIVAL been the subject of museum and gallery exhibitions in October 4–27 Tokyo, London, Basel, Brussels, New York, Los Angeles, Siren Song S and San Francisco. Aldrich is a keenly self-aware painter, Jonathan Dove, composer | Nick Dear, libretto his work is laden with a constellation of literary and William Lumpkin, conductor | Jim Petosa, stage director cultural reference to painting’s contested, pluralistic Dark Sisters S history. He resists immediate categorization, instead Nico Muhly, composer | Stephen Karam, libretto moving deftly from one style to another with each work. Allison Voth, music director | David Gately, stage director Jacob Sleeper Auditorium Back Bog Beast Bait S Richard Aldrich, Not Waving. Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami Gallery, Sam Shepard, playwright | Michael Hammond, director New York. BU Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210 SEP | OCT | 2013 bu.edu/cfa/events Boston University College of Fine Arts
Tuesday, Oct 22, 8pm MUSIC Boston University Chamber Orchestra VISUAL ARTS Neal Hampton and Sangwook Cho, conductors Monday, Sep 16, 8pm Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to Nabucco Wednesday, Sep 4 – Sunday, Sep 29 Faculty Recital Series Joan Tower: Made in America SVA Undergraduate Showcase Gila Goldstein, piano Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in G School of Visual Arts presents the fifth annual showcase of Performing works by Bach, Chopin, Liszt, and Ben-Haim. Tsai Performance Center undergraduate painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, CFA Concert Hall Free and open to the public | #BUmusic printmaking, and graphic design by SVA freshmen, Free and open to the public | #BUmusic sophomores, and juniors. Friday, Oct 25 – Saturday, Oct 26 808 Gallery Friday, Sep 20, 8pm Are We Listening? Free and open to the public | #BUvisual Center for New Music This two-day conference focuses on key issues for today’s Marilyn Nonken, piano musicians including: effective entrepreneurship models, the Friday, Sep 13 – Sunday, Oct 20 Performing Joshua Fineburg‘s Till Human Voices Wake Us, ethics of music degrees, the future of the orchestra, music for Hamid Kachmar: Reviving the Ancient Tremors, Veils, Fantastic Zoology, Grisaille, and Lightning, and social change, and audience building. Register now at Tifinagh Script Tristan Murail’s Territoires de l’oubli. bumusicsymposium.org. Hamid Kachmar is a multifaceted, internationally-trained CFA Concert Hall Free and open to the public | #BUmusic artist of indigenous Moroccan Amazigh ancestry. Kachmar’s Free and open to the public | #BUmusic Friday, Oct 25, 8pm materials and techniques evoke metaphors, moods, and Tuesday, Sep 24, 8pm expressions of his home country, and his experiences Boston University Symphony Orchestra S studying and traveling abroad. In Reviving the Ancient Faculty Recital Series: The Art of the David Hoose, conductor Tifinagh Script, Kachmar paints, carves, and weaves the Sonata V: Music of the 1960’s and 70’s Peter Zazofsky, violin ancient Amazigh script, Tifinagh, into textual and visual Terry Everson, trumpet Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat, “Spring” compositions that represent a struggle for identity, cultural Shiela Kibbe, piano Joan Tower: Violine Concerto survival, and self-conception. Featuring works by Vladislav Agafonnikov (Russia), Niels Edward Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town) Opening Reception Friday, September 13, 5:30–7:30pm Viggo Bentzon (Denmark), Harald Genzmer (Germany), Tsai Performance Center Sherman Gallery Theordore Holdheim (Israel), and Flor Peeters (Denmark). Free and open to the public | #BUmusic Free and open to the public | #BUvisual Tsai Performance Center Free and open to the public | #BUmusic Tuesday, Oct 29, 8pm Thursday, Oct 10 – Sunday, Oct 13 Anthony di Bonaventura Memorial Concert: Boston University Hosts TransCultural Exchange’s 2013 Conference Saturday, Sep 28, 8pm Celebrating the Life of a Beloved Pianist Engaging Minds: International Center for New Music: [Sound Icon] and Teacher Opportunities in the Arts Jeff Means, music director A concert to remember a man who devoted a lifetime to music. This four-day event, featuring keynote speaker, Laurie Anderson, Christopher Watford, bassoon Anthony di Bonaventura’s life and work will be celebrated brings together curators, galleries, funders, critics, artist-in- Giulio Castagnoli: Cloches en noir et blanc (1991) (Winner of through the sharing of memories by his family and friends, and residency directors, and artists from around the world for the Boston University Center for New Music composition performances by distinguished guest artists as well as former a unique cross-disciplinary platform to network, showcase, competition (2013)) and current students. support, and promote artists’ work. For more information, Olga Neuwirth: Torsion (2001) Tsai Performance Center please visit transculturalexchange.org. Luca Francesconi: Encore / Da Capo (1985–86/1995) Free and open to the public | #BUmusic CFA Concert Hall Tuesday, Oct 15, 6:30 Free and open to the public | #BUmusic Contemporary Perspectives: Richard Aldrich Saturday, Sep 28, 8pm Richard Aldrich (b. 1975) is a Brooklyn-based painter and one of the most acclaimed young artists working today. He Boston University Choral Ensembles FRINGE was featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and has been the Ann Howard Jones, conductor subject of museum and gallery exhibitions in Tokyo, London, Marsh Chapel Friday, Oct 4, 7:30pm Basel, Brussels, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Free and open to the public | #BUmusic Saturday, Oct 5, 2pm, 7:30pm Sunday, Oct 6, 2pm Aldrich is a keenly self-aware painter, his work is laden with Monday, Sep 30, 8pm Siren Song S a constellation of literary and cultural references, as well as Boston University Chamber Orchestra Jonathan Dove, composer | Nick Dear, libretto a reference to painting’s contested, pluralistic history. He Neal Hampton, conductor William Lumpkin, conductor | Jim Petosa, stage director resists immediate categorization, instead moving deftly from Claude Debussy: Nuages, Fêtes, from Trois nocturnes Based on the novel of the same name by Gordon Honeycombe, one style to another with each work. Richard Wagner: Vorspiel und Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde Dove tells the story of a love-starved sailor who becomes Jacob Sleeper Auditorium Free and open to the public | #BUvisual Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor entangled in an affair with a pen pal he believes to be a lonely Tsai Performance Center young woman, but who turns out to be a deceitful and callous Sunday, Oct 27 – Friday, Dec 20 Free and open to the public | #BUmusic man. A one-act opera sung in English. BU Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210 Boston Printmakers North Ticketing Code A | #BUfringe13 American Print Biennial The longest running juried printmaking show in the country, Friday, Oct 11, 7:30pm the biennial, juried by Dennis Michael Jon, Associate Curator Saturday, Oct 12, 2pm, 7:30pm in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Sunday, Oct 13, 2pm Institute for the Arts, highlights printmakers working in Dark Sisters S traditional, new, and experimental approaches. Nico Muhly, composer | Stephen Karam, libretto Opening Reception Sunday, October 27, 3–5pm Allison Voth, music director | David Gately, stage director 808 Gallery Dark Sisters follows one woman’s dangerous attempt to escape Free and open to the public | #BUvisual the FLDS Church (Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints), a sect that split from mainstream Mormonism following the renunciation of polygamy. A one-act opera, sung in English. BU Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210 BU Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus, photo by Michael Lutch Ticketing Code A | #BUfringe13 Tuesday, Oct 1, 8pm Tuesday, Oct 22, Wednesday, Oct 23, Boston University Symphony Orchestra S & Thursday, Oct 24, 7:30pm David Hoose and Qinqing Qian, conductors Saturday, Oct 26, 8pm Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Coriolanus Sunday, Oct 27, 2pm Richard Straus: Metamorphosen, for 23 Solo Strings Back Bog Beast Bait S Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Sam Shepard, playwright Tsai Performance Center Michael Hammond, director Free and open to the public | #BUmusic In this one-act play, a young mother calls on two cowboys to slay Monday, Oct 7 – Wednesday, Oct 23 the two-headed “pig beast” terrorizing the Louisiana countryside. Wagner in Context BU Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210 Ticketing Code A | #BUfringe13 A month-long exploration of Richard Wagner’s legacy featuring lectures, roundtable discussions, conversations, and film screenings. Free and open to the public | #BUmusic Monday, Oct 7, 7pm THEATRE Donald Palumbo and Will Berger of the Metropolitan Opera BU New Play Initiative Tsai Performance Center Willie Cole, “Yellow/Orange” from Complementary Soles series, screenprint, 2012. The School of Theatre will present two new plays this October Courtesy of Highpoint Center for Printmaking and Willie Cole. Tuesday, Oct 15, 7pm including Phil Berman’s Three Blessed Brothers and Cliff Odle’s Gottfried Wagner Lecture Our Girl in Trenton. To learn more about these free events and Sunday, Oct 27 – Friday, Dec 13 CFA Concert Hall the award-winning BU New Play Initiative (NPI), please visit Highpoint Editions: Decade One Monday, Oct 21, 7pm bu.edu/cfa/theatre/professional/npi. Decade One features prints created at Highpoint Center for Cross-Disciplinary Round-Table Discussion with Free and open to the public | #BUtheatre Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN, and offers an intriguing BU Professors mix of artists who have worked at the press over the past Tsai Performance Center Wednesday, Oct 23, & Thursday, Oct 24, 7:30pm ten years. Featured artists include Carlos Amorales, Carter, Friday, Oct 25, 5pm Willie Cole, Adam Helms, Rob Fischer, Cameron Martin, Wednesday, Oct 23, 7pm Julie Mehretu, and Lisa Nankivil. Since opening in 2001, Hilan Warshaw’s Documentary “Wagner’s Jews” Saturday, Oct 26, 4pm Highpoint Editions, the publishing arm of Highpoint, has and Post-Viewing Discussion Sunday, Oct 27, 5pm been creating new prints in collaboration with local, national, Tsai Performance Center Romeo and Juliet and international artists. Presented in conjunction with the William Shakespeare, playwright | Adrienne Boris, director Boston Printmakers Biennial. Tuesday, Oct 8, 8pm Join BU’s all-female Femina Shakespeare troupe (Henry V, Opening Reception Sunday, October 27, 3–5pm Muir Quartet Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus) for their twist on this classic Sherman Gallery Joseph Haydn: Quartet Op. 76.4 in B-flat Major (Sunrise) tale of star-crossed lovers. Free and open to the public | #BUvisual Alban Berg: Quartet Op. 3 CFA, Copeland Studio 354 Franz Schubert: Quartet No. 13 in A Minor Free and open to the public | #BUtheatre Tsai Performance Center Free and open to the public | #BUmusic Thursday, Oct 10, 8pm BUAG Boston University Wind Ensemble Friday, Sep 6 – Sunday, Oct 20 David Martins, conductor Lazy River: Leidy Churchman Kenneth Hesketh: Masque Paintings and videos are featured in this Brooklyn-based W.A. Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in Bb Major Gran Partita, K. 361 artist’s first solo show at a university gallery. Churchman Mark Camphouse: Watchman, Tell Us of the Night references life cycles and swimming pools through abstract Philip Sparke: Dance Movements and figurative references and gestures. Tsai Performance Center Friday, Oct 25, 7:30pm Opening Reception Thursday, September 5, 6–8pm Free and open to the public | #BUmusic Amy Sillman in conversation with Leidy Churchman A Midsummer Night’s Dream BCAP S and Book Release Tuesday, September 24, 6pm Saturday, Oct 19, 8pm William Shakespeare, playwright Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery Boston University Choral Ensembles Clay Hopper (CFA, MFA ’05), director Free and open to the public | #BUAG Ann Howard Jones, conductor New Repertory Theatre & Boston Center for American Marsh Chapel Performance present Classic Repertory Company’s production Free and open to the public | #BUmusic of the Bard’s enchanting tale. Boston University Theatre Ticketing Code F | #BUtheatre CFA Membership includes half-price tickets to these events a KEYWORD:Transformation event STAY CONNECTED Boston Center for American Performance Alumni Weekend 2013 facebook.com/BUArts twitter.com/BUArts #myCFA [email protected] All artists and programs are subject to change.