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Reading MA Permit No. 442 College of Fine Arts 855 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 SEP | OCT | 2013 College of Fine Arts bu.edu/cfa Text BUARTS to 22828 to sign up for our E-Newsletter Stay Connected #myCFA [email protected] twitter.com/BUArts facebook.com/BUArts On the cover: left, The Penelopiad, 2013; middle, Doug Weathersby, 808 Gallery Storage Project, 2012. Mixed media installation; right, La Clemenza di Tito, 2013 Boston University College of Fine Arts SEP | OCT | 2013 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 bu.edu/cfa/events SEP | OCT | 2013 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 Boston University Choral Ensembles one of the most acclaimed young artists working today. He 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,