Theatre APR FEB JAN Music MAR March 31, 8 p.m. JAN February 4, 5, 6, 8 p.m. Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall Creative Writing February 6, 7, 2 p.m. February 9, 8 p.m. Questions for the Moon Fenwick Theatre, O’Kane Hall thru Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall January 28, 7:30 p.m. 4 A multi-media song cycle, Questions for the 29 20 31 2 Rehm Library, Smith Hall Chicago Masterworks Old and New Moon, is a collaboration between Holy Cross 8 Reading by Gretel Ehrlich The Tony award-winning musical Chicago comes This Artists-in-Residence concert will feature the world premiere of composer Shirish Korde and historian Karen The Working Writers Series offers to the stage with music by John Kander, lyrics by FEB Associate Professor Chris Arrell’s Breathless, a swirling kaleidoscope Turner. Inspired by stories of the many North readings, panel discussions, Q&A 5 Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. This of melody and color written for Artists-in-Residence Saul Bitrán, violin; Vietnamese women who answered Ho Chi sessions, and book signings with some milestone satirical musical, set in Chicago in the Jan Müller-Szeraws, cello; and Adam Golka, piano. The concert will Minh’s call in 1965 for youth volunteers to fight of America’s best authors. Our spring 1920s, skewers the justice system and the cult of also include much beloved 18- and 19th-century classics, performed American forces, this music-theater work is a celebrity. Christine Freije ‘13 directs this Alternate 27 meditation on the boundaries crossed and the season opens with a reading by Gretel in collaboration with the music department’s Brooks scholars Adam Ehrlich, who has won both prestigious College Theatre production. Ouellet, Christopher Goessling, Teresa Murphy and Ana Dulskiy. potent forces unleashed in wartime. 6 Ticket Box Office: (508) 793-3536 Texts and images for Questions for literary awards and National Geographic the Moon are drawn from Karen Turner’s expedition grants for her 15 books of Arts Transcending Borders documentary, Hidden Warriors: Women nonfiction, memoir, essays, fiction, and 7 on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and 18th Century poetry about extreme encounters with Vietnamese poet Ho Xuan Huong. In addition nature — from traveling by dogsled in Greenland to facing a tsunami in Japan. February 23, 7 p.m. April 29, 8 p.m. to a chamber ensemble of five musicians, the Cantor Art Gallery FEB world music infused score by Korde will feature Co-sponsored by Creative Writing and Seelos Theater, Kimball Hall Location to be determined Roger Guenveur Smith’s Rodney King Vietnamese performer/composer Van-Anh Environmental Studies. A Jookin’ Jam Session January 20 – February 27 Vo; dramatic vocalist and performer who is History, poetry and tragedy collide when stage and screen actor Roger with Lil Buck and Friends APR 10 A.M. – 5 P.M. M-F, Noon – 5 P.M. Sat. a featured soloist with Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Guenveur Smith (American Gangster, Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing) tackles 9 Ensemble, Wu-Tong; and the dramatic The College’s Become More: Campaign for the Future of Cantor Art Gallery, O’Kane Hall the thorny odyssey of Rodney King — deemed “the first reality TV star”— from lyric soprano Sonja Tegbland. Holy Cross kicks off with an evening of celebration headlined Grammar the harsh initial glare of the national spotlight as the victim of police brutality Video projections for this production by the international jookin’ phenomenon Lil Buck, who came to his involuntary 14 An exploration of the space between analog and digital photographic are specially designed by internationally to international attention when ballet star turned director martyrdom that ignited technologies, where images can be read as both factual and illusory. renowned visual artist Raphael Shirley Damian Woetzel paired the young dancer with cellist Yo-Yo the 1992 L.A. riots to This paradox of meaning is the focus of this recent work by Matthew and are based on archival footage from Karen FEB Ma. The performance, captured on video by Spike Jonze, his lonely death at the Gamber, assistant professor of photography and new media in the Turner’s documentary film, Hidden Warriors. bottom of a swimming went viral with more than 3 million views. Lil Buck has gone College’s visual arts department. Opening reception is Jan. 27, 5-6:30 FEB on to perform with the New York City Ballet and in Cirque du 15 pool. In this riveting p.m. A talk on Grammar by Gamber, Nancy Burns of Worcester Art performance, Smith Soleil’s Michael Jackson: One, the Spike Jonze film Her, and Museum and Benjamin Sloat of Lesley University is Feb. 10, 5-6 p.m. 25 offers a meditation on Benjamin Millepied’s NOWNESS videos. In the latest series a flawed, goodhearted 23 of unique performances created by Damian Woetzel, Lil Buck Mathew Gamber, Dead Bulb, (Chandelier), 2012, Pigmented inkjet print everyman and reveals is joined by a stellar cast of musicians, marking the welcome America’s endlessly return of Fall ’15 ATB artist-in-residence, Galician gaita 16 February 25, 7:30 p.m. complicated relation- player Cristina Pato. In conjunction with the College’s Rehm Library, Smith Hall ship with its racial 2016 Academic Conference. Performance and past and present. Discussion by Co-sponsored by the 21 – Office of Inclusion and Diversity. Funded in part by the Expeditions program MAR APR James Keegan of the New England Foundation for the Arts. James Keegan, a Holy Cross 22 alumnus, a poet, and an actor, March 14, 7 p.m. MAR 14 1 will perform monologues Ballroom, Hogan Campus Center April 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 8 p.m. 6 from Shakespeare’s plays | and discuss his experiences Compagnie Hervé Koubi Fenwick Theatre, O’Kane Hall 23 on stage. In 11 years, Keegan Stirred by a late discovery of family roots in Algeria, young French choreo- 14 has portrayed some 80 roles grapher Hervé Koubi embarked on a journey across the Mediterranean in 2009 in more than 60 productions and formed a company of 12 Algerian and Brukinabé dancers, mostly with March 14 – April 16 at the American Shakespeare a street dance background. Following their “astounding American debut” 10 A.M. – 5 P.M. M-F, Noon – 5 P.M. Sat. Center, including King Lear, (The Washington Post) in 2013, the all-male Compagnie Hervé Koubi returns Cantor Art Gallery, O’Kane Hall Falstaff, Macbeth, Leontes, to the U.S. with Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (“What the day owes the night”), Alexa Horochowski: Club Disminucíon Iago, Prospero, Shylock which fuses contemporary dance with martial arts, urban dance and capoeira. by William Shakespeare and Titus Andronicus. Come see excerpts from this breathtaking work and stay for an exchange and HAMLET A multi-media video and sculpture installation by artist Alex Horochowski who Co-sponsored by Creative Hamlet conversation with company members. Presented in conjunction with the This provocative, modern-dress production of explores the immigrated to the United States as a child with her family from the Argentinian Writing, the Jenks Chair of French Program’s Semaine de la Francophonie celebrations. angst of a young man trying to find his way in a corrupt world filled with Patagonia. The exhibition — a video immersive work inspired by her residency at Contemporary American dissembling politicians, paranoia and surveillance — perhaps a bit like Casa Poli in Chile — is co-sponsored by Arts Transcending Borders. Opening reception Letters, and the Department Arts Transcending Borders is supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. the one we inhabit today. Directed by Edward Isser. is March 15, 5–6:30 p.m. of Theatre. Ticket Box Office: (508) 793-2496 Alexa Horochowski, Club Disminucíon at The Soap Factory, 2014 Minneapolis, Minn. Photograph by Dan Bau WIN February 14, 3 p.m. April 15, 8 p.m. April 28 – May 27 Mechanics Hall, Worcester SPR MAR APR Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall 10 A.M. – 5 P.M. M–F, Noon – 5 P.M. Sat. N Worcester Symphonic Project Ted Slingerland: Performance Cantor Art Gallery, O’Kane Hall Holy Cross Chamber Orchestra. Franz Schubert, March 14, 7 p.m. April 2, 3 p.m. Senior Concentration Seminar PAID 1 Mass #2, with the Holy Cross Chamber Singers Ballroom, Hogan Campus Center Main Reading Room, Dinand Library and Panel Discussion ’ and Colleges of Worcester Consortium choruses, “Ragas, Bach and Wuwei” features music for solo Exhibition 2016 Worcester, MA Worcester, U.S. POSTAGE First Class Mail 6 Permit No. 760 Compagnie Hervé Koubi Boston Gay Men’s Chorus Eric Culver, conductor. Ludwig van Beethoven, cello by Johann Sebastian Bach and Holy Cross A perennial favorite of the spring semester, the Enjoy excerpts from the French-Algerian composer Shirish Korde, and a performance by cellist Annual Senior Concentration Seminar Exhibition is Symphony #1, Bruce Hangen, conductor. choreographer Hervé Koubi’s Ce que le jour doit Ticket Box Office: (508) 754-3231. Jan Müller-Szeraws. The concert will be followed by a the capstone presentation for graduating seniors who à la nuit (What the day owes the night) that fuses panel discussion with Korde, Distinguished Professor participate in a year-long seminar course. Opening 6 JAN contemporary dance with martial arts, urban of Humanities, and renowned guest speaker Edward reception is April 28, 5-6:30 p.m. dance and capoeira, and stay for an exchange and Slingerland, professor of Asian Studies at University conversation with company members. (See front 7 January 20 – February 27 of British Columbia and author of “Trying Not To Try: April 29, 8 pm panel for details.) In conjunction with the French The Art and Science of Spontaneity.” Co-sponsored Location to be determined 10 A.M. – 5 P.M. M-F, Noon – 5 P.M. Sat. Program’s Semaine de la Francophonie celebrations. 1 MCKEON ROAD Cantor Art Gallery, O’Kane Hall by the Departments of Music, Philosophy, and Asian LINDEN LANE Studies, and Arts Transcending Borders. A Jookin’ Jam Session with 2 Grammar March 14, 8 p.m. Lil Buck and Friends An exploration of the space between analog The College’s Become More: Campaign for the Future 5 Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall April 16, 3 p.m. 3 8 LOYOLA ROAD and digital photographic technologies, where From the beginning of our Paul Houghteling, bass baritone Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall of Holy Cross kicks off with a celebration: In the latest images can be read as both factual and illusory. of a series of unique performances created by Damian A solo recital featuring Schumann’s Dichterliebe This paradox of meaning is the focus of this recent Senior Recital: Adam Ouellet, tenor Woetzel, international jookin’ phenomenon Lil Buck Op. 48. SOUTHBRIDGE STREET work by Matthew Gamber, assistant professor of Featuring music from Schubert, Bach, Britten, Tosti, is joined by a stellar cast of musicians, marking the time on this planet we have Faure, and Debussy. 4 “ photography and new media in the College’s welcome return of Fall ’15 ATB artist-in-residence, March 14 – April 16 COLLEGE STREET visual arts department. Opening reception is Galician gaita player Cristina Pato. In conjunction MCCARTHY LANE Jan. 27, 5-6:30 p.m. 10 A.M. – 5 P.M. M-F, Noon – 5 P.M. Sat. April 19, 8 p.m. with the College’s 2016 Academic Conference. dreamed of flying, perhaps Cantor Art Gallery, O’Kane Hall Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall February 18, 8 p.m. January 28, 7:30 p.m. Alexa Horochowski: Club Disminucíon April 3, 3 p.m. Tony Arnold, soprano & April 29, 7 and 9 p.m. Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall Multi-media video and sculpture installation by artist St. Joseph Memorial Chapel the most potent image of Rehm Library, Smith Hall Jacob Greenberg, piano Fenwick Theatre, O’Kane Hall Lisa Leong, piano Alex Horochowski, who immigrated to the United Reading by Gretel Ehrlich Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series: Internationally acclaimed Tony Arnold and Jacob Dance Concert WIN Lisa Leong presents a program of solo piano and States as a child with her family from the Argentinian Travel far and wide with Gretel Ehrlich, author Greenberg perform a program of contemporary Kaela Lee, Jimena Bermejo and Audra Carabetta electroacoustic works, including Pierre Boulez’s Patagonia. The exhibition is a video-immersive Senior Recital a state of grace. We continue to aspire of 15 books of prose and poetry about nature, art song, featuring Helmut Lachenmann’s Got Lost showcase the work of their dance students in this “Incises,” a fertile, perpetually-moving shimmering work inspired by her residency at Casa Poli in Chile. Abraham Ross, Organ Scholar for Class of 2016, including Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake (2007), which interweaves texts from Nietzsche, eagerly anticipated springtime concert, which fabric of textural interplay; and Luigi Nono’s Opening reception is March 15, 5-6:30 p.m. will perform works of Lubeck, Bach, Hindemith, SPR of the Tsunami, nominated for the 2014 National Pessoa, and an English language advertisement includes both classical and modern pieces. “…sofferte onde serene… ,” a poignant reflection Co-sponsored by Arts Transcending Borders. and Ritter on the Chapel’s magnificent Taylor & to, and be fascinated by, grace, in all of Book Award and winner of the PEN USA Award posted in a laundromat. Also on the program is the on loss. Also featured are works by Jonathan Boody organ. for nonfiction. Co-sponsored by Creative Writing world premiere of Associate Professor Chris Arrell’s Harvey, Amy Williams, and Mei-Fang Lin. March 15, 8 p.m. and Environmental Studies. second ode to Popeye, and Bright Codes for solo its physical and spiritual manifestations, Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall April 5, 8 p.m. MAY Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall piano by Dai Fujikura. 1 February 19, 8 p.m. Adam Golka, piano ’ Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall May 5, 4 p.m. 6 Brooks Concert Hall Rochelle Bard, soprano April 21, 7 p.m. lecture, 8 p.m. performance Rehm Library, Smith Hall as it temporarily suspends the laws of FEB St. Lawrence String Quartet A solo recital featuring works of Schubert, Schumann, A solo concert of arias, lieder, and music from Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall All the natural movements of the soul Featuring works of Saint-Saens, Golijov and Haydn. Bartók, Fauré, and Chopin. the American Song Book. Senior Concentrators in Creative Writing February 4, 5, 6, 8 p.m. Byzantine Chant Sponsored by Music Worcester in collaboration Join us as we celebrate the poetry and prose of gravity and mortality, which is another “ are controlled by laws analogous to February 6, 7, 2 p.m. The vocal ensemble Psaltikon (dir. Spyridon DIRECTIONS with the Holy Cross Department of Music. April 7, 8 p.m. graduating concentrators. Fenwick Theatre, O’Kane Hall March 15, 7:30 p.m. Antonopoulos) performs “Six Days before the Ticket Box Office: (508) 754-3231 Rehm Library, Smith Hall Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall From the East, West, and Southwest Chicago Passover,” a concert of virtuosic psalmody from those of physical gravity. Grace Artist-in-Residence and Special the Byzantine Rite composed for the Passion Week. Massachusetts Turnpike I –90 toward Worcester form of gravity. The Tony award-winning musical Chicago comes Reading by Christopher Castellani 1 BROOKS CONCERT HALL, FENWICK HALL February 23, 7 p.m. Meet Christopher Castellani, the artistic director of Psaltikon will be joined by acclaimed world musicians Take Exit 10 to I –290 East (Worcester) to the stage with music by John Kander, lyrics by Guest Concert is the only exception. Seelos Theater, Kimball Hall the GrubStreet creative writing center and the author A piano-violin recital featuring Artist-in-Residence who will play and accompany traditional Greek and Take Exit 11 (College Square/Southbridge Street) Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. This 2 CANTOR ART GALLERY, O’KANE HALL of three novels — A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint and pianist Adam Golka, and guest violinist and Arabic carols commemorating both the Passion and milestone satirical musical, set in Chicago in the Roger Guenveur Smith’s Rodney King Cross over to right lane immediately after coming off ramp Osvaldo Golijov, Ph.D. Simone” Weil of Lost Things, and All this Talk of Love — as well soprano Magdalena Filipczak. spring time. FENWICK THEATRE, O’KANE HALL “ 1920s, skewers the justice system and the cult of Stage and screen actor Roger Guenveur Smith Take first right at traffic light onto College Street 3 as a new volume on the craft of writing, The Art of Loyola Professor of Music celebrity. Christine Freije ‘13 directs this tackles the thorny odyssey of Rodney King in Enter last Upper Campus gate #7 on left. Pass first building Perspective. Co-sponsored by Creative Writing and 4 HOGAN CAMPUS CENTER Alternate College Theatre production. this 2015 Bessie Award-winning solo performance. April 7, 7:30 p.m. April 21, 7:30 p.m. on left, parking is on right, in front of second building (See front panel for details.) the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters. Location to be determined Rehm Library, Smith Hall Ticket Box Office: (508) 793-3536 5 REHM LIBRARY, SMITH HALL Staged Reading and Discussion Reading by Matt Bell February 25, 7:30 p.m. March 19, 7 p.m. From the North February 9, 8 p.m. Listen as writer Matt Bell reads from his new novel, I-495 South 6 SEELOS THEATRE, KIMBALL HALL Rehm Library, Smith Hall St. Joseph Memorial Chapel by Laura Cahill Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall See a staged reading of new work by Laura Cahill, Scrapper. Bell’s other works include a volume of short Take exit 25B to I –290 West (Worcester) fiction, the novels Cataclysm Baby and In the House May 6, 8 p.m. 7 ST. JOSEPH MEMORIAL CHAPEL Artists-in-Residence: Masterworks Performance and Discussion Holy Cross College Choir a successful screenwriter for Miramax, 20th Century Take Exit 11 (College Square/Southbridge Street) & Chamber Singers Fox, Lifetime, USA, and HBO, among other studios, Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, and Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall Old and New by James Keegan Off ramp, bear left onto Southbridge Street THE PIT THEATRE, O’KANE HALL A Major Works Series concert by the College Choirs, as well as a dramatist whose latest play, Sad and a new nonfiction book about the classic video game 8 This Artists-in-Residence concert will feature the James Keegan, a Holy Cross alumnus, poet, and Gamelan Gita Sari Concert Take first right at traffic light onto College Street One College Street Massachusetts Worcester, 01610 featuring Poulenc’s “Gloria” and Bach’s “Magnificat.” Serious News, was featured in Vineyard Theatre’s Baldur’s Gate II. Sponsored by Creative Writing. world premiere of Associate Professor Chris Arrell’s actor with the American Shakespeare Center, This concert is a delightful evening of Balinese 2015 reading series. Enter last Upper Campus gate #7 on left. Pass first building Breathless, a swirling kaleidoscope of melody performs monologues from some of his favorite music and dance, conducted and choreographed April 22, 8 p.m. on left, parking is on right, in front of second building and color composed for Artists-in-Residence Saul roles, such as King Lear, Iago, Macbeth, Falstaff, March 31, 8 p.m. by our two new masters, Visiting Fellows in Balinese Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall Bitrán, violin; Jan Müller-Szeraws, cello; and Adam Shylock, Prospero, and Titus Andronicus. Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall April 10, 3 p.m. Performing Arts I Nyoman Windha and I Gusti Argung Golka, piano. The concert will also include much Co-sponsored by Creative Writing, the Jenks Questions for the Moon St. Joseph Memorial Chapel Guide You Home Ayu Warsiki, and featuring student performers and From the Southeast Chair of Contemporary American Letters and special guest artists. A treat for audiences of all ages. I-495 North to Massachusetts Turnpike I –90 ARTS & CULTURE WEBSITE: beloved 18th- and 19th-century classics performed A multi-media song cycle, Questions for the Moon is Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series: Holy Cross College Choir & the Department of Theatre. Take Exit 10 to I –290 East (Worcester) www.holycross.edu/arts-culture in collaboration with the music department’s a collaboration between Holy Cross composer Shirish Francis Chapelet & Uriel Valadeau Chamber Singers May 8, 1 p.m. Take Exit 11 (College Square/Southbridge Street) Brooks scholars Adam Ouellet ‘16, Christopher Korde and historian Karen Turner. Inspired by stories Performance by Uriel Valadeau and eminent French The College Choirs perform their spring concert, February 25, 8 p.m. The Pit, O’Kane Hall 37 Goessling ‘18, Teresa Murphy ’19 and Ana of the many North Vietnamese women who answered concert organist Francis Chapelet who is making his Cross over to right lane immediately after coming off ramp ARTS & CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall featuring works about healing, discovery, and release. Dulskiy ‘19. Ho Chi Minh’s call in 1965 for youth volunteers to “farewell” tour of the U.S at the age of 82. The repertoire will include arrangements of popular One-Act Festival Take first right at traffic light onto College Street www.holycross.edu/arts-culture/calendar-events Trio Tremonti fight American forces, this music-theater work is songs like “Fix You” by Cold Play; contemporary Young directors are given the opportunity to Enter last Upper Campus gate #7 on left. Pass first building February 11, 7:30 p.m. Performance by Artists-in-Residence Saul Bitrán, a meditation on the boundaries crossed and the April 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 8 p.m. pieces like Pauline Oliveros’ “Wind Horse,” an showcase their talents in fully-produced one acts. on left, parking is on right, in front of second building HOLY CROSS MAIN NUMBER: Rehm Library, Smith Hall violin, and Jan Müller-Szeraws, cello; and guest potent forces unleashed in wartime. Fenwick Theatre, O’Kane Hall improvisatory piece including a stage-sized mandala; 508-793-2011 artist Sally Pinkas, piano. and classics from the Renaissance and Romantic eras. Talk and Reading by Christian Wiman Hamlet by William Shakespeare From Providence, Rhode Island Join Christian Wiman — past editor of Poetry, the This provocative, modern-dress production explores Route 146 North to Exit 12, McKeon Road/College Sq. All events are free and open to the public world’s oldest poetry magazine — as he reflects on the angst of a young man trying to find his way in Left off ramp a struggle with incurable cancer that prompted his unless otherwise noted. a corrupt world filled with dissembling politicians, Left at next traffic light onto McKeon Road. Follow overpass memoir, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern All events are free paranoia and surveillance — perhaps a bit like the Believer, and as he reads from his five books of through several sets of lights and proceed up hill one we inhabit today. Directed by Edward Isser. After fire station, left onto Loyola Road poems and verse translations. Co-sponsored by and open to the public Ticket Box Office: (508) 793-2496 Creative Writing and the McFarland Center for unless otherwise noted. Follow left curve which becomes McCarthy Lane, continue Religion, Ethics and Culture. to last parking lot