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For tickets to the Toledo Symphony’s presentation of A Soldier’s Tale, please call 419-246-8000 or visit Events take place at UT’s charming www.ToledoSymphony.com. JOIN US Libbey Hall, the Museum campus and ______the Peristyle—All pre-concert events all other events are free are free and open to the public. OCT Enjoy a fascinating and diverse series of events An arts and humanities festival presented by UT faculty and friends leading up to Toledo For more information, visit NOV the Toledo Symphony’s concert performance of presented by the Toledo Symphony Symphony www.ToledoSymphony.com 2012 Stravinksy’s Soldier’s Tale on November 16 & 17. and the University of Toledo ____ The Creative Process: Jan Svankmajer’s Faust: Fighting and Scoring Evil: The Faustian Recruiting the Folk: Choreography A New Take on an Old Text Embracing Evil Empires: Penderecki and Lynch’s B argain and Other Verbunkos, Gypsies, and Michael Lang: Artistic Director/ Tammy Kinsey: UT Department Goethe’s Egmont and Faust “Inland Empire” Devilish Deals Temptation in Stravinsky’s Choreographer, Toledo Ballet of Theatre/Film Dr. Edmund B. Lingan: Dr. Jeanne Kusina: UT Departments Dr. Daniel Compora: Soldier’s Tale ______UT Department of Theatre/Film of Philosophy and WGST UT Department of English Dr. Christopher Williams: ______Tuesday, Oct. 23, 8 pm Friday, Oct. 26th, 7 pm UT Department of Music in its full Libbey Hall, UT main campus Haigh auditorium, Center for Tuesday, Oct. 30th, 7 pm Friday, Nov. 2nd, 7 pm Tuesday, Nov. 6th, 7 pm ______Visual Arts, 620 Grove Place Libbey Hall, UT main campus Haigh auditorium, Center for Libbey Hall, UT main campus Tuesday, Nov. 13th, 7 pm theatrical and Last year, Michael Lang created dances Visual Arts, 620 Grove Place This lecture will explore different folk Libbey Hall, UT main campus Czech animator Jan Svankmajer presents Just in time for Halloween, theatre historian which brought to life past performers of variations of the Faustian bargain; the selling of a unique interpretation of the centuries- and critic Dr. Edmund B. Lingan will invoke Director David Lynch granted permission Although Igor Stravinsky frequently boasted balletic element. The Valentine Theatre as presented in Paul one’s soul to the devil. The theme is prevalent old narrative in his award-winning Faust demonic realms and legends of a primordial for this rare screening of Inland Empire. of the originality of his music, some of the Geiger’s mural of caricatures. The year in Western culture, and a number of people in (1994), a surrealistic synthesis of images and occult religion in this exploration of two of The story of an actress who increasingly most radical features of his style remain before that, he brought to life a magical literature and music have allegedly entered into November 16 & 17, 2012 Stefan Sanderling November brings a fascinating program to capture the identifies with her character, this challenging references to Marlowe, Goethe, and various Goethe’s plays, Egmont and Faust Part I. such pacts. In particular, the legend of blues rooted in Eastern European and Russian conductor imagination. TSO cellists present the Toledo debut museum inspired by the paintings and traditional folktales. Comprised of live-action, Lingan will show that these plays intuit the film is a lurid, surreal journey down the folk music traditions. This is as true for Peristyle – 8pm sculptures in the Toledo Museum of Art. musician Robert Johnson and his deal at the Amy Chang of Penderecki’s restive and haunting Concerto claymation, puppetry, and stop-motion existence of a complex and disturbing realm rabbit hole. Film scholar Jeanne Kusina his Russian folk tale with music, The BEETHOVEN Overture to Egmont This year, he’s developing a ballet for a Crossroads will be examined. Damon Coleman Grosso, and Cornel Gabara (of Carnegie animation, the film blends bits of traditional of spirits, demons, and deities. will discuss the film’s musical score, which Soldier’s Tale, as it is for the more obviously PENDERECKI Concerto grosso Stravinsky chamber orchestra/theatre Martha Reikow content with an exciting visual tableau to features work by Krzysztof Penderecki, revolutionary Rite of Spring. This talk will for three celli collaboration) returns to direct Igor Stravinsky’s piece. In the first event of our series, Lang and orchestra celli create a wildly evocative tale of human desire whose music is used as a means to evoke place The Soldier’s Tale in a broader context Soldier’s Tale in its full theatrical and balletic will discuss the process of developing a STRAVINSKY Soldier’s Tale and the price of will. unspeakable horror. Inland Empire provides of Stravinsky’s connections to folk music, Cornel Gabara element. Our fiddle-playing soldier makes a deal dance, including how he uses other art director a unique passageway into a chilling rural recruitment and military culture on with the devil. Can he expect a happy ending? forms for inspiration. consideration of the aesthetics of evil. the Russian/Austrian border.