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Fall 2016 Arts Calendar A guide to performances, exhibits, film screenings, and programs produced by the Conservatory of Music, the Departments of Art, Film, Theater, and Television and Radio, the Preparatory Center, and the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College The World of the Arts in Your Own Backyard Brooklyn College brings the world to Flatbush with a lineup that includes the brutal struggles portrayed in Caryl Churchill’s gritty parable Fen, the electrifying sounds of the dynamic Black Violin, and the comic interplay of Richard Strauss’ enchanting Ariadne auf Naxos, to name but a few of the Honegger, Pastorale d’été; Bartók, Romanian Folk Dances; Beethoven, outstanding programs in this spring’s September Symphony No. 4 diverse visual and performing arts Thursday, September 22, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 27, 1 p.m. season. Kingsborough Community College Boylan Hall, room 5127; free Leon M. Goldstein Performing Arts Center Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Elisabeth Condon No matter what you are looking 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn; free Elisabeth Condon is a painter, traveler, and Chinese scroll aficionado, whose work for — world-class dance, innovative Conservatory Orchestra I re-interprets Chinese principles of balance for an information-saturated world. theater, inspiring music, insightful George Rothman, Conductor Open to the public documentaries, or provocative artwork Honegger, Pastorale d’été; Bartók, Romanian Folk Dances; Beethoven, — you’ll find it at Brooklyn College. Symphony No. 4 Thursday, September 29, 6:30 p.m. And with so many great offerings, we Woody Tanger Auditorium; free hope you’ll return to campus again Friday, September 23, 7:30 p.m. African Art and Identity: A Panel Discussion and again. Whitman Theatre; $5 Christopher Richards, Moderator Conservatory Orchestra I Featuring artists Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, Tahir Karmali, and Eto Otitigbe George Rothman, Conductor Tickets and Information Tuesday, October 18, 1 p.m. All information on events is subject Boylan Hall, room 5127; free to change without notice. Advance October Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Michael Covello tickets to any event for which Michael Covello Odalla is an internationally-exhibiting contemporary artist who Saturday, October 1, 1:15 p.m. admission is charged may be purchased creates paintings, works on paper, site-specific installations, videos, and audio Studio 312; free from the Brooklyn Center Box Office in work. Open to the public Preparatory Center Faculty Recital Whitman Theatre, 718.951.4500. The Emily White, piano box office is open Tuesday through Barber, Piano Sonata; Wagner/Liszt, Overture to Tannhäuser Tuesday, October 18, 7 p.m. Studio 312; free Saturday, 1 to 6 p.m., and one hour Wednesday, October 5, 7 p.m. Faculty Recital: Lars Frandsen, guitar before all ticketed performances. Studio 312; free with the Brooklyn Guitar Quartet It remains open for thirty minutes Composers’ Collective Music by Brouwer, Bellinati, and others into performances, or until the first Douglas Cohen, Faculty Coordinator intermission of major events. Senior Alexander Eisenhauer, Program Coordinator Wednesday, October 19, 5 p.m. and student rates apply to select The Composers’ Collective presents a concert that will take music to new places. Studio 312; free performances. No tickets are required Music for Strings I for FREE events. Information and Thursday, October 6 – Saturday, October 8 George Rothman, Coordinator tickets: brooklyncenter.org Thursday – Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Conservatory of Music students present chamber works for strings. Saturday, 2 p.m. Wednesday, October 12 – Saturday, October 15 Tuesday, October 25, 5:30 p.m. Brooklyn Center for Wednesday – Saturday, 7:30 p.m. CUNY Graduate Center; free the Performing Arts (BCBC) Saturday, 2 p.m. Rewald Art Lecture Series: Christopher Richards 718.951.4600 Whitman Theatre; $15, seniors $12, students $10 “Think Pink (and Black): Sartorial Incidences in Accra, Ghana” A Mainstage Production brooklyncenter.org Fen Saturday, October 29, 8 p.m. by Caryl Churchill Whitman Theatre; $25 Conservatory of Music Concert Office Directed by Mary Beth Easley Black Violin 718.951.5792 A mosaic of the lives of England’s “bottom girls,” landless tenant farmers, whose With past appearances including the Billboard Music Awards, three NFL Super bcmusic.org longing for release from the agrarian life is supplanted by a brutal struggle for Bowls, and performances for the troops in Iraq, this dynamic duo returns to take survival. Brooklyn audiences by storm with their electrifying mash-up of R&B, hip-hop, and Department of Art classical music. Tuesday, October 18, 1 p.m. 718.951.5181 Studio 312; free Sunday, October 30, 3 p.m. depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/art Music for Winds I Studio 312; free Marianne Gythfeldt, Coordinator Opera Scenes Department of Film Conservatory of Music students present chamber works for winds. Richard Barrett, Director 718.951.5664 Brooklyn College Opera Theatre presents students in scenes and vignettes from depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/film famous operas and musicals Department of Television and Radio 718.951.5555 Tuesday, November 15, 1 p.m. bctvr.org Studio 312; free November Music for Winds II Department of Theater Marianne Gythfeldt, Coordinator 718.951.5666 Tuesday, November 1 – Thursday, November 3 Conservatory of Music students present chamber works for winds. depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/theater Tuesday and Thursday, 7 p.m. Wednesday, 5 p.m. Tuesday, November 15, 7 p.m. Studio 312; free Preparatory Center for Studio 312; free the Performing Arts 30th Biannual International Electroacoustic Music Festival Conservatory Guitar Ensemble George Brunner, Director 718.951.4111 Lars Frandsen, Director A cornucopia of cutting-edge works by masters and emerging talents Music by Rosenthal, Bach, Brouwer, and others bcprepcenter.org Friday, November 4, 8:45 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday, November 16, 7 p.m. Whitman Theatre and Whitehead Hall; free Whitman Theatre; $5 Getting There Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion Day Conservatory Wind Ensemble Marianne Gythfeldt, Coordinator Marianne Gythfeldt, Conductor Brooklyn College is located at 2900 A day of workshops, master classes, and performances Traditional and contemporary music, ranging from Baroque fanfares to Romantic Bedford Avenue. Whitman Theatre is ballades and crisp modern marches one block from the junction of Flatbush Friday, November 4, 7:30 p.m. and Nostrand Avenues, and can be Whitman Theatre; $5 Thursday, November 17, 7 p.m. accessed from the Hillel Place gate at Conservatory Orchestra II Whitman Theatre; $5 Hillel Place and Campus Road. The New George Rothman, Conductor Brooklyn College Big Band Workshop Theater is located in the Ives, Washington’s Birthday; Prokofiev,Summer Day; Honegger, Symphony No. 4 Arturo O’Farrill, Director basement of Whitman Theatre. Studio Big band music of Latin and jazz masters Friday, November 4; Saturday, November 5; 312 and Roosevelt Extension Theater are and Tuesday, November 8 located on the third floor of Roosevelt Friday, November 18 and Saturday, November 19 Friday, 6-10 p.m.; Saturday, 12-6 p.m.; Tuesday, 12:30-4 p.m. Hall Extension, which is on Bedford Monday, November 21 and Tuesday, November 22 Boylan Hall—fourth, fifth, and sixth floors; free Avenue. Woody Tanger Auditorium is Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. MFA Open Studios Saturday, 2 p.m. on the ground floor of the Brooklyn Master of Fine Arts students display their work. Roosevelt Extension Theater (307RE); $12, students $10 College Library. The State Lounge is on Polaroid Stories the fifth floor of the Student Center, Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5 by Naomi Iizuka which is on the north side of campus, on Monday, November 7 – Wednesday, November 9 Directed by Wayne Maugans Campus Rd. near E. 27 St. Friday, Saturday, Monday – Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Set in a brutal urban landscape, Polaroid Stories gives its disenfranchised youth a Saturday, 2 p.m. voice through myth-making. New Workshop Theater; $12, students $10 From Queens or Long Island, take the A Thesis Production Belt Parkway West to Exit 11, Flatbush Sunday, November 20, 3 p.m. Speech & Debate Avenue North. Follow Flatbush Avenue Whitman Theatre; $36-$55 by Stephen Karam north to Avenue H. Turn left on Avenue H. Tony Danza: Standards & Stories Directed by Michael Raine Equally at home on the small screen (Taxi and Who’s the Boss?) and the Broadway Speech & Debate is a story of students who form a club to deal with a hypocritical stage (Honeymoon in Vegas, The Producers), Emmy-nominated song-and-dance man From Staten Island, take the Verrazano culture; there’s blackmail, Abraham Lincoln, and even some singing and dancing. Tony Danza combines selections from the Great American Songbook with story- Bridge to the Belt Parkway East to telling, a dash of soft shoe, and a healthy dose of charisma. Exit 11, Flatbush Avenue North. Follow Saturday, November 5, 8 p.m. Flatbush Avenue north to Avenue H. Whitman Theatre; $36-$55 Monday, November 21, 7 p.m. Turn left on Avenue H. Buenos Aires Tango Studio 312; free Deseos: Stories of Longing and Desire conTEMPO I From Manhattan, take the Manhattan Argentine tango company Estampas Porteñas presents a spectacular new produc- Ursula Oppens, Director Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge, or the tion celebrating the greatest artistic elements of Argentina, including the indomi- Whitney George, Assistant Director Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and take the table tango and the athletic malambo of the gauchos. The Conservatory’s New Music ensemble performs contemporary works. Brooklyn-Queens Expressway West Tuesday, November 8, 6 p.m. to the Prospect Expressway, which Tuesday, November 22, 7 p.m. Studio 312; free becomes Ocean Parkway. Turn left on Studio 312; free Conservatory Singers Foster Avenue to Flatbush Avenue; turn Conservatory Jazz Ensemble Malcolm J. Merriweather, Conductor right on Flatbush Avenue to Avenue H; Daniel Blake, Director “Music of Passing, Love, and War,” featuring Clément Janequin’s La guerre: turn right on Avenue H.