SEASON 2020-21 MUSIC DEPARTMENT • W&J ARTS SERIES OLIN FINE ART GALLERY • COMMUNICATION ARTS 2020-21 CALENDAR M S EPTEMBE 11 Art Gallery A 04 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Kenny Nguyen R W&J Jazz Ensemble C Welcome to the Olin Fine Arts Center (Exhibition runs until October 4) H 09 Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Olin Fine Arts Center | 285 E. Wheeling St. | Washington, Pa. 15301 12 Saturday, 7:30 p.m. E MAIDEN ST Arts Series (ticket required) R Theatre SLAM! Mark Valenti, pianist TO CAMERON STADIUM W&J COLLEGE/OLIN FINE ARTS CENTER COVID-19 STATEMENT A O P 08-10 Thursday- Saturday 7:30 p.m. As the pandemic continues to spread across the S WADE ST C 22-24 Thursday-Saturday 7:30 p.m. R GRANT ST globe, we at W&J and Olin are concerned about Communication Arts Play: T I E STRAWBERRY AVE Communication Arts Play: L O the health and safety of our patrons, students, The Tempest EAST AVE The Connections B CLARK and employees. To that regard, we will comply FAMILY ER LIBRARY with the state’s recommendations. During the 23 Art Gallery 16 Friday, 7:30 p.m. Arts Series (ticket required) E WHEELING ST fall semester, onlyE WHEELING students ST living on campus will EAST LANE EAST Jamie Rodriguez OLIN be admitted to live events in theS SHAFFER AVE theatre and Oscar® Nominated Short Subjects ROSSIN (Exhibition runs until November 22) FINE CAMPUS CENTER art gallery, and only following social distancing S COLLEGE ST S COLLEGE Live Action ARTS ST S LINCOLN guidelines. We hope to provide opportunities OLD for others to viewE CHERRY these AVE events via streaming and N MAIN 16 Friday, 6-7:30 p.m. THE COMMONS O 05 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. THE recording. Please stay tuned to social media for TECHNOLOGY Art Gallery Opening and Talk CENTER VE W&J Jazz Ensemble links to view these events. Senior Show I E BEAU ST M E BEAU ST (Exhibition runs until April 25) N SHAFFER AVE B 11 Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. STUDENT PATRONS TO OLIN E Student Recognition Recital Locate us: google.com/maps/@40.1703,-80.2395118,18z EVENTS FOR FALL SEMESTER R 17 Saturday, 7:30 p.m. N LINCOLN ST N LINCOLN Social ST N COLLEGE distancing measures have been N MAIN ST Arts Series (ticket required) E PINE AVE E PINE AVE 13 Friday, 7:30 p.m. PENN ST implemented, with very limited admission to the Oscar® Nominated Short Subjects NORTH AVE PERFORMANCES AVE S FORREST W&J Choir and Camerata Singers theatre, Studio 102, and the Olin Art Gallery. We Animated All programs are subject to change. Patrons arriving late are requested “Watch Party” to wait until applause breaks or intermissions to be seated, as per request that you only sit in the designated seats, stay at least 6 feet apart from others, and wear 21 Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. performers’ contracts.E CHESTNUT ST E CHESTNUT ST 15 Sunday, 3:00 p.m. SHERMAN AVE PENN ST AVE N FORREST Arts Series (ticket required) a mask. Seats are available on first come/first W&J Wind Ensemble served basis. We will not admit anyone beyond Reduced Shakespeare Company CAMERAS AND RECORDINGVICTOR LANE DEVICES the stated limits. TO ALEXANDRE STADIUM Hamlet’s Big Adventure The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited at all performances. & ROSS MEMORIAL PARK IN COORDINATION WITH THE OFFICE OF STUDENT Arts Series and theatre performances are copyrighted. ! E SPRUCE AVE LIFE: ONLY STUDENTS RESIDING ON CAMPUS MAY 23 Friday 7:30 p.m. SEE FALL SHOWS IN PERSON, FOLLOWING SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES AND WEARING A MASK. W&J Choir and Camerata Singers ACCESS AND PARKING At Church of the Covenant The Olin Fine Arts Center is fully accessible. Free parking is available ON THE COVER PLEASE WATCH SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LINKS TO and is noted on the map. Free parking for patrons is available behind Cover designer PERFORMANCES DURING THE FALL SEMESTER 25 Sunday, 3:00 p.m. the Olin Fine Arts Center and in the Grant Street parking lots. Sarah Marshall ’23 is W&J Wind Ensemble from North Wales, Pa. A neuroscience J A 29 Friday, 6-7:30 p.m. 29 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. major, she is also a N Like Us – Art Gallery Opening and Talk facebook.com/olinfineartscenter member of W&J’s U W&J Jazz Ensemble A Athena LaTocha swim team and the R (Exhibition runs until February 21) Follow Us – twitter.com/wjcollege coloring club. “I love Y 30 Friday, 6-7:30 p.m. Arts Gallery Opening and Talk W&J with all my Subscribe – youtube.com/wjcollege heart!” Marshall said. Senior Show II FEBRUARY (Exhibition runs until May 9) 11-13 Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Follow Us – instagram.com/wjcollege Communication Arts one-acts: Winter Tales XIX M Follow Us – pinterest.com/wjcollege A 05 Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Y W&J College Music Department 26 Friday, 6-7:30 p.m. Student Recognition Recital Art Gallery Opening and Talk Morgan Craig Visit us to learn more: washjeff.edu/olin (Exhibition runs until March 28) Senior Music Student Recitals TBA 1 W&J Arts Series Oscar® Nominated Short Subjects Washington & Jefferson College, through its annual Arts Series, strives to bring world-class performing oscars.org artists in music, dance and theatre to campus. Series and individual tickets are available for Arts Series Live Action- Friday, April 16, 2021 events. All Arts Series events are in the Olin Fine Arts Center Theatre unless otherwise noted. Animated- Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. 2020-21 STATEMENT Surprise! The Oscar Nominated Short Subjects have been moved because The Out of an abundance of caution, we have decided not to book Arts Series performers Academy Awards have been moved! “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and for the Fall Semester. As promised, we did rebook The Oscar Nominated Short Sciences and the ABC Television Network today announced the 93rd Oscars® Subjects, The Reduced Shakespeare Company, and pianist Mark Valenti for the ceremony will move to Sunday, April 25, 2021, as a result of the global pandemic Spring Semester. If you have tickets for these events, please hold on to them. We do caused by COVID-19. The show, which will air live on ABC, was originally scheduled not know what the guidelines will be for the spring, so there may still be very limited for February 28, 2021. During this time, it has become necessary to make exceptional seating. As such, we will only release a limited number of tickets per show until we see changes to the Academy’s standard annual awards schedule. The intent going forward what the spring guidelines will be. is to ultimately return to awarding excellence for films released in the January- December calendar year. The 93rd Oscars will be held on Sunday, April 25, 2021.” Please see oscars.org for more information. Pianist, Mark Valenti: All American Program The advance single ticket price (or season ticket package) includes tickets for both markvalenti.com nights. Individual tickets will be available at the door for specific nights, but for the Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. full ticket price. All American program selections include: The Alcotts by Ives, Piano Blues by Copland, Sonata by ‘Oscar’ is a registered trademark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Barber, and pieces by Stefan Wolpe and Jon Fisher Mark Valenti received his Master of Music from Northwestern University, Bachelor of Music from the Philadelphia Musical Academy and has studied with such notable teachers as Benjamin Whitten, Zoltan Reduced Shakespeare Company - Kocsis, and Mary Sauer. In addition to giving solo recitals in cities throughout the U.S., Mr. Valenti has Hamlet’s Big Adventure (a prequel) performed in France, Belgium, Hungary, and Luxembourg as well as for former First Lady Barbara Bush reducedshakespeare.com in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. Mark Valenti has performed recitals live on WFMT classical radio. He has also done extensive work in the Jazz field including performances with Gregory Hines, Frank Foster, and Al Grey and has appeared Before the Tragedy, there was…HAMLET’S on television with Joe Sudler’s BIG ADVENTURE! From the guys that Swing Machine and singer/actor brought you such “(abridged)” classics as Christopher Durham. William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) and The Ultimate Christmas Show Formerly a Professor of Music (abridged) comes this fast, funny, physical at the University of the Arts in extravaganza — a brand new theatrical treat! Philadelphia, Xavier University In this hilarious (and completely fictional) in Chicago, and the Loire prequel to Hamlet, nothing is rotten in the Valley Music Institute in France, state of Denmark. There’s laughter and joy Mr. Valenti currently teaches and music and more laughter as teenage at his studio in the Lakeview Hamlet leaps into action to save his beloved neighborhood of Chicago and is nunnery from closing. Enlisting his good buds Ophelia and the jester Yorick, Hamlet and friends available for lessons for all levels put on a show-what could possibly go wrong? Along the way, Ophelia tries (and fails!) to pass her and all styles. swim test and Hamlet must avoid his practical joker father, the King, who has a tendency to leap out from behind house plants pretending to be a ghost. Meanwhile, Yorick teaches them about showbiz, comedy, and skull juggling and they all wonder why Hamlet’s mother spends so much time at his uncle’s house! Is it Shakespeare meets the Muppet Babies? Might be, or might not be.