Fine Arts Calendar
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (9:00am - 10:00pm) - 9 a.m. Welcome Jake B. Schrum, President 9:15 a.m. Introduction: "Sub Conspectu Populi: Senatorial Talent and the Republican Empire" Thomas Noble Howe, Herman Brown Professor, Southwestern University, and coordinator 10:15 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m. "Are We Rome...Really?" Karl Galinsky, University...
- Fine Arts Center (4:00pm - 6:00pm) - Art Exhibition, February 11-March 7: MERSAD BERBER, Zagreb and Sarajevo FRANCISCO BENITEZ, Santa Fe, NM EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH, London Curated by Edward Lucie-Smith and Thomas Noble Installation by Jeremy Burks
- Fine Arts Center (8:00pm - 9:30pm) - from the University of Portland. Concert/demonstration of ancient Greek and Roman instruments, and a preview of Les Chansons de Bilitis of C. Debussy, S.U. Music Faculty
Friday, February 12th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (9:00am - 12:00pm) - 9 a.m. "Imperial Power in Twenty-first Century Rome" Alexander Stille, Columbia University 10 a.m. Break 10:15 a.m. "Rome and Byzantium, Iraq and Afghanistan" Edward Luttwak, Center for Strategic and International Affairs 11:30 a.m. - noon Panel Discussion and Questions
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:30pm) - historic recreation of music by Claude Debussy and poems by Pierre Louys, including recitation and chamber ensemble, mime and tableaux vivants based on the salon performance given in Paris on 1901, and includes comments by legendary danseuse and guest of honor Carmen de Lavallade
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:30pm) - "Tribute to Emanuel Feuermann (1902-1942)" Brinton Smith is principal cellist in Houston Symphony and member of the faculty at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:30pm - 10:00pm) - conducted by Lois Ferrari performing Grieg's "Holberg" Suite with the Southwestern University Orchestra. Also featured on the program: Debussy's "Premiere Rhapsodie for Orchestra and Clarinet" with clarinetist Richard MacDowell; Strauss's "Serenade, Opus 7" (chamber winds) and Dvorak's "Symphony No...
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - Elegant, eclectic music for winds and piano by Cioffari, Caldini, Villa-Lobos, Debussy, Vivaldi, and Ponchielli
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - Brahms 4 Ballades and the Chopin 4 Scherzi
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and petty small town politics. directed by Rick Roemer Think times are tough now with soaring gas prices and for...
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and petty small town politics. directed by Rick Roemer Think times are tough now with soaring gas prices and for...
Friday, March 5th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (8:00pm - 10:00pm) - with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and petty small town politics. directed by Rick Roemer Think times are tough now with soaring gas prices and forec...
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (8:00pm - 10:00pm) - with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and petty small town politics. directed by Rick Roemer Think times are tough now with soaring gas prices and forec...
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (3:00pm - 5:00pm) - with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and petty small town politics. directed by Rick Roemer Think times are tough now with soaring gas prices and for...
Monday, March 8th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - performing works by Braxton Blake and Norman Bolter and transcriptions of music by Johann Ernst Galliard and Franz Schubert. Fedson and Russell will each perform solo repertoire, and the recital will conclude with an ensemble of harps and low brass as Fedson and Russell collaborate with SU students...
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - guitar duo
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 11:59pm) - Dr. William H. Foege, an epidemiologist who has been credited with eliminating smallpox around the world, will give the 2010 Shilling Lecture. Jan. 14: Faculty, staff and students can reserve tickets by emailing shillinglecture@southwestern.edu. Ticket pick up will be between Feb.25 and Mar.4 in C...
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - Judy Thompson-Price, director Featuring the work of the Southwestern Dance Department and its gifted choreographers and dancers, this event celebrates the enduring power of movement in a visual and kinetic revelry. Experience a mosaic of vivid and imaginative dance works in varied styles. All...
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - Judy Thompson-Price, director Featuring the work of the Southwestern Dance Department and its gifted choreographers and dancers, this event celebrates the enduring power of movement in a visual and kinetic revelry. Experience a mosaic of vivid and imaginative dance works in varied styles. All...
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - Kenny Sheppard, conductor
Saturday, April 17th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - Lois Ferrari, conductor
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - Directed by Jared J. Stein Escape from Happiness is a ferociously dark and wildly comic vision of the struggles of one very idiosyncratic family to achieve wholeness, peace, and stability in the face of a complex and adversarial world. Walker's viciously funny satire cuts straight to the heart of...
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - Directed by Jared J. Stein Escape from Happiness is a ferociously dark and wildly comic vision of the struggles of one very idiosyncratic family to achieve wholeness, peace, and stability in the face of a complex and adversarial world. Walker's viciously funny satire cuts straight to the heart of...
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (8:00pm - 10:00pm) - Directed by Jared J. Stein Escape from Happiness is a ferociously dark and wildly comic vision of the struggles of one very idiosyncratic family to achieve wholeness, peace, and stability in the face of a complex and adversarial world. Walker's viciously funny satire cuts straight to the heart of...
Saturday, April 24th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (8:00pm - 10:00pm) - Directed by Jared J. Stein Escape from Happiness is a ferociously dark and wildly comic vision of the struggles of one very idiosyncratic family to achieve wholeness, peace, and stability in the face of a complex and adversarial world. Walker's viciously funny satire cuts straight to the heart of...
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (3:00pm - 5:00pm) - Directed by Jared J. Stein Escape from Happiness is a ferociously dark and wildly comic vision of the struggles of one very idiosyncratic family to achieve wholeness, peace, and stability in the face of a complex and adversarial world. Walker's viciously funny satire cuts straight to the heart of...
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm) - Lois Ferrari, conductor
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
- Fine Arts Center (7:00pm - 9:00pm)
