Performing Arts Series
2007 - 2008 Season
Click here to download the current Performing Arts Series brochure in pdf format.- The President's Music Series
- Potpourri Series
- Jeffrey Siegel's Keyboard Conversations® Series
- The Adams Foundation Piano Recital Series
The President's Music Series
The Muir String Quartet
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Peter Zazofsky, violin Lucia Lin, violin Steven Ansell, viola Michael Reynolds, cello When: Monday, November 19, 2007, 8:00 PM Where: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts
Where: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts
Where: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts
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The Beaux Arts Trio
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Manahem Pressler, piano Daniel Hope, violin Antonio Meneses, cello When: Monday, April 14, 2008, 8:00 PM Where: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts Back by popular demand! Program to be announced The Performing Arts Series is pleased to be presenting one of the final performances of The Beaux Arts Trio, who will cease touring after 53 seasons following their April, 2008 engagements. The Trio set the standard for performance of piano trio literature which began with its public debut on July 13, 1955 at the Berkshire Music Festival, known today as the Tanglewood Music Center. |
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Potpourri Series
Ballet Folklórico de México – The Pulse of Mexico
Where: The Auditorium in Roberts HallWhen: Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 8:00 PM
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Dancer and Choreographer Amalia Hernandez founded Ballet Folklórico de
México as part of her never-ending quest to rescue the dancing traditions of
Mexico. One of the most celebrated folkloric ballet troupes in the world, Ballet
Folklórico de México has gathered dances and music from various regions of
Mexico for over 50 years. Celebrate the rich traditions of Mexico in this
colorful performance featuring music, folklore, stunning costumes and original
choreographies from our neighbors to the south. A visual spectacle! Passionate… impeccable… an unequaled point of entry to the riches of a fabulous culture. Los Angeles Times |
The Salzburg Marionette Theatre – The Sound of Music with Strings Attached
Where: The Auditorium in Roberts HallWhen: Monday, December 3, 2007, 7:30 PM
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Founded in 1913, The Salzburg Marionette Theatre, with their master-crafted
puppets, has cast a spell around the globe with entrancing performances of
legendary operas, magical fairy tales and intricate ballets. Now they return to
Rhode Island College to enchant you with Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic The
Sound of Music, set in the Marionette Theatre's hometown, Salzburg. The lifelike movement of these dolls is based on a keen observation of human habit that is contemporary and very funny. Imagination pours through the production. The Star Ledger |
The Parsons Dance Company – A Lot Harder Than it Looks
Where: The Auditorium in Roberts HallWhen: Thursday, February 7, 2008, 8:00 PM
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David Parsons, former lead dancer with The Paul Taylor Dance Company,
founded Parsons Dance Company with lighting designer Howell Binkley in 1987. The
Company has thrilled audiences around the world with an abundance of new,
high-energy, high-leaping works and original, commissioned musical scores and
theatrical designs. The Parsons Dance Company offers huge helpings of
personality and New York energy and promises to entertain you as no other modern
dance company can. Parsons Dance has found a recipe for thrilling audiences: Mix a variegated array of pleasing music; springy, athletic movement; traces of mischievous wit; and go-for-broke dancers. Stir into legible, well-crafted structure. Spice sparingly. The Village Voice |
Garth Fagan Dance – Celebrate Black History Month
Where: The Auditorium in Roberts HallWhen: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 8:00 PM
 Photo: Basil Childers From: LIFE: DARK/LIGHT Featuring: N. Pennewell and N. Depass |
For over 35 years Garth Fagan Dance has dazzled audiences around the world
with some of the most dynamic and intensely physical dancing on stage today. The
Tony Award-winning choreographer of Broadway's The Lion King, Garth
Fagan has been called "a true dance original" (New York
Post) and his dancers have been described as "unforgettable...soaring
through space with demonic energy" (New York
Magazine). Audiences are held in thrall by Fagan’s groundbreaking
technique: a mix of modern dance, Afro-Caribbean forms, balletic speed and
precision, and jazz. In the genealogy of modern dance, [Garth Fagan] has started a whole new branch of the family tree. The New York Times |
Salvage Vanguard Theatre – The Intergalactic Nemesis – Prepare for Impact
Where: The Auditorium in Roberts HallWhen: Friday, March 7, 2008, 8:00 PM
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Winners of dozens of awards for their creative work, Salvage Vanguard
Theatre has created a family-friendly, hip/geek live radio serial that wows
audiences of all ages. It's called The Intergalactic Nemesis.
The story is set in 1933, when Ben Wilcott has traveled back in time from 2115
to warn the world of impending disaster. Ben solicits the help of ace reporter
Molly Sloan and, together, they travel across the globe to save the day. It's
Star Wars meets Raiders of the Lost Ark with a little of
The Incredibles thrown in for good measure. See a live radio play come
to life (circa 1940) with script-reading actors and the magical sound effects
laboratory of two foley artists in this clever spin on those old serialized
radio mysteries. Weird, witty and irreverent, this company likes to convert nay-sayers to traditional theatre by sweeping them up in productions of swollen excitement... The Austin Chronicle |
The Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theatre Company – The Vanishing Point – Walking Tall
Where: The Auditorium in Roberts HallWhen: Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 8:00 PM
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The Carpetbag Brigade has engaged and dazzled crowds from BC, Canada to
Bogotá, Columbia. Their work transcends genre, and is distinctive for a
dreamlike, surreal and poetic evocation of environmental themes and imagery. In
a performance merging breathtaking acrobatic stilt work, physical theatre,
Butoh, modern dance and otherworldly costuming, The Vanishing
Point takes audiences on a journey through time in which a cast of
creatures both evolves and descends towards an apparently human existence. By
mixing the social mission of theatre with high quality performance, The
Carpetbag Brigade brings cutting edge, original work to audiences of all ages,
backgrounds and locales. They do on stilts what most of us can't do with feet planted firmly on the ground!. La Crosse Tribune |
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Jeffrey Siegel's Keyboard Conversations® Series
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Jeffrey Siegel's KEYBOARD CONVERSATIONS® will return for a sixth
season with three new "concerts with commentary." The virtuosity and poetry of a
world-class pianist combined with entertaining commentary create a concert
experience that is magical. Each program begins with an insightful and
entertaining prologue on the music and its composer, followed by a full
performance of the works, and ends with a lively question and answer session.
When: Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 7:30 PM Where: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts An American Salute From Gottschalk to Gershwin, with music of Bernstein, Copland, Joplin, MacDowell and others. When: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 7:30 PM Where: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts Russia: Rebels on the Red Carpet From the passionate etudes of Rachmaninoff to the biting sarcasms of Prokofieff, with the music of Shostakovich and Stravinsky. When: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 7:30 PM Where: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts Austria-Hungary: Captivating Continentals From elegant Strauss waltzes to saucy Liszt rhapsodies, with music of Dvorak and Bartok. |
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The Adams Foundation Piano Recital Series
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The Adams Foundation Piano Recital Series returns for its third consecutive season with two new outstanding performers. On Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 2:30 PM, James Tocco will demonstrate his prize-winning talent as one of the great interpreters of American masterworks and on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Jeanne Stark-Iochmans will prove her renown as an interpreter of classical music's most challenging repertoire for the piano. Programs to be announced. |
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