Arts and Performances

IC Theatre will present “Eurydice” by MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship recipient Sarah Ruhl. The production is directed by Wendy Dann, assistant professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Hangar Theatre associate artist. Performances will be held in the Clark Theatre in Dillingham Center premiering Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. and running at selected times through Dec. 6.

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Weekend workshop with Industry Professionals from the Hangar Theatre, December 5 & 6.  Sign up now!

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On Thursday, November 19th, at 6:30 p.m., the On the Verge play-reading series will present a staged reading of The Cripple of Inishmaan, which was written in 1996. The cast will include Theatre Department faculty members Susannah Berryman, Kathleen Mulligan and Judy Levitt; English Department faculty members Kevin Murphy and Michael Twomey; and Ithaca College Theatre majors. It will be directed by Claire Gleitman.

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The Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra will highlight two violin soloists on an upcoming free concert on Wednesday, November 18 at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.  Violinists Susan Waterbury and Nicholas DiEugenio both teach violin in the School of Music.   Jeffery Meyer will conduct the concert, consisting of Beethoven’s “Egmont Overture,” Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks” concerto, “Moz-Art a la Haydn” by Alfred Schnittke, and the Kodaly “Dances of Galanta.”

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The Ithaca College Opera Workshop will present a free evening of scenes involving characters who appear in various operas on Tuesday, November 17 at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.  Brian DeMaris will direct the evening.  He noted:  “We'll be presenting scenes from operas based on Beaumarchais' "Figaro" trilogy (“Barber of Seville,” “Marriage of Figaro,”  “La Mere Coupable”),  and including scenes from John Corigliano's "Ghosts of Versailles" and Massenet's "Cherubin," all sung in the original languages.  Students will guide the audience through the complete story of Figaro, Susannah, Cherubino, Countess Rosina, and Count Almaviva from the countess’s first music lessons in “Barber of Seville” to the moment they find themselves facing the guillotine of the French Revolution in a cell alongside Marie Antoinette in “Ghosts of Versailles.””

With a program encompassing Haydn Sonatas and Beethoven’s “Appassionata,” Charis Dimaras will give a free piano recital on Monday, November 16 at 7 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall at Ithaca College.

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Alex Shuhan will give a free French horn recital on Tuesday, November 17 at 7 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall at Ithaca College.  He will be joined by flutist Elizabeth Shuhan and pianist Jennifer Hayghe in a program of music by Dana Wilson, Steven Winteregg, Paul Hindemith and Lowell Liebermann. 

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Cellist Elizabeth Simkin will present a free recital on Sunday, November 15 at 4:00 in the Hockett Family Recital Hall.  Jennifer Hayghe will collaborate as pianist.  The program will include Bartok's Rumanian Folk Dances, "Aerialism" by Sebastian Currier, the "Fantasiestueke" by Robert Schumann, and the Debussy sonata.

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Please join us in the Handwerker Gallery at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, for "Come, Look, and Listen," a program in which Introduction to Museology students Melissa Newmann and Kristina O'Connor will demonstrate how the traditional gallery setting affects how one views art.

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"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study."  ~ Chinese Proverb 

On November 17, 2009 Ithaca College welcomes the Cast and Crew for a one day only showing of the award winning documentary The Philosopher Kings.
 

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The Ithaca Brass will present a free concert on Monday, November 9 at 7 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.  The program spans the musical centuries from Sweelinck to Ravel to Andre Previn and Victor Ewald.

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The Ithaca Wind Quintet’s fall concert will take place on Thursday, November 5 at 8:15 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall.  The free concert will include a wide range of music, including Ligeti, Paquito D’Rivera, Liadov, and Steven Stucky.

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Handwerker Gallery
Thursday, November 5, 2009
12:10-1:00 p.m.

Marjorie Agosín, Latina author, activist, and professor of Latin American Studies at Wellesley College, will read from two of her works: A Cross and a Star, a memoir of her mother's childhood as a Jewish immigrant in a German community in Chile before, during and after World War II, and Anne Frank Poems, lyrical tributes to Anne Frank's courage and individualism. These works are devoted to the Jewish Diaspora experience in Latin America, one that saved Agosín’s family from the perils of Nazi occupied Europe while it situated them in a space of marginality in a Spanish speaking and largely Catholic society.

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The Ithaca College Brass Choir will be joined by brass-playing students from Boynton Middle School for a free concert at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 5 in Ford Hall.  Besides playing with their respective groups, the two ensembles will join together for part of the program, giving the middle schoolers the rare opportunity to make music with advanced players.  Keith Kaiser and Michael Allen will conduct.  Music of Bach, Vaughan Williams, Sousa, Tschesnokov, and others is on the program.  

The Ithaca College Contemporary Chamber Ensemble will present a free concert  on Wednesday, November 4 at 8:15 pm in the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.  Under the direction of Jeffery Meyer and Richard Faria, the ensemble combines faculty and student musicians for music of our time by Saariaho, Adès, and Stucky.  The second half of the concert will be Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” led by graduate conductor Jesse Livingston and with sopranos Katie Cohen, Sarah Toth, and Ashley Carver.

The French horn duo "MirrorImage" --  Michelle Stebleton and Lisa Bontrager, with Tomoko Kamanaru at the piano -- will present a free concert on Tuesday, November 3 at 8:15 in the Hockett Family Recital Hall.  Works from their upcoming compact disc project, “Safari” will be featured, along with commissions for the ensemble by Paul Basler, Ray Chase, and Larry Lowe.  Also on the program are several opera arrangements by Ray Chase, which have been recorded on the ensemble’s recent compact disc release, “MirrorImage at the Opera,” on MSR Classics.

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Violinist Susan Waterbury will present a free recital at 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 1 in the Hockett Family Recital Hall at Ithaca College. Pianist Jeffery Meyer and narrator Mary Alice Dillman will collaborate. Besides the children’s classic “Ferdinand the Bull,” music of Ravel, Beethoven, and Lutoslawski is on the program.

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Children of Eden features music and lyrics by award-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell, Pippin). Lee Byron, chair of the Department of Theatre Arts, will direct the production. Performances will be held in the Hoerner Theatre in Dillingham Center, premiering November 3 at 8:00 p.m. and running at selected times through November 14.

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On Wednesday, October 28th, at 6:30 p.m., On the Verge will present a staged reading of Hayavadana, which was written in 1971 by Girish Karnad, India's foremost living playwright as well as an acclaimed actor and film director. 

The staged reading is scheduled to coincide with Karnad's visit to Ithaca College. It will feature a cast of Ithaca College students and faculty members (including Greg Bostwick and Kathleen Mulligan, from the Department of Theatre Arts), and it will be directed by Claire Gleitman, a professor in the English department.

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The School of Humanities & Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present acclaimed essayist Jo Ann Beard as part of this semester's Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. She will read from her work on Wednesday, October 28th at 7:30pm in Klingenstein Lounge, Egbert Hall. The reading is free and open to everyone.

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