Coming to the Redfern: "Art," Music Department Events, Backstage Tours, A Midsummer Night's Dream
From Jackie Hooper, Redfern Arts Center:
Keene State Theatre will present Art, an award-winning comedy by French playwright Yazmina Reza, at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday, October 19 to 23, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, October 23, in the Wright Theatre of the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond. Tickets are $10 for the general public, $8 for senior citizens and youth age 17 or younger, and $6 for KSC students. Call the box office at 603-358-2168.
Art’s title reflects its storyline, which follows the cataclysmic effect on three friends’ relationship when one of them buys an expensive abstract artwork.
From Barbara Hamel, Music Department:
The Keene State College Music Department is proud to present a faculty and guest artist recital, Friday, October 22, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., in the Alumni Recital Hall, Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond. The recital will feature contemporary music by José Lezcano, Heather Gilligan, and Máximo Diego Pujol.
Boston-based harpist Franciszka Huhn returns to the Alumni Recital Hall stage to join faculty guitarist José Lezcano in a rare performance of Pujol’s Suite Mágica, which weaves together innovative interpretations of the waltz, tango, and the Argentinian condombé.
The recital also features solo guitar music by Lezcano, as well as Gilligan’s Winged Reflections, a recently-completed work commissioned by the New Hampshire chapter of the Music Teachers National Association. Joining Heather Gilligan on her new work will be faculty artists Sandra Howard (mezzo-soprano) and Craig Sylvern.
Admission is $10 for the general public and $5 for KSC students, senior citizens, and youth ages 17 and under. Tickets will be available at the door, or call the box office at 603-358-2168. To request accommodations for a disability, please contact the KSC Music Department at 603-358-2177 or music@keene.edu prior to the recital.
Also from Barbara:
The Keene State College Music Department is proud to present a recital of music by Amy Beach on Sunday, October 24, at 3 p.m., in the Alumni Recital Hall, Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond.The performance will feature Virginia Eskin, a Boston-based pianist and music scholar who regularly collaborates with Keene State faculty and students on programs devoted to the music of women composers. Ms. Eskin will be joined by KSC Music faculty Diane Cushing, Pamela Stevens, Sandra Howard, and Elaine Broad Ginsberg, as well as students from Keene State’s Music Department.
Born in Henniker, NH, Amy Beach (1867-1944) is universally recognized as a pioneer in the field of music composition, having earned the distinction of being the first American woman to receive international recognition for her music compositions. This innovative recital program is a musical journey, taking listeners from Beach’s youth in Henniker, where she was a child prodigy as a pianist and composer, through her adulthood in Boston as a leading composer, recitalist, and patron of the arts. Beach’s music fully embraces the rich harmonies and style of late Romanticism, as demonstrated by her many fine songs, piano works, chamber music, and orchestral music.
A California native and long-time Boston resident, Virginia Eskin is an extremely versatile solo pianist, chamber player and lecturer, known for both standard classical repertoire and ragtime, and a long-time champion of the works of American and European women composers. She is a frequent guest soloist of orchestras and chamber music ensembles throughout the United States, has made numerous critically-acclaimed recordings, and has concertized in many renowned concert halls, universities, and museums in the US and Europe. In 1994, she was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Keene State, recognizing her for lifetime achievement in promoting and performing the music of women composers around the world. She currently holds the position of Visiting Artist at Northeastern University.
Admission is $10 for the general public and $5 for KSC students, senior citizens, and youth ages 17 and under. Tickets will be available at the door, or call the box office at 603-358-2168. To request accommodations for a disability, please contact the KSC Music Department at 603-358-2177 or music@keene.edu prior to the recital.
From AJ Fox, Redfern Arts Center:
Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center will offer audiences an inside view of The Aquila Theatre Company’s performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream during two backstage tours on Monday, October 25, at 2 and 3:30 p.m. Tickets for the backstage tours are $3 for the general public, or free for Redfern members.
These backstage tours offer participants the opportunity to get a firsthand perspective on the intricacies involved in presenting a live performance. Technical staff and students will demonstrate their work with lighting, set design, and other components of technical production. Each tour will last approximately one hour.
The Aquila Theatre Company’s performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream will take place the following day, Tuesday, October 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Theatre.
For more information about backstage tours and other programs, contact the Redfern Arts Center box office, 603-358-2168, or online at www.keene.edu/racbp, where you can also view many video clips from the season’s Visiting Artists repertoire.
