Coming to the Redfern: Images in Sound, The End
From Barbara Hamel, Music:
The Keene State College Department of Music presents a lecture and concert by the Keene State College Concert Band and Keene State College choruses at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 3, 2011 on the Main Stage of the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond.
Jim Chesebrough, KSC music faculty member, and Sean Meagher (’12), assistant conductor, direct the band in this performance, which is presented as part of the Keene State College Seventh Biennial Symposium: “What Sustains Us? Envisioning Our Future.”
This event features a pre-concert lecture, discussing the importance of commissioning new music. Dr. Chesebrough is joined by composer Steven Danyew, winner of the 2011 Keene State College Call for Scores competition, Heather Gilligan, composer and Assistant Professor of Music, and Joe Darby, musicologist, performer, and Professor of Music. This panel will discuss the compositional process using Steve’s winning-work Flash Black as the talking point for this discussion of where our music comes from and why we must vigorously support its creation. The ensemble will also participate in the panel, performing sections of the new work.
The second part of the program is a performance of various compositions that connect us to people, places, and things in our culture. Along with Flash Black, the ensemble will be performing Eric Nathan’s Jump Start, “Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral” from the opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, and Adam Gorb’s Bermuda Triangle. A new work by Andrew Boysen, Twilight of the Gods, exemplifies the current trend of multi-media composition, combining Boysen’s music with the video illustrations of visual artist Erik Evansen. The finale features the combined choruses of Keene State College in a performance of Anton Bruckner’s “Gloria” from the Mass in E Minor. For more information on this or any other Redfern performance contact Redfern Arts Center box office at 603-358-2168 or online at www.keene.edu/racbp.
From Jackie Hooper, Redfern Arts Center:
The Redfern Arts Center continues its 30th anniversary season with Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland’s mesmerizing one-man theatrical adaption of The End, a short story by Samuel Beckett. Masterful storyteller Conor Lovett performs this remarkable story with insight and wry Irish wit at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 26, in the Alumni Recital Hall. Tickets range from $23 to $12. To order tickets and for more information, contact the Box Office at 603-358-2168 or visit www.keene.edu/racbp.
Conor Lovett will also join KSC Professor William Stroup’s English Literary Analysis class for a discussion on Samuel Beckett and the story The End at noon, Wednesday, October 26, in the Harry Davis Room of the Redfern Arts Center. This talk is free and open to the public.
Patrons and the general public are invited to join Judy Hegarty Lovett, co-artistic director of Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland, during an informal Meet and Greet in the lobby between 6:30 and 7 p.m. prior to the October 26 performance. Light refreshments will be served. Conor Lovett will also remain after the performance for a question and answer session moderated by Professor Stroup and the Redfern’s new director, Shannon R. Mayers.
