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Get into the lively arts at Temple this season
No matter what your artistic tastes, this fall at Temple will be a season of discovery and rediscovery. Jazz, classical, opera, theater, musicals, dance, poetry, gallery exhibits — Temple students, faculty and staff are creating and bringing to Philadelphia some of the best art in the country.
Below is a sampling of the fall arts offerings at Temple. For updated times, locations and ticketing information, visit the Web sites listed below, or check the TUcalendar at http://calendar.temple.edu.
Theater
www.temple.edu/theater/theater-season.htm
A Tony Award-winning epic musical, a contemporary character-driven comic mystery, and free workshop performances of plays written by area high-school students highlight the Temple Theaters fall season.
This year for the first time, the Diamond Club has coordinated a special dinner-and-a-show series: One Wednesday for each show, you can eat a dinner that matches the theme of the play you’re seeing, right on Main Campus. See the sidebar for more information.
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| In April, Temple Theaters staged a spare, high-intensity performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This season opens with a musical version of the turn-of-the-century epic Ragtime. |
| (Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg / University Photography) |
Season subscription (general admission) for five plays is $70; single tickets are $20.
Discount tickets: Seniors, students, and Temple employees and alumni pay only $55 for a season subscription.
Single tickets are $15; free for Temple students with TUid.
Visit the Temple Theaters Web site for details. Performances are presented in the Tomlinson and Randall theaters in the Temple Theaters complex at 13th and Norris streets.
Sept. 28–30
Philadelphia Young Playwrights ’06
Coordinator: David Ingram
Tomlinson Theater
Free admission
Oct. 25–Nov. 4
Ragtime: The Musical
Book by Terrence McNally, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Directed by Peter Reynolds
Tomlinson Theater
Nov. 16–Dec. 2
(No performances during Thanksgiving Break, Nov. 22–27)
Our Lady of 121st Street
By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Douglas C. Wager
Randall Theater
Music
www.temple.edu/boyer/enp/concert_series.htm
The Boyer College of Music and Dance hosts an array of top-quality musical offerings every semester, ranging from the Symphony Orchestra’s classical concerts to the electronic, multimedia explorations of Cybersounds. In October, the Temple University Jazz Band takes the stage in the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater with Philadelphia jazz legend Jimmy Heath, and honors him with the Temple University Jazz Masters Hall of Fame Award.
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The Music Preparatory and Enrichment Program of the Boyer College of Music and Dance trains young musicians who demonstrate great potential through its Center for Gifted Young Musicians. Young, talented instrumentalists and singers will perform two concerts in December. |
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And in November, the award-winning Temple Opera Theater performs a new version of Offenbach’s opera Les Contes d’Hoffman, which it co-produced with the Peabody Institute of Baltimore.
Performances are free, unless otherwise noted.
Sunday, Oct. 1, 2 p.m.
Temple University Symphony Orchestra
Rossen Milanov, conductor; Nicolas Real, flute; Jean-François Proulx, piano
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
Jacob: Flute Concerto No. 1
Sibelius: Lemminkainen Suite, Op. 22 (mvmt. IV)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 26
Haverford School, Centennial Hall, 450 W. Lancaster Ave., Haverford, Pa.
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty and Guest Artists Recital: Tom Lawton Ensemble
Klein Recital Hall
Sunday, Oct. 8, 3 p.m.
Temple University Concert Choir
Alan Harler, conductor
Featuring Rodion Shchedrin’s “The Execution of Pugachev”
Trinity Center for Urban Life, 22nd and Spruce streets, Philadelphia
Tuesday, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.
Temple University Jazz Band
Terell Stafford, director; Jimmy Heath, saxophone, guest artist
Tickets: $10–$30 at www.kimmelcenter.org
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce streets, Philadelphia
Wednesday, Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Temple University Singers and Women’s Chorus
Jeffrey Cornelius and Tram Sparks, conductors
Rock Hall Auditorium
Friday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., Haverford School, Centennial Hall
Sunday, Oct. 29, 3 p.m., Sovereign Performing Arts Center, Reading, Pa.
Temple University Symphony Orchestra
Luis Biava, conductor; Nitzan Haroz, trombone
Smetana: Overture to The Bartered Bride
Grondahl: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra
Rachmoninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Wednesday, Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m.
Cybersounds
Featuring composers and video artists from the United States, Argentina, Korea and Turkey in a concert of new computer music realized and enhanced with projected video. Presented in conjunction with the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) Electroacoustic Music Month.
Rock Hall Auditorium
Monday, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Conwell Woodwind Quintet
Loren Lind, flute; Peter Smith, oboe; Lawrence Wagner, clarinet; Angela Anderson, bassoon; Shelley Showers, horn
Rock Hall Auditorium
Friday Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 19, 3 p.m.
Temple University Opera Theater: Les Contes d’Hoffman by Jacques Offenbach
Copeland Woodruff, stage director, John Douglas, music director, Jamie Johnson, producer
A new version by Michael Kaye, co-produced with the Peabody Institute of Music in Baltimore.
Sung in French with English supertitles.
Tickets: $20 general admission/$12.50 students and senior citizens/free with TUid.
Tomlinson Theater
Tuesday, Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m.
Temple University Sinfonia
Tomlinson Theater
Tuesday, Nov. 28, 7:30 p.m.
Temple University Wind Ensemble
Arthur D. Chodoroff and Timothy W. Oliver, conductors
Tomlinson Theater
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m.
Temple University Chorale, Singers and Women’s Chorus
Janet Yamron, Jeffrey Cornelius and Tram Sparks, conductors
Mitten Hall, Great Court
Friday, Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m.
Temple University Percussion Ensemble
Glenn Steele, director
Tomlinson Theater
Sunday, Dec. 3, 4 p.m.
Center for Gifted Young Musicians: Holiday String Concert
A performance of Temple Music Prep, featuring the Youth Chamber Orchestra, Baroque Players, Classic Strings and Temple Music Prep Children’s Choir.
Tomlinson Theater
Tuesday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Temple University Concert Choir: An American Christmas: A Feast of Carols
Alan Harler, conductor
Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pa.
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Temple’s award-winning jazz band has performed with many legends, and this October continues the tradition with saxophone great Jimmy Heath at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. |
| (Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg / University Photography) |
Tuesday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Temple University Jazz Ensemble
Terell Stafford, director
Klein Recital Hall
Saturday, Dec. 9
Baroque Players Chamber Ensembles recital: 2:30 p.m.
Youth Chamber Orchestra Chamber Ensembles recital: 4 p.m.
A performance of Temple Music Prep.
Rock Hall
Dance
www.temple.edu/boyer/enp/concert_series.htm
A movement-theater work that will have its U.S. premiere this fall in New York and Philadelphia and concerts featuring guest artists performing original dance works highlight the Conwell Dance Theater’s fall season, part of the Boyer College of Music and Dance concert series.
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Photo courtesy Tabatha Robinson-Scott |
Performances are in the Conwell Dance Theater, on the fifth floor of Conwell Hall.
Except for “Six Actors in Search of a Plot,” tickets are $10 general admission; $5 students and senior citizens; free with TUid.
Tuesday, October 10, 8 p.m.
“Six Actors in Search of a Plot”
An Arab/Jewish movement-theater work co-produced by Peace Child Israel and the Tyler School of Art premiering in New York at the Baruch College Performing Arts Center before its Philadelphia performances at Temple and at the Painted Bride Arts Center; co-authored by Palestinian Muslim playwright Mohammed El-Thaher and American Jewish director/choreographer Billy Yalowitz, who directs the community arts program at Tyler. No tickets required; donations taken at the door.
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13–14, 8 p.m.
Leslie Dworkin and Kent De Spain in an evening of their dance works, with guest artist Tabatha Robinson Scott presenting her dance “Fire and Ice”
Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10–11, 8 p.m.
Temple Student Dance Concert
Friday and Saturday, November 17–18, 8 p.m.
M.F.A. Dance Concert featuring Megan Mazarick
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 1–2, 8 p.m.
B.F.A. Senior Dance Concert
The Poets & Writers Series
www.temple.edu/creativewriting
Sponsored by the Graduate Creative Writing Program in the English department, six prominent authors of poetry and fiction will visit Temple this fall to read their work. The program’s visiting writer this semester is fiction writer R.M. Berry, who will spend the week of Oct. 16 on campus to provide creative writing students with greater insight into the writing process and face-to-face feedback. Berry will give a public reading on Oct. 19. All of the readings are free and take place at TUCC, room 222.
Thursday, Sept. 14, 8 p.m.
Elizabeth Willis’ new book, Meteoric Flowers, is just out from Wesleyan University Press. These poems take on Erasmus Darwin, the pastoral tradition, the Baudelairean prose poem, and the FBI. She teaches contemporary poetry at Wesleyan University.
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 8 p.m.
Ben Marcus, chair of the graduate writing program at Columbia University, is the author of the short-story collection The Age of Wire and String and the novel Notable American Women, and is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories.
Thursday, Oct. 5, 8 p.m.
Lance Olsen is the author of eight novels, an NEA fellowship and Pushcart Prize recipient, and former Idaho Writer-in-Residence. He currently serves as chair of the board of directors at Fiction Collective Two. Steve Tomasula is the author of VAS: An Opera in Flatland, an acclaimed novel of the biotech revolution that has recently been re-released in paper by the University of Chicago Press.
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| Photo courtesy R.M. Berry |
Thursday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m.
Visiting writer R.M. Berry’s first collection of stories, Plane Geometry and Other Affairs of the Heart, was chosen by Robert Coover as winner of the 1985 Fiction Collective prize. His most recent novel is FRANK (Chiasmus: 2005), an “unwriting” of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Thursday, Nov. 9, 8 p.m.
Barrett Watten, whose books of poetry include Progress/Under Erasure (Green Integer), Bad History (Atelos), and Frame: 1971-1990, received the 2004 Rene Wellek Prize from the Comparative Literature Association.
Art exhibits
www.temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions.html
Temple Gallery in Old City, Philadelphia, will host its inaugural exhibition, Empathetic, in a new space in November. By then, the new high-ceilinged, loft-like space will have undergone a complete renovation to provide a setting for the display of ambitious, experimental works of art. On Tyler’s Elkins Park, campus, Tyler Gallery begins exhibiting in October with a student-curated performance art program.
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Photo by Pedro Lasch
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| In November, “Empathetic” will be the first exhibition in Temple Gallery’s newly leased space in Old City, Philadelphia. Pedro Lasch’s The Dance of the Masks, above, is part of the exhibit, which examines issues of communication and understanding through works by 10 artists. |
Performance Art Program, Oct. 25–Nov. 4
Tyler Gallery, Tyler’s Elkins Park campus
This exhibition explores emerging contemporary performance art practices, and is curated by the student group Produce.
The project will include work by five artists from across the country. In conjunction with the exhibit, a panel discussion will be led by philosopher, critic and artist Tom Zummer, and a workshop for students will be offered by Benjamin Kinsley from the Poke Orchestra.
Empathetic, Nov. 4–Feb. 17, 2007
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third St., Philadelphia
Curated by Pittsburgh curator and writer Elizabeth Thomas, Empathetic investigates issues of communication and understanding through drawings, sculpture, videos and installations by 10 artists. This exhibition will feature several related events, including performances by Pedro Lasch and Pia Lindman, public lectures on the subject of empathy as well as about the art in the exhibition, and a series of talks in the gallery by local artists and professors.
Empathetic is the inaugural exhibition of a new “Emerging Curators” series, a biennial program that will feature projects by young professionals.
More ways to take in the arts this fall:
Catch the music masters at work
Master classes, planned by the Boyer College of Music and Dance, offer the public an opportunity to observe many distinguished artists as they work one-on-one with students. Held in Rock Hall Auditorium on Main Campus, they are free and open to the public.
• Sept. 13, 2:40 p.m.: Andrés Cárdenes, violin
• Oct. 13, 2:40 p.m.: Emerson String Quartet (featuring Philip Setzer, violin, and David Finckel, cello)
• Nov. 2, 2:40 p.m.: Russell Sherman, piano
• Nov. 6, 2:40 p.m.: Slowind (woodwind quintet)
• Nov. 14, 2:40 p.m.: Leland Kimball, opera director
• Nov. 29, 2:40 p.m.: Pamela Frank, violin
• Dec. 8, 2:40 p.m.: George Walker, piano
Second-Wednesday Diamond Club dinner series
Indulge your imagination and dine like J.P. Morgan in Ragtime before seeing these characters and their worlds come alive onstage with a theme-based dinner, followed by an evening of theater.
The staff at the Diamond Club has researched and created menus so you can sample the cuisine from the era of each of this season’s plays: For Ragtime, get a taste of the dawn of the American 20th century; experience contemporary dining New York City-style with Our Lady of 121st Street.
When you order your subscriptions from the 2006–07 brochure, call the Diamond Club at 215-204-4469 to make reservations for dinner (approx $15 per person). Staff and faculty: If you have not received a brochure in interoffice mail, call 215-204-1122 to request one.
Plan to arrive at the Diamond Club, located in the lower level of Mitten Hall, between 5 p.m. and 5:30 pm. Curtain is at 7 p.m.
The Diamond Club Dinner Series 2006-07
(All performances Wednesdays at 7 p.m.)
Nov. 1: Ragtime
Nov. 29: Our Lady of 121st Street
Feb. 14: The Importance of Being Earnest
March 21: The Devils
April 18: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
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