Happy New Year from the CSU School of the Arts! May you and your family and friends be blessed and content in 2009!
This installment of the School of the Arts newsletter launches the Spring 2009 "Meet Me at the UCA" Performance Season, and what a semester it will be with over 70 unique events!
Some highlights include the much anticipated opening of the University Art Museum, and the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising in early April. February includes the Casavant Organ Debut Festival, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, and Opera Theatre's Production of Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella). Our Virtuoso Series Concerts continue, along with excellent jazz, orchestra, band and choir concerts. And be sure to experience the exciting performances in the new University Dance Theatre!
Look through our complete Spring 2009 Guide (PDF), and save some dates now! We look forward to meeting you at the UCA this spring! Sincerely,
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| MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING |
 Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, directed by Eric Prince.
Much Ado about Nothing is one of the Bard's best loved and wittiest plays, loaded with mismatched lovers, squabbling brothers, comic constables and bawdy humor. Young lovers Hero and Claudio are to be married within a week. To pass the time they conspire with Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, to set a 'lovers' trap' for Benedick, a self-confessed 'tyrant to women', and the feisty Beatrice, his favorite sparring partner. Meanwhile, Don Pedro's half-brother, the devious Don John, conspires to break up the wedding. Shakespeare weaves lies, laughter and love into his entertaining guide to the eternal war between the sexes.
Set in California in the mid 1940's, post war-era, with heroes returning home to their women, this Much Ado will be performed by students of CSU's advanced acting class in Shakespeare, and promises to be an evening of theatricality, poetry and laughter.
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February 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 8 at 2:00 p.m., University Theatre, UCA, $7/CSU students, $7/youth (ages 6 - 17), $14/seniors, $16/public BUY TICKETS
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| VIRTUOSO SERIES CONCERTS |
Super Marimba! Guest Artist Payton MacDonald. Griffin Concert Hall, University Center for the Arts, Thursday, January 22, 7:30 p.m. $5/CSU students, $5/youth (ages 6 - 17), $15 public - BUY TICKETS, READ MORE (PDF)
From the Familiar to the Freaky. CSU Faculty Miller Asbill, Conductor, and Friends. Griffin Concert Hall, University Center for the Arts, Monday, February 2, 7:30 p.m. $5/CSU students, $5/youth (ages 6 - 17), $10 public - BUY TICKETS, READ MORE (PDF)
 CSU Faculty Claude Sim, Violin. Griffin Concert Hall, University Center for the Arts, Monday, February 9, 7:30 p.m. $5/CSU students, $5/youth (ages 6 - 17), $10 public - BUY TICKETS, READ MORE (PDF)
Virtuoso Series Concerts are followed by Meet the Artist receptions sponsored by:
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| BAND & ORCHESTRA CONCERTS |
 Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band Concert. In Conjunction with the Annual CSU High School Honor Band Festival, the Wind Ensemble is conducted by a favorite guest, Ray Cramer, who is actively involved in clinics and guest conducting engagements nationally and internationally. The Ensemble's program features Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger, while the Symphonic Band's program, conducted by Miller Asbill, features Mozart's Il Re Pastore Overture K. 208, and CSU High School Honor Band Guest Conductor Thomas C. Duffy's Crystals.
Friday, February 6 at 5:15 p.m., Griffin Concert Hall, UCA. $5/CSU students, $5/ youth (6-17), $10/public BUY TICKETS
The CSU High School Honor Band brings together Colorado's finest high school musicians, selected from hundreds of applicants throughout the state. Guest clinician and conductor Dr. Thomas C. Duffy is Director of Bands at Yale University and President of the College Band Directors National Association.
When and Where
Saturday, February 7 at 5:00 p.m., Griffin Concert Hall, UCA., $4/CSU students, youth, public BUY TICKETS
 University Symphony Orchestra performs Fabulous Favorites! The CSU Symphony, under the direction of Wes Kenney, presents an evening of fabulous symphonic favorites. Joined by CSU faculty members Ron Francois, violin, and Rachel Starr Ellins, harp, the orchestra presents Bruch's heart rending Scottish Fantasy. Framing this centerpiece is one of Brahms' most intense orchestral movements, the Tragic Overture. To close, the orchestra displays its full spectrum of ability as it takes on the splash, haunting textures, and power of Respighi's great descriptive symphony, The Pines of Rome. Wednesday, February 11, 7:30 p.m., Griffin Concert Hall, UCA
$5/CSU students, $5/ youth (6-17), $10/public BUY TICKETS
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| CASAVANT ORGAN DEBUT FESTIVAL |
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Casavant Organ Debut Festival - In Celebration of the Life of Robert Cavarra.
 Feature Concert by CSU Faculty Joel Bacon, Stewart and Sheron Golden Endowed Chair of Organ and Liturgical Studies at CSU. Dr. Bacon celebrates the rich legacy of Colorado State University's internationally renowned Casavant Organ. The recital is the debut of the organ in its new home, the University Center for the Arts' Organ Recital Hall.
Friday, February 20, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, February 22, 2:00 p.m., Organ Recital Hall, UCA, $5/CSU studens, $5/youth, $10/public BUY TICKETS
 Robert Cavarra Memorial Organ Concert. The School of the Arts holds a memorial concert to honor former Professor Emeritus of Music, Robert N. Cavarra, who passed away on February 8, 2008. Cavarra brought international acclaim to CSU by bringing the Casavant Organ to campus in 1968. He was a great supporter of the University Center for the Arts project saying, "When you pursue the arts in an environment where you're surrounded by beauty, you begin to relate to it. Great things in humanity have happened because artists were surrounded by beautiful things." Performers are Joel Bacon, organ; Barbara Thiem, cello; CSU Chamber Choir under the direction of James Kim; and current and former CSU organ students.
Tickets available to the public will be limited - advanced purchase is highly recommended.
When & Where
Saturday, February 21, 7:30 p.m, Organ Recital Hall, UCA $5/CSU studens, $5/youth, $15/public BUY TICKETS
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