September 15, 2009
University Center for the Arts
1400 Remington Street
Fort Collins, CO 80524
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Thursday or Friday night...take your pick! This week the University Symphony Orchestra takes the newly refinished Griffin Concert Hall stage hostage for two nights, performing Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique and more! Take advantage of $1 youth ticket prices and bring the family!
The CSU Marching Band is going to keep the field smokin' hot for the second half of the football game when the Dirty Dozen Brass Band joins them during half time on September 19th. The collaboration is the capstone event of the marching band New Orleans fundraiser.
The Alchemist, by celebrated poet and Shakespeare contemporary, Ben Jonson, opens next Tuesday, September 22nd. The play is being presented in the Studio Theatre with limited seating, so buy your tickets today before they sell out!
Also in this week's e-mail are details about two Virtuoso Series Concerts and events in the University Art Museum, so please read to the end!
Meet Me at the UCA soon,
Jennifer Clary
Marketing Director, CSU School of the Arts |
| UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT THIS WEEK! |
 The University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Wes Kenney, with special guest Matthew Scheffelman, horn. The symphony plays the ground-breaking Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz, the quintessential 19th century Romantic period artist whose broad emotions and manic-depressive personality cuts across the music.
CSU Horn Professor Matthew Scheffelman, who performs around the world as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player, is featured on the Atterberg Horn Concerto, a delightful work by 20th century Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg.
The evening also includes a work by American iconoclast Michael Daugherty whose music is cut from the fabric that is American pop culture.
Read more. When & Where
Thursday, September 17, and Friday, September 18, 7:30 p.m., Griffin Concert Hall, University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington Street. $5/CSU students, $1/youth (2 - 17), $10/adult - Tickets available at www.csutix.com
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| THE ALCHEMIST OPENS NEXT WEEK - LIMITED SEATING |
 CSU Theatre Presents The Alchemist by Ben Jonson.
Jonson's crowning theatrical achievement. Compelling and complex characters, impeccable comic timing, an hilarious farce.
~The London Observer
If Shakespeare represented the popular mainstream of his own time, Ben Jonson wrote that period's equivalent of the festival film - the cult classic. A brilliant satire: unrelenting, angry and hilarious. ~ The Village Voice
At any one moment, Hollywood writers are trying to write the next perfect plot; The Grifters, The Sting, and Oceans 11 are basically The Alchemist by Ben Jonson, as it dramatizes the "long con." The great English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), surmised that The Alchemist - first performed in 1610 - had one of three perfect plots, the other two being Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (430 B.C.), and Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749). Just three in 2,000 years!
It's been said that if it wasn't for Shakespeare, Jonson would be Britain's national playwright and his greatest misfortune was having Shakespeare as a contemporary. This would have been news to Jonson as he went to his grave the most celebrated poet of his age.
The clever comedy and deception of The Alchemist's perfect plot takes place within six hours in London's Blackfriars district. In 1610, London was the capitol of lethal con-artists and money-minded Puritans, where the threat of plague was balanced by the prospect of limitless wealth. The Alchemist is flawless, still current satire about greed, image, perceptions and the endless gullibility of people of all social classes.
If Jonson had been a Hollywood screenwriter, one could imagine a chart with each storyline represented by a different color string marking plot intersections, and reminiscent of a map of the London Underground - only easier to lose one's way.
The Studio Theatre has limited seating and the audience sits close to the set - buy your tickets today for a uniquely intimate theatrical experience.When & Where
September 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 8 p.m., Sunday, September 27, 2 p.m., Studio Theatre, University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington Street. $7/CSU students, $7/youth (13 - 17), $14/seniors, $16/public - Tickets available at www.csutix.com
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VIRTUOSO SERIES CONCERTS |
 Join special guests Jean-Marie Londeix for a rare saxophone history lecture, followed by William Street, saxophone, with Roger Admiral, piano in concert.
Renowned saxophonist Jean-Marie Londeix is one of the greatest figures in French classical saxophone history, with a large portion of literature and pedagogy either by him or dedicated to him. Now retired from playing, Londeix is touring, giving a one-of-a-kind lecture on saxophone history and literature in French with William Street translating. The FREE lecture is at 5 p.m.
William Street, professor of saxophone at the University of Alberta, with and pianist Roger Admiral, perform a recital of classic and contemporary music for saxophone and piano. The ticketed concert is at 7:30 p.m. Read more.
When & WhereSunday, September 20, 7:30 p.m. (concert), Organ Recital Hall, University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington Street. $5/CSU students, $1/youth (2 - 17), $10/adult - Tickets available at www.csutix.com.
 Colorado Composers Project with Bob Brewer, Euphonium. CSU faculty Robert Brewer, tuba, accompanied by Roberta Mielke, piano, perform tuba music composed by fellow Coloradans as part of the Colorado Composer Project, an ongoing effort to discover and bring music by Colorado composers to public performance. Read more.
When & Where
Monday, September 21, 7:30 p.m., Organ Recital Hall, University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington Street. $5/CSU students, $1/youth (2 - 17), $10/adult - Tickets available at www.csutix.com. |
| MARCHING BAND FUNDRAISER FOR NEW ORLEANS FAMILY |
 The Colorado State University Marching Band fundraiser for a New Orleans Family brings the Dirty Dozen Brass Band to Fort Collins!
During the month of September, the Colorado State University Marching Band is partnering with the St. Bernard Parish Project, the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association, the Aggie Theatre, and the Fort Collins Musicians Association, to sponsor a home rebuild for a displaced New Orleans family affected by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
The halftime show during the Colorado State University vs. Nevada football game on September 19th at Hughes Stadium will be one of the capstone events of the fundraiser. The CSU Marching Band will collaborate with special guests, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band from New Orleans, on a halftime show that Rams fans won't soon forget! During the show, fans will have the opportunity to text their donation to the effort. Game time is 3 p.m. and tickets are available at www.csurams.com.
Following the football game on September 19th, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band (DDBB), with special guest John Magnie of the Subdudes, will perform a "full-tilt DDBB party" at the Aggie Theater in downtown Fort Collins. Tickets are $10 in advance at www.aggietheatre.com, or $12 at the door.
Read full story. When & Where
Saturday, September 19th Halftime of the Colorado State University vs. Nevada (3 p.m. kickoff) - Buy Tickets | |
| ART MUSEUM TASTEFUL TUESDAYS |
TASTEFUL TUESDAYS: Join museum curators at the University Art Museum for insightful conversations about art, culture, and works displayed in the museum. Conversations continue at neighboring El Monte Bar and Grill with discounts on food and drinks. Conversations begin in the main gallery of the museum and are FREE and open to the public.
 Our first Tasteful Tuesday focuses on Andy Warhol's Camera: A discussion of Warhol's photographs in the context of his body of work
When and Where Tuesday, September 22, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., University Art Museum, University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington Street.
Regular museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Admission is always free. For more information contact 970-491-1989 or visit www.artmuseum.colostate.edu
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