Hope College Arts Update for Oct. 6: Jazz Collective, Knick Film Series, Grammy-Nominated Quartet

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October 06, 2011

Great Performance Series Presents 2010 Grammy Nominated: Enso String Quartet
Thursday, October 13, 7:30pm
Dimnent Memorial Chapel

Recognition of the award-winning young ensemble has included a 2010 Grammy nomination for "Best Chamber Music Performance." "The Washington Post" has said that the quartet gives "a thrillingly athletic performance."

Shortly after the group's inception at Yale University in 1999, Enso had success at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and the quartet has consistently received high praise for performances ever since. The quartet's debut recording was described by "Strad Magazine" as "an auspicious start to their recording career," and was followed by the recent Grammy-nominated release of the quartets of Ginastera. MusicWeb International summed up the album as "playing of jaw-dropping prowess revealing masterpieces of the 20th century quartet literature," noting, "seek out this group - they are clearly bound for greatness." The disc was selected as one of MusicWeb's Recordings of the Year for 2009.

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Hope Jazz Ensembles Concert
Oct. 06, 7:30pm
Knickerbocker Theatre

Catch some free jazz at the Knick.
The Standards Ensemble will begin the concert by performing "Voyage," by Kenny Barron; "Elm," by Richie Beirach; and "Armando's Rhumba," by Chick Corea.

The Mainstream Ensemble will then perform "Ahmad's Blues," by Ahmad Jamal; "Spring is Here," by Rodgers and Hart; and "Domingo," by Benny Golson.

The Jazz Arts Collective will close the concert by performing "The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful," by Jeff Benedict; "Under Current," by Jim Cifelli; "Whirly Bird," by Justin Morell; and "Caravan," by Duke Ellington.

Dance Auditions
Friday, Oct. 7, 1pm & Monday, Oct. 17, 6:30pm
Evergreen Commons

Evergreen Commons is proud to announce a new opportunity this year to area dancers, male and female, age 50+. Community-wide auditions for dancers to participate in the very popular Evergreen Commons Tulip Time Shows will take place on Friday, October 7, at 1:00 p.m. and Monday, October 17, at 6:30 p.m. Auditions will take place in the Seminar Room at Evergreen Commons, 480 State Street, in Holland. No preparation or previous experience is required but dancers with experience are strongly encouraged to attend. Prospective dancers may come to either session. No appointment is necessary.

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Film: "Mozart's Sister"
Monday-Saturday, October 10-15, 7:30pm
Knickerbocker Theatre

The film is a speculative account of Maria Anna "Nannerl" Mozart (Marie Feret), five years older than Wolfgang (David Moreau) and a musical prodigy in her own right. Originally the featured performer, she has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold (Marc Barbe) tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French Revolution Europe. Approaching marriageable age and now forbidden to play the violin or compose, Nannerl chafes at the limitations imposed on her gender, but a friendship with the son and daughter of Louis XV offers an alternative.

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"Marion Bridge"
Friday- Saturday, October 14-15 &
Wednesday-Saturday, October 19-22, 8pm
DeWitt Center Studio Theatre

Hope College Theatre will present "Marion Bridge" by Daniel MacIvor on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 14-15, and Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 19-22, at 8 p.m. in the DeWitt Center studio theatre.

"'Marion Bridge' is a play about the familial relationships between three adult sisters as they return to their childhood home to care for their dying mother," said Daina Robins, who is the production's director and a professor of theatre at Hope. "It is a funny, tender, and moving story of three siblings reconnecting and re-assessing their lives."

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Film: Inside Job
Thursday, October 13, 7pm
Saugatuck Center for the Arts

Directed by Charles H. Ferguson, Inside Job is the award winning, acclaimed documentary about the 2008 financial crisis. The film was screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Ferguson has described the film as being about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption." In five parts, the film explores how changes in the policy environment and banking practices helped create the financial crisis.

The Washington Post says, "Inside Job deserves to be considered an authoritative primer on the financial collapse."

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Artist Talk: Bruce McCombs
"An Exhibition of Watercolors"
Friday, Oct. 14, 4:30pm
De Pree Art Center