Klezmer is hot and the Kleztraphobix are the hottest—appearing frequently in New York City clubs and mixing traditional Klezmer with everything from free jazz to Macedonian folk tunes. Critically acclaimed and tremendously popular, highlights of their many shows include performances for the Yiddish Radio Project, Portuguese Fado singer Fatima Santos, and special tribute shows to Shlomo Carlebach.
Click below to hear a sample of one of Kleztraphobix songs.
Part of Prestige Concert Series: 2009-2010
Part of Music Workshops & Master Classes
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Don't miss the first New York performance of a newly commissioned work by the rising American composer Dan Visconti. The Cleveland Plain Dealer called his music “both mature and youthful, bristling with exhilarating musical ideas and a powerfully crafted lyricism.” The program opens with the exuberance of the young Beethoven, and concludes with Dvořák's “American” Quartet, written during the same period as his New World Symphony.
*Please join us for a pre-concert wine and cheese reception for ticket holders, to be held in the multi-purpose rooms at the AU PAC from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
PROGRAM
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6
Dan Visconti
“Ramshackle Songs” (2009) New York Premiere
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 “American”
Part of Prestige Concert Series: 2009-2010
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Part of Music Workshops & Master Classes
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Two improv teams compete in a “choose your own adventure” based long form improvisational scenes driven by the clever minds of the audience. Each night a winning team will be chosen under very suspicious circumstances which helps us relate to something as suspicious as a fat penguin in the arctic. With all this global warming...how did he get so fat? Must be talent!
Click below to hear Director and Professor of Performing Arts Margaret Lally and English Department Chair and Professor Kermit Frazier discuss the play and its significance.
Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2002 winner. This play will leave you changed as it reveals the topsy-turvy world in which brothers—Lincoln and Booth—live. A chaotic world that is as dangerous as it is illusory. Abandoned by first one parent and then the other, the brothers have had to depend upon each other for survival since they were teenagers. Now in their thirties, they struggle to make a new life, one that will lead them out of poverty.
Performances: 2/18–7:30 p.m. | 2/20–2:00 p.m.* | 2/21–2:00 p.m. *Please join us afterward for a post-show discussion.
GUEST ARTISTS
The Noavaran Ensemble (Persian classical tradition)
Homayoon Beigi, Tar, Dotar, Kamancheh and musical arrangements
Katayoun Moosazadeh, Voice
Paul Aljian, Tombak and Daf
Nicolas Chbat, Percussion
A concert of fascinating and inspiring world music performed by Adelphi's superb faculty artists Linda Wetherill, flute, Susan Jolles, harp, and Jay Sorce, guitar.
A concert of fascinating and inspiring world music performed by Adelphi artist-teachers Linda Wetherill, flute and Susan Jolles, harp, with guest guitarist Jay Sorce. The work will feature the guest performance of the Noavaran Ensemble, specialists in Persian classical and folk music. Beyond Solitude is based on the juxtaposition of the traditional Persian and contemporary Western musical sounds. What begins as a dialogue of two traditions concludes as a fusion of musical ideas and performance styles.
The world premiere of Seven Meditations on Tibet for flute, harp and guitar by American composer/arranger/conductor Carman Moore.
The New York premiere of Aforismo for guitar and bass flute by the master Argentinian composer Alfredo del Monaco.
*Please join us for a pre-concert discussion for ticketholders at 6:30 p.m.
Click below to listen to Director Nicholas Petron discuss his start in the theatre.
This interview is provided courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit dedicated to recording and collecting stories of everyday people.www.storycorps.org
Prepare to laugh out loud and shed a few tears with this People’s Choice Award winner. Set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, the women of Steel Magnolias provide amiable company in good times and bad. With acerbic wit and humor, the play reveals the underlying strength—and love—among its marvelous cast of characters when tragedy strikes.
Treble Choir Craig Knapp, director Concert Choir Erica Warner, director Youth Chorale Ed Norris, director MYO Chamber Orchestra Patricia Koppeis, director
Program includes: Requiem in D, Mozart Slavonic Dances, Dvorak Capriccio Italien, Tschaikowsky
Molière is the second most produced playwright after Shakespeare and Tartuffe is a favorite. An exposé of the religious fervor and hypocrisy, it has been performed for more than 350 years. Reset in this production from Paris to modern, money-soaked Texas, Christopher Hampton's wonderful blank verse translation tells the story of rich businessman Orgon’s devotion to the radical preacher Tartuffe, who is in fact an arch-con-man.
On April 14, 2010 at 7:00 p.m., Adelphi University will welcome Nobel Prize for Peace winner and author of Night Elie Weisel to the Adelphi University Center for Recreation and Sports for a highly anticipated lecture. Due to the likely high demand for tickets, we will hold a 2-Day Adelphi Student Pre-Sale, open only to currently enrolled students with a valid ID, January 28-29 at the AU PAC Box Office, in the lobby of the Performing Arts Center
This uplifting program, played by the best high school chamber ensembles, is brought to you by Long Island BOCES and the Carnegie Hall Academy Fellows, in association with Adelphi University.
Hailed by Downbeat as “one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation,” Fred Hersch returns to the Adelphi stage with a diverse jazz performance. He's been featured on CBS Sunday Morning with Dr. Billy Taylor and on a wide variety of National Public Radio programs including Fresh Air, Jazz Set, Studio 360 and Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz.
Part of Music Workshops & Master Classes
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A tribute to world-renowned choreographer Danny Grossman, this program features signature pieces such as Bella, Ecce Homo, Endangered Species, and recent works.
Celebrate the warmth, radiance, and joy of spring with brilliant New Zealand-born pianist Henry Wong Doe in one of Mozart’s most enduring concertos, Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, sometimes called his “pastoral” symphony.
"Obstacles" is a Dance Department Thesis production composed of nine pieces choreographed by Kaitlin Accetta, a senior Dance Major, and features a large student ensemble made up of Dance Majors and Minors.
We all have obstacles, we all face them, and we all get through them some way or another, but while facing these obstacles we must not forget to savor the magical moments that present themselves. This work explores the obstacles we have in everyday life such as being overwhelmed, being manipulated, being restricted, confusion about love and relationships, everyday pressures, accepting the notion of death and looks at how we strive to overcome these obstacles.
This powerful collaboration of new works choreographed by Adelphi Dance students and faculty is sure to thrill audiences! Don’t miss the opportunity to see this talented company’s final performance of the season.
Hear instrumental and vocal music from the Renaissance to the Modern performed by students of the Workshop in Chamber Music under the direction of Professor Georgia Newlin. This spring installment will surely be a delight for any listener—seasoned, novice, and everyone in between!
Enjoy an evening of superb classics with Canadian piano virtuoso Ian Parker. The recipient of prestigious awards from the Juilliard School and the Canada Council for the Arts, he made his Lincoln Center recital debut in 2004 and toured with the renowned Vogler Quartet in 2005–2006. Mr. Parker has played with the Cleveland Orchestra, the National Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Toronto Symphony, to name just a few.
PROGRAM
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1
Fryderyk Chopin
Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, “Moonlight”
Alexina Louie
Memories in an Ancient Garden
Franz Liszt
Sonata in B minor
*Please join us for a pre-concert wine and cheese reception for ticket holders.
Part of Prestige Concert Series: 2009-2010
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Part of Music Workshops & Master Classes
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ARTISTS
Nelson Lee, violin
Meg Freivogel, violin
Liz Freivogel, viola
Daniel McDonough, cello
Click below to hear a sample of one of the Jupiter String Quartet's many striking performances.
Returning for a second season, the Jupiters present a daring program combining the elegance of Haydn, the power of Beethoven, and contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov’s hauntingly evocative music rooted in Jewish memory and experience.
PROGRAM
Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Osvaldo Golijov
Yiddishbbuk: Inscriptions for string quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127
*Please join us afterward for a post-concert discussion.
Part of Prestige Concert Series: 2009-2010
For further information visit www.jupiterquartet.com
Part of Music Workshops & Master Classes
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Click below to hear the Director discuss the history and relevance of Street Scene and share her thoughts on Adelphi's production.
Elmer Rice’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play of 1929 depicts the experience of first-generation immigrant families who find themselves trapped in a slum neighborhood of New York City. Rice’s day-in-the-life approach to this tenement full of working class people and his focus on their struggles to get on with their lives and along with each other is really the heart of the play. The cast of 40 includes Adelphi theatre majors as well as members of the local community.
There will be loud noises and smoke used in this performance
Performances: 10/6–7:30 p.m. | 10/7–6:30 p.m.* | 10/8–7:30 p.m. | 10/9–11:00 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. | 10/10–8:00 p.m. | 10/11–2:00 p.m. *Please join us afterward for a post-show discussion.
See talented alumni appear in their first solo performances at AU PAC. It's the musical highlight of Adelphi’s Homecoming Weekend and a perfect way to kick back with friends and fellow alumni!
ARTISTS
Kristin Barone‘06, piano
Queens College, Master of Music and Artist Diploma in Chamber Music; The Barone-Finarovksy Piano Duo
Jeanna Campo ‘08, voice
2008 Radio City Christmas Show on Tour; CD: Songs of Jeanna Campo
Vincent Ricciardi ‘05, voice
Musical Theatre workshops and recordings; ‘Pirates of Penzance’ Off-Broadway; Co-writing and performing a play on the life and career of Mario Lanza
Sara Slocum ‘07, flute
Teaching studio; Adelphi Orchestra and other ensembles; Duo partnership with guitarist/lutenist Daniel Keene ’08
Danielle Vita ‘05, voice
Queens College, Master of Music; Amici Opera; Queens Opera Association; Featured soloist in concert premiere at Carnegie Hall
Expect to be moved by tender art songs and dazzling arias and duets sung by master performers Anneliese Von Goerken and Jonathan Goodman. These faculty artists have been heard in opera, oratorio, and recital throughout the United States.
Celebrate the centennial of Ballet Russe's debut with these spellbinding pieces—Doug Varone's acclaimed “Sacre,” inspired by Stravinsky's “Sacre du Printemps” and originally choreographed by Nijinsky in 1913, and Leda Meredith’s newly created “Petrouchka,” inspired by Stravinsky's “Petrouchka” and originally choreographed by Fokine in 1911.
From the classic styles of Kern, Gershwin, and Porter to the beat of today’s Broadway, this revue features the wonderful voices of Adelphi’s Music students.
Always speaking from the depths of their souls, you’ll hear diosyncratic characters deliver extraordinary monologues that amuse, move, and frighten—including a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, an ex-rodeo rider, and an actress willing to go to any length to get a job.
Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the American Theatre Critics Association Award for Best Regional Play (1982)
"A dramatist with an original voice ... [and] gladsome humor."—N.Y. Times
Enjoy an evening of musical delicacies, with pianist Ran Jia. At 19, she is already regarded as piano poet with dramatic skill. Be enchanted by a delightful suite from Respighi’s La Boutique Fantasque, experience Mozart's most popular and influential concerto, and Beethoven's joyous Symphony No. 7.
Celebrate the season with music for Christmas and Chanukah, including the wondrous Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten and Three Nativity Carols by American composer Stephen Paulus.
Gian Carlo Menotti composer
Salvatore Di Vittorio, conductor
Michael Hume, director
Bring your whole family to this Christmas favorite! Amahl and the Night Visitors is a timeless story of the power of faith and the meaning of love. Performed by an all-student cast and accompanied by the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, this production promises to be one of the highlights of the holiday season!
An exciting blend of classic jazz arrangements by such composers as Coltrane, Davis, Ellington, and Parker, played by the popular Adelphi Jazz Ensemble.
Gian Carlo Menotti composer Salvatore Di Vittorio, conductor Michael Hume, director
Bring your whole family to this Christmas favorite! Amahl and the Night Visitors is a timeless story of the power of faith and the meaning of love. Performed by an all-student cast and accompanied by the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, this production promises to be one of the highlights of the holiday season!
An exciting blend of classic jazz arrangements by such composers as Coltrane, Davis, Ellington, and Parker, played by the popular Adelphi Jazz Ensemble.
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