Victoria J Mastrobuono Theater Mason Gross Performing Arts Center Events
NEW BRUNSWICK – The Mason Gross Performing Arts Center and Galleries at Rutgers Academy is set to boot off its autumn 2017 season of events on Sept. 5, with a slate of music, dance and theater performances likewise as visual arts exhibitions and studio tours.
Most events feature student artists, but the schedule as well includes work by faculty and visiting artists. Many events are complimentary and all events feature discounts for Rutgers alumni, employees and students, equally well as senior citizens.
Dance events include the BFA Senior Solo & Duet Concert at 7:xxx p.thousand. from Nov. eight to xi, featuring new choreographic works by dance majors in collaboration with composers in the Mason Gross Music Section. At seven:30 p.one thousand. Dec. 4, student dancers head to the Big Apple for Rutgers in New York: Trip the light fantastic at The Joyce, a operation of contemporary mod trip the light fantastic works by Lar Lubovitch, Marking Morris, Darrell Grand Moultrie and Reggie Wilson.
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Rutgers Symphony Orchestra performs three times during the fall, including with American Repertory Ballet for "Carmen" at State Theatre New Jersey at 8 p.m. Oct. 12. Based on Georges Bizet's opera, "Carmen" is the tale of a love triangle between a passionate, free-spirited adult female, the fickle soldier Don Jose, and the bullfighter Escamillo. The evening also features Kirk Peterson's "The Eyes that Gently Touch, set to the driving rhythms of Philip Glass's "Mad Rush," and Mary Barton's Straight Upward with a Twist, fix to the sounds of violinist/composer Kaila Flexer and Third Ear.
Renowned Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, the 2017–2018 New York Philharmonic artist-in-residence, visits Nicholas Music Center at 12:30 p.thou. Oct. 16 for a costless recital, master class and Q&A session. Opera at Rutgers will perform Beethoven'due south only opera, "Fidelio," accompanied past Rutgers Symphony Orchestra, at 7:30 p.m. Nov. xviii.
Rutgers Theater Visitor presents "An Octoroon" at diverse times from Nov. 3 to 11. Set up on the Terrebonne plantation in Louisiana in the decade before the Civil State of war, the controversial Dion Boucicault melodrama, adapted past MacArthur Fellow Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, explores issues of identity and the power of theatricality. From Dec. 1 to 9 at various times, Federico García Lorca's "Blood Wedding ceremony," a tragic tale of a man who tries to repossess a past beloved on her wedding day, volition be performed, with a translation by Langston Hughes.
From Sept. 28 to Oct. 16 at various times, the Visual Arts Department presents the co-cureate shows, mini-exhibits organized past teams of BFA and MFA students that showcase fine art in a diverseness of disciplines including painting, photography, sculpture, media, impress, and performance. A reception from 6 to ix p.m. Sept. 29 is open to the public. On Oct. 6, Nov. 3, and Dec. ane, Get-go Fridays events volition feature rotating performances in the Stonemason Gross Galleries during extended hours until ix p.m.
For ticket prices, location information, and consequence policies, go to www.masongross.rutgers.edu/events. Tickets may be purchased by phone at 848-932-7511 or in person at the ticket office at 85 George Street in the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center. The ticket fee structure has been revised. Visit the website or telephone call the ticket function for details. Mason Gross Galleries events are costless. More information almost gallery events is available by calling 848-932-5211.
Stonemason Gross School of the Arts Autumn 2017 Calendar of Events
All data subject to change. Discounts: Seniors and Rutgers alumni and employees: limit ii; students, limit one.
Dance
Alumni Dance Concert, 7: 30 p.m. Sept. 8, and Sept. 9. New works by BFA alumni Shawn Castor and Sara Crayne-Dedrick, Joe Monteleone, and Andy Santana and Jennifer Payan at the Loree Dance Theater. Public $xx / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $15 / Students $10
"From the Horse's Oral cavity" – A Operation Celebrating Professor Emeritus Don Redlich, 2 p.g. Sept. 24. Dancers of all ages perform and share their stories in celebration of the career of the choreographer and teacher at the Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater. Public $20 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $15 / Students $10
BFA Senior Solo & Duet Concert, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 8 to Nov. 11, 7:30 p.chiliad. New choreographic works by trip the light fantastic toe majors in collaboration with composers from the Music Department at the Loree Trip the light fantastic toe Theater. Public $xv / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $v
Fall, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 29 to December. i, 2 p.thousand., 7:xxx p.g., Dec. 2 and 2 p.k., December. 3. Contemporary modern trip the light fantastic works by faculty and guest artists including Lar Lubovitch, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Mark Morris and Reggie Wilson at the Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater. Public $25 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $xx / Students $fifteen
Rutgers in New York: Trip the light fantastic toe at The Joyce, 7:30 p.thousand., Dec. 4. Students perform works by Lar Lubovitch, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Marking Morris, and Reggie Wilson at 175 Eighth Artery, New York. Tickets: $20, 212-242-0800 or joyce.org.
MFA coLAB Performance, 7:30 p.m., Dec. eight and ix. A performance in partnership with New Brunswick-based coLAB Arts in their mission to create dances that sally from customs-based creative engagement with local social advocacy organizations. This program is supported, in part, by the Middlesex Canton Lath of Chosen Freeholders, Middlesex County Role of Culture and Heritage, and the New Bailiwick of jersey Country Council on the Arts/Department of State at the Loree Dance Theater. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $x / Students $5
Music
Rutgers Symphony Orchestra, vii:30 p.thou., Sept. 15. De Falla's "El Amor Brujo," Chopin'south Piano Concerto No. two (Enriqueta Somarriba, soloist) and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, Pathétique at Nicholas Music Heart. Public $fifteen / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $ten / Students $5
Mason Gross Presents: "Nonetheless, She Persisted: Female Composers of the Bizarre," 7:thirty p.grand., Sept. 25. Cantatas, songs, and instrumental music past female composers of the 17th and 18th centuries, including Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini and Isabella Leonarda. Featuring Marguerite Krull, soprano; Dongmyung Ahn, baroque violin; David Bakamjian, bizarre cello; and Rebecca Cypess, harpsichord at Voorhees Chapel. Free
Rutgers Wind Ensemble: Music of the Masters, seven:thirty p.m., Oct. half dozen. Dvořák's "Serenade for Wind Instruments, Op. 44;" "Hindemith's Symphony in B-Flat" at
Nicholas Music Center. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $x / Students $5
Rutgers Jazz Ensemble I, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 7. 8th Annual William "Prof" Fielder Memorial Concert, honoring the jazz trumpeter and Rutgers professor. Featuring guest trumpeter Scott Wendholt and the music of Thad Jones and Bob Brookmeyer at Nicholas Music Heart. Public $xv / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $5
Rutgers Symphony Orchestra and American Repertory Ballet: "Carmen" and Other Works, 8 p.yard. October. 12. A love triangle between a passionate, free-spirited woman, the fickle soldier Don José, and the bullfighter Escamillo, based on Georges Bizet's opera. The evening as well features Kirk Peterson's "The Eyes that Gently Affect," set to the driving rhythms of Philip Glass'southward "Mad Rush," and Mary Barton'due south "Direct Up with a Twist," set to the sounds of violinist/composer Kaila Flexer and Third Ear at the Land Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue. Tickets: 732-246-7469 or statetheatrenj.org. Public $27 to $57 / Student disbelieve available
Mason Gross Presents: Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano, 12:30 p.grand., Oct. 16. Recital, chief form and Q&A with the renowned Norwegian performer and New York Combo 2017–2018 artist-in-residence at Nicholas Music Center. Free
Rutgers Jazz Ensemble 2, 7:30 p.thou, Oct. 16. Featuring jazz saxophonist and professor Ralph Bowen and many of his original compositions and arrangements, including "Elevation," "Soul Proprietor," "On Greenish," and other deputed works at Nicholas Music Eye. Public $fifteen / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $x / Students $v
Stonemason Gross Presents: Rediscovering Telemann's Fantasy, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 18. Scholar and musicologist Thomas Fritzsch presents Georg Philipp Telemann's fantasies for solo viola da gamba in honor of the 250th ceremony of the composer's death at Schare Recital Hall (Marryott Music Building). Free
Rutgers Symphonic Winds and Rutgers Symphony Band: American Sounds, 7:thirty p.m. October. xx. Nicholas Music Center. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $5
Bricklayer Gross Presents: Rutgers Symphony Orchestra with Guest Conductor Gregory Vajda, 7:thirty p.m., Oct. 28. Ravel's "La Valse," Haydn's "Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major" (Brannon Cho, soloist), Stravinsky's "Petrushka" (1947) at Nicholas Music Center. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $x / Students $v
Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir: An Oct Garden, 4 p.one thousand., Oct. 29. Irving Fine's "Pattern for Oct" and Julian Wachner's "An October Garden" at Kirkpatrick Chapel. Public $fifteen / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $5
"Why Bach Matters," 7 p.m., Nov. one. Despite the general decline of classical music in today's society, the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, in particular, seem to be growing in popularity. From movie sound tracks to concert performances to lift muzak to public rituals, Bach's music continues to entertain, astonish, and uplift. Bring together Bricklayer Gross Dean George B. Stauffer for a lecture about this phenomenon and the reasons why Bach matters at Shindell Choral Hall (Mortensen Hall). Free
Rutgers Sinfonia, 7:xxx p.m., Nov. 15. Leonard Bernstein'due south "Symphonic Dances from West Side Story," Emmanuel Séjourné'due south "Concerto for Marimba and Strings" (Andrew Bambridge, soloist), Schumann's "Symphony No. four" at Nicholas Music Eye. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $v
Opera at Rutgers with Rutgers Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven's "Fidelio," 7:30 p.m., Nov. eighteen. In 16th-century Spain, Florestan is unjustly imprisoned by the tyrannical Don Pizarro. His wife, Leonore, tries to rescue him using the male name Fidelio, dressing in men's dress and ingratiating herself with the jailer's family, in this concert presentation of Beethoven'south only opera at Nicholas Music Center. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $5
Rutgers Percussion Ensemble: Sounds and Silence, two p.m., Nov. 19. John Cage'southward "4'33," Elliot Cole's "Postludes," Robert Paterson's "Stealing Thunder" at Nicholas Music Eye. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $5
HELIX! New Music Ensemble, 7 p.yard., Nov. 19. World premieres from educatee and faculty composers aslope leading international composers at Shindell Choral Hall (Mortensen Hall). Gratuitous
Rutgers Chamber Jazz Ensembles, 5 p.k., Dec. two, seven:30 p.1000., Dec. three and 11. Pocket-sized-ensemble jazz heralding artists including Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Dave Leibman, and Miles Davis at Shindell Choral Hall (Mortensen Hall). Free
Voorhees Choir, vii:30 p.thou., Dec. 2. Candlelight concert featuring works for women's choir past William Mathias and Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as carols, gospels, and spirituals arranged by gimmicky composers at Nicholas Music Center. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $x / Students $5
Sounds of Chamber Music, 2 p.m., Dec. three. Chamber music performances past winners of the Mason Gross Honors Chamber Music Competition at Shindell Choral Hall (Mortensen Hall). Free
Rutgers Baroque Players: A Musical Banquet for the Telemann Year, vii:30 p.chiliad., Dec. 4. Instrumental and vocal music of Georg Philipp Telemann played on menstruum instruments in accolade of the 250th anniversary of the composer's death at Shindell Choral Hall (Mortensen Hall). Free
Rutgers Jazz Ensemble 2: The Fine art of Trombone, vii:30 p.thousand., December. 6. Featuring jazz trombonist and professor Conrad Herwig, with a tribute to trombone greats J.J. Johnson, Slide Hampton, Eje Thelin and others at Nicholas Music Middle. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $5
Rutgers Symphony Band: Band Classics, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7 at Nicholas Music Eye.
Public $xv / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $5
Rutgers Jazz Ensemble I: Legends of the Fall, 7:thirty p.k., December. 8. Ed Neumeister'due south system of The Queen's Suite and other Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn classics. Featuring soloist Billy Drewes on clarinet and sax at Nicholas Music Center.
Public $xv / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $5
Rutgers Brass Ensemble: A New Era, two p.m., December. 9 at Nicholas Music Heart. Public $fifteen / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $x / Students $v
Christmas in Ballad and Song, December. 9, six and 9 p.m., Dec. 9 and 5 and 7:30 p.m., Dec. 10. Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir and Rutgers University Glee Guild gloat the vacation flavour at Kirkpatrick Chapel. Public $xx / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $15 / Students $ten. Tickets on sale Oct. two.
Rutgers Symphonic Winds: Winds of Change, ii p.m., Dec 10. An exploration of the compositional trends of ring music of the 20th and 21st centuries at Nicholas Music Center. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $5
Rutgers Wind Ensemble: The Bells, 7:30 p.g., December. 12. Bach'due south Toccata and Fugue in D Modest and Michael Daugherty's "Bells for Stokowski" at Nicholas Music Center. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $10 / Students $5
Rutgers Academy Choir: Visions and Vigils, 7:thirty p.m., Dec. 13. Inspired by a fascination with what lies beyond this world, this programme features imaginative works that speak of seers and sages at Kirkpatrick Chapel. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $x / Students $v
Theater
Rutgers Theater Visitor Presents: Playwrights Festival, vii:30 p.m., Sept. 25 to 29, 2 and 7:30 p.m., Sept. thirty to Oct. ane. Original works by our MFA playwrights, performed past the graduating company at the Philip J. Levin Theater. For titles and prove times, call 848-932-7511. Public $15 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $12 / Students $10
"An Octoroon" past Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 3 to 5, November. 8 to 10 and 2 and 7:thirty p.m., Nov. 11. MacArthur Fellow Jacobs-Jenkins adapts this controversial Dion Boucicault melodrama. Assault the Terrebonne plantation in Louisiana in the decade earlier the Civil State of war, the play explores issues of identity and the ability of theatricality at the Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater. Public $25 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $20 / Students $15; this consequence is underwritten past the Leora M. Sies Theater Fund Foundation
"Blood Hymeneals" by Federico García Lorca, translation by Langston Hughes, 7:xxx p.m., Dec. 1 to 3, December. 6 to 8 and 2 and 7:30 p.m., Dec. 9. A wedding ceremony is about to accept identify, simply a man who was once in love with the bride returns to reignite the flame. Decisions and deceptions pb the lovers to run away and Decease and the Moon conspire to set things back into balance at the Philip J. Levin Theater. Public $25 / Seniors, Rutgers Alumni and Employees $20 / Students $fifteen; this upshot is underwritten by the Leora M. Sies Theater Fund Foundation
Visual Arts
Welcome Back Show, Sept. 5 to xx, with a reception from 5 to eight p.m. Sept. 6.
The exhibition flavor kicks off with this annual show featuring the piece of work of faculty, staff, and returning MFA students.
co-cureate shows, Sept. 28 to October. 16 with a reception from 6 to 9 p.1000. on Sept. 29.
Representing a hybrid of collaboration, curating, and creation, these mini-exhibits are organized by teams of BFA and MFA students. Each team conceptualizes a show and recruits peers to exhibit, showcasing art in a variety of disciplines including painting, photography, sculpture, media, impress, and functioning.
Start Fridays, October. half-dozen, Nov. 3, Dec. one. Extended gallery hours until 9 p.m. on the first Friday of each calendar month, October through December, featuring rotating events and performances.
Undergraduate Annual Exhibition, Oct. 24 to Nov. nine with a reception from 6 to nine p.thousand. on Oct. 26. Artist submissions to this juried testify volition explore this year'south theme, "Between Either and Or."
MFA Open Studios, 3 to half-dozen p.m. Oct. 28. Go a behind-the-scenes expect into the practice of student artists as they welcome visitors into their private studios in the Civic Foursquare Edifice.
MFA First-Yr Exhibition, Nov. 16 to Dec. 9 with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on November. 17. Two months into their graduate written report, students nowadays this annual exhibition featuring a multifariousness of media including photography, painting, digital projections, installations, sculpture, printmaking, lightboxes, video/sound, and picture show.
All visual arts events are complimentary and take identify at the Bricklayer Gross Galleries at Civic Square, 33 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, unless otherwise noted. No tickets required. Gallery hours are from ten a.m. to iv p.k. weekdays, with extended hours until 6 p.m. Wednesdays, and on Saturdays from apex to four p.one thousand. Call 848-932-5211 for more information.
Staff Writer Cheryl Makin: 732-565-7256; cmakin@gannettnj.com
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