Theatre & Dance

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Thursday, June 27 - Saturday, June 29, 2013 • 8 PM
Sunday, June 30, 2013 • 4 PM
PERFORMANCE: Mandorla (or Lying to Tell the Truth)
Jazz Central, 441 East Washington Street, Syracuse, New York
Features original music by Frederick Willard and is a collaboration of many SUNY Oswego Alumni - Mark Cole, Sara Weiler, Dan Williams, Suzayn Mackensie and Scott Deyett.

Sunday, July 14 - Friday, July 26, 2013
SUMMER FAME: Theatre Institute at Oswego State
Summer Fame

Saturday, September 7, 2013 · 2 PM, Simple Gifts
Saturday, September 7, 2013 · 7:30 PM, Life in Motion
PERFORMANCE: Cashore Marionettes
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
The Cashore Marionettes are unmatched in artistry, grace and refinement of movement. This internationally acclaimed company redefines the art of puppetry. The moving and humorous performances have astounded audiences in Europe, the Far East and the United States, including stops at the Kennedy Center, Annenberg Center, and many others.
An enthralling evening performance for adults - and a shorter matinee for families with children ages 8 and up.

 Cashore Marionettes Website

 

Friday, December 6, 2013 • 7:30 PM
PERFORMANCE: Carl Whidden in A Christmas Carol
Hewitt Union Ballroom
Exactly forty years ago, local theatre figure Rosemary Nesbitt produced her own version of the Charles Dickens classic, involving college students, youth of the community, and elaborate staging. Now actor Carl Whidden, who, as a SUNY Oswego student, played Scrooge in that original production, returns to present his one-man version of Nesbitt's dramatization as a holiday gift to the region.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 • 7:30 PM
PERFORMANCE BY THE ACTING COMPANY: William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Thursday, February 27, 2014 • 7:30 PM
PERFORMANCE BY THE ACTING COMPANY: Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
The Acting Company was founded in 1972 by legendary producer/director/actor John Houseman and current Producing Director Margot Harley with members of the first graduating class of Juilliard's Drama Division. Thus far The Acting Company has performed 136 productions for over three million people in 48 states and ten foreign countries.
For these two evenings, we have the rare and extraordinary opportunity to view two related but very different plays on successive evenings - as the plays are performed in rapid succession by the same actors on the same stage.

View: The Acting Company

 

 

Music

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Friday, September 13, 2013 • 7:30 PM
PERFORMANCE: Melody of China
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
Melody of China is the premiere Chinese music ensemble based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The ensemble has a two-fold mission: to promote classical and contemporary Chinese music, and provide quality entertanment through the synergy between an ancient cultural tradition and a youthful American culture. The concert will include guest appearances by selected student musicians.
Melody of China Website

Sunday, October 6, 2013 • 3 PM
SKYPE CONCERT: Serdce from Belarus
Room 104, Lanigan Hall
In this lecture/demonstration, Serdce, a contemporary fusion group, discusses contemporary music in the former Soviet Union country of Belarus and its place in a society in transition. Live and original music is performed by the group, which performed for Oswego audiences in October 2012 with great acclaim by Oswego students.

 

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 • 7:30 PM
KE-NEKT' CONCERT: Jazz Guitarist Peter Bernstein
Hosted by Rick Balestra; Pre-Concert talk begins at 7 PM
Sheldon Hall Ballroom
Bernstein is known for his clean, warm guitar tone and his lyrical melodic lines. Throughout the 1990s he was at the forefront of contemporary jazz and has played with such notables as Joshua Redman, Melvin Rhyne, Diana Krall, Larry Goldings and many others.
Peter Bernstein Website

Sunday, October 20, 2013 • 3 PM
CONCERT: Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass
Sheldon Hall Ballroom
The highly accomplished 25-voice Syracuse Vocal Ensemble joins with a specially recruited band, consisting of gifted musicians from the region, including fiddler Joe Davoli, in a performance of composer Carol Barnett's The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass.
Listen: SVE Website

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 • 7:30 PM
KE-NEKT' CONCERT: Bora Yoon
Hosted by Trevor Jorgensen; Pre-Concert talk begins at 7 PM
Sheldon Hall Ballroom
Bora Yoon is an avant-garde contemporary composer, musician and performance artist who explores the space where music connects to the subliminal, creating architectural soundscapes from everyday found objects, chamber instruments, digital devices and voice.
Bora Yoon Website

    

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 • 7:30 PM
KE-NEKT' CONCERT: Celebrating Samuel Barber
Featuring Soprano Julia Broxholm
Hosted by Todd Graber; Pre-Concert talk begins at 7 PM
Sheldon Hall Ballroom
Samuel Barber was an American composer of orchestral, opera, and choral and piano music. He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century, and was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his opera Vanessa (1956-57) and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1962). Also widely performed is his Knoxville: Summer of 1915  (1947), a work for soprano and orchestra, which sets a prose text by James Agee.
Soprano Julia Broxholm has a career that spans opera to Broadway, oratorio to vocal chamber music, and recitalist to recording artist. Her operatic roles have included Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff, the title role in Floyd's Susannah, Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Musetta in Puccini's La Boheme.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 • 7:30 PM
KE-NEKT' CONCERT: Elinor Frey, Cellist
Sheldon Hall Ballroom
Hosted by Robert Auler
Pre-Concert talk begins at 7 PM
Fascinated with the cello's origins and the creative process of new music, Elinor Frey plays both period and modern instruments. She has been hailed as an "impeccable cellist" by Montreal's La Presse, "a superb cellist" by the Syrcuse Post-Standard, and an "unquestionable and robust talent" by the Giornale di Brescia. 
Elinor Frey Website

 

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 • 7:30 PM
PERFORMANCE: ETHEL with Kaki King
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
Known worldwide for transcending the limits of tradition, the string quartet ETHEL aggressively and joyfullty adapts their skills to music of every style and description. Recognized as one of "The New Guitar Gods" by Rolling Stone, Kaki King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, and her enormous ability in a variety of genres. Together these celebrated sound worlds intermingle in an inspired collaboration.
ETHEL Website

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 • 7:30 PM
KE-NEKT' CONCERT: Bass-baritone Philip Cokorinos
Hosted by Juan F. La Manna; Pre-Concert talk begins at 7 PM
Sheldon Hall Ballroom
Bass-baritone Philip Cokorinos has performed over 80 leading roles in his career with eminent companies throughout North America. A member of the Metropolitan Opera for over 25 years he has appeared numerous times in their productions of Tosca, La bohème, The Nose, La Fanciulla del West, Adriana Lecouvreur, La Rondine, The Gambler, Die Meistersinger, Don Carlo, Macbeth, among others. 

 

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Literary

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Film

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Saturday, November 9, 2013 • 7:30 PM
FILM: A Story of Floating Weeds
with Guitarist Alex De Grassi
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
A Story of Floating Weeds, a 1934 silent film classic, is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. It is the story of a group of traveling actors who seem to be drifting aimlessly, carried by currents beyond their control.
Grammy-nominated Guitarist Alex De Grassi was commissioned by the New York Guitar Festival to compose and perform an original score for this classic Ozu silent film and tours with this live performance with the film which comes to life through De Grassi's acoustic guitar score.
Alex De Grassi Website

 

Visual Arts

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Friday, September 6 - Saturday October 5, 2013
TWO GALLERY EXHIBITS
Tyler Art Gallery North: The Era of the Dust Bowl
The Grant Arnold Collection: During the 1930s, Grant Arnold (1904-1988) was essentially the staff lithographer for the Art Students League, NYC and the Woodstock, NY Artists Association. Working in this capacity, he helped many artists complete prints and collected hundreds of works from the artists themselves. These images are primarily in "social realist" style - documenting everyday American life in a straight forward artistic syle.

Farm Security Administration Photography: Between 1937 and 1941 at least three professional photographers were sent to Oswego County to document in photographs local migratory workers and their environmental conditions the Port of Oswego and other local citizens and landmarks under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA).

 

Tyler Art Gallery South: Ebb & Flow
Ebb & Flow is an art installation by Mary Giehl and Kim Waale with a focus on water as a primary image. By showing water from a microcosmic and macrocosmic point of view, viewers enter into an intellectually rigorous contemplation of the subject and the various subjective ways artists can interpret a single source of inspiration.
Giehl's installation enlarges microscopic water-borne organisms.

Waale's installation shrinks rivers and creeks - examined from a macro perspective - into three-dimensional marks.

 

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