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September
John Isaac: The Odyssey of a Photojournalist*
August 30-October 9 | Hours: Tue. – Fri. 12-4 p.m., Sat. & Sun.1-5 p.m.
Kreft Center Gallery
Opening Reception: September 8, 2005 | 7-9 p.m. • Slide lecture with the artist at 7:30 p.m.
Throughout his 20 year career as a UN photographer John Isaac has traveled to more than 100 countries capturing the tragedies and triumphs of our changing world. A native of India, his worldwide coverage includes the Israeli/Lebanon conflict in 1978, the boat people in 1979 and the US/Iranian hostage crisis in 1980. In the 1980’s he worked throughout the African nations covering the drought and famine. Besides his work with the UN, Isaac provided coverage for UNICEF, working closely with the late actress Audrey Hepburn, Harry Belafonte and Liv Ullman. This exhibition, premiering in Michigan, showcases some of the most compelling work from this award-winning and accomplished photojournalist.
Denison Witmer
September 9 | 8 p.m.
Kreft Center Black Box Theatre
Tickets: $10
Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Denison Witmer brings his blend of acoustic folk to Concordia’s campus. Steve Swartz of Au Revoir Borealis and For Wishes will open the show.
Co-sponsored with Campus Life
Book Review: Saturday by Ian McEwan*
Reviewed by Mark Looker, Concordia University’s Vice President of Academics
September 13 | 2-3:30 p.m.
Riverside Conference Room
Early on a Saturday morning, London neurosurgeon Henry Perowne sees a plane with a wing on fire heading toward Heathrow Airport. The sight troubles him throughout the ensuing day: is it a terrorist attack? An accident? The day unfolds through a series of encounters with anti-war protestors, family, colleagues, and patients in his practice. Perowne’s musings about the “community of anxiety” in which he finds himself move toward a dramatic encounter with terror, but not exactly the kind he had envisioned in the pre-dawn sky. A novel of eerie relevance in light of recent events in London.
Constance Rock, Soprano
September 18 | 4 p.m.
Chapel of the Holy Trinity
Tickets: $15
Constance Rock is a “joy to listen to” hails the Hartford Courant review of her performance as soloist in Britten’s War Requiem, under the direction of Larry Allen. Recently she performed in the role of Lucia, in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor with the New Britain Opera. Her performance was described by the Hartford Courant as “riveting…fascinating…her high D’s, E-flat’s and E’s rang out beautifully clear.” In her first performance in Michigan Rock will present a program of works including selections by Handel, Poulenc, Verdi and Gershwin.
Faculty Recital*
September 23 | 7:30 p.m.
Chapel of the Holy Trinity
Concordia faculty members will present works by Chopin, Stenhammar, Bizet, and Arutunian. Featuring Jean Moorehead Libs (trumpet), Stephanie Weaver (piano), Karl Schmidt (tenor), Brian Altevogt (piano), Holly Clemans (flute), Mary Bates (piano), and Lorna Hildebrant (soprano).
1937-Art & Ideology*
Lecture by Serdar Arat
September 29 | 7:30 p.m.
Riverside Conference Room
Serdar Arat, professor of art and gallery director at Concordia-New York, presents a slide lecture focusing on the frightening and fascinating year of 1937 that witnessed the clash of ideologies such as fascism, socialism, liberalism, and anarchism, as well as their strong and still lasting manifestations in the visual arts.
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October
Music of the Reformation
Vox Early Music Ensemble
October 2 | 4 p.m.
Chapel of the Holy Trinity
Tickets: $15
The Protestant Reformation resulted in a wealth of new music “for the people”. In this program, Vox explores the French, English, and German traditions of metrical psalm settings, chorale and hymn tunes, culminating in the motet of J. S. Bach, Jesu Meine Freude. Vox is joined by guest artists Debra Lonergan (viola da gamba/baroque cello) and John Repulski (organ). As a 12-voice professional, Ann Arbor based, a cappella ensemble, Vox is dedicated to the preservation and performance of early (primarily Medieval and Renaissance) vocal music and was recently voted Washtenaw County’s “Best Classical Artist” of 2005 in Current Magazine.
Book Review: Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson◄*
Reviewed by Robert Campbell, Concordia University’s Assistant Professor of English
October 11 | 2-3:30 p.m.
Riverside Conference Room
Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times-bestselling second novel tells the unforgettable story of Minister John Ames, as told in a long letter to his young son. A powerful story spanning three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century. The Washington Post calls Gilead “so serenely beautiful and written in a prose so gravely measured and thoughtful that one feels touched with grace just to read it.”
Contextual
With Katherine Jackson, Jill London and Maureen Mullarkey*
October 13-November 13 | Hours: Tue. – Fri. 12-4 p.m., Sat. & Sun.1-5 p.m.
Kreft Center Gallery
Opening Reception: October 13 | 7-9 p.m. • Slide lecture by guest curator Patricia Miranda at 7:30 p.m.
Jackson, London, and Mullarkey are three artists who work with language- conceiving and transforming text into purely visual form. Each artist creates a unique “prose,” inventing and reinventing an abstract calligraphy resonant with the memory of letters. Katherine Jackson uses literal text transcribed into tiny illegible chains etched onto glass; Jill London creates a language of refracted light punching shapes into gilded panels, while Maureen Mullarkey collages actual books, letters and documents as an act of elegiac remembering.
Patricia Miranda, guest curator, is the founder and gallery director of Miranda Fine Arts in Port Chester, NY.
Concordia University Choir*
October 16 | 4 p.m.
Chapel of the Holy Trinity
Under the direction of Brian Altevogt, the choir will perform a variety of sacred choral works including the works of Morley, di Lasso, Rorem, Nestor, and Hovland.
The Comedy of Errors
By William Shakespeare
October 21-22 | 8 p.m.
October 23 | 2:30 p.m.
Kreft Center Black Box Theatre
Tickets: $10
Concordia Theatre kicks of its 2005-2006 season with one of Shakespeare’s early comedies.
Your identical twin was lost at sea. The identical twin of your servant was lost in the same shipwreck. The last you saw of them, they and your mother were drifting away holding onto the same wreckage. A family has been split asunder. Sounds like a tragedy doesn’t it? Not when one pair of twin’s quest to find their missing halves lands the whole family in Ephesus unbeknownst to one another. Now you don’t have a tragedy. You have a Comedy of Errors.
“Peninsula”
Peter Sparling Dance Company
October 27 | 7:30 p.m.
Kreft Center Black Box Theatre
Pre-performance lecture at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets: $25
"Peninsula" is a multi-media trilogy and danced travelogue of the state of Michigan. The work encompasses sites across the state from Sleeping Bear Dunes to the Upper Peninsula copper mines to the Ford Rouge Plant, and features a panoramic video backdrop and narration by Peter Sparling and original music by Frank Pahl. Sparling's six dancers provide an overlay of "live" performance while their videotaped images at various sites throughout the state are projected on the screen behind them. Video footage of the auto and mining industries contrasts with present-day settings creating a portrait of the enormous historical, cultural and environmental changes characterizing the state. Sparling will present a free pre-performance lecture beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Andrew Peterson with special guest Jill Phillips
October 28 | 7 p.m.
Chapel of the Holy Trinity
Tickets: $13 in advance, $15 at the door
Following the recent release of his sixth album The Far Country, singer/songwriter Andrew Peterson visits Concordia’s campus to kick-off the homecoming weekend festivities. Special guest Jill Phillips will open the show.
Co-sponsored with Campus Life
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November
Book Review: The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai*
Reviewed by Jack El-Hai
November 8 | 2-3:30 p.m.
Riverside Conference Room
This groundbreaking new biography takes readers into one of the darkest chapters of American medicine. Walter Freeman, a neurologist and psychiatrist, believed he saw a way out of the desperate circumstances in which thousands of psychiatric patients found themselves. In partnership with neurosurgeon James Watts, Freeman began performing a relatively new form of brain surgery that he christened the lobotomy. In time, he transformed it into a controversial outpatient procedure, traveled the world performing psychosurgeries, and devoted his life to tracking the afterlife of his patients. As gripping as a medical thriller, The Lobotomist examines the motivations of a man whose personality combined brilliance with arrogance, compassion with egotism, and determination with stubbornness. The result is an unforgettable portrait of a physician who permanently shaped the lives of his patients, as well as the course of medical history.
“I’ll stand my chance”: Two Michigan brothers in the American Civil War*
Lecture by Pam Newhouse
Thursday, November 10 | 7 p.m.
Kreft Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre
Pam Newhouse, a founder and vice president of the Ann Arbor Civil War Round Table, tells the stories of John and Alfred Ryder of Livonia, Mich. who enlisted early in separate regiments and went off to defend the Union. They wrote home often, candidly discussing troop morale, their officers, daily privations and successes, as well as describing the heartbreaking scenes of battles. Both finally ended up in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 1, 1863, and letters written to their parents by comrades tell of their ultimate fates in what would become the most famous battle of the war.
Concordia University Wind Ensemble*
November 11 | 7:30 p.m.
Chapel of the Holy Trinity
Professor Andrew Schultz will conduct the Wind Ensemble in a program that includes works by David Holsinger, Johann Sebastian Bach and Frank Ticheli.
Ana Vidovic, Guitar
November 17 | 7:30 p.m.
Kreft Center Black Box Theatre
Tickets: $15
A native of Croatia, Ana Vidovic began playing the guitar at the early age of five. By age 11 she was performing internationally and by 13 she was the youngest student ever to enter the prestigious National Musical Academy in Zagreb, Croatia. Now at the age of 23 and on the verge of a major international career, Vidovic has recorded five CD’s and has performed in over 20 countries throughout the world.
Shadow of the Island: Serdar Arat*
November 17-December 16 | Hours: Tue. – Fri. 12-4 p.m., Sat. & Sun.1-5 p.m.
Kreft Center Gallery
Opening Reception: November 17 | 6:30-8 p.m.
Slide lecture with the artist at 7 p.m.
This exhibition features recent paintings by Serdar Arat, a Turkish born artist who has been living and working in New York since 1980, and exhibiting internationally. Arat’s “shaped” paintings on linen and wood, with heavily textured surfaces, are deceptively “dimensional”. They “imprint themselves on the mind and remain memorable long after the immediacy of their encounter has passed”, writes Marijo Dougherty, director of the University Art Museum at SUNY-Albany.
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December
28th Annual Boar’s Head Festival
December 2 & 3 | 7:30 p.m.
December 4 | 4 p.m.
Chapel of the Holy Trinity
Tickets: $8-$15
Tickets on-sale Nov. 7
Students, faculty and staff come together to enact medieval Christmas traditions and the story of Christ’s birth in this moving musical spectacle directed by Dr. Laura C. Bird with musical direction by Brian Altevogt. Beginning in 1978 through the vision of three Concordia professors – Paul Foelber, John Strumfels and Quentin Marino – the Boar’s Head Festival has become a treasured memory for many. It remains a vibrant and living tradition as it continues to profess the wonder of the Christmas miracle.
Horizons
December 8 | 7:30 p.m.
Kreft Center Black Box Theatre
Pre-concert lecture at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15
The Grammy nominated jazz quartet, Horizons will perform a concert of sacred and standard jazz classics. Led by Peter Prochnow, director of music outreach at Zion Lutheran Church in Kalamazoo, Horizons was formed nearly 10 years ago and is actively engaged in using jazz and jazz influenced musical styles with traditional hymnody for congregational singing. Prochnow will lead a pre-concert discussion of Horizons work in the church.
Concordia University Jazz Ensemble*
December 9 | 4:30 p.m. *Please note time change*
Kreft Center Black Box Theatre
The Concordia University Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Professor Sean Dobbins, will perform a wide variety of jazz styles, from funk to blues to swing.
Dancing Christmas Carols
December 11 | 4 p.m.
Kreft Center Black Box Theatre
Tickets: $5, $3 for children 12 and under
Bring your friends and family for an afternoon of singing and dancing to Christmas carols, lead by Joan K. O’Connell, founder and director of Christian Dance Network. All ages and abilities welcome. Join us in the Kreft Center Gallery afterwards for fellowship, refreshments and music performed by students from the Ann Arbor School of the Performing Arts. A great way to celebrate the Christmas season!
*denotes a free event
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