Shakespeare's verses set to choral music
The American University Chamber Singers performed its final concert of the year this past weekend at the Abramson Family Recital Hall in the Katzen Arts Center.
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The American University Chamber Singers performed its final concert of the year this past weekend at the Abramson Family Recital Hall in the Katzen Arts Center.
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While most seniors in the Honors Department slave away over their 50-page plus capstone papers, College of Arts and Sciences senior Danielle Giusto is working on a different type of project.
It was Christmas day. Her mother waited pensively at the end of a long hallway in the Entrebbe International Airport in Uganda. Her cousin stood nearby with a camera to document the event. When she turned the corner and they saw her, there were no apprehensive stares or Kodak moments. There were only tears, of joy and of sadness.
Last night, the Women's Initiative celebrated the contribution of women in the arts with an event titled "Just like my Momma made it" in the Katzen Arts Center.
Anna Binneweg made her debut this weekend as guest conductor for the American University Symphony Orchestra. But there was nothing in the background of this current music director and conductor of the Anne Arundel Community College Orchestra to suggest this would be her future occupation.
This past weekend, the American University Symphony Orchestra performed its first concert of the spring semester in the Abramson Family Recital Hall at the Katzen Arts Center.
The American University Chamber Singers performed "Sound the Trumpets: Music for a Royal Occasion" at the Abramson Family Recital Hall in the Katzen Arts Center last weekend. The chorus, accompanied by a 10-piece instrumental section, sang selections from the 17th and 18th centuries originally produced for royal occasions.
Leonard Slatkin, world-renowned music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, came to the Katzen Arts Center on Feb. 21 for a master class and Q-and-A session. The event was held in the Abramson Family Recital Hall and featured Slatkin leading an open rehearsal with the American University Symphony Orchestra while students, faculty and community members watched from the audience.
There are two types of theatergoers: Those who fear Shakespeare and those who adore him. Both types, however, will likely find that director Karl Kippola's vision for the Department of Performing arts production of "Hamlet" is enlightening.
In honor of the Super Bowl, we bring back a feature that's an oldie but a goodie: Move Matches.
The unseasonably mild winter on the east coast of the United States is yet another reminder that the latest vogue term for worldwide self-annihilation, "global warming," could be closer to fruition than anyone cares to realize. Like the menace of nuclear destruction, the threat of global warming is centered on the basic principle that humanity's blatant disregard for the environment will have dire consequences for civilization. Alfonso Cuar¢n's "Children of Men" re-imagines the disaster not as a sudden climate transformation or a release of catastrophic weapons, but rather as a worldwide infertility crisis that threatens the existence of humans as a species.
For many casual fans of classical music, the genre is often narrowly defined by names such as Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Although these composers spanned hundreds of years and several distinct musical epochs, their distance from contemporary composers has elevated them to a status that threatens to leave modern innovators obscured in their wake.
This past weekend the American University Chamber Singers performed their concert, "Across Many Centuries." Described by conductor Daniel Abraham as a varied performance featuring classic and contemporary selections, the 21-member group sang mostly a cappella for pieces ranging from the 15th to the 21st century.
The three main stages at the Kennedy Center exhibit world-famous operatic performances, masterful examples of theater and dance and some of the finest classical musical concerts in the world. However, on the top floor of the building is the lesser-known and more intimate Terrace Theatre.
The sounds of student achievement flowed from the Katzen Arts Center this weekend as violinist Josiah Lambert, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, and mezzo-soprano Laura Petravage, a senior in CAS, were named the co-winners of this year's American University Orchestra and Aria Competition. Cellist Adam Hansen, a sophomore in CAS, came in third.
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This past Saturday, the first annual Virgin Music Festival at the Pimlico racetrack in Baltimore, Md., featured an all-star lineup of bands that catered to a variety of tastes. With headliners like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Who, popular indie acts The New Pornographers and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and an all-day "Freak Show Tent," there was always something for the thousands of concertgoers. So, without further ado, here's the best and the worst of Virgin Fest 2006.
Sometimes stories are too complex, meander through too many subplots and involve too many characters to be wrapped up neatly in the two hours Hollywood audiences have become accustomed to.
Washington, D.C., is best known as the center of political power in the nation, but it is also one of the United States' preeminent cities for the arts. With respected museums such as the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art, playhouses like the Arena Stage and the Shakespeare Theatre and alternative galleries and music clubs in eclectic neighborhoods like Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan, D.C. is firmly entrenched as a capital for more just the country's politicians.