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| Music |
| Chamber Music Society |
| Thursday 2:30 PM - Gasson 100 |
| Featuring a performance of Saint Saens' Carnival of the Animals. Sandra Hebert, Director. |
| University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band Concert |
| Thursday 8:00 PM - Gasson 100 |
| Performance includes "Vesuvius" by Frank Ticheli, "Vientos y Tangos" by Michael Gandolfi, and "Godzilla Eats Las Vegas" by Eric Whittacre. The Symphonic Band program features music from the battlefield including "Pines of the Appian Way" from Respighi's "Pines of Rome." |
| Jazz Showcase |
| Friday 4:00 PM - Gasson 100 |
| Sharp 11th |
| Peter Clote (Biology) - |
| Ned Rosen (Mathematics) - |
| Three Grand |
| Jarret Izzo '07 - Jarret is especially pleased to participate in his third ArtsFest. In between projects he rocks and/or rolls at Jake Ivory's Dueling Piano Bar in Boston. He will pursue a Master's degree in urban history at BC next year and wishes the best to his fellow seniors. He thanks Patrick, Will, Regan, Deb, Cathi, and Teddy for their commitment and professionalism. |
| Will Armstrong '07 - Will Armstrong, an english major and music minor from Washington D.C., will be graduating in May from Boston College. He plans to attend the New England Conservatory next year to receive a certificate in jazz performance. Will started playing piano as a young child but only recently pursued it as a serious career. His musical influences include his mentor Calvin Jones, Kenny Barron, Mulgrew Miller, Oscar Peterson and Motley Cru. |
| Patrick Cronin '07 - Patrick's musical influences are Jazz pianists and organists such as Duke Ellington and Herbie Hancock as well as contemporary players like John Medeski, Marc Ribot and Me'shell Ndegeocello. He has been playing for 14 years. |
| Liturgical Arts Group Concert |
| Friday 7:30 PM - Gasson 100 |
| A CD release concert highlighting several pieces from the Liturgy Arts Group's new recording, "Instruments of Salvation," as well as many other pieces from the group's ever-growing repertoire. |
| BC bOp! Alumni Concert |
| Saturday 8:00 PM - Main Tent |
| The BC bOp! ensemble will perform some of their favorite works from the past twenty years including both contemporary and traditional instrumental and vocal jazz selections. See the list of alumni performing |
| Theater |
| 24 Hour Theater Experiment |
| Thursday 2:15 - 2:45 PM - O'Neill Plaza |
| "Candygram" & "After Ever After" |
| The Committee for Creative Enactments, present two whimsical romantic comedies. "Candygram" is the stories of lost loves on Valentines while "After Ever After" is a fairy tale of epic and hilarious proportions! These two plays were written, produced, and performed by students in 24 hours. These are the 1st and 3rd place plays. |
| Theater Showcase |
| Thursday 4:30 - 5:30 PM - Gasson 100 |
| "For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide when the Rainbow Is Enuf" by Ntozake Shange |
| This is a staged reading of the play "For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide when the Rainbow Is Enuf", by African playwright Ntozake Shange. The Dramatics Society would like to invite you to come and view the workshoping of a thought provoking and emotional play. Come and "experience Shange's firebomb of a poem...[T]he disenfranchised heard a voice they could recognize, one that combined the trickster spirit of Richard Pryor with a kind of mournful blues." - The New York Times |
| Theater Showcase |
| Friday 2:15 - 2:45 PM - O'Neill Plaza |
| Montage of A Dream Deferred the Poetry of Lanston Hughes |
| Presented by the Contemporary Theater. A performance piece dealing with imagination, hope, and despair using the poetry of Langston Hughes. |
| Theater in the Garden 10 x 4! |
| Friday 2:45 - 3:45 PM, Saturday 1:00 - 2:00 PM - St. Mary's Garden |
| "Trying to Find Chinatown" by David Henry Hwang. Directed by Patricia Riggin. Lost in New York City, a young tourist asks a Chinese street musician for directions to Chinatown. A witty and endearing look at the melting pot of America ensues. "....the author of "M. Butterfly" proves to by a wry observer of contemporary mores and racial stereotypes." The New York Times. Part of the AHANA Collective Theater Initiative. |
| "The French" by Joe Sutton. Directed by Patricia Riggin. A French couple are trapped in a New York City subway car with a young African-American man from Harlem. A clever exploration at what separates races and cultures and what brings them together. Part of the AHANA Collective Theater Initiative. |
| "The Crossing" by James E. Garcia. Directed by Susan Thompson. A Mexican-American border guard and an undocumented immigrant find themselves face to face in the desert. A winner of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 10 Minute Play award, "The Crossing" was inspired by the death of 14 immigrants in the Arizona desert in 2001. Part of the AHANA Collective Theater Initiative. |
| "Please Be Seated" Directed by Susan Thompson. Two clowns vie for space and place in a game of one-upmanship. |
| Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance |
| Wednesday - Sunday, Wed-Fri; 7:30 PM; Sat 8:00 PM, Sun 2:00 PM - Robsham Theater |
| A fresh take on one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular comic operas, this updated version of The Pirates of Penzance took New York by storm when it premiered in Central Park in 1980, leading to a subsequent smash-hit Broadway run. Wacky, irreverent, and as entertaining today as it was when it first opened in 1879, The Pirates of Penzance spins a hilarious farce of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim-witted young lovers, dewy-eyed daughters and an eccentric Major-General, all morally bound to the often-ridiculous dictates of honor and duty. |
| Robsham Theater Arts Center |
| Killing at the Box Office |
| Friday & Saturday 7:00 PM - O'Connell House |
| The Committee for Creative Enactment's spring murder mystery comedy show takes place at a movie audition, and when people aren't happy with the casting and production things go horribly wrong. |
| After Hours Theater |
| Friday 11:00 PM - O'Neill Plaza |
| Each play is approximately 10 minutes long. |
| Finnish to Begin With - Written and Directed by Amanda Engborg '08 The Button - Written by Daniel DeStefano '07, Directed by Carolyn Charpie '08 El Salvador - Written by Grace Illingworth '10, Directed by Sarah Carter '08 The Other Woman - Written by Carley Palmer '07, Directed by David Bruin '09 Aloysius - Written by Colin Doyle '08, Directed by Molly Murphy '09 Ian the Musical - Written by Ian Stoker Long '07, Directed by Patricia Noonan '07 |
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