Visual and Performing Arts Calendar - Spring 2013
Thursday, February 28
Semblance Artist Talk
Sama Alsaibi and Neil Chowdury
6:00 pm, Center for Visual Art
Sama Alshaibi is an artist born in Basra, Iraq to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother and is now a naturalized US citizen. Alshaibi’s work evokes the language of suffering, displacement, and loss. Chowdhury has an identity that is neither American nor English, nor Indian, but existing in something between these three points of origin and influence, his work points to the unbridgeable chasms of identity shaped by the diasporic experience.
February 28 – March 2, March 7-9, 10*
Kiss Me, Kate
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Eugena Rawls Courtyard Theatre
7:30 pm and *2:30, Tickets $20, $10
Inspired by The Taming of the Shrew, it tells the tale of musical theater actors who were once married and are now performing opposite each other in a Broadway-bound musical version of William Shakespeare's play. Already on poor terms, the pair begin an all-out emotional war mid-performance that threatens the production's success. The only thing keeping the show together are threats from a pair of gangsters, who have come to collect a gambling debt from the show's Lucentio, Bill Calhoun. In classic musical comedy fashion, slapstick madness ensues before everything is resolved.
Friday, March 1
Screening of Guised, international video program and Curator Talk with Sama Alshaibi
6:00 pm, Center for Visual Art
Monday, March 4
Mondays at MSU Denver
Student Recital
King Center Concert Hall
2:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Monday, March 4
Vocal Jazz Ensemble, “Sol Phase”
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Tuesday, March 5
Concert Band
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Wednesday, March 6
Visiting Artist Series
Judith Saxton, trumpet
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Sunday, March 10
Metropolitan Woodwind Consort
King Center Recital Hall
2:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Sunday, March 10
Spring Choral Concert
MSU Chorale, Denver Pro Chorale, and
St. Martin’s Chamber Choir
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Monday, March 11
Mondays at MSU Denver
Student Recital
King Center Concert Hall
2:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Monday, March 11
Spring Choral Concert
Women’s Choir, Men’s Choir and
Women’s Chamber Choir
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Tuesday, March 12
MSU Denver Jazz Combos
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Wednesday, March 13
MSU Denver Jazz Orchestras
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Wednesday, March 13
Visiting Artist Lecture – Chris Dacre
6:00 pm, Center for Visual Art
Printmaker Chris Dacre uses humor and a critical eye to tackle the complexities of war, a subject that has been around since humans have been in existence and will probably stay with us as we propel into the unknown and unstable future.
Thursday, March 14
MSU Denver Jazz Combos
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Monday, March 18
Mondays at MSU Denver
Student Recital
King Center Concert Hall
2:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Tuesday, March 19
Chamber Music Ensembles
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Wednesday, March 20
Creative Mission: Student Artists panel discussion
6:00 pm, Center for Visual Art
MSU Denver students featured in the Semblance exhibition will share their expe4rience exhibiting with international artists
Thursday, March 21
MSU Denver Symphony Orchestra
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Monday, April 1
Mondays at MSU Denver
Student Recital
King Center Concert Hall
2:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Friday, April 5
Colorado Ballet Youth
Dance Performance
7:00 pm, Center for Visual Arts
The culmination of a dance and costume design workshop for youth ages 10-14 presented by the Center for Visual Art and the Colorado Ballet.
Saturday, April 6
Visiting Artist Series
Boulder Brass
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Sunday, April 7
Visiting Artist Series
Anna Wytco, saxophone and
Anne Breeden, piano
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Monday, April 8
Mondays at MSU Denver
Student Recital
King Center Concert Hall
2:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Monday, April 8
Jazz Faculty Composition Recital
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Wednesday, April 10
Jazz Faculty Composition Workshop
King Center Music and Dance Studio
3:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
April 11-13, 18-20, 21*
The Heidi Chronicles
By Wendy Wasserstein
Metro Studio Theatre
7:30 pm & *2:30 pm
Tickets $15, $8
Wasserstein’s play follows Heidi Holland from high school in the 1960s to her career as a successful art historian more than twenty years later. The play's main themes deal with the changing role of women during this time period, describing both Heidi's ardent feminism during the 1970s and her eventual sense of betrayal during the 1980s. Though most of the characters are women, there are two important male characters; Peter Patrone, a gay pediatrician who is arguably Heidi's best friend, and Scoop Rosenbaum, a magazine editor who marries and has many affairs, and with whom Heidi has a tense friendship.
Friday, April 12
Jazz Celebration
featuring Shamie Royston, piano
King Center, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
1:00 pm Concert, Concert Hall
Free and Open to the Public
Information: milesr@msudenver.edu
Friday, April 12
Visiting Artist Series
Medieval and Renaissance Music
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Sunday, April 14
Piano Faculty Recital
King Center Recital Hall
4:00 pm, Tickets $10, $, $5
Monday, April 15
Mondays at MSU Denver
Student Recital
King Center Concert Hall
2:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Thursday, April 18
Chamber Music Ensembles
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Thursday, April 18
Visiting Artist Lecture – Keri Smith
6:00 pm, Center for Visual Art
Author of several bestselling books about creativity including “How to be an Explorer of the World” and illustrator for Random House, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Ford Motor Co., the Boston Globe and Hallmark.
Saturday, April 20
MSU Denver Opera Theatre
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Monday, April 22
Mondays at MSU Denver
Student Recital
King Center Concert Hall
2:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Monday, April 22
Chamber Music Ensembles
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Tuesday, April 23
MSU Denver Jazz Combos
Dazzle Restaurant, 9th & Lincoln
7:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Wednesday, April 24
MSU Denver Jazz Orchestras
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Thursday, April 25
Chamber Music Ensembles
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Friday, April 26
Wind Band Celebration
King Center, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Contact dkish@msudenver.edu
Friday, April 26
MSU Denver Wind Ensemble
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
April 26 – May 3
BFA Thesis Exhibition – Show 1
Center for Visual Art
Saturday, April 27
Visiting Artist Series
Colorado Composers Concert: CoCoCo 7
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Monday, April 29
Mondays at MSU Denver
Student Recital
King Center Concert Hall
2:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Tuesday, April 30
Early Music Ensemble
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Thursday, May 2
Vocal Jazz Ensemble, “Sol Phase”
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
May 4-5
Choirs and Symphony Orchestra
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Sunday, May 5
Chamber Music Ensembles
King Center Recital Hall
4:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Monday, May 6
Mondays at MSU Denver
Student Recital
King Center Concert Hall
2:00 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Monday, May 6
MSU Denver Percussion Ensemble
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Tuesday, May 7
Symphonic Band and Concert Band
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Tickets $10, $8, $5
Thursday, May 9
Guitar Ensembles
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Friday, May 10
Faculty Recital
Larry Worster and Friends
King Center Recital Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, May 11
Gamelan Orchestra
King Center Concert Hall
7:30 pm, Free and Open to the Public
May 11 – 17
BFA Thesis Exhibition – Show 2
Center for Visual Art
May 30 – June 21
Metrosphere
Center for Visual Art
