Quick Center Announces Lineup
The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University has announced its exhibition and performance lineup for the 2009-10 season.
Art enthusiasts who visit the Quick Center’s galleries this September will be greeted by the opening of a special exhibition of works by the late Hildreth Meière (1892-1961), the acclaimed muralist and mosaicist who worked in a variety of mediums.
This first major exhibition of Meière’s work brings together sketches, studies in gouache, full-scale cartoons and models of her work at such major institutions as the Nebraska State Capitol, the National Academy of Sciences, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, and New York’s St. Bartholomew’s Church and Radio City Music Hall.
“Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière” opens to the public on Sept. 4 in The Quick Center’s Beltz Gallery and Kenney Gallery A. The exhibition runs through June 15, 2010.
Also opening Sept. 4, in the center’s first-floor West Gallery, is the reinstallation of the university’s Asian art collection. The new installation unites the university’s collection of porcelains, ivories, jades and bronzes from the estate of Col. Michael Friedsam (1858-1931) with six important items of Chinese and Korean antiquity on long-term loan from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, and with a selection of 20th century prints from the collection of F. Donald Kenney.
Ongoing exhibitions include “European and American Paintings,” from the university’s Permanent Collection, which encompasses a broad spectrum of art history from the beginning of Western civilization into the 21st century; and “Land And Spirit: The Native American Collection,” featuring the university’s collections of Southwestern pottery, jewelry, rugs and Kachina dolls complemented by a rotating selection of photographs of Native Americans taken between 1907 and 1927 by Edward S. Curtis.
In addition to the exhibitions in its art galleries, The Quick Center offers an extensive concert schedule in association with Friends of Good Music of Olean. Performances are held in the center’s Rigas Family Theater.
The season gets under way at 7:30 p.m. Fri, Sept. 25, with “Brother Can You Spare a Dime,” a concert featuring bass-baritone Michel Bell, an award-winning star of Broadway and international stages. Bell will perform American songs from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, accompanied on the piano by Catherine Matejka.
Other performances include:
· 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, “Take the ‘A’ Train,” featuring the Harlem Quartet. Since its 2006 Carnegie Hall debut, this dynamic young string quartet has established itself as one of the leading ensembles in America.
· 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, Ethos Percussion Group. This group’s critically acclaimed performances regularly feature traditional rhythms from India, West Africa and the Middle East as well as landmark works by American composers John Cage, Lou Harrison, Steve Reich and Frank Zappa.
· 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, Holiday Concert with The Chatham Baroque Ensemble. This Pittsburgh-based group excites audiences with their dazzling technique and artful interpretations performed on period instruments. Soprano Marguerite Krull joins the ensemble for a holiday program including works by Biber, Buxtehude, Fux, Merula, Scarlatti and French Noëls by Charpentier.
· 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, recital by Turkish cellist Efe Baltacigil. Selected by the European Concert Hall Association as its “Rising Star” in 2007, Baltacigil has performed in major venues in Europe and the United States, and performs extensively with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society.
· 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, 2010, “A Night at the Operetta,” with soprano Jessica Rose Cambio and baritone Michael Weyandt, winners of The Quick Center for the Arts Performance Prize at the 2009 Liederkranz Competition. Accompanied by pianist Elizabeth Hastings, the pair will sing highlights from Viennese, French, Spanish and American operettas.
· 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 12, 2010, “American Impressions” with Brass Roots Trio. Pianist Rosetta Senkus Bacon, trumpeter Travis Heath and French horn player Douglas Lundeen have performed around the world. This performance captures vignettes of the many cultures of America with music ranging from Aaron Copland’s “Rodeo” to Billy Joel’s “Root Beer Rag.”
· 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 26, 2010, a flute recital by Claire Chase, winner of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild Competition. A passionate performer, leader and innovator, Chase creatively links traditional, contemporary and experimental music with program choices that range from Bach and Brahms to Boulez and Saariaho and beyond.
· 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 16, 2010, a season-closing performance by Syracuse Symphony Orchestra with guest conductor Andrew Sewell and featuring Ilya Yakushev, first prize winner and gold medalist of the 2005 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati.
Tickets for concert performances are $20 at full price, $16 for subscribers, university staff and senior citizens, and $5 for students. For information and ticket sales call (716) 375-2494.
The Quick Center galleries are free and open to the public year round. Museum and gift shop hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Holiday hours may vary.
Visit the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts on the Web at www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.
Pictured, the Ethos Percussion Group
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Art enthusiasts who visit the Quick Center’s galleries this September will be greeted by the opening of a special exhibition of works by the late Hildreth Meière (1892-1961), the acclaimed muralist and mosaicist who worked in a variety of mediums.
This first major exhibition of Meière’s work brings together sketches, studies in gouache, full-scale cartoons and models of her work at such major institutions as the Nebraska State Capitol, the National Academy of Sciences, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, and New York’s St. Bartholomew’s Church and Radio City Music Hall.
“Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière” opens to the public on Sept. 4 in The Quick Center’s Beltz Gallery and Kenney Gallery A. The exhibition runs through June 15, 2010.
Also opening Sept. 4, in the center’s first-floor West Gallery, is the reinstallation of the university’s Asian art collection. The new installation unites the university’s collection of porcelains, ivories, jades and bronzes from the estate of Col. Michael Friedsam (1858-1931) with six important items of Chinese and Korean antiquity on long-term loan from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, and with a selection of 20th century prints from the collection of F. Donald Kenney.
Ongoing exhibitions include “European and American Paintings,” from the university’s Permanent Collection, which encompasses a broad spectrum of art history from the beginning of Western civilization into the 21st century; and “Land And Spirit: The Native American Collection,” featuring the university’s collections of Southwestern pottery, jewelry, rugs and Kachina dolls complemented by a rotating selection of photographs of Native Americans taken between 1907 and 1927 by Edward S. Curtis.
In addition to the exhibitions in its art galleries, The Quick Center offers an extensive concert schedule in association with Friends of Good Music of Olean. Performances are held in the center’s Rigas Family Theater.
The season gets under way at 7:30 p.m. Fri, Sept. 25, with “Brother Can You Spare a Dime,” a concert featuring bass-baritone Michel Bell, an award-winning star of Broadway and international stages. Bell will perform American songs from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, accompanied on the piano by Catherine Matejka.
Other performances include:
· 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, “Take the ‘A’ Train,” featuring the Harlem Quartet. Since its 2006 Carnegie Hall debut, this dynamic young string quartet has established itself as one of the leading ensembles in America.
· 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, Ethos Percussion Group. This group’s critically acclaimed performances regularly feature traditional rhythms from India, West Africa and the Middle East as well as landmark works by American composers John Cage, Lou Harrison, Steve Reich and Frank Zappa.
· 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, Holiday Concert with The Chatham Baroque Ensemble. This Pittsburgh-based group excites audiences with their dazzling technique and artful interpretations performed on period instruments. Soprano Marguerite Krull joins the ensemble for a holiday program including works by Biber, Buxtehude, Fux, Merula, Scarlatti and French Noëls by Charpentier.
· 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, recital by Turkish cellist Efe Baltacigil. Selected by the European Concert Hall Association as its “Rising Star” in 2007, Baltacigil has performed in major venues in Europe and the United States, and performs extensively with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society.
· 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, 2010, “A Night at the Operetta,” with soprano Jessica Rose Cambio and baritone Michael Weyandt, winners of The Quick Center for the Arts Performance Prize at the 2009 Liederkranz Competition. Accompanied by pianist Elizabeth Hastings, the pair will sing highlights from Viennese, French, Spanish and American operettas.
· 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 12, 2010, “American Impressions” with Brass Roots Trio. Pianist Rosetta Senkus Bacon, trumpeter Travis Heath and French horn player Douglas Lundeen have performed around the world. This performance captures vignettes of the many cultures of America with music ranging from Aaron Copland’s “Rodeo” to Billy Joel’s “Root Beer Rag.”
· 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 26, 2010, a flute recital by Claire Chase, winner of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild Competition. A passionate performer, leader and innovator, Chase creatively links traditional, contemporary and experimental music with program choices that range from Bach and Brahms to Boulez and Saariaho and beyond.
· 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 16, 2010, a season-closing performance by Syracuse Symphony Orchestra with guest conductor Andrew Sewell and featuring Ilya Yakushev, first prize winner and gold medalist of the 2005 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati.
Tickets for concert performances are $20 at full price, $16 for subscribers, university staff and senior citizens, and $5 for students. For information and ticket sales call (716) 375-2494.
The Quick Center galleries are free and open to the public year round. Museum and gift shop hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Holiday hours may vary.
Visit the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts on the Web at www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.
Pictured, the Ethos Percussion Group
Emailed from St. Bonaventure University
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