Denyce Graves & Richard Troxell with Baton Rouge Symphony

Terrific concert conducted by Timothy Muffitt with numerous alumni and current LSU faculty and students spread throughout the orchestra. I'm very proud!!!

April 28, 2011

Exxon/Mobil Matching Gifts to LSU benefit LSU Opera

Students Danielle Greiner (l.) and Megan Barrera (inside left) and Prof. Michael Borowitz (far r.)

Megan Barrera, a native of Miami, FL is currently finishing her Master's in Music at Louisiana State University.  She completed her undergraduate degree, a Bachelor in Music, at the University of Miami, FL (2009).

Danielle Greiner, a Mezzo-soprano from Treynor, IA is in the  Master’s program at LSU and has an undergraduate degree from Simpson College in Iowa. She has been an apprentice artist for two seasons at the Des Moines Metro Opera.

Michael Borowitz (Music Director of LSU Opera) American conductor and pianist is Assistant Professor of Opera with Louisiana State University, as well as Artistic Director of Nevada Opera and music director of the Ohio Light Opera.

Provost Hamilton and Exxon officials with matching gift check,
surrounded by members of the LSU community and LSU Foundation

“Our Lady of 121st Street” LSU Theatre Mainstage

ADAM LAU/The Advocate

Kaitlyn Stockwell, who plays Inez in the LSU Department of Theatre production ‘Our Lady of 121st Street,’ rehearses with Andrew Davis (Rooftop), center, and Renaldo McClinton (Victor). The play opens tonight in the Studio Theatre of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building on Dalrymple Drive.

Advocate Review of "Our Lady of 121st St." LSU Theatre Mainstage

LSU alum on Broadway!!!!

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/whos-afraid-of-virginia-wolf-returning-to-broadway/#more-195635

LSU alum Madison Dirks lands a role on Broadway. Congrats!!!!

Honey (Carrie Coon) comforted by Nick (Madison Dirks)

Photo:  Michael Brosilow

Published on Dec 19, 2010

from Steppenwolf Theatre Production

Christopher O'Riley & LSU Symphony

Salzburg manifesto: The value of music and the right to play

Salzburg manifesto: The value of music and the right to play

Dept. of Theatre student Michael Martin--a winner in Digital Media Fest

one planet/one people

LSU Digital Media Fest celebrates entries, creativity | LSU Gold

CMDA's Joey Watson in the thick of this exciting campus project.

Digital Media Fest celebrates entries, creativity | LSU Gold

Opera benefit April 14th

Adam Rapp play workshopped at LSU Fall '10

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Louisville Dreaming: Characters Exploring Boundaries

By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Published: April 4, 2011

http://tinyurl.com/3orahhx

Alan Simons

Catherine Combs as Bernadette in “The Edge of Our Bodies,” by Adam Rapp.

LSU's LOL--Front page story in Baton Rouge Advocate

Adam Lau/The Advocate

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/latest/Music-from-things--you-touch-every-day.html

Slide show
http://www.2theadvocate.com/photos/119226539.html

Audio clip
http://media.2theadvocate.com/audio/LaptopConcert.mp3

Directors
http://www.music.lsu.edu/~sdbeck/
http://www.allisonic.com/

LSU Theatre's Dance Concert 2011

LSU Theatre's Dance Concert 2011
Directed by Molly Buchmann
April 30th @ 7:30 p.m.
May 1st @ 2:00 p.m.
Shaver Theatre, Music & Dramatic Arts Building on Dalrymple Drive - LSU campus

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LSU Theatre’s DANCE CONCERT 2011, directed by Molly Buchmann, performs at the Shaver Theatre, M&DA Building on Dalrymple Drive - LSU campus, and runs April 30 and May 1, 2011.

LSU Theatre will present its 10th annual DANCE CONCERT 2011, featuring a blend of various styles of dance ranging from ballet and lyrical/modern, to hip hop, tap and jazz. The concert will showcase 14 distinctly different pieces and highlight more than 70 dancers with choreographed pieces by students and LSU Theatre faculty Susan Perlis and Christine Chrest. Special guest works by LSU Legacy, a hip hop student dance team portraying American youth and urban energy. 

LSU Theatre’s DANCE CONCERT 2011 provides young choreographers with the exciting opportunity to experiment and produce their work on a larger scale. Don’t miss this fast-paced, powerful experience of dance entertainment.

Student Choreographers:
Adrienne Sonnier
Ali Manion
Amanda Briggs
Christy Hedlund
Liz Armentor
Emily Rodriguez
Ann Tangi
Clint Parfait
Stephanie Giglio

Tickets are $18 for Adults, $15 for Seniors/Faculty/Staff and $12 for all students.

LSU Mainstage

Our Lady of 121st Street
by Stephen Adley Guirgis
Directed by Femi Euba
April 27-May 8, 2011
Studio Theatre

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The Jazz Area at LSU is having "Jazz Week"

The Jazz Area at LSU is having "Jazz Week" on campus presenting several exciting concerts and recitals.  Here's the lineup:

Monday, April 4, 7:30 p.m. LSU SoM Recital Hall: Jazz Chamber Ensembles - Bill Grimes, coordinator
LSU SoM Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 5, 7:30 p.m. CMDA - Claude L. Shaver Theatre:Jazz Lab Band concert, directed by Brian Shaw
with compositions and arrangements by Gordon Goodwin, Allan Horney,
Thad Jones, Fred Sturm, Jamey Simmons, and Brian Shaw

Friday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. CMDA - Claude L. Shaver Theatre:LSU Jazz Ensemble Concert - directed by Brian Shaw featuring Trent Austin, trumpet soloist [www.trentaustinmusic.com]
with compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Clifford Brown,
Neal Hefti, Maria Schneider, Darcy Argue, Stephen Guerra, and Brian
Shaw

Saturday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. LSU SoM Recital Hall:

Guest Artist Trent Austin, jazz trumpet recital

with Bill Grimes, Willis Delony, and Brian Shaw

graduate recitals stretching into the following week:

Monday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.  LSU SoM Recital Hall

Brad Walker Jazz Saxophone Graduate Recital 

Wednesday, April 13, 7:30 p.m. LSU SoM Recital Hall

Marcelo Vieira, Jazz Cello Graduate Recital

http://www.music.lsu.edu/index.html

Performing Arts Series presents Trio Angelico

Performing Arts Series presents Trio Angelico
April 6, 2011 · Recital Hall · 7:30 p.m.

Trio Angelico comes to LSU School of Music as part of the Performing Arts Series. This group performs “music from the heart” as three distinct voices come together: Sonja Bruzauskas, mezzo soprano; Jennifer Keeney, flute; and Vicki Seldon, guest pianist in the Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. on April 6.

Admission is free for LSU students with I.D. General admission is $10.

On April 5 at 4:30 p.m. the group will conduct a workshop for students in the Music & Dramatic Arts building, room 249 entitled. “Engaging New Audiences: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Music Performance” where they will share lessons from their work to expose the community to artistic experiences that blend science, literature and philosophy to build audiences.

Bruzauskas was recently the featured soloist with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. Trio Angelico regularly performs with Divas World, a Houston-based non-profit performing arts organization “dedicated to enriching lives through spirited and musical performances that touch the mind, heart and soul.”


http://www.music.lsu.edu/News/Events.html#Trio

With guest pianist, Vicki Seldon

LSU Opera Presents Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

LSU Opera Presents Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro 
March 31-April 3, 2011 · Shaver Theatre · 7:30 p.m.
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LSU Alumni and Friends at New Orleans Opera

http://www.music.lsu.edu/News/Events.html#NolaOpera

NPR's Scott Simon on how to tell a great story

SciArt, a new conversation where art meets science

String Theory vs. Loop Quantum Gravity
a part of SciArt, a new conversation where art meets science
March 31, 2011 · M&DA Bldg · 7 p.m. · Free Admission

What is String Theory? Hear from LSU Physicist Jorge Pullin and Stanford Physicist Sean Hartnoll as they discuss and debate String Theory versus Loop Quantum Gravity (for a general audience) - while Raul Gomez and Marcelo Vieira of the experimental ensemble The Incense Merchants add to the discussion with violin and cello. 

Nice feature article (from Fall '10) on SoM alum Patti Adams

http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/11/lpo_flutist_patti_adams_blends.html

RUSTY COSTANZA / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEPatti Adams is photographed at the Garden District Gallery in New Orleans with some of her art work on Friday, November 5, 2010.