Moore Musical Arts Center

Fine Arts Center Galleries

Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green, Ohio

With special guest composer
Christopher Rouse

The New Music & Art Festival program booklet is available online in Adobe PDF format.

Schedule of Events

Saturday, October 9

11 a.m. - Young People's Concert: Opera for Youth.

The Fowl Trilogy ("Chicken Little," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Red Hen") by Tom Benjamin, under the direction of Barbara Lockard-Zimmerman. Bryan Recital Hall. $

Wednesday, October 13

7-10 p.m. - Seminars with composer Katherine Hoover. TBA

Thursday, October 14

3:30 p.m. - Seminar: Composer Christopher Rouse.

One of the most acclaimed composers of his generation, Christopher Rouse has written for many of today's most renowned soloists and ensembles: Yo-Yo Ma, Jan de Gaetani, New York Philharmonic, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Cleveland Quartet. His music, described as "anguished," "outrageous" and "cathartic," blends the many worlds of which he is intensely a part. Bryan Recital Hall.

7:30 p.m. - Exhibition Opening: "Charles Kanwischer: Recent Landscape Drawings from Northwest Ohio."

Views from this region that awaken the viewer from the somnolence of seeing the familiar and that encompass both strength and subtlety, by BGSU art faculty member Charles Kanwischer. Exhibition continues through Nov. 7. Kennedy Green Room.

8 p.m. - Concert - The BGSU Wind Ensemble and faculty artists

Under the direction of Bruce Moss, the ensemble performs works by Brooks, Daugherty, Dong and Mumford. Kobacker Hall.

Friday, October 15

9 a.m. - "Composer to Composer: A Dialogue with Christopher Rouse."

Donald M. Wilson, moderator. Bryan Recital Hall.

10:30 a.m. - Concert

An exciting array of solo and chamber music by Averill, Elwood, Lemay, Matheson and Rouse. Kobacker Hall.

2:30 p.m. - Concert

Music by Harnish, Hoover and Rouse as performed by BGSU faculty and students. Kobacker Hall.

6:30 p.m. - Artist's Talk: James Leedy

7:30 p.m. - Exhibition Opening: "Contemporary Clay: Master Teachers/Master Students."

Since the late fifties and early sixties a number of artists have deeply influenced the landscape of American ceramics through their work and teaching. Curator John Balistreri has invited a number of these remarkable artists to exhibit, and has asked each to select one emerging talent of their choice to make up the other half of the show. This exhibition, which shows some of the best American ceramic artists of the last 30 years and gives a glimpse of the promising future, includes: Dan Anderson and Russell Wrankle, Rudy Autio and David Regan, Val Cushing and Mary Louise Carter, Jack Earl and Gregg Luginbuhl, Ken Ferguson and Steve Heineman, Jun Kaneko and Lisa Wolkow, Jim Leedy and Brandon Reese, Michael Lucero and Roberto Visani, Don Reitz and David Dahlquist, Toshiko Takaezu and Martha Russo, Robert Turner and John Gill. Exhibition continues through Nov. 7. Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery.

8 p.m. - Concert: "The Electro-Acoustic Phenomenon."

Recently composed music by some of the leaders in computer music - Austin, Fritts, Hainsworth, Klein, Koonce, Nelson and Rudy. Kobacker Hall.

Saturday, October 16

9 a.m. - Music Papers

Research spanning the music of the 20th century (Elliott Carter, John Cage, Luigi Nono, Chou Wen-Chung and Conlon Nancarrow) presented by Crafton, Durazzi, Lai and Leong. Jeffrey Mumford, chair. Bryan Recital Hall.

1 p.m. - Panel Discussion - "Making Art/Making Music 1999."

A lively and unconstrained discussion of the contemporary climate for the arts with ceramicist James Leedy, painter/poet Marilene Phipps, and composers Christopher Rouse, Larry Austin and Jeffrey Mumford. Little Theatre, Toledo Museum of Art.

2:30 p.m. - Concert

The music of Koston, Richmond, Shrude and Vine are among the highlights of this afternoon's concert. Great Gallery, Toledo Museum of Art.

6:30 p.m. - Artist's Talk

Marilene Phipps. 204 Fine Arts Center.

7:30 p.m. - Exhibition Opening: "Marilene Phipps: Altars and Shrines of Haiti."

This series of lushly hued paintings represents and interprets Haitian altars, both man-made - Christian shrines, graveyards, Voodoo altars and temples, and natural - streams, grottoes, trees and totemic animals. Of Haitian/French heritage, Phipps spent her early life in Haiti and was initiated there in the Vodou religion. Now residing in Cambridge, Mass., she is the 1995 Guggenheim Fellow in painting, the 1993 Grolier poetry prize winner and the 1992 Bunting Fellow in painting at Harvard and Radcliffe. Exhibition continues through Nov. 7. Willard Wankelman Gallery.

8 p.m. - Concert: Bowling Green Philharmonia

Conducted by Emily Freeman Brown, the program features works by Rouse, Joyce and Crockett, as well as the late Stephen Albert's Wind Canticle performed by clarinetist Kevin Schempf. Kobacker Hall.

$ - admission charged. For more information, please call the Moore Musical Arts Center Box Office at 419/372-8171 or 800/589-2224.

Funding by
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Fine Arts Center Galleries
College of Musical Arts
Medici Circle
Ethnic Cultural Arts Program
Department of Ethnic Studies
Faculty Development Committee
Ohio Arts Council
Arts Commission of Greater Toledo

Activities take place at BGSU's Moore Musical Arts and Fine Arts Centers, as well as at the Toledo Museum of Art. The Moore Musical Arts Center houses Bryan Recital Hall, Kobacker Hall and the Kennedy Green Room. The Dorothy Uber Bryan and Willard Wankelman Galleries are located in the Fine Arts Center. The Toledo Museum of Art houses the Great Gallery and Little Theatre. All events are free and open to the public. For further information contact the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at (419) 372-2685 or the Fine Arts Center Galleries at (419) 372-8525.

The festival schedule is subject to change.

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