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BGSU holds 25th annual New Music and Art Festival BOWLING GREEN, O.—Pulitzer Prize-winner Shulamit Ran is the guest composer for Bowling Green State University’s 25th annual
New Music and Art Festival—three days of concerts, exhibitions, lectures, workshops and video screenings beginning Oct. 21.
Ran’s “Symphony” won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Music and the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award in 1992. Her more recent honors
include a 1998 Koussevitsky Foundation grant and commissions from the American Composers Orchestra and the Brentano String
Quartet.
Works by the Israeli-born composer have been performed by many of the world’s leading orchestras—the New York Philharmonic,
the Amsterdam Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra among them—with conductors such as Zubin
Mehta, Gary Bertini, Christoph von Dohnanyi and Pierre Boulez.
The festival will open Oct. 21 with Ran leading a seminar about her music at 2:30 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of BGSU’s Moore
Musical Arts Center. At 7:15 p.m. that evening, she will present the Festival Forum, a discussion of works to be performed
during clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein’s BGSU Festival Series concert, beginning at 8 p.m.
Ran’s compositions will be heard during concerts throughout the festival, including performances by University faculty and
students.
Three art exhibitions will open during the event, which supports the creation of new work and engages both the University
and the public in art appreciation and awareness.
“The Proper Inflection,” an exhibit featuring work by BGSU art faculty member Mille Guldbeck, opens at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21 in
the Kennedy Green Room of the Moore Musical Arts Center.
Opening at 7 p.m. the following day is “INterVENTIONS, an exhibition including works by Ellen Harvey, Ken Aptekar, Mark Dion
and the artistic team ChanSchatz, in the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery of BGSU’s Fine Arts Center.
The Fine Arts Center will also host “Crucial State: Selections from Ohio Arts Council 2004 Fellowship Award Winners.” BGSU
photographer Brad Phalin is among the visual artists represented in the exhibition, which opens at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 in the Willard
Wankelman Gallery.
Festival organizers are Dr. Burton Beerman, director of BGSU’s MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, and Jacqueline Nathan,
director of the Fine Arts Center Galleries on campus. The center and the galleries provide funding along with the College
of Musical Arts, Department of Theatre and Film, WBGU-PBS and Ethnic Cultural Arts Program, all at BGSU; the Medical College
of Ohio Center for Creative Instruction, and the Ohio Arts Council.
Most festival events are free, but admission will be charged to some of the concerts. For a complete schedule, contact the
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at 419-372-2685 or the Fine Arts Center Galleries at 419-372-8525, or visit http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/music/MACCM/.
(Posted October 12, 2004 )
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