UF Professor and Head of Music Education, Russell Robinson, will conduct a world premiere for choir and orchestra of his new work, De Profundis, at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center on Sunday, March 4th. De Profundis will be published by Lawson-Gould Publishers, a long-standing publisher of concert choral literature founded by Robert Shaw (Lawson was the late conductor’s middle name) and Walter Gould.  The performers will include 200 singers selected from across the US, professional orchestra and soloists.  Robinson will open the concert with Franz Schubert’s Mass in G and conclude with his new work.  He was invited to conduct this concert and write the new work by Producer, Norman Dunfee, President and Executive Director of Mid-America Productions in New York City who also invited Robinson to conduct Carnegie Hall in 2006, where he conducted the world premiere of UF Professor of Music Paul Basler’s Missa Brevis.

For more information on the concert:  http://www.midamerica-music.com/carnegie-hall-concerts/March-2012 

Musicology Colloquium Series Presents: Mary Hunter “Classical Music Performers and the Idea of the Composer”

Friday, February 24, 2012
1:55–2:45 p.m.
Friends of Music Room, University Auditorium
Reception to Follow

Both popular and professional discourse around classical music is highly composer-centric. In the world of performing musicians, mainstream classical music is the only genre focused on the presumed intentions of dead but ultimately authoritative creators. This puts performers in the unusual situation of needing both to subordinate themselves to the demands of the music and to present themselves as “owning,” or “personalizing” the music. Although many performers orient themselves more consciously towards the work than towards the composer in developing an interpretation, the figure of the composer is never completely absent from consideration, and performers conceptualize this figure in a variety of ways that allow them to negotiate the tension between letting the music speak “for itself” and communicating their own musical personalities. This talk describes some of these conceptualizations and their functions.

Mary Hunter is A. Leroy Greason Professor of Music at Bowdoin College. She is the author of The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna (Princeton University Press, 1999) and  Mozart’s Operas: A Companion (Yale University Press, 2008), as well as articles about eighteenth-century opera, Mozart, Haydn, and performance theory. She is currently at work on a project about the rhetoric of performance in classical music culture.

This lecture is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere
with support from the Yavitz Fund and the School of Music.

All are welcome.

Watershed is very pleased to share news of developments in a partnership with the Association of Israel’s Decorative Arts (AIDA).

First, a little history….
Watershed has been hosting 2-5 ceramics from Israel each year since 2005. These artists are identified and funded by AIDA for this special opportunity at Watershed. During this time many friendships and relationships have formed and grown, as well as professional opportunities and exhibitions.

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“Painting as Paris Burned“ is the first major exhibition of work by women artists in France from 1780-1830. It will open at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. on February 23rd. UF Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies and the Head of Art History, Melissa Hyde was a consulting curator for the this exhibition and contributed an essay to the catalog. The exhibit will also travel to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

Crossing The Line, Dance 2012
Dates and Times: February 17, 18 @ 7:30pm
February 19 @ 2:00 pm
February 21 through 24 @ 7:30pm
No Performance on February 25
February 26th @ 2:00 pm
University of Florida, School of Theatre and Dance, The Constans Theatre
Admission: $13-$17 University Box Office, 352-392-1653. http://www.ticketmaster.com Info: (352) 273-0526

The University of Florida’s School of Theatre and Dance proudly presents its 2012 mainstage dance concert, CROSSING THE LINE, Dance 2012 directed by Neta Pulvermacher, featuring the award winning dancers of the UF School of Theatre and Dance in a program of faculty works and special commissions by international guest artists, Ann Liv Young and Yaniv Abraham. Check out this preview on YouTube and then come dance with us!!!

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You can now read UF SA+AH Adjunct Assistant Professor Patrick Grigsby’s article about his students’ metamorphic project steming from Albrecht Durer’s Rhinoceros entitled “Seen and Unseen” online (Page 13) in Graphic Impressions, the international printmaking newsletter of Southern Graphics Council (SGC). Make sure to view the prints and details online at http://www.patrickgrigsby.us/rhino/mosaicprint.html

UF alum Danny Sharron is currently working in the coveted position of Assistant to the Associate Producer Maria Goyanes at the Public Theater in New York City.  Danny is also the Artistic Director of UglyRhino, a Brooklyn-based theater company integrating theater performance, live music, and a social atmosphere to create “a new way to experience theater.” UglyRhino directing credits include: #nyc (world premiere) and Occupation by Kyle Warren, Love, Confusion and Other Fun by Aaron Wigdor Levy, and Ionesco’s Rhinoceros. Other directing credits include Hard to Kill (Horse Trade), Dammit, Office Girl! (Subjective), Tape (Medicine Show), Sunday in the Park with George and Proof (University of Florida). He Assistant Directed Jeanine Tesori’s American Songbook concert and was the Directing Assistant to Michael Grandage on the first US National Tour of Frost/Nixon. Other theater work includes Lincoln Center Theater and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.

This March, UglyRhino is bringing the story of Centralia, Pennsylvania to the Brooklyn Lyceum!

Centralia, PA is a real life ghost town; population: 9. A fire has been raging under the ground since 1962, and the government has order…ed its residents to leave.

Inspired by UglyRhino’s “Warehouse of Horrors”, CENTRALIA is the first production written and developed entirely by the UglyRhino company. It does what we do best- combines non-traditional storytelling with a social atmosphere, enveloping audiences deep into the world of the play. Check out a clip on YouTube.

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A memorial service will be held for UF School of Theatre + Dance’s Paul Favini on Monday, February 27 at 3:00 p.m. in the Constans Theatre of the Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavillion (UF campus).

Paul Favini’s family established a memorial fund at the University of Florida that will benefit the students and programs of the School of Theatre + Dance. They have asked that donations be made to this fund in lieu of flowers or other gifts.
Donations to the Paul Favini Memorial Fund can be made using this direct URL: www.uff.ufl.edu/Appeals/Favini

Checks can be made payable to UF Foundation, marked “Paul Favini Fund” in the memo line and sent to:

UF College of Fine Arts
C/o Development Office
PO Box 115800
Gainesville, FL 32611-5800

Information: 352-846-1218 

The University of Florida College of Fine Arts School of Music would like to announce a concert on Thursday, February 23, 2012. The concert, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the University Auditorium, features the University of Florida Symphonic Band under the musical direction of Mr. John M. Watkins, Jr. Guest conducting appearances will be made by Anna L. Palsma. The program consists of Charles Rochester Young’s Tempered Steel, the world premiere of Martin Ellerby’s A Soliloquy for Solferino, Clifton Williams’s Symphonic Dance No. 3 “Fiesta,” Michael Ivanovich Glinka’s Russlan and Ludmilla “Overture,” Quincy Hilliard’s Requiem, and Frank Ticheli’s Symphony No. 2, III. Apollo Unleashed.

Tickets are available at the University Auditorium Box Office or by calling 352-392-2346. For additional information, please visit www.ufbands.ufl.edu or contact Stephen Salem at 352-273-3144. Free to UF students. 

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UF Alum Ben Carter’s (MFA Ceramics, ‘10) new project Bridging the Gap will take him into the heart of the Australian outback this Spring to facilitate a ceramic workshop at the Ernabella Arts Center. This project creates a space for artistic collaboration between Ben and the aboriginal artists. Located in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, 275 miles southwest of Alice Springs, the center is a place for Anangu artists to promote their cultural heritage and improve their lifestyle through art making.

Visit his blog to learn more about this project as well as Ben’s upcoming exhibitions.