Tanzanian artists visit BG
Grounds for Thought, 174 S. Main St., Bowling Green, will host a one-day show and reception Saturday from
noon to 4 p.m. for a delegation of 13 female artists from Tanzania visiting the area through the aupices
of the Great Lakes Consortium.
The show will include a display of the fashion line designed by Fatma Amor Hamad.
The Tanzanian visitors’ 28-day program, which ends Nov. 3,includes participating in arts business and
women’s gender issues workshops, making connections with artists and arts organizations, and working on
joint artwork with U.S. artists.
String ensemble to preview music for Romanian visit
The Romanian Octet, including five BGSU string faculty and alumni, will present a chamber music recital
Tuesday at noon in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center on the Bowling Green State
University campus.
The ensemble will perform Theodor Grigoriu’s "On the River Arges" and George Enescu’s
"Octet for Strings."
The event is part of a preview of the group’s appearance at the American Romanian Festival in Romania in
November. Before departing for Romania the ensemble will perform seven other concerts in southeast
Michigan.
Coordinating the festival is Romanian-born musician and BGSU alumnus Marian Tanau. Now a violinist in the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Tanau is the founder and president of The American Romanian Festival Inc.,
an organization that strives to promote a cultural exchange and foster mutual respect between artists
from the U.S. and Eastern Europe.
Members of the ensemble are: Vasile Beluska, Penny Kruse, Laura Roelofs and Tanau, violins; Megan
Fergusson and Eva Stern, violas; and Alan Smith and Paul Wingert, cellos.
While in Romania, the BGSU faculty will be part of a Nov. 3 trio recital in the city of Sannicolaul Mare,
followed by a chamber music recital Nov. 4 and a recital of quartets Nov. 5, both in Timisoara’s
Philharmonic Hall. The series will conclude Nov. 7 with a chamber music recital in the birthplace of
composer Bela Bartok in Sannicolaul Mare.
‘Ovation’ features HeeBeeBGs
The HeeBeeBGs, an cappella men’s singing ensemble, will perform on "Ovation @ BGSU" on WBGU-PBS
on Thursday, at 8:30 p.m.
The group was founded in 2007 as a chamber music group from the Bowling Green State University Men’s
Chorus.
The program will be re-broadcast several times each on WBGU-DT1 and WBGU DT-4 Encore.
On the Net:
www,wbgu.org
Writers’ forum to hear talk about interviewing
SYLVANIA – Michael Miller, editor of the Toledo Free press, will speak to the Northwest Ohio Writers’
Forum about interviewing Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Sylvania Branch Library, 6749 Monroe St.
On the Net:
www.nwowf.com
WGTE airs ‘Keeping Score’
The second season "Keeping Score" a PBS series featuring conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and
the San Francisco Symphony providing insights into symphonic classics begins on WGTE-TV Saturday at 8
p.m. with repeated showings throughout the week.
The three-part series features "Symphonie fantastique" by Hector Berlioz; "Holidays
Symphony" by Charles Ives; and the Fifth Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich.
The program mixes documentary footage, graphics and live concert in conjunction with an interactive Web
site.
On the Net:
wgte.org
Word Play exhibit opens
TOLEDO – Word Play, a new exhibition opening Friday at the Toledo Museum of Art, celebrates interaction
of words in art.
Drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, the works assembled highlight artists who, over the past 50
years, have created works of art incorporating text as a primary element.
The works include LED signs, paintings, prints, Xeroxed pages and books by such notable artists as Jenny
Holzer, John Giorno, Jim Dine, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, Glenn Ligon and Lesley Dill.
Word Play continues through Feb. 7 in Gallery 18 of the museum.
No moe. tonight at Cla-Zel
The moe. show scheduled for tonight at the Cla-Zel in downtown Bowling Green has been cancelled due to a
death in the moe. family.
The band also had to cancel shows in Columbus, Milwaukee and Covington, Ky.
All refunds will be provided at point of purchase. For information call (419) 353-5000.
