All events free unless noted.
TODAY
The New Music Festival kicks off at 3:30 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore
Musical Arts Center. with a scholarly talk titled "Ecomusicology and the
Challenges of Sustainability" by ecomusicologist Aaron Allen. Other
festival events are: a performance at 5 p.m. by Marina Rosenfeld followed at
6:30 p.m. by the opening of an exhibit of her work "WHITE LINES" in
the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery in the Fine Arts Center and a mulitmedia
performance at the Cla-Zel, 127 N. Main St. in Bowling Green at 7:30 including
Leonard Kamerling’s film "Strange and Sacred Noise," highlighting the
work of John Luther Adams, Lesley Flanigan’s multimedia work and Peter V.
Swendsen’s "Northern Circles" featuring saxophone, bassoon,
electronics and video.
THURSDAY
New Music Festival featured guest composer John Luther Adams will speak on
"Music and the Physical World" at 1 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall . Other
festival events are: a chamber music concert will be presented at 3 p.m. in
Bryan Recital Hall; a talk by a uthor Barry Lopez at 7:30 p.m. in the Donnell
Theater of the Wolfe Center for the Arts.; and a concert including a special
guest performance by the JACK Quartet to spotlight the influential West Coast
new-music recording label Cold Blue Music at 9:30 p.m. at the Cla-Zel, 127 N.
Main St. in Bowling Green.
The 2008 Russian film "Stiliagi (Hipsters)" will be screened at 7:30 p.m.
in the Gish Film Theater at Hanna Hall.
THURSDAY-SUNDAY
The Bowling Green State University Department of Theatre and Film presents Anton
Chekhov’s "The Seagull." The performances in the Eva Marie Saint
Theatre of the Wolfe Center for the Arts are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8
p.m. with matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.. Tickets purchased online are
$10, $7 for students and seniors and $1.75 for BGSU students. Tickets purchased
in person or by telephoning (419) 372-8171 are $12 and $9 for students and
seniors.
FRIDAY
John Luther Adams and Barry Lopez will join forces for a conversation and performance
starting at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall as part of the New Music Festival. The
concert will feature percussionist Doug Perkins and pianist Tom Rosenkranz
performing several of Adams’s works. New Music Festival event. Other festival
events are: a chamber and electroacoustic music receital at 10:30 a.m. in Bryan
Recital Hall; an ARTalk by Marina Rosenfeld at noon in the Bryan Recital Hall; a
concert featuring ensemble works by Charles Ives, Kyle Gann, Daniel S. Godfrey
and Mikel Kuehn at 2:30 p.m. in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center;
a performance by John Luther Adams of "Inuksuit" on the University
Hall lawn at 4:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
The New Music Festival will conclude with a concert of works by John Luther Adams,
Mason Bates, Ursula Mamlok and Xiaogang Ye performed by the BGSU Philharmonia
and Wind Symphony at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall. Tickets online are $10 for adults,
$7 for students and seniors and $1.75 for BGSU students. Tickets purchased in
person or by telephoning (419) 372-8171 are $12 for adults and $9 for students
and seniors. Other festival events are: a concert of music by students from the
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music Institute and winners of the 2012 BGSU
Young Composers Competition at 10:30 a.m. in Bryan Recital Hall; and John Luther
Adams’s "Music that Rocked My World," a concert of works by Jim
Altieri, Robert Ashley, Harold Budd, Morton Feldman and Jim Fox at 2:30 p.m. in
Bryan Recital Hall. Adams will provide commentary.
SUNDAY
Guest Artist Tracy Cowden will perform a piano recital starting 8 p.m. in the Bryan
Recital Hall.
MONDAY
ARTalks presents "Twombly’s Things" by Kate Nesin, Mellon Fellow at the
Toledo Museum of Art, from 6-7 p.m. in 204 Fine Arts Center.
AT THE GALLERIES
The "SAFA Glass Exhibit SAGA" exhibition continues through Nov. 7 in the
Bowen-Thompson Student Union at BGSU. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
weekdays and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekends.
