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FAA Activities During International Education Week, March 9-15

-       "Tales in the Theater and Theater in the Tales" - A workshop for Middle School students about theater
Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:30:00 CST

-       Gamelan Open House  at the School of Music’s Center for World Music
Mar 9, 2009 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

-       Center for World Music Demonstration of Drumming and Drum Syllables
Mar 13, 2009 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
3rd floor of Levis Faculty Center

-       Japan House Tea Ceremony, March 12

at 2:00pm and 3:00pm. A reservation is required for all tea ceremonies. The cost is $5 per person. Call or email for more information, japanhouse@uiuc.edu or 217-244-9934

-       Krannert Art Museum Exhibition - Collecting East Asia: The inaugural exhibition of the Lee Wonsik Collection

Guest Curator: Yurika Wakamatsu. All week,  9am – 5pm, free admission. http://www.kam.uiuc.edu/

Scottish Painter Sam Ainsley at I Space Gallery

Chicago Tribune (Feb. 27) -- A review of the exhibition by Scottish painter Sam
Ainsley at I space, the U. of I.’s art gallery in Chicago.

Theater professor to direct production in NY Central Park

The New Yorker (Feb. 12) -- U. of I. theater professor Daniel
Sullivan will direct Anne Hathaway in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare
in the Park production of “Twelfth Night” this summer in New York’s
Central Park.

more

 

Also:

Playbill (New York City, Feb. 12)

The New York Times (Feb. 13)

Variety (Los Angeles, Feb. 12)

 

Viewing Dance: An Insider’s Guide

A pre-performance discussion with the choreographers of
February Dance led by Jan Erkert
Saturday February 7th, 5:30 p.m.
Alice Campbell Alumni Center

 

For registration information go to
http://www.uiaa.org/urbana

Please join us immediately after the event for the last performance of
February Dance: White Out
Tickets can be purchased at the Krannert Ticket Office (217-333-6280).

MUSIC in the NEWS

MUSIC
The Times Leader (Princeton, Ky., Jan. 17) --  Gunnery Sgt. Hilary Hart is a member of “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band that performed during the inauguration. Hart earned a bachelor’s degree in music at Illinois in 2000.before earning advanced degrees elsewhere. more<http://www.timesleader.net/articles/stories/public/200901/17/4cc7_news.html>

JAZZ
All About Jazz (New York City, Jan. 16) -- Members of the U. of I. School of Music jazz faculty will perform alongside student musicians from the Webster Groves High School and Middle School jazz bands on January 16 at an event called “Cool Nights, Hot Jazz” at The Pageant in St. Louis.
more <http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=28457>

LEARNING AN INSTRUMENT
Morris Daily Herald (Illinois, Jan. 16) -- “There are a lot of social and other benefits from learning an instrument,” says U. of I. music professor Gary McPherson. “It should be enjoyable and there should be a deeply held emotional commitment to it.”
more <http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/articles/2009/01/16/state_news/144staprofessorstudypiano.txt>

 
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