Award winning composer/pianist Jerzy Sapieyevski combines his spontaneous and expressive piano virtuosity with a harmony of colors, lush sound sculptures and rhythms in an interactive performance with the art exhibit.


@ Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum

The Department of Performing Art’s showcase of new student talent

Written and directed by Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Music by Keith Tittermary

@ Harold & Sylvia Greenberg Theatre

American University orchestral and vocal student competition. Winners will be featured with the AU Symphony Orchestra on November 17 & 18, 2006.

@ Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

Book & Lyrics by Nagle Jackson & Robert Sprayberry
Music by Robert Sprayberry

Gail Humphries Mardirosian, director
Douglas Bowles, music director
Brett Smock, choreographer

A new musical adapted from the novel by Horace McCoy, which also became the 1969 film classic about dance marathons during the depression set in Venice, California, 1934 in the Surfside Ballroom. A gritty and poignant musical, the entire adaptation reeks of then and now evoking an odd symbiosis between the dance of desperation of the depression era and our time of reality television where people will do anything for money or a brief glimpse at fame. The production will tour to the Volkov Theatre in Yaroslavl, Russia the last week of November.

@ Harold & Sylvia Greenberg Theatre

Yuliya Gorenman, piano
November 3, 8:00 p.m.

Brahms: Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
Schumann: Variations on a Theme of ABEGG
Liszt: La leggierezza & Funerailles
Beethoven: Two Sonatas, including Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight"

Internationally acclaimed pianist and American University faculty member Yuliya Gorenman performs works by German masters including two Beethoven sonatas, Brahms’ Rhapsodies, Op. 79 and works by Schumann and Liszt.

@ Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

American University Chamber Singers - Across Many Centuries
November 4, 8:00 p.m.
November 5, 3:00 p.m.

The AU Chamber Singers in performance of varied vocal chamber music from the Renaissance to present day. Experience the divine beauty of a sweeping array of repertoire carefully selected to illustrate the various approaches composers have taken in writing for vocal ensemble.

Conducted by Daniel Abraham

@ Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

The true story of Addie, Effie, Lizzie, Ella, and Jessie Cherry, five sisters from Marion , Iowa , who took the vaudeville world by storm with the collective awfulness of their talent. Part of the New Works Series.

Written by Dan O'Brien
Directed by Cara Gabriel

@ Katzen Arts Center, Studio Theatre

Program:
Aaron Copland: A Lincoln Portrait & Quiet City
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 3, Fugue from Symphony No. 4 & The Unanswered Question

American music celebrating freedom and democracy, featuring works by Aaron Copland and Charles Ives. The program will feature the winner of the 2006 AU Concerto and Aria Competition.

Conducted by Jesus Manuel Berard

@ Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

Dance Choreolab
November 29, 7:00 p.m.
November 30, 7:00 p.m..

Guest artist, faculty and student choreography in progress. This is the first step in the preparation and design for the Spring Dance Concert. Eavesdrop on the creative process. Audience and artists dialogue with a panel of regional, nationally and internationally known choreographers including Vladimir Angelov, Rob Esposito, Maurice Johnson, Lora Ruttan, and others.

Directed by Rob Esposito

@ Tenley Chapel Dance Studio

American University Chorus - On Freedom, Truth and Democracy
December 1, 8:00 p.m. - open dress rehearsal (AU Community)
December 2, 8:00 p.m.
December 3, 3:00 p.m.

Program:
Randall Thompson: Testament of Freedom
John Scully: I Have Dream
Traditional American Spirituals

A choral program exploring the how composer have approached the broad theme of freedom. Program will feature music by Schütz, Billings, settings of texts by Jefferson, Martin Luther King and others, music from the American revolutionary war and as well as twentieth century protest songs and calls for human rights from across globe.

Conducted by Daniel Abraham


@ Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

American University Jazz Ensemble - Reflections of the Movement
December 8-9, 8:00 p.m.

A winter concert honoring the ideas, feelings, and inspirations of the Civil Rights Movement including music by Parker, Coltrane, Thad Jones, Oliver Nelson, and a suite from Duke Ellington’ Three Kings in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

AU Jazz Ensemble Directed by William Smith

@ Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

AU Dance Informal
December 10, 7:00 p.m.

An informal performance of dance selected from the dance programs high-energy classes in Jazz, Ballet, Modern and African Dance.

@ Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall