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ART & ARTHISTORY

A R T S SPRING 2013

The Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center’s renovated and expanded music building and arts commons are open, and these new resources have enhanced art at Macalester immediately and immeasurably. Thanks to the warm, inviting spaces throughout the renovated area, students, faculty, and staff have more opportunities than ever before to gather, to collaborate, and to create and share art.

Fall Highlights • Alumni and neighbors celebrated with the campus community at the building’s dedication on October 5. • World-renowned Viennese pianist Anton Kuerti performed an all- Beethoven solo recital. • The Theatre and Dance Department performed Sing Protest, Sing Peace (directed by award-winning Minneapolis Fringe Festival director Isabel Nelson ’04 and featuring a cast of first-year students) and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, directed by Matt Sciple. • The Law Warschaw Gallery featured three dynamic collections: a Macalester faculty group exhibition; “Between Echo and Silence” by Minneapolis conceptual artist Harriet Bart; and “Ayacucho: Times of Danger,” featuring Andean artists.

Construction of the renovated studio art building is now underway; that portion of the fine arts center is scheduled to reopen in January 2014.

Meanwhile, the spring calendar is packed with music, art, and theater events. We invite you back to campus to see our talented community in action, as we continue to celebrate a new era for the arts at Macalester.

The New Janet Wallace Fine Arts CenterOpened September 5

(Left) Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, entrance

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Music has long been called the “universal language.” But while it binds us in groups large and small, music can also be a disruptive force, one whose primary effect is to articulate difference. Recognizing this dual nature of musical experience, the Music Department at Macalester aims to celebrate both music as a source of beauty and an agent for positive change, and to explore music from critical perspectives that reveal its powerful and direct social influences. We believe that the study of music, as a means of exposing people to multiple ways of seeing the world, is an ethical pursuit: a deeper understanding of the world’s many modes of creative expression leads ultimately to a keener awareness of the responsibilities of global citizens.

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(Top Right) Bill Frisell(Right) Randy Bauer

DON’T MISS

Feb. 22New Music Series: Bill FrisellFriday at 8 p.m.Legendary guitarist Bill Frisell is the spring 2013 guest for Macalester’s New Music Series, sponsored by the Rivendell Foundation.

Frisell has contributed to the work of such collaborators as Paul Motian, John Zorn, Elvis Costello, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Suzanne Vega, the Frankfurt Ballet, film director Gus Van Sant, Bono, Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, and Daniel Lanois on the soundtrack for Wim Wenders’s film Million Dollar Hotel.

This work has established Frisell as one of the most sought-after guitar voices in contemporary music. The breadth of such performing and recording situations is a testament not only to his singular guitar conception, but his musical versatility as well. In recent years, Frisell's role as composer and bandleader has also garnered him increasing accolades.This event is free.

March 1A Recital of New Music by Randy BauerFriday at 8 p.m.Randy Bauer’s work as a musician embraces composition, jazz, improvisation, performance, and teaching. His compositions have received several major awards, including three ASCAP/Morton Gould awards, and have been premiered by such groups as the Brentano String Quartet, eighth blackbird, Nash Ensemble of London, Synergy Vocals, New Millennium Ensemble, MATA Micro-Orchestra, Network for New Music, and many others. Performances have taken place from New York to Los Angeles and Berlin to Zagreb.

Bauer, also an accomplished jazz pianist and composer, has had his work recognized by ASCAP (the Young Jazz Composer Awards), DownBeat, the Commission Project, and the Jazz Composers Alliance. He has appeared with several prominent jazz musicians, and recently recorded two complete albums of all-original jazz compositions with Andrew Rathbun, Jeff Hirshfield, and Scott Lee.

Bauer is an assistant professor of music at Macalester.

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March 3Allison Charney, soprano, and Mark Mazullo, pianoSunday at 3 p.m.

PLAN TO ATTEND

All events are free and open to the public. Events take place in the Mairs Concert Hall, located in the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul.

FEBRUARY

Feb. 16African Music Ensemble ConcertSaturday at 8 p.m.

Feb. 22New Music Series: Legendary Guitarist Bill FrisellFriday at 8 p.m.

Feb. 23Macalester Orchestra Concerto and Aria ConcertFeaturing Macalester student soloistsSaturday at 8 p.m.

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Music Department professor and chair Mark Mazullo is joined by operatic soprano Allison Charney in a program of music by Dvořák, Barber, Beethoven, and contemporary composers Moshe Knoll and Kim Sherman.

Mazullo appears frequently in solo, chamber, and concerto settings, performing concertos by Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev with the Minnesota Philharmonic, the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, the St. Paul Civic Orchestra, and the Dubuque (Iowa) Symphony Orchestra. Other recent projects have included a complete performance of John Cage’s “Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano” in collaboration with Macalester College’s dance program, and an all-Beethoven recital and master class at the University of North Dakota School of Music. Mazullo is professor and chair of the Music Department

at Macalester and the author of Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues: Contexts, Style, Performance (Yale University Press, 2010).

Charney's operatic career began with her debut at the New York City Opera. She has earned a reputation for her “vocal agility, lush sound, and dramatic portrayals” of the lirico-spinto soprano roles in her wide-ranging repertoire, including many of the most beloved Puccini heroines, most notably the title roles in Madama Butterfly, both Mimi and Musetta in La Bohéme, and Liu in Turandot. Concert highlights have included performances at Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, as well as a debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in April 2009. Charney is featured in the newly released first recording of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated oratorio Choose Life by composer Mona Lyn Reese.

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April 15Macalester Jazz and Popular Music Combos ConcertMonday at 8 p.m.

April 19Mac Jazz ConcertFriday at 8 p.m.

April 21Macalester Early Music Ensemble ConcertSunday at 3 p.m.

April 26Macalester Chamber Ensembles ConcertFriday at 8 p.m.

April 27–28Macalester Choirs ConcertCarl Orff’s Carmina BuranaSaturday at 8 p.m. Sunday at 3 p.m.

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May 3Macalester Orchestra ConcertFriday at 8 p.m.

May 4Macalester African Music Ensemble ConcertSaturday at 8 p.m.

May 17Seniors in RecitalGraduating music majors and minors perform in a variety of traditions.Friday at 8 p.m.

MARCH

March 1A Recital of New Music by Randy BauerFriday at 8 p.m.

March 3Allison Charney, soprano, and Mark Mazullo, pianoA recital of songs, arias, and piano musicSunday at 3 p.m.

March 9Macalester Choirs ConcertSaturday at 8 p.m.

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April 1Macalester Popular Music Combos ConcertMonday at 8 p.m.

April 13Macalester Pipe Band ConcertSaturday at 8 p.m.

Admissions: Children $5, Adults $10, free with Macalester ID. Tickets available at the door.

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(Right) Rachel Adler ’12,A Safe Place

(Left) Sylvia Ferguson ’12,The Three Sisters

DON’T MISS

Feb. 8–March 10Ornament and Crime: Parastou ForouharOpening reception on February 8,from 7 to 9 p.m. Artist’s Talk on February 11 at 5 p.m., Hewitt HallCurated by Joanna Inglot, chair and associate professor of the Art and Art History Department

Parastou Forouhar was born in Tehran, Iran. She studied art at the University of Tehran from 1984 to 1990 and continued her studies at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (High School for Design) in Offenbach am Main in Germany. She currently resides in Frankfurt, Germany. Forouhar has had various solo exhibitions throughout the world. They include Blind Spot, Stavanger Cultural Centre, Norway, and Golestan Art Gallery, Tehran (banned by the Iranian authorities), 2001; A Thousand and One Days, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2003; Just a Minute, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, 2007; He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not, Verso Arte Contemporanea, Turin, 2010; Parastou Forouhar, Leighton House Museum, London, 2010; Parastou Forouhar, RH Gallery, New York, 2010–11; and Written Room, Fondazione Merz, Turin, 2011.

Forouhar’s art has also been presented in many important group exhibitions including Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, 2007; and The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society at the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art, 2012.

(Left) Parastou Forouhar(Right) Freitag

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Unless noted otherwise, events are held in the Law Warschaw Gallery located on the first floor of the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center.

FEBRUARY

Feb. 8Ornament and Crime: Parastou ForouharOn display through March 10Opening Reception, 7 to 9 p.m.

Feb. 11Parastou Forouhar Artist’s LectureMonday at 5 p.m.Hewitt Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center

APRIL

April 13–282013 Student Exhibition The annual Student Exhibition is a large group show presenting the artwork of students, both majors and non-majors, in all classes offered by the studio art program. Awards for the exhibition are chosen by an outside juror and presented during the annual Art and Art History Department picnic.

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May 3–18Senior ExhibitionThe senior art majors collaborate to present the annual group exhibition of their final thesis artworks. This is always an exhibition highlighting a wide range of interests, mediums, and topics developed over the course of their years of study. It is on display through Commencement. Opening Reception, 7 to 9 p.m., May 3

(Above) Larsen Husby ’12, Leaning States(Middle) Naomi Sussman ’12, A Lado del Pacifico

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EThe Theatre and Dance Department is the artistic and intellectual home for Macalester students and faculty dedicated to theatre, dance, and performance studies.The department is a laboratory for practice-based research, aesthetic inquiry, historical investigation, and the theoretical apertures of the performing arts. Our department supports the intersection of practice and theory. Every year we produce four Mainstage Theatre works, directed by faculty directors and guest artists, as well as two dance concerts featuring faculty and student choreographies. Students are active in all aspects of production, and take classes in acting, directing, movement, playwriting, history, theory, design, technical theatre, and practice-based research.

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2012–13 Season Theme: Youth Cultures Dependent/consumer? Rebel/activist? Worker/artist? The arts are the political and cultural battlegrounds for global youth and youth movements, from the utopic to ”teenage wastelands.” Independence, rights, pleasures, powers, debt, and work: How do global/local youth cultures contend and protest in everyday life?

This spring, Theatre and Dance will produce two mainstage productions, two senior capstone directing projects, and a dance concert.

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Feb. 15–23What’s Going On? Hip-hop HopesFeb. 15–16, 21–23 at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17 at 2 p.m.

This original devised performance using hip-hop idioms and directed by Professor Harry Waters Jr. is a collaboration with Twin Cities hip-hop artists and innovators. It involves students from across campus using hip-hop’s many forms—word, song, tag—to communicate for the concerns of youth today.

April 12–20RATIONS: A Performance Meditation on Food Memory, Food Access, and Food Justice, Local to Global, Personal and PoliticalApril 12–13, 18–20 at 7:30 p.m. April 14 at 2 p.m.

Co-devised by professors Beth Cleary and Wynn Fricke, Theatre and Dance, this show is the culmination of a yearlong inquiry into hunger, rationing, surplus, and “development.” Who gets to eat? What is nourishment? How can one’s body be enough, have enough, demand enough? RATIONS will use the irrational means of performance to move awareness about food and apportionment on all community tables.

PLAN TO ATTEND

Call the box office at 651-696-6359 for information on pricing and pay-as-able for each mainstage production. Performances take place in the Theatre and Dance Building of the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center.

FEBRUARY

Feb. 15–23What's Going On? Hip-hop HopesFeb. 15–16, 21–23 at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17 at 2 p.m.

MARCH

March 7–10Senior Capstone Directing Projects: Will French ’13 and Zoe Michael ’13March 7–8 at 7:30 p.m. March 9–10 at 2 p.m.Black Box Studio Theatre

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April 12–21RATIONSApril 12–13, 18–20 at 7:30 p.m. April 14 at 2 p.m.

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Youth Cultures Spring Dance ConcertThis concert features choreography by students in the Dance Program and campus dance groups.May 3–4 at 7:30 p.m. May 4 at 2 p.m.

Brochure designed by G. Nahiyan Khan ‘13

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Macalester CollegeUnless noted otherwise, events will take place in the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center.

PLAN TO ATTEND

FEBRUARY

Feb. 8Ornament and Crime: Parastou ForouharOn display until March 10Opening Reception, 7 to 9 p.m.

Feb. 11Parastou Forouhar Artist’s Lecture5 p.m.Hewitt Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center

Feb. 15–23What’s Going On? Hip-hop HopesFebruary 15–16, 21–23 at 7:30 p.m. February 17 at 2 p.m.

Feb. 16Macalester African Music Ensemble Concert8 p.m.

Feb. 22New Music Series: Legendary Guitarist Bill Frisell8 p.m. Free

Feb. 23Macalester Orchestra Concerto and Aria Concert8 p.m.

MARCH

March 1A Recital of New Music by Randy Bauer8 p.m.

March 3Allison Charney, soprano, and Mark Mazullo, piano3 p.m.

March 7–10Senior Capstone Directing Projects: Will French ’13 and Zoe Michael ’13March 7–8 at 7:30 p.m. March 9–10 at 2 p.m.Black Box Studio Theatre

March 9Macalester Choirs Concert8 p.m.

APRIL

April 1Macalester Popular Music Combos Concert8 p.m.

April 27–28Macalester Choirs ConcertSaturday at 8 p.m. Sunday at 3 p.m.

MAY

May 3Macalester Orchestra Concert8 p.m.

May 3Senior ExhibitionOn display until May 18Opening Reception, 7 to 9 p.m.

Youth Cultures Spring Dance Concert7:30 p.m.

May 4African Music Ensemble Concert8 p.m.

Youth Cultures Spring Dance Concert2 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

May 17Seniors in Recital8 p.m.

April 12–20RATIONSApril 12–13, 18–20 at 7:30 p.m. April 14 at 2 p.m.

April 13Macalester Pipe Band Concert $8 p.m.

April 13–232013 Student Art Exhibition

April 15Macalester Jazz and Popular Music Combos Concert8 p.m.

April 19Mac Jazz Concert8 p.m.

April 21Macalester Early Music Ensemble Concert3 p.m.

April 26Macalester Chamber Ensembles Concert8 p.m.

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