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CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES LECTURE: RICHARD ALDRICH October 15Richard Aldrich (b. 1975) is a Brooklyn-based painter and one of the most acclaimed young artists working today. He was featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and has been the subject of museum and gallery exhibitions in Tokyo, London, Basel, Brussels, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Aldrich is a keenly self-aware painter, his work is laden with a constellation of literary and cultural reference to painting’s contested, pluralistic history. He resists immediate categorization, instead moving deftly from one style to another with each work.

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17TH ANNUAL FRINGE FESTIVALOctober 4–27Siren Song SJonathan Dove, composer | Nick Dear, librettoWilliam Lumpkin, conductor | Jim Petosa, stage directorDark Sisters SNico Muhly, composer | Stephen Karam, libretto Allison Voth, music director | David Gately, stage directorBack Bog Beast Bait S Sam Shepard, playwright | Michael Hammond, director

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On the cover: left, The Penelopiad, 2013; middle, Doug Weathersby, 808 Gallery Storage Project, 2012. Mixed media installation; right, La Clemenza di Tito, 2013

La Traviata, Fringe Festival, 2012

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ART GALLERIES AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY 617.353.3371 | Hours: bu.edu/cfa/visual-arts 808 Gallery

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855 Commonwealth Ave, 1st Floor, Boston Sherman Gallery

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY THEATRE AND LANE-COMLEY STUDIO 210264 Huntington Ave, Boston BostonTheatreScene.com | 617.933.8300

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS CFA Concert Hall 855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston bu.edu/cfa | 617.353.8790 Copeland Studio 354 855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston bu.edu/cfa | 617.353.3390

JACOB SLEEPER AUDITORIUM 871 Commonwealth Ave, Boston 617.353.8790

MARSH CHAPEL 735 Commonwealth Ave, Boston bu.edu/chapel | 617.353.3560

TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER 685 Commonwealth Ave, Boston 617.353.8724

A FRINGE $7 general admission; $3.50 CFA Membership; one free ticket with BU ID at the door, subject to availability. BOX OFFICEbu.edu/cfa/fringe | 617.933.8600

B OPERA $20 general public; $15 BU Alumni, WGBH and WBUR members, Huntington Theatre subscribers, and senior citizens; $10 CFA Membership; $5 students with ID; two free tickets with BU ID at the door, day of performance. BOX OFFICEBostonTheatreScene.com | 617.933.8600

D THEATRE $12 general public; $6 CFA Membership; free with BU ID, at the door, subject to availability. BOX OFFICEBostonTheatreScene.com | 617.933.8600

F CLASSIC REPERTORY COMPANY $20 general admission; $15 BU Community, BU Alumni, and New Repertory Theatre subscribers; $10 CFA Membership. BOX OFFICEBostonTheatreScene.com | 617.933.8600

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VISUAL ARTS Wednesday, Sep 4 – Sunday, Sep 29SVA Undergraduate Showcase School of Visual Arts presents the fifth annual showcase of undergraduate painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, printmaking, and graphic design by SVA freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.808 Gallery Free and open to the public | #BUvisual

Friday, Sep 13 – Sunday, Oct 20Hamid Kachmar: Reviving the Ancient Tifinagh Script Hamid Kachmar is a multifaceted, internationally-trained artist of indigenous Moroccan Amazigh ancestry. Kachmar’s materials and techniques evoke metaphors, moods, and expressions of his home country, and his experiences studying and traveling abroad. In Reviving the Ancient Tifinagh Script, Kachmar paints, carves, and weaves the ancient Amazigh script, Tifinagh, into textual and visual compositions that represent a struggle for identity, cultural survival, and self-conception.Opening Reception Friday, September 13, 5:30–7:30pmSherman GalleryFree and open to the public | #BUvisual

Thursday, Oct 10 – Sunday, Oct 13Boston University Hosts TransCultural Exchange’s 2013 ConferenceEngaging Minds: International Opportunities in the Arts This four-day event, featuring keynote speaker, Laurie Anderson, brings together curators, galleries, funders, critics, artist-in-residency directors, and artists from around the world for a unique cross-disciplinary platform to network, showcase, support, and promote artists’ work. For more information, please visit transculturalexchange.org.

Tuesday, Oct 15, 6:30Contemporary Perspectives: Richard Aldrich Richard Aldrich (b. 1975) is a Brooklyn-based painter and one of the most acclaimed young artists working today. He was featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and has been the subject of museum and gallery exhibitions in Tokyo, London, Basel, Brussels, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Aldrich is a keenly self-aware painter, his work is laden with a constellation of literary and cultural references, as well as a reference to painting’s contested, pluralistic history. He resists immediate categorization, instead moving deftly from one style to another with each work.Jacob Sleeper Auditorium Free and open to the public | #BUvisual

Sunday, Oct 27 – Friday, Dec 20Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial The longest running juried printmaking show in the country, the biennial, juried by Dennis Michael Jon, Associate Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute for the Arts, highlights printmakers working in traditional, new, and experimental approaches.Opening Reception Sunday, October 27, 3–5pm808 Gallery Free and open to the public | #BUvisual

Sunday, Oct 27 – Friday, Dec 13Highpoint Editions: Decade One Decade One features prints created at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN, and offers an intriguing mix of artists who have worked at the press over the past ten years. Featured artists include Carlos Amorales, Carter, Willie Cole, Adam Helms, Rob Fischer, Cameron Martin, Julie Mehretu, and Lisa Nankivil. Since opening in 2001, Highpoint Editions, the publishing arm of Highpoint, has been creating new prints in collaboration with local, national, and international artists. Presented in conjunction with the Boston Printmakers Biennial.Opening Reception Sunday, October 27, 3–5pm Sherman Gallery Free and open to the public | #BUvisual

BUAGFriday, Sep 6 – Sunday, Oct 20Lazy River: Leidy Churchman Paintings and videos are featured in this Brooklyn-based artist’s first solo show at a university gallery. Churchman references life cycles and swimming pools through abstract and figurative references and gestures.Opening Reception Thursday, September 5, 6–8pmAmy Sillman in conversation with Leidy Churchman and Book Release Tuesday, September 24, 6pm Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone GalleryFree and open to the public | #BUAG

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Willie Cole, “Yellow/Orange” from Complementary Soles series, screenprint, 2012. Courtesy of Highpoint Center for Printmaking and Willie Cole.

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MUSICMonday, Sep 16, 8pmFaculty Recital SeriesGila Goldstein, pianoPerforming works by Bach, Chopin, Liszt, and Ben-Haim.CFA Concert HallFree and open to the public | #BUmusic

Friday, Sep 20, 8pmCenter for New MusicMarilyn Nonken, pianoPerforming Joshua Fineburg‘s Till Human Voices Wake Us, Tremors, Veils, Fantastic Zoology, Grisaille, and Lightning, and Tristan Murail’s Territoires de l’oubli. CFA Concert Hall Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

Tuesday, Sep 24, 8pmFaculty Recital Series: The Art of the Sonata V: Music of the 1960’s and 70’sTerry Everson, trumpetShiela Kibbe, pianoFeaturing works by Vladislav Agafonnikov (Russia), Niels Viggo Bentzon (Denmark), Harald Genzmer (Germany), Theordore Holdheim (Israel), and Flor Peeters (Denmark).Tsai Performance Center Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

Saturday, Sep 28, 8pmCenter for New Music: [Sound Icon] Jeff Means, music directorChristopher Watford, bassoonGiulio Castagnoli: Cloches en noir et blanc (1991) (Winner of the Boston University Center for New Music composition competition (2013))Olga Neuwirth: Torsion (2001)Luca Francesconi: Encore / Da Capo (1985–86/1995) CFA Concert Hall Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

Saturday, Sep 28, 8pmBoston University Choral EnsemblesAnn Howard Jones, conductor  Marsh Chapel Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

Monday, Sep 30, 8pmBoston University Chamber Orchestra Neal Hampton, conductorClaude Debussy: Nuages, Fêtes, from Trois nocturnesRichard Wagner: Vorspiel und Liebestod from Tristan und IsoldeLudwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minorTsai Performance Center Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

Tuesday, Oct 1, 8pm Boston University Symphony Orchestra SDavid Hoose and Qinqing Qian, conductorsLudwig van Beethoven: Overture to CoriolanusRichard Straus: Metamorphosen, for 23 Solo StringsLudwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in DTsai Performance Center Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

Monday, Oct 7 – Wednesday, Oct 23Wagner in Context A month-long exploration of Richard Wagner’s legacy featuring lectures, roundtable discussions, conversations, and film screenings.Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

Monday, Oct 7, 7pm Donald Palumbo and Will Berger of the Metropolitan Opera Tsai Performance Center

Tuesday, Oct 15, 7pm Gottfried Wagner Lecture CFA Concert Hall

Monday, Oct 21, 7pm Cross-Disciplinary Round-Table Discussion with

BU Professors Tsai Performance Center

Wednesday, Oct 23, 7pm Hilan Warshaw’s Documentary “Wagner’s Jews”

and Post-Viewing Discussion Tsai Performance Center

Tuesday, Oct 8, 8pmMuir QuartetJoseph Haydn: Quartet Op. 76.4 in B-flat Major (Sunrise)Alban Berg: Quartet Op. 3Franz Schubert: Quartet No. 13 in A Minor  Tsai Performance Center Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

Thursday, Oct 10, 8pmBoston University Wind EnsembleDavid Martins, conductorKenneth Hesketh: Masque W.A. Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in Bb Major Gran Partita, K. 361 Mark Camphouse: Watchman, Tell Us of the Night Philip Sparke: Dance Movements  Tsai Performance CenterFree and open to the public | #BUmusic

Saturday, Oct 19, 8pm Boston University Choral EnsemblesAnn Howard Jones, conductorMarsh Chapel Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

Tuesday, Oct 22, 8pm Boston University Chamber Orchestra Neal Hampton and Sangwook Cho, conductorsGiuseppe Verdi: Overture to NabuccoJoan Tower: Made in AmericaAntonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in GTsai Performance CenterFree and open to the public | #BUmusic

Friday, Oct 25 – Saturday, Oct 26Are We Listening? This two-day conference focuses on key issues for today’s musicians including: effective entrepreneurship models, the ethics of music degrees, the future of the orchestra, music for social change, and audience building. Register now at bumusicsymposium.org.Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

Friday, Oct 25, 8pmBoston University Symphony Orchestra S David Hoose, conductor Peter Zazofsky, violinRobert Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat, “Spring”Joan Tower: Violine ConcertoEdward Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town)Tsai Performance Center Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

Tuesday, Oct 29, 8pmAnthony di Bonaventura Memorial Concert:Celebrating the Life of a Beloved Pianist and Teacher A concert to remember a man who devoted a lifetime to music. Anthony di Bonaventura’s life and work will be celebrated through the sharing of memories by his family and friends, and performances by distinguished guest artists as well as former and current students.Tsai Performance Center Free and open to the public | #BUmusic

FRINGE Friday, Oct 4, 7:30pm Saturday, Oct 5, 2pm, 7:30pm Sunday, Oct 6, 2pmSiren Song S Jonathan Dove, composer | Nick Dear, librettoWilliam Lumpkin, conductor | Jim Petosa, stage directorBased on the novel of the same name by Gordon Honeycombe, Dove tells the story of a love-starved sailor who becomes entangled in an affair with a pen pal he believes to be a lonely young woman, but who turns out to be a deceitful and callous man. A one-act opera sung in English.BU Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210 Ticketing Code A | #BUfringe13

Friday, Oct 11, 7:30pm Saturday, Oct 12, 2pm, 7:30pm Sunday, Oct 13, 2pmDark Sisters SNico Muhly, composer | Stephen Karam, librettoAllison Voth, music director | David Gately, stage directorDark Sisters follows one woman’s dangerous attempt to escape the FLDS Church (Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints), a sect that split from mainstream Mormonism following the renunciation of polygamy. A one-act opera, sung in English.BU Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210 Ticketing Code A | #BUfringe13

Tuesday, Oct 22, Wednesday, Oct 23, & Thursday, Oct 24, 7:30pm Saturday, Oct 26, 8pm Sunday, Oct 27, 2pmBack Bog Beast Bait S Sam Shepard, playwrightMichael Hammond, directorIn this one-act play, a young mother calls on two cowboys to slay the two-headed “pig beast” terrorizing the Louisiana countryside.BU Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210 Ticketing Code A | #BUfringe13

THEATREBU New Play Initiative The School of Theatre will present two new plays this October including Phil Berman’s Three Blessed Brothers and Cliff Odle’s Our Girl in Trenton. To learn more about these free events and the award-winning BU New Play Initiative (NPI), please visit bu.edu/cfa/theatre/professional/npi.Free and open to the public | #BUtheatre

Wednesday, Oct 23, & Thursday, Oct 24, 7:30pm Friday, Oct 25, 5pm Saturday, Oct 26, 4pm Sunday, Oct 27, 5pmRomeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, playwright | Adrienne Boris, directorJoin BU’s all-female Femina Shakespeare troupe (Henry V, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus) for their twist on this classic tale of star-crossed lovers.CFA, Copeland Studio 354 Free and open to the public | #BUtheatre

Friday, Oct 25, 7:30pm A Midsummer Night’s Dream BCAP S William Shakespeare, playwrightClay Hopper (CFA, MFA ’05), directorNew Repertory Theatre & Boston Center for American Performance present Classic Repertory Company’s production of the Bard’s enchanting tale. Boston University Theatre Ticketing Code F | #BUtheatre

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