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Summer Band Camp registrations now being accepted
The 17th annual Fredonia Summer Band Camp will be held from Sunday, June 24 through Saturday, June 30. Set on the beautiful campus of SUNY Fredonia, the Fredonia Summer Band Camp offers a friendly and relaxed setting for the musical growth of students. The camp takes advantage of the university’s first-rate facilities and world-class teachers. Outstanding performers and teachers provide unique opportunities for learning, improving technical skills and expanding musicality.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil to read new poems
Aimee Nezhukumatathil's new collection of poetry, At the Drive-In Volcano, will be released this spring from Tupelo Press. Award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil, associate professor of...
New Horizons Band performing Spring Concert May 3
The New Horizons Band of Western New York will present a Spring Concert at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 3 at Fredonia High School Auditorium in Fredonia, NY. The concert is free, but the band would appreciate donations of non-perishable food that will be donated to the Food Pantry of the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry.
Masterworks Chorale will perform Bach's Mass
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Chamber Singers present post-tour concert at Rosch
The Fredonia Chamber Singers, just back from their annual New York State Spring Tour, will perform Sunday, April 15, at 4 p.m. at Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall. James Piorkowski, professor of guitar studies at SUNY Fredonia, will be the featured guest artist.
PDQ Bach creator giving lecture and concert
Peter Schickele, also known as “P.D.Q. Bach,” an internationally recognized composer, musician, author, and satirist, will be Williams Distinguished Visiting Artist at SUNY Fredonia starting Friday, March 30, when he will present a free lecture from noon to 1 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. The public is invited.
Fredonia talent and BPO perform in concert
Janet Sung The Fredonia School of Music and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will partner for a concert on Sunday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in King Concert Hall. The special engagement will feature the orchestra under the direction of its celebrated conductor, JoAnn Falletta (in photo above). She and the orchestra will be joined by guest violin soloist and Fredonia School of Music Violin Professor Janet Sung, performing the famous Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35. The program will also feature the Overture to Mignon by Ambroise Thomas and Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7. Tickets are $20 ($12 for students) and are available at theCentral Ticket Office (716-673-3501; 866-441-4928). All concert-goers are welcome to join Maestro Falletta in celebrating the BPO’s return to Fredonia at a post-concert reception.
James Ivey featured at Brown Bag Lecture April 4
Professor James Ivey, chairperson of the SUNY Fredonia theatre and dance department, will give a performance-based lecture titled, “Ancient Excursions and Renaissance Diversions: Trips to Europe and Beyond,” Wednesday, April 4, at noon in room G-144 of the Williams Center on the SUNY Fredonia campus. The event, part of the campus Brown Bag Series, is free and open to all campus and community members.
Lucille Clifton and Gwyneth Walker celebrate "No Ordinary Woman"
Lucille Clifton Gwyneth Walker Lucille Clifton, whose powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality and morality have made her one of America’s most admired poets, will return to the SUNY Fredonia campus as a Williams Distinguished Visiting Professor for a two-day celebration of her poetry on April 2 and 3. Renowned composer Gwyneth Walker will be present as the Fredonia College Choir and the Fredonia Women’s Choir perform a concert of songs she set to Ms. Clifton’s poems. Two concerts and two poetry events are planned. A prolific composer, Dr. Walker has written more than 160 pieces for orchestra, band, chorus and chamber ensembles. She has dedicated her career to composing since leaving Oberlin in 1982. She is a graduate of Brown University and Hartt School of Music, and holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in music composition.
Feminist Activism through Art is March focus
The Women's Student Union planned Women's History Month. Canadian artist, Jennifer Linton Lisa Jervis, publisher Scholar Jo Anna Isaak The Women’s Student Union at SUNY...