Claire Trevor School of the Arts

UCI Jazz Orchestra
Spring Jazz Concert

Charles Owens, conductor

May 14, 8 pm

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Claire Trevor Theatre, $12 General Audiences/$10 Seniors/$8 Students

Afro Blue composed by Mongo Santa Maria and arranged by Phillip Mossmane
Fingers composed by Thad Jones and arranged by Thad Jones
Spiritual composed by Charles Owens and arranged by Charles Owens
Moanin composed by Charlie Mingus and arranged by Sy Johnson
That's All Right composed by John Fedchock and arranged by John Fedchock
Ballad For A Rough Year composed by Frank Mantooth and arranged by Frank Mantooth
Nostalgia In Time Square composed by Charlie Mingus and arranged by Sy Johnson
La Paquera composed by John Fedchock and arranged by John Fedchock
Cold Duck Time composed by Eddie Harris and arranged by Frank Hils

Studio Art
MFA 3 Thesis, Part II

Oranges & Paper
Sandy de Lissovoy, David Kelley, Joey Lehman Morris, Gabie Strong

May 15 - 30
Opening Reception May 15, 6 - 10 pm

Admission is free and open to the public

Oranges and Paper, an exhibition of four MFA candidates working in photography, video and sculptural installation Sandy de Lissovoy, David Kelley, Joey Lehman Morris, and Gabie Strong.
De Lissovoy’s neo-Minimalist installations test the psychological and phenomenological potential of sculpture and installation. Kelley’s re-enactment of a 1964 Rauschenberg performance in Tokyo, implicates modern art in the act of cultural hegemony. Morris’ large format photographs employ the formal language of historic landscape photography to plumb the depths of an American identity that is bound up in site. Strong’s photographs of naturalized Southern California military-industrial complex sites and archives operate in a hybrid manner that unites mythology, activism and poetics with the formal language of conceptualism.
Hours: Tues - Sat, 12 - 5 pm
Information: (949) 824-9854; gallery@uci.edu
www.ucigallery.com

UCI Music Department
Showcase Concert

Darryl Taylor, coordinator

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm


Winifred Smith Hall, Admission is free

Sonata in A Minor, D. 845, by Franz Schubert
I. Moderato
Beulah Jun, piano
Variations...on a Theme by Rossini, by Niccolo Paganini
Yoojin Oh, cello
Junko Nojima, piano
Clarinet Sonata, Op.120 No.2 in E-flat by Johannes Brahms
III. Appassionato ma non troppo allegro
Jennifer Hananouchi, clarinet
Charles Uscharawadi, piano
“Rusalka’s Song to the Moon,” from Rusalka, by Antonìn Dvořák
Cari McAskill, soprano
Lukas Swidzinski, piano
Piandellagotti, by Tony Rasmussen
Rachael Kone, violin
Tony Rasmussen, guitar
Sonata No. 26, Op. 81a “Les Adieux”, by Ludwig van Beethoven
I. Adagio; Allegro
Jérémie Favreau, piano

Art Song & Artistry Series
Recital: California Singing

Featuring the works of Alan Smith and William Grant Still

May 17, 8 pm
Pre-concert lecture, 7:30 pm

Winifred Smith Hall, Admission is Free

Building on the success of last year's performance, this concert focuses attention on the works of great song composers living and plying their trade in California.
With performances by:
Molly Jacobs
Cari McAskill
Danielle Palomares
Shabnam Kalbasi
Sonja Krenek
Glenn Ellington
Cynthia Rodriguez
Belinda Lau
Tara Waldschmidt
Arielle Miller
Marnie Mosiman
Niki Vavoudis
James Brown
Jocelyn Lambert
Jonathan Sandberg

Department of Music
Small Jazz Groups

Kei Akagi, coordinator

May 20, 8 pm


Winifred Smith Hall, Admission is free

Department of Music
UCI Wind Ensemble

Kevin McKeown, conductor

May 21, 8 pm


Winifred Smith Hall, Admission is free.

Beyond Field: Studio Art Guest Artist Series
Mark Allen, guest lecturer & Founder & Director of Machine Project

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 12 - 1:30 pm


UCI Student Center, Newport Beach Room C, Building 113, 4th Floor, Admission is free and open to the public.

Mark Allen is an artist, educator and curator located in Los Angeles. He is the founder and director of Machine Project, a non-profit performance/installation space investigating art, technology, natural history, science and poetry.
Mr. Allen will be discussing the following: ASCII art, cyborg cockroaches, egg based drum machines, hyperbolic crochet, floral volcanoes, live burial, Machine Project's transdimensional exhibition space, mechanical bulls, mycology, unicorn skeletons, and more!
This is the fifth of six events in the guest lecture series, a collection of interdisciplinary art by local California artists. “Beyond Field: A Guide Through Practice and Discipline” is organized by Jenny Yurshansky, an independent curator and first-year MFA candidate in Studio Art. “This animate field guide leads you through the wild and woolly frontiers of the art world, where the featured artists and cultural practitioners navigate territories of tactical magic, island nation overlords, penitentiaries, miniature models, chimerical remains, and weirdo think tanks!” she says.
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Department of Music
Chamber Singers and the Men in Blaque

Joseph Huszti, conductor

May 24, 8 pm

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Winifred Smith Hall, $12 General Audiences/$10 Seniors/$8 Students

Presenting competition selections from their tour to The International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales and the Choral Olympics in Graz, Austria

Drama All-Undergraduate Production
Reefer Madness

Written by Dan Studney and Kevin Murphy
Music by Dan Studney, Lyrics by Kevin Murphy
Vince Tycer, director

May 29-31, 8 pm
matinee performance: May 31, 2 pm
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Claire Trevor Theatre, Fri & Sat eve: $17 general/15 seniors/9 students and children, Weeknight & matinee: $15/14/9

This outrageously funny hit musical follows the budding romance of high school sweethearts Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane. Everything seems to be going swell until Jimmy is lured into the evils of a reefer den and tries his first hit of the "demon weed." Be sure not to miss what follows in what the LA Weekly called "an irreverent and hilarious musical extravaganza," and the New York Daily News dubbed "a giggle-stick from beginning to end."

Beyond Field: Studio Art Guest Artist Series
Marc Herbst, Robert Herbst, & Christina Ulke from the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest

Thursday, May 29, 2008, 12 - 1:30 pm


UCI Student Center, Newport Beach Room C, Building 113, 4th Floor, Admission is free and open to the public.

Marc Herbst is looking for the invisible poetics of oxygen instead of the concrete binds of bound representational aesthetics. Robert Herbst is an artist who currently is exploring the fertile ground between art theory and political art theory. Christina Ulke is an artist whose practice is located in the intersection of public, new media and conceptual art.
"We are at the end of some cycles of resistance while others continue; the globalization movement has peaked for now, we also realize the serious limitations of counterculture. With a fresh-face for experience we can frame questions and histories that will help inform the new cycle of resistance we have yet to imagine. We also know that by assuming that the crisis is already upon us, we are a step ahead in the game by acting now instead of worrying about when it will arrive." – From the JoAAP's call for entries, Issue 6 The JoAAP is a magazine collective that puts out a journal, conducts projects, and is a self-described “weirdo think tank.”
This is the last of six events in the guest lecture series, a collection of interdisciplinary art by local California artists. “Beyond Field: A Guide Through Practice and Discipline” is organized by Jenny Yurshansky, an independent curator and first-year MFA candidate in Studio Art. “This animate field guide leads you through the wild and woolly frontiers of the art world, where the featured artists and cultural practitioners navigate territories of tactical magic, island nation overlords, penitentiaries, miniature models, chimerical remains, and weirdo think tanks!” she says.
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UCI Chamber Series
An Evening of Jazz and Improvised Music

Featuring the quartet Cosmologic

May 31, 8 pm

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Winifred Smith Hall, $12 General Audiences/$10 Seniors/$8 Students

Michael Dessen, trombone
Jason Robinson, saxophone
Scott Walton, bass
Nathan Hubbard, drums