CFA Announcements

Wednesday, February 7
Mark Carver in collaboration with the
Department of Modern Languages
Kresge Recital Hall 7 pm
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Wind Ensemble & Contemporary Ensemble

Wednesday February 7
Denis Colwell &
Walter Morales, conductors
Carnegie Music Hall 8 pm
Tickets at the door: $5/$4
CMU students free with ID
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Convocation

Thursday, February 8
David Geber, candidate for head of the School of Music Educating Musicians in the 21st Century Kresge Recital Hall 12:30 pm _____________________ Graduate Recital

Thursday, February 8
Matthew McGrath, double bass
Kresge Recital Hall 8 pm
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Senior Recital

Friday, February 9
Anna Vogelzang, mezzo-soprano
Kresge Recital Hall 8 pm
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Jazz Vocal Ensemble

Sunday, February 11
Thomas W. Douglas, director
Alumni Concert Hall 7 pm
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Francois Clemens, tenor

Monday, February 12
In Celebration of
Gospel Music:
from the Negro Spiritual to
Contemporary
Concert given as part of Black History Month events Kresge Recital Hall 8 pm

NOTE that the Contemporary Ensemble concert originally scheduled for February 10 at 5 pm will be part of the Wind Ensemble concert on Wednesday, February 7 at 8 pm at Carnegie Music Hall.
Unless otherwise stated, admission to events is free.
For more information call 412-268-2383

School of Art Lecture___________________________________________________

Sadie Benning

Tuesday, February 6,
5pm McConomy Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon

Sadie Benning started making videos as a teenager with a Fisher Price Pixelvision camera. Her videos have been exhibited internationally since 1990 with solo screenings at the Museum of Modern Art, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walker Art Center, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Among other exhibitions, her video work has been included in American Century: Art and Culture 1900–2000 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Whitney Biennial (1993 and 2000); Building Identities, Tate Modern (2004); Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art (2002); Love’s Body: Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (1999); and the 1993 Venice Biennale.
Benning’s paintings have been exhibited in group shows at Threadwaxing Space
(1998) and Orchard (2006). She is a former member and cofounder, of the music group Le Tigre. The ?rst full­scale museum exhibition of her painting and video is currently on view at the Wexner Center for Arts.

School of Drama Presents___________________________________________________

Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama announces the production of “The Memorandum.”

The play, written by former Czech Republic president Vaclav Havel, is rife with thematic elements reflecting the political tensions which ran high in 1960’s communist Czechoslovakia that are still present in the United States today.

“The Memorandum” will run February 7 through February 10 at Carnegie Mellon’s Philip Chosky Theater. Mladen Kiselov, professor of directing and acting, will direct the production.

Showtimes are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.. Ticket prices are; Wednesday, Thursday nights and Saturday matinee, full $22, student $11, senior $13.25, faculty and staff $17.50, Friday night, full $25, student $12.50, senior $15, faculty and staff $20 and Saturday night full $25, faculty and staff $20.

For additional information about the upcoming season or ticket purchases please contact the School of drama box office at 412-268-2407, Monday-Friday, noon to 5 p.m.

PGH Events ______________________________________________________________

Young Jean Lee
Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven

8:00 pm, Saturday, February 10, 2007
The Warhol: @ the New Hazlett Theater (North Side)
Tickets: $18; Members and Students $15

Playwright/director Young Jean Lee has been hailed by The Village Voice as one of "New York's finest emerging playwrights" and by Time Out New York as one of "New York's Hot 25" as a Provocateur Playwright and was recognized in
2004 by Paper Magazine's annual "Hot List. " She has directed her plays at P.S. 122 (Pullman, WA), Soho Rep (The Appeal), and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals) and has worked with Radiohole (None of It) and performed with the National Theater of the United States of America (What's That On My Head!?!). Lee is a member of New Dramatists and 13P. She has an MFA from Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College and she is the 2005 recipient of an Individual Artist Award from Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Korean-American Young Jean Lee's worst nightmare is to make a show about Korea called Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven. This work presents Young Jean's chaotic, disturbing, and sometimes offensive take on her cultural background in all of its romanticized, half-informed, and brutal honesty.
The show is also about being in love and trying to be happy when you're so messed-up that all you want to do is destroy everything in your path. But most of all, Songs is about white people.