CFA Announcements

Art Lecture Series: Pat Oleszko
Event: School of Art Lecture Series
Location: McConomy Auditorium, Campus
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 20
Time: 5 pm
Cost: Free

Pat Oleszko, the Spring 2010 Kraus Visiting Professor of Art, makes a spectacle of herself and doesn't mind if you laugh. Known as "Ms Tricks of Dis Guise," she has a large body of work which includes many Unnatural Acts. Utilizing elaborate costumes and props, she has created lithe performantzes, films and installations that a-dress trees, knees, breasts, butts, elephants and fingers. There have been notorious spatial events with the cast-off thousands. She has worked from the popular art forms of the street, party, parade and burlesque house to the Museum of Modern Art; from Sesame Street Magazine to Ms, Playboy and Artforum. A much decorated artist both literally and figuratively, she has been amply rewarded for her diverse efforts pumping irony and disparately trying to bring home the beacon. The truth squirts.

More info at http://lectureseri.es


MUSIC EVENTS
For more information about music events visit http://www.music.cmu.edu

Sergey Schepkin, Piano
Event: School of Music Performance
Location: Kresge Recital Hall, Campus
Date: Monday, Oct. 19
Time: 7:30 pm
Cost: Free

Sergey Schepkin, associate professor of piano, performs Book II of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.


Dialogue of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc
Event: School of Music Opera Production
Location: Philip Chosky Theatre, Campus
Date: Wednesdy, Oct. 21-24
Time: 8 pm
Cost: $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $10 for Carnegie Mellon students with ID

Dialogue of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc, Music Director
Elizabeth Bachman, Stage Director

The "Dialogues of the Carmelites" (in French, Dialogues des Carmélites), is an opera in three acts by the celebrated 20th century composer Francis Poulenc.

Set in a Paris convent during the French Revolution, the "Dialogues of the Carmelites" is a dramatic tale of faith tested and triumph in a time of chaos and uncertainty.

Order tickets online at Purnell Center Box Office.


School of Music Convocation, Elizabeth Bachman
Event: School of Music Convocation
Location: Kresge Recital Hall, Campus
Date: Thursday, Oct. 22
Time: 1:30 pm
Cost: Free

Stage director Elizabeth Bachman consistently receives critical praise for her innovative operatic productions. The Washington Post described her Baltimore Opera production of L'assedio di Corinto as "simply terrific," and went on to say, "Elizabeth Bachman's staging made this essentially static opera visually interesting." Opera News wrote of her production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann with Madison Opera, "Director Elizabeth Bachman kept the action crisp and clean, delineated her characters clearly and offered a variety of charming touches."


Spilling Ink Project: Vijay Palaparty and Nalini Prakash
Event: School of Music Project
Location: Kresge Recital Hall, Campus
Date: Saturday, Oct. 24
Time: 7 pm
Cost: Free

Vijay Palaparty and Nalini Prakash are founders and directors of The Spilling Ink Project and an acclaimed pair of dancers who have performed widely throughout the United States and India.

They have extensive experience in choreography and performance in two distinct forms of classical dance from South India-Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi. Their performances are characterized as highly energetic with a special emphasis and mastery in the nritta-rhythmic dance aspect of both forms.


Carnegie Mellon Chamber Orchestra
Event: Chamber Orchestra Performance
Location: Third Presbyterian Church, Fifth and Negley
Date: Sunday, Oct. 25
Time: 8 pm
Cost: Free

Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony 87
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Serenade for Winds in c minor K. 388
-Intermission-
György Ligeti - Ramifications
Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony 82