Sunday, October 16, 2005

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

The Five Senses
Redhouse

Price: $8
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Directed by Jeremy Podeswa. This award-winning film explores life and love through the five senses. Five characters that have almost nothing in common except the desire to experience true intimacy struggle to make sense of their senseless worlds. Through taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell, their secret lives unfold, until, one by one, each is drawn out of her/his own shell and into a world that promises to re-ignite the passion in their souls.

106 minutes, rated R.

Don Martin, guitar
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Unique guitar arrangements by Don Martin.

World Music Celebration
Open Hand Theater

Price: Presale: $10 adult, $5 children. At the door: $12 adult, $7 children
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

A benefit for Open Hand Theater, featuring Corn-Bred, the Dekaney Brazilian Ensemble, Jon Dinkin and Klezmercuse, and David Nyadedzor and the Adanfo Dancers.

Vive le Vaudeville
NYS Baroque

Price: $20 regular, $15 student/senior
Church of the Saviour
437 James St., Syracuse

The concert features the funny and elegant incidental music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier for Moliere's comedy Le Malade Imaginaire, centered on intermedes or comic skits inserted between the acts.

Bermuda Avenue Triangle
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $15 adults, $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Baldwinsville Theatre Guild presents the Central New York premier of Bermuda Avenue Triangle, a a risqué and riotous comedy written by Joe Bologna and Renee Taylor.

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Teenage Jay and Arty are in for a rough 1942. Pop owes nine grand to a loan shark and has to hightail it out of town, so he drops the boys in Yonkers in the care of his mother. Grandma may own a sweet shop, but she's no box of chocolates. She's so tough her own grown-up children are afraid of her. And forget about sneaking a treat or two. She counts the salt on the pretzels. How's she going to take it when Uncle Louie shows up to hide out from gangsters and Aunt Bella (who's a little off) announces she wants to marry an usher from the local movie theatre? Neil Simon placed these wonderful characters into a very funny play and earned the 1991 Pulitzer and Tony Awards for his effort. Our reward is laughter and a truly great night in the theatre.

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The Wild Party
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: $18 adults, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, set in the Roaring Twenties, tells the decadent tale of one licentious soiree in Manhattan. Queenie and Burrs, both vaudeville performers, aim to throw THE party of the year. Jealousy and passion ensue between the pair as the guests arrive and the evening progresses. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 jazz-age poem of the same name, The Wild Party is a moralizing tale of excess and debauchery that transcends its era. Lippa's award-winning jazz-infused score features music that ranges from raucous and danceable (Raise the Roof and A Wild, Wild Party) to tender ballads (Poor Child and Maybe I Like it this Way) and draws from both the bygone era in which the play is set and the present.

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The Sound of Music
Theatre '90

Price: $22 regular; $14 children under 13
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Monday, October 17, 2005

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

The Path I Have Taken and the Instruments I Play
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Bill Cole, Professor of African American Studies and Musicology

Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The 36th Annual Colloquium Series of the African American Studies Department will present Professor Bill Cole, Professor of African American Studies and Musicology. Dr. Cole is in the unusual position of being a jazz historian (he has written biographies of both John Coltrane and Miles Davis) and a player of non-Western reed and wind instruments for some 40 years. Dr. Cole will discuss his life experiences and play some of the myriad musical instruments from his diverse travels and encounters.

This event will conclude with a question-and-answer session. In addition, light refreshments will be served.

Lynn Margulis, noted evolutionist and Gaia theorist
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Grant Auditorium, College of Law
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Margulis is highly acclaimed for her contributions to the study of evolution and the perceived borders between organisms and the environment. Margulis has co-authored books with Dorian Sagan and is noted for her work on the Gaia theory of life and how it can be detected. She is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is recognized for her ability to bring the wonder of science to non-scientists.

This appearance is part of Syracuse Symposium, a semester-long intellectual and artistic festival celebrating interdisciplinary thinking, imagining, and creating. The theme this fall is "borders."

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

The Five Senses
Redhouse

Price: $8
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Directed by Jeremy Podeswa. This award-winning film explores life and love through the five senses. Five characters that have almost nothing in common except the desire to experience true intimacy struggle to make sense of their senseless worlds. Through taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell, their secret lives unfold, until, one by one, each is drawn out of her/his own shell and into a world that promises to re-ignite the passion in their souls.

106 minutes, rated R.

Organ Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Balint Karosi

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Organ recital by Poister winner Balint Karosi.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Hands/Feet
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

New York-based architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, husband and wife and principals of Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates, will present the S.U. School of Architecture's 2005 Werner Seligmann lecture. The spring 2005 Louis I. Kahn Chaired Visiting Professors at Yale School of Architecture, Williams and Tsien have worked together since 1977 and have been in partnership since 1986. They have received various awards for their work and have been recipients of several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Tsien has an interest in work that bridges art and architecture. Williams has been principal of his own firm for the last 29 years and in 1986 formed the partnership Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates. The studio of 16 people is well known for its wide range of projects, its exceptionally high standards and its emphases on the importance of place and exploration of the nature of materials. Williams' and Tsien's work has been published extensively. A monograph titled "Work/Life," published by Monacelli Press, was released in 2000.

Public parking for the lecture can be arranged by calling Jeanne Riley in the School of Architecture at 315-443-2255.

Civic Morning Musicals
Judith Stanton, violin; Karen Boulos, violin; Rosalie Spitzer, piano

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Albert Stoessel Suite Antique for 2 violins and piano
George Gershwin Three Preludes", arranged by Jascha Heifetz
George Gershwin Summertime and A Woman is a Sometime Thing from Porgy and Bess, arr. Heifetz, adapted by Judy Stanton

Karen Boulos (violin) is a native of Syracuse. She studied with Muriel Bodley, Deborah Whitney and Elaine Banks. She has played in the Onondaga Civic Symphony and various chamber music groups. A former nurse practitioner, Ms. Boulos is now a full-time "Suzuki Mom." Her two young daughters study violin with Nancy Fennessey and her son studies cello with Muriel Bodley.

Rosalie Spitzer (piano) studied with Evelyn Swarthout Hayes at American University, Jeanne Kirstein at the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and Frederick Marvin at Syracuse University. She has attended and been guest artist in master classes at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and at the Syracuse University School of Music. A past recipient of the Outstanding Pianist Award from CMM, Ms. Spitzer has performed with the American University Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra and the Society for New Music. For the past 14 years she and clarinetist Kathleen Freer have performed as the Silverwood Musicians, most recently for Habitat for Humanity in Watertown, NY. Ms. Spitzer's teaching studio is in Syracuse.

Judy Stanton began studying violin at age seven with her composer/music educator father, the late Abraham Cohen. Her teachers included Pamela Gearhart, Nadine Carapetyan, Sonya Monosoff, Nathan Gottschalk, Mary Crowder Hess, and Arturo Delmoni. In 1978 she earned a BA in violin performance from Boston University. For 20 years she was an active freelance musician and teacher in the Boston area. A versatile musician, she has performed and recorded with folk musicians, rock groups, and klezmer bands. Most recently, Ms. Stanton was music director for a concert: "350 Years of American Music by Jewish Americans" at Congregation Beth Shalom-Chevra Shas. She lives in Jamesville with her husband and their six-year-old son.

Yusef Komunyakaa, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Reading is preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m.

The Wild Party
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: $18 adults, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, set in the Roaring Twenties, tells the decadent tale of one licentious soiree in Manhattan. Queenie and Burrs, both vaudeville performers, aim to throw THE party of the year. Jealousy and passion ensue between the pair as the guests arrive and the evening progresses. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 jazz-age poem of the same name, The Wild Party is a moralizing tale of excess and debauchery that transcends its era. Lippa's award-winning jazz-infused score features music that ranges from raucous and danceable (Raise the Roof and A Wild, Wild Party) to tender ballads (Poor Child and Maybe I Like it this Way) and draws from both the bygone era in which the play is set and the present.

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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

See it With Different Eyes
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Robert Carroll: photography
Liliya Lifanova: still lifes
Angelo Puccia: sculpture
Eric W. Shite: paintings
Sculpture exhibit by the clients of Enable, created under the guidance of Angelo Puccia

If I Had a Hammer -- Pete Seeger and the American Quest for Justice
Onondaga Community College
Reel World: Documentaries with a Difference film series

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Using the music and political activism of award-winning folksinger/songwriter Pete Seeger as a backdrop, this work highlights significant historical grassroots movements for social change in the US during the 20th century -- labor, anti-McCarthyism, the civil rights struggle, the anti-war movement, the women's movement and environmental activism. There will be an appearance by filmmaker Tim Brachocki.

For more information, phone 315-498-ARTS (2787).

If I Had a Hammer -- Pete Seeger and the American Quest for Justice
Onondaga Community College
Reel World: Documentaries with a Difference film series

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Using the music and political activism of award-winning folksinger/songwriter Pete Seeger as a backdrop, this work highlights significant historical grassroots movements for social change in the US during the 20th century -- labor, anti-McCarthyism, the civil rights struggle, the anti-war movement, the women's movement and environmental activism. There will be an appearance by filmmaker Tim Brachocki.

For more information, phone 315-498-ARTS (2787).

The Real Life Chronicles of Ghost Hunter John Zaffis
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

As seen on the Discovery Channel, TLC Life Unscripted, ABC, and the Sci-Fi Channel. For more information, phone 315-498-2583.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU's Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Under the direction of College of Visual and Performing Arts professors Joseph Riposo and John Coggiola, the ensemble will perform works by John LaBarbera, Dizzy Gillespie, Oliver Nelson, Stan Kenton and Kenny Wheeler. The concert will also feature Joyce DiCamillo, a jazz pianist active throughout the east coast. For more information, contact Coggiola at jccoggio@syr.edu or 315-443-5896.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive mystery dinner theater.

The Wild Party
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: $18 adults, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, set in the Roaring Twenties, tells the decadent tale of one licentious soiree in Manhattan. Queenie and Burrs, both vaudeville performers, aim to throw THE party of the year. Jealousy and passion ensue between the pair as the guests arrive and the evening progresses. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 jazz-age poem of the same name, The Wild Party is a moralizing tale of excess and debauchery that transcends its era. Lippa's award-winning jazz-infused score features music that ranges from raucous and danceable (Raise the Roof and A Wild, Wild Party) to tender ballads (Poor Child and Maybe I Like it this Way) and draws from both the bygone era in which the play is set and the present.

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Friday, October 21, 2005

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

See it With Different Eyes
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Robert Carroll: photography
Liliya Lifanova: still lifes
Angelo Puccia: sculpture
Eric W. Shite: paintings
Sculpture exhibit by the clients of Enable, created under the guidance of Angelo Puccia

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Folkus Project
Matt and Shannon Heaton

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The guts of Irish traditional music with the grace of today's most literate songwriters.

Traditional, roots, folk, American, Irish, acoustic... all these terms have been used to describe the music played by Matt and Shannon Heaton. They have deep roots in the Irish tradition and have spent many long nights in pubs playing the music with peers and elder statesmen alike, but they are a vibrant part of the largely youthful acoustic music scene. A powerful duo, featuring Shannon's winsome vocals, Irish flute and whistles and Matt's tasty guitar playing and light flexible baritone, the Heatons play full-on, traditional minded Irish music with an American swagger.

Though audiences often associate both Irish and American music with the fiddle, Shannon Heaton's muscular wooden flute brings the house down. Her rhythmic approach to the instrument belies her slight frame, and husband Matt Heaton is always close at hand to round things out on the guitar. Their love of singing comes out in their duo shows through their increasingly deep song bag. Many of the songs are Irish ballads that tell stories as timeless as the tradition and as modern as country radio. But the settings, the voices, and the spirit are all undeniably American.

The term the Heatons use for their music is Irish/Americana, as it ties together the Old World roots of the music with the young American experience. This isn't "Danny Boy" and green beer; it is new traditional music played with integrity and feeling, songs that tell stories, tunes that make you want to dance, and waltzes that sooth and uplift you. It is music from yesterday, for today, and towards tomorrow.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Viklarbo Chamber Ensemble

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The California-based Viklarbo Chamber Ensemble will perform a program of American chamber music, including works by George Crumb, Ernest Bloch, Aaron Copland and ensemble member Maria Newman.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Tosca
Syracuse Opera

Price: $15 - $136
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Tosca, so beautiful, so rare. The famous singer is beloved by the painter Cavaradossi and desired by Scarpia, the lecherous chief of police. Fueled by political intrigue, jealousy, betrayal and revenge, this tragic opera gives our artists plenty to sing about. Be prepared for a stunning surprise ending.

Soprano Adina Aaron, tenor Drew Slatton and baritone Jake Gardner are sure to heat up the Crouse-Hinds stage with passionate singing and acting. For this production, Syracuse Opera will use the full SSO in the expanded orchestra pit. This allows the audience to enjoy the grand orchestral sound that Puccini composed.

Tosca will be sung in Italian with projected English translations.

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Lola Haskins, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A reading by poet Lola Haskins, author of Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems.

Poetry at the Lucky Moon
Featuring Elisa Marie Norris and Teresa Gilman

Lucky Moon Cafe
719 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

ELISA MARIE NORRIS: With roots deep in Syracuse, she uses nommo to make words hip-hop, bounce, rock and drop knowledge on the pages and in the minds of word lovers because she knows that the beats are from Black bodies, Black voices & Black minds be it Mos Def spittin bout the workers, the killers, the addicts, the dealers or my-your-our grandmothers still sewin it in Gee's Bend, Alabama she looks for intersections - the places where Mos Def and MeMaw meet and stitches her own quilt with pieces of this and pieces of that she will cover her community to protect the undergrounders and expel the outlanders

Teresa Gilman writes poetry, nonfiction, letters. She received first prize in the National Penwomen Poetry Contest (1999), the Abacus and Rose Poetry Contest (2001), the Rebecca Sue Eddy Poetry Contest (Canastota Public Library 2004) and honorable mention in the Penegrine Poetry Contest (2000). Her work has appeared in the Comstock Review, Penegrine, Kalliope, Just Us (Toronto) and the Women Artists' Datebook (2001, 2002) as well as two chapbooks; "Grass Stained and Wet to the Waist" and "Fumbling for the Flesh of Song", both published by FootHills in 2003. She is also a photographer, dogsitter, family biographer and aunt. Her family is her best source, her friends her greatest inspiration.

The Miracle Worker
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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Bermuda Avenue Triangle
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $15 adults, $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Baldwinsville Theatre Guild presents the Central New York premier of Bermuda Avenue Triangle, a a risqué and riotous comedy written by Joe Bologna and Renee Taylor.

The Odd Couple
Singers Dessert Theater

Price: $18 regular, $16 seniors/students 18 and under
Singers Dessert Theater
1345 Milton Ave, Solvay

Neil Simon comedy about two divorced male roommates with opposite personalities. For more information, phone 315-484-SHOW.

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The Sound of Music
Theatre '90

Price: $22 regular; $14 children under 13
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Karel Capek's R.U.R.
Appleseed Productions

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A futuristic story of the creation of robots that eventually become sentient and rise up against their human creators.

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Looking for Normal
Rarely Done Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Playwright June Anderson asks, "What is Normal?" Although undergoing a sex change is not as unusual a procedure as it once was in days gone by, it is still hardly an everyday occurrence.

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The Wild Party
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: $18 adults, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, set in the Roaring Twenties, tells the decadent tale of one licentious soiree in Manhattan. Queenie and Burrs, both vaudeville performers, aim to throw THE party of the year. Jealousy and passion ensue between the pair as the guests arrive and the evening progresses. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 jazz-age poem of the same name, The Wild Party is a moralizing tale of excess and debauchery that transcends its era. Lippa's award-winning jazz-infused score features music that ranges from raucous and danceable (Raise the Roof and A Wild, Wild Party) to tender ballads (Poor Child and Maybe I Like it this Way) and draws from both the bygone era in which the play is set and the present.

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Saturday, October 22, 2005

See it With Different Eyes
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Robert Carroll: photography
Liliya Lifanova: still lifes
Angelo Puccia: sculpture
Eric W. Shite: paintings
Sculpture exhibit by the clients of Enable, created under the guidance of Angelo Puccia

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

All These Wonderful Gifts
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Barbara Marble Tagg, conductor

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

We begin our anniversary season by reflecting on what a wonderful gift it has been to make music together over the past 25 years. Betty Bertaux's To Music, Allan Naplan's newest piece Let Me Know Beauty and Ruth Watson Henderson's My Heart Soars are just a few of the pieces that express our incredible gratitude for the gifts of children and song. We also pay tribute to the musicians who share their unique gifts with us, as the acclaimed Cassatt String Quartet joins us to present the world premiere of a work by lauded composer Libby Larsen, with text by Native American poet Chief Jake Swamp.

Riding the Mystical Chariot: Exploring Mysticism in Song
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Merriam-Webster dictionary defined mysticism as "the belief that direct knowledge of God, spiritual truth, or ultimate reality can be attained through subjective experience (as intuition or insight)." This ethereal and lofty state of mind and heart has inspired numerous choral composers -- both in the living of their own lives as well as in the setting of moving mystic choral texts. Indeed the music itself can reflect a mystic proclivity. This program is a meditation on the intersection of mysticism and modern song. Included will be stunningly beautiful music by self-professed mystics, including John Tavener, Arvo Part, and Einojuhani Rautavaara, as well as choral texts by historic mystical poets, including St. John of the Cross and Rabindranath Tagore.

Special Event: Amy Grant
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
David Hamilton, conductor

Price: $35-$70
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Amy Grant's break into music came unexpectedly while she was working part-time sweeping floors in a Nashville studio. A producer allowed her to use some equipment to duplicate a tape of her original songs as a gift to her family. A World Records producer heard the music and felt he had just "found it." He played her tape over the phone for company executives and the 17-year-old Grant was signed almost immediately. Ms. Grant's career has since spanned a variety of musical styles. With her roots in contemporary Christian music, she has crossed over into mainstream pop and country genres.

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Audience-interactive version of the classic story.

Bermuda Avenue Triangle
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $15 adults, $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Baldwinsville Theatre Guild presents the Central New York premier of Bermuda Avenue Triangle, a a risqué and riotous comedy written by Joe Bologna and Renee Taylor.

The Odd Couple
Singers Dessert Theater

Price: $18 regular, $16 seniors/students 18 and under
Singers Dessert Theater
1345 Milton Ave, Solvay

Neil Simon comedy about two divorced male roommates with opposite personalities. For more information, phone 315-484-SHOW.

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The Sound of Music
Theatre '90

Price: $22 regular; $14 children under 13
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Karel Capek's R.U.R.
Appleseed Productions

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A futuristic story of the creation of robots that eventually become sentient and rise up against their human creators.

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Forever Plaid
Opening Night Productions

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was.

Singing in the closest of harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with over-zealous precision, the "Plaids" are a guaranteed smash, with a program of beloved songs and delightful patter that keeps audiences rolling in the aisles when they're not humming along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the '50s.

Cast: Jonathon Baldwin (from NYC) is Frankie, Thomas Greene is Jinx, Terry LaCasse is Sparky, and Rob Searle is Smudge. Directed by Bob Brown. Musical Direction by Doug Pyke.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

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Looking for Normal
Rarely Done Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Playwright June Anderson asks, "What is Normal?" Although undergoing a sex change is not as unusual a procedure as it once was in days gone by, it is still hardly an everyday occurrence.

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The Wild Party
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: $18 adults, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, set in the Roaring Twenties, tells the decadent tale of one licentious soiree in Manhattan. Queenie and Burrs, both vaudeville performers, aim to throw THE party of the year. Jealousy and passion ensue between the pair as the guests arrive and the evening progresses. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 jazz-age poem of the same name, The Wild Party is a moralizing tale of excess and debauchery that transcends its era. Lippa's award-winning jazz-infused score features music that ranges from raucous and danceable (Raise the Roof and A Wild, Wild Party) to tender ballads (Poor Child and Maybe I Like it this Way) and draws from both the bygone era in which the play is set and the present.

Read a Review!

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

The service is for people of all faiths and contains a combination of inspirational and meditative readings, homily, and jazz played by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra and various guest vocalists. The jazz selections will be drawn from secular and sacred sources, representing a wide range of composers as varied as Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Cole Porter and Stephen Foster, as well as well-known hymns in jazz settings for all to enjoy singing as they wish.

Artistically Speaking Showcase

Price: $15
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A showcase of central New York poets, dancers, actors, artists, and film and video producers. Among the performers will be Jacque Tara Washington, Tony Brown, Vanessa Johnson, Jackie Warren-Moore, Wide-Eyed Dance Theatre, Onondaga Dance Institute, Omanii Abdullah, Mark Wright, Carol Charles, Susan Keeter, Marjory Wilkins and Chevaun Lawrence.

For more information, phone 315-449-1313.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Cassatt Quartet, with Ron Caravan, clarinet

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Walter S. Hartley Clarinet Quintet
Ravel String Quartet in F Major
Tina Davidson Triple String Quartet

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
CNY Jazz Orchestra
Featuring Bobby Watson, saxophone

Price: $26.50, $23.50, $19.50 ($5 discount for students and donors)
OnCenter Convention Center
800 South State St., Syracuse

Recent Jazz in the Square festival sensation Bobby Watson will return to perform in a big band setting in the OnCenter ballroom with new Music Director Bret Zvacek at the helm of CNYJO's 16-strong team of regional all-star musicians. The renowned saxophonist, composer and educator extraordinaire has amassed some 26 recordings as a leader, has worked with Wynton Marsalis, Joe Williams, Dianne Reeves, Low Rawls, and Betty Carter, has topped the Billboard jazz charts, led the Grammy nominated Tailor-Made Big band, and composed music for DeNiro's A Bronx Tale.

Tosca
Syracuse Opera

Price: $15 - $136
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Tosca, so beautiful, so rare. The famous singer is beloved by the painter Cavaradossi and desired by Scarpia, the lecherous chief of police. Fueled by political intrigue, jealousy, betrayal and revenge, this tragic opera gives our artists plenty to sing about. Be prepared for a stunning surprise ending.

Soprano Adina Aaron, tenor Drew Slatton and baritone Jake Gardner are sure to heat up the Crouse-Hinds stage with passionate singing and acting. For this production, Syracuse Opera will use the full SSO in the expanded orchestra pit. This allows the audience to enjoy the grand orchestral sound that Puccini composed.

Tosca will be sung in Italian with projected English translations.

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Karel Capek's R.U.R.
Appleseed Productions

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A futuristic story of the creation of robots that eventually become sentient and rise up against their human creators.

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Forever Plaid
Opening Night Productions

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was.

Singing in the closest of harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with over-zealous precision, the "Plaids" are a guaranteed smash, with a program of beloved songs and delightful patter that keeps audiences rolling in the aisles when they're not humming along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the '50s.

Cast: Jonathon Baldwin (from NYC) is Frankie, Thomas Greene is Jinx, Terry LaCasse is Sparky, and Rob Searle is Smudge. Directed by Bob Brown. Musical Direction by Doug Pyke.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

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The Sound of Music
Theatre '90

Price: $22 regular; $14 children under 13
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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The Odd Couple
Singers Dessert Theater

Price: $18 regular, $16 seniors/students 18 and under
Singers Dessert Theater
1345 Milton Ave, Solvay

Neil Simon comedy about two divorced male roommates with opposite personalities. For more information, phone 315-484-SHOW.

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