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Smith Fine Arts Series

Welcome to the 33nd Season of the Edgar H. Smith Fine Arts Series

Smith Fine Arts Season 2008-2009

About the series | The current season | Performance times and tickets | Pre-concert dinners

 

About the series

The Edgar H. Smith Fine Arts Series provides quality performing arts presentations for the mid-Willamette Valley community and supports the community service and educational missions of Western Oregon University. Further, the Series provides master classes and workshops for University students; performances and discussion for our elementary and secondary schools; and informal lectures and demonstrations for the public, preceding performances.

 

We hope that you will join us for one or more of our upcoming events.

 

The current season 2009-2010

The season includes six fantastic events, representing a wide variety of musical cultures. the season begins in October with Mexico City's Danza Contemporanea Univeristaria. In November you have three nights to choose from to hear soprano Rebecca Fromherz perform a recital of classic Viennese art song. February brings us the Cologne-based Auryn String Quartet, and in March the world-renowned Chilean group Inti-Illimani will grace our series. The "First Gentleman of Jazz", Mel Brown, is bringing three star-studded groups for one heavily swinging April evening. For the season finale in June, New York-based jazz sensation Lizz Wright will perform a set of her favorite songs newly orchestrated for this occasion by the West Coast-based American Metropole Orchestra.

 

Danza Contemporanea Universitaria

Friday, October 9, 2009

Danza Contemporanea Universitaria

 

 

The art of dance returns to the Smith Fine Arts Series with the international dance company Danza Contemporánea Universitaria. This exciting troupe is

dedicated to creating and performing

the finest Contemporary Dance. Based

in Mexico City, their repertoire is nouri

shed by the work of national and inter-

national choreographers. This program

will include the piece Feeling con Fellini, a

work inspired by the unique visual

universe of the legendary filmmaker

Federico Fellini.

 

Danza Contemporanea

 

Rebecca Fromherz

Friday-Sunday, November 6-8, 2009

Smith Recital Hall

 

Rebecca Fromherz

The 2009-10 line up includes an intimate recital with soprano Rebecca Fromherz, in the newly remodeled Smith Recital Hall.

 

Ms. Fromherz will pay tribute to the rich musical heritage of the city of Vienna. Since the late 18th Century dozens of great composers such as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Mahler graced the concert halls and parlors in and around Vienna with their Lieder.

 

Bring all five senses with you to experience the music of this grand European city.

 

Rebecca Fromherz

 

 

Auryn String Quartet Tuesday, February 9, 2010

 

Auryn String Quartet

The Koln-based Auryn String Quartet will make a stop on their U.S. tour at our very own Rice Auditorium.

 

The New York Times described a recent performance as "shared spirituality" and The Times of London said, "The Auryn Quartet gave a compellingly dramatic and magnificently assured performance."

 

The evening's program will include Brahms' Streichquartett a-moll op. 51 No. 2, Berg's Streichquartet, Op. 3 (1910), and Mendelssohn's Streichquartett f-moll op. 80.

 

Auryn String Quartet

 

 

 

 

 

Inti-IllimaniSaturday, March 13, 2010

Inti Illimani

For four decades Inti-Illimani's music has intoxicated audiences around the globe. In 2010, Inti-Illimani celebrates it's forty-third anniversary and the release of Pequeno Mundo, its forty-third album.Wedded in traditional Latin American roots and playing on more than thirty wind, string and percussion instruments, Inti-Illimani's compositions are a treasure for the human spirit. Their mellifluous synthesis of instrumentals and vocals captures sacred spaces, people's carnivals, daily lives, loves and pains that weave an extraordinary cultural mural. Please join us for an evening with this legendary Chilean group

 

Inti-Illimani

 

 

 

An Evening with Mel Brown

Mel Brown

 

 

Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductee, Mel Brown will bring

all three of his Jimmy Mak's bands to perform in one jazz

filled evening. The concert will kick off with the classic bop

sounds of the Mel Brown Septet, followed by the

delightfully swinging Mel Brown Quartet (featuring Tony

Pacini, Ed Bennett, and Dan Balmer), and will finish with

the high spirited grooves of the Mel Brown Hammond

B -3 Band (featuring Louis Pain, Dan Balmer, and Renato

Caranto). Take in a weeks worth of all-star bands in one

incredible evening.

 

Mel Brown

 

 

Lizz Wright with the American Metropole Orchestra

Lizz Wright

 

 

 

The 2009-10 season finishes with an evening of jazz and

popular song performed by Verve recording artist Lizz

Wright and the American Metropole Orchestra. Stephen

Holden of the New York Times described Lizz Wright's

singing as "pitch-perfect, with a smoky, full-bodied texture

...impressive in its steadiness, control, and rhytmic subtlety."

Ms. Wright will be accompanied by the thirty-five piece

American Metropole Orchestra, in a concert of brand new

arrangements written specifically for this Smith Fine Arts

event.

 

Lizz Wright

 

 

 

Performance times and tickets

All performances - but November's Rebecca Fromherz dates - begin at 7:30 p.m. in Rice Auditorium on the campus of Western Oregon University. Ms. Fromherz will be performing at 7:30 in the Smith Recital Hall.

 

To purchase tickets for the events, please click here.

 

 

 

Enjoy a pre-concert dinner!

Catered dinners are served before each performance at 5:30 at Gentle House adjacent to the Western Oregon University.

Dinner tickets are $18 and may be reserved by calling 503-838-8147 or click here to download and print out an order form.

 

 

 

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Last Updated: Thursday, 25 June, 2009 08:39 AM

 

Located in the heart of Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley, Western Oregon University is the oldest institution in the Oregon University system with an award-winning campus that blends welcoming traditional features with multimedia classrooms, wireless web access and a state-of-the-art library. WOU is home to the nationally-renowned Teaching Research Institute, the Regional Resource Center on Deafness and the Rainbow Dance Theatre with approximately two-thirds of its students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the rest in the College of Education.