arts and culture calendar
Monthly Calendar
January
Community Art Center/Spring and Art Classes
Center for the Arts
Saturday, January 16 – Saturday, March 6
Saturdays: 9:30 – 11:45 a.m. 9:45 a.m. – Noon
Evening Adult Classes: 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Young Artists Workshop (ages 5-7), Studio Sampler (ages 7-10), Clay is the Way (ages 7-10), Drawing & Design (ages 7-10), Cartooning (ages 10-15), Drawing II/Painting (ages 11-16), Animation (ages 12-18), Intro to Game Design (ages 12-18), Photoshop (ages 12-adult), Potter’s Wheel (ages 12-adult), and Adult Art Studio (ages 17-up). Contact the Community Art Center at 410-704-2351 for more information. Additional classes can be found at www.towson.edu/cac.
Tuition: $130-$215 (varies according to number of class hours)
Leaving a Trace: The Power of Memoirs
The Vintage Coffee House (vintagecoffeehouse.com)
Saturday, January 30, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Saturday February 27, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Saturday March 20, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
This three-part series will be for those interested in writing and publishing their memoirs for a specific audience. Fifteen participant limit. See www.towson.edu/mwp for more information.
Admission is free.
February
The Schooling of Bento Bonchev by Maksym Kurochkin
Translated by John Freedman
Directed by Yury Urnov
Center for the Arts Studio Theatre
Wednesday, February 3, 5 p.m.
Part of The New Russian Drama Season 2009-2010 (www.newrussiandrama.org)
A true story reading on the life of the famous Bulgarian student. In the not-too-distant future, sex and love are relics of the past, known only through scholarship and archeology. Bento Bonchev, a graduate student mentored by a world class American love-and-sex scholar, finds his faith cracking and demands to know whether love and sex ever existed at all, or if they are merely myths dreamed up by poets.
Tickets: $2
The Natasha Plays by Yaroslava Pulinovich
Translated by John Freedman, Directed by Stephen Nunns
Center for the Arts Dreyer MFA Studio
Wednesday and Thursday, February 3 and 4, 7:30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, February 5 and 6, 8 p.m.
Part of The New Russian Drama Season 2009-2010 (www.newrussiandrama.org)
I Won
You live in a comfortable, well-adjusted family; your parents are well-educated and accomplished professionals and you, their teenage daughter, are talented, motivated and extremely active. Your dad’s really smart and your mom is up on all the latest fashion tricks. You play the piano, you swim in competitions, you are at the top of your class. Your life isn’t just good, it seems like it will consist of nothing but successes piled on success forever. True, there is that neighbor girl who is always in trouble and is probably a drug addict and she keeps getting in your way and making things unpleasant. That’s especially true when you are picked to host a hot new children’s TV show, but the producer would rather have chosen that horrible neighbor girl. So, can success actually be failure? And what if you suddenly find out you are in competition with that nasty neighbor for the attentions of the same young man? Yaroslava Pulinovich wrote a sly piece that quietly but forcefully undermines the notion of “success,” “popularity” and “fashion.”
Natasha’s Dream
A teenage girl appeals to us, but she looks at us as if we are the ones expecting something from her. What could it be? The girl tells about her life in an orphanage, the dangerous pranks she and her friends play, the animosities they acquire and the connections that grow up among them. And there are dreams – about family, love, acceptance and a future. What if a handsome young journalist were to come into the girl’s life and awaken feelings of love and hope in her? And what might happen if she were to fall for those hopes only to learn that this journalist already has a girlfriend? And what if she did something really bad to this girlfriend and what if we are the ones who must pass judgment on her deed? Pulinovich wrote a tender, sensitive text about a very hard life and puts the audience on the spot.
Tickets: $10 general admission; $5 students and seniors My Favorite Things – Song Cycles by Great Composers
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Friday, February 5, 6 p.m. RESCHEDULED: Sunday, February 21, 3 p.m.
Faculty members, Theresa Bickham and Rachel Roulet perform works by composers of the twentieth century, including Sieben Frühe Lieder by Alban Berg, Airs chantés by Francis Poulenc, On This Island by Benjamin Britten and other great works.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
Saturday Science: The Science of Benjamin Banneker
Smith Hall Room 326
Saturday, February 6, 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.
This “living history” presentation by Bob Smith takes a look at the life and science of Benjamin Banneker, an African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author, and farmer who lived in the Baltimore area from 1731 to 1806.
Admission is free.
 Saturday Night Anime
Van Bokkelen Hall Auditorium
Saturday, February 6 – Saturday, May 8
Every first Saturday night, 7:30 p.m.
Four different style animes will be screened on four Saturday nights. The films will be chosen by the Towson University Anime Club. Each film will be introduced by a TU faculty member. A post-screening discussion will follow. www.towson.edu/emf
Admission is free.
Smarter Than a Smart Car: Better Place and the Electric Car
Liberal Arts Building Room 4110
Monday, February 8, 7 p.m.
Michael Granoff is the principal investor in Israel’s Project Better Place whose goal is to reduce the world’s dependence on oil and minimize environmental impact and cost. Project Better Place is working in Israel to develop a nationwide electric car network of charge and battery replacement stations. Co-sponsored by Baltimore Zionist District.
Admission is free.
Dr. Martin Rosenberg Lecture: A Complex Weave – Women and Identity in Contemporary Arts
Center for the Arts Lecture Hall Room 2032
Thursday, February 11, 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Martin Rosenberg, co-curator of the exhibition A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, lectures on the art and artists in the exhibition. Dr. Martin Rosenberg, a specialist in 18th-20th century art theory, criticism, and practice and feminist art history, is the chair of the department of fine arts and professor of art history at Rutgers University’s Camden Campus.
Admission is free.
 A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art
Center for the Arts Gallery
Friday, February 12 – Saturday, April 17 (Closed Friday, March 12 – Saturday, March 20)
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11, 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Co-curated by Dr. Martin Rosenberg of Rutgers University, Camden and Dr. J. Susan Isaacs of Towson University. This exhibition presents the work of 16 artists of diverse backgrounds who address aspects of identity, including nationality, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Media includes sculpture, time-based, painting, prints, fibers, and photography. Artists include: Blanka Amezkua, Sarah Amos, Helène Aylon, Siona Benjamin, Sonya Clark, Zöe Charlton, Annet Couwenberg, Lalla Essaydi, Judy Gelles, Sharon Harper, Julie Haris, Fujiko Isamura, Tatiana Parcero, Philemona Williamson, Flo Oy Wong, and April Wood. Co-sponsored by the College of Fine Arts and Communication, the College of Liberal Arts, the Departments of Women’s Studies and Art + Design, Art History, Art Education and the Women’s Center.
Admission is free.
International Quintet
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Thursday, February 11, 8:15 p.m.
Saxophonist Rostislav Fras and pianist Skip Wilkins co-lead a quintet of musicians from Prague and the U.S. performing jazz compositions. The group presents a free workshop for the public at 4:30 pm.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
Shooting Beauty
Van Bokkelen Hall Auditorium
Thursday, February 11, 7:30PM
“Shooting Beauty” is a heartfelt and award winning documentary that tells the story of a fashion photographer, Courtney Bent, who spent over a decade teaching people with disabilities about photography. Bent gives each person a camera that fits his or her disability and needs. Whether the camera is attached to their wheelchairs to remain stable, or high enough for their tongues to press, everybody has a camera to capture their lives as they see it. “Shooting Beauty” is for anyone who has a passion for photography and a love for inspirational documentaries. The movie is ground-breaking and motivating. It is sure to spark an emotional side you never knew you had. For more information, visit EveryoneDeservesAShot.com and www.towson.edu/emf.
The film screening will be presented by the director and accompanied by a photo exhibit featuring the artists in the film.
Admission is free.
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition: Maggie Gourlay
Center for the Arts Holtzman MFA Gallery
Friday, February 12 – Thursday, March 11
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11, 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Using a variety of media, screen prints, drawings, paintings and installation, Gourlay tweaks and distorts elements of domestic environments to disturbing and often unpredictable ends. A curio cabinet is taken apart and manipulated, its once plain interior transformed into a floral pattern composed of mirror shards, reflecting the viewer in a fragmented pattern and from multiple perspectives. These transformations evoke a sense of dissonance between the comforts and confinements of home.
Admission is free.
Bridges to the World International Film Festival
Van Bokkelen Hall Auditorium
Friday, February 12, 19, 26, 7 p.m.
Friday, March 5, 12, 7 p.m.
Films from Argentina, Estonia, Korea, Nigeria and Russia will be presented in five venues across Maryland: Annapolis, Frostburg, Salisbury, Southern Maryland, and Towson. Each film has been chosen by the embassy and will be introduced by a professional in the field. A post-screening discussion will follow. For more information, please go to www.towson.edu/emf
Admission is free.
 The Sacred Arts of Asia
Center for the Arts Asian Arts Gallery
Saturday, February 13 - Saturday, May 15
Curator’s Talk and Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13, 2 p.m.- 4 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Saturday, 1 p.m.- 4 p.m.
This exhibition highlights selected artworks from twelve private collections of paintings and sculptures from South and Southeast Asia as well as the Far East. Viewers will be able to see the depth and range of Asian sacred arts, the forms of its multi-level functioning, and the transformation of the profound into the world of today. Ancient and modern artworks will be seen from Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand and Tibet. Guest Curator: John Gilmore Ford.
Admission is free.
“A Lunar New Year Concert” Featuring Gary Rubin 
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Sunday, February 14, 3 p.m.
Reception immediately following
Gary Rubin will perform a selection of tunes that include: It’s My Life, Always on My Mind, Come Fly with Me, If I Ruled the World, For Once in My Life and more. Maryland pianist Brent Hardesty will accompany him. This concert benefits The Gilbert A. Brungardt Endowment for the Benefit of the Asian Arts & Culture Center.
Performance and reception by contribution.
Noontime Jazz in the Library: Celebrating Black History Month
Cook Library 3rd floor lobby
Tuesday, February 16, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Monthly noontime jazz combo: bring your lunch and enjoy jazz performed by Towson student musicians.
Admission is free.
Brazil Speaker Series: Higher Education in Brazil in the 21st Century: Achievements and Challenges
Liberal Arts Building Room 2110
Tuesday, February 16, 3:30p.m.
Dr. Gisele Manganelli Fernandes, Department of English, Sao Paulo State University, (UNESP), Brazil
Admission is free.
Literary Readings by Marco Candida, novelist and Elizabeth Harris, short story writer and literary translator
Towson Room of the Cook Library
Thursday, February 18, 5 p.m.
Marco Candida is a renowned young Italian novelist whose work has drawn critical applause in his native country. He is also one of the Italy’s top bloggers and is trying to introduce American-style horror literature into Italy’s literary landscape. He’ll be accompanied by Elizabeth Harris, a writer and literary translator who is happy to visit classes to talk about the art of literary translation. This reading is co-sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages.
Admission is free.
Josef Schützenhöfer Lecture
Center for the Arts Lecture Hall Room 2032
Thursday, February 18, 7 p.m.
Austrian artist Josef Schützenhöfer, painter and illustrator, discusses his recent work.
Admission is free.
Saturday Science: Rapping With DJ Scientific
Smith Hall Room 326
Saturday, February 20, 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Mark Branch a.k.a. DJ Scientific is an engineer working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where he heads up the Electromagnetics Test Group. This entertaining program brings together a mixture of rocket science and rap music to get students interested in math and science careers.
Admission is free.
My Favorite Things – Song Cycles by Great Composers
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Sunday, February 21, 3 p.m.
Faculty members, Theresa Bickham and Rachel Roulet perform works by composers of the twentieth century, including Sieben Frühe Lieder by Alban Berg, Airs chantés by Francis Poulenc, On This Island by Benjamin Britten and other great works.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
 The Associate Competition
College of Business and Economics
Stephens Hall Room 310
Tuesday, February 23, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
The College of Business and Economics hosts a season of The Associate competition, Towson University’s adaptation of the NBC series The Apprentice starring Donald Trump. Alan Wilson, Chairman, President and CEO, McCormick & Company, Inc. serves as “The Donald” for the 2010 competition. The winner receives a position with McCormick & Company, Inc.
Admission is free.
Literary Reading by Phillip Meyer, novelist
Thursday February 25, 6 p.m.
Linthicum Hall Room 200
Phillip Meyer grew up in Hampden and even took a class or two at Towson before going on to study at Columbia University and Cornell. His first novel, American Rust, was named a top ten book of 2009 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Economist magazine. This reading is co-sponsored by the Provost’s Budget Office.
Admission is free.
Guest Piano Recital – R. Kent Cook
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Thursday, February 25, 8:15 p.m.
Dr. R. Kent Cook is an Associate Professor of Piano at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. In addition to this piano recital, he will present a free piano masterclass from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
Los Engranajes (The Gears) By Raul Hernandez Garrido
Center for the Arts Dreyer MFA Lab
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 25, 26 and 27, 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 28, 3 p.m.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 4, 5 and 6, 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 3 p.m.
Marriage and murder. Nuns and prostitutes. Steel factories and forbidden passions. Hamburgers? Los Engranajes (The Gears) is loosely based on the true story of a couple accused of a heinous crime and the series of events, relationships and disturbing history that led to those unspeakable acts. The Gears takes you to a world where the past, present and future blur into madness. Warning: This play contains explicit sexual situations and violence.
Tickets: $8 general admission; $5 students
Cook Library Book Club: “Push” by Sapphire
Cook Library Towson Room 507
Friday, February 26, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
The selection for this book club meeting is in anticipation of the Electronic Media & Film Department’s Women and Minorities in Media Festival (WAMM Fest). The meeting will begin with Elsa Lankford, Assistant Professor of Electronic Media and Film, providing background about this novel depicting the hardships endured by an illiterate Harlem teenager. Then Librarian Mary Ranadive will lead attendees in a discussion about the book. Light refreshments will be served. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the University Store’s Customer Service Desk beginning February 1st.
Admission is free.
Driven
Center for the Arts Dance Studio Theater 1003
Friday, February 26, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 27, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Senior dance majors incorporate their knowledge, experiences, and creativity into choreography that is both innovative and inspiring. Their senior concert is a reflection of their growth, and the beginning of their future in a profession. Their motivation comes from their need to communicate through movement.
Tickets: $10 general admission; $5 seniors and students; Free 12 and under
March
Ellery Eskelin Jazz Residency
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Wednesday, March 3, 8:15 p.m.
The Bill and Helen Murray Jazz Residency program presents internationally acclaimed saxophonist, composer and TU alum Ellery Eskelin in the initial event of his week-long residency at Towson University. All proceeds will benefit the Bill and Helen Murray Jazz Residency.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
 Antiquity and Photography: 19th Century Views of Classical Sites
Liberal Arts Building
Wednesday, March 3, 4 pm
Lecture and slide presentation by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Professor and Chair of Classical Studies and Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. The lecture will show how 19th century practitioners of the new art of photography marketed images of ancient sites as illustrations of the public’s contrasting views of Greek and Roman antiquity. Prof. Szegedy-Maszak is a distinguished scholar and an engaging speaker. Reception to follow. Sponsored by the Classical Studies program. Contact Prof. Allaire Stallsmith for details (astallsmith@towson.edu).
Admission is free.
Tibet at the Court of the Ming Emperors: Exploring Exoticism in the Arts of 15th Century China
Center for the Arts Lecture Hall Room 2032
Thursday, March 4, 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Robert Mintz, associate curator of Asian Arts at The Walters Art Museum, presents a Mitten Professorship Lecture. Co-sponsored by the Art History Program, College of Fine Arts and Communication and the Martha A. Mitten Professorship, College of Liberal Arts.
Admission is free.
Landscape of the Body by John Guare
Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre
Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6, 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, March 9, 10 and 11, 7:30 p.m.
One of John Guare’s classic plays, and set to original cabaret music, Landscape of the Body tells the story of a woman’s unfulfilled life and premature death – and her reflections from the grave. Betty travels to New York to convince her sister Rosalie to leave her gritty New York City life and come home to bucolic Maine. After dying in a freak bicycle accident, Rosalie revisits the world she left behind. From the beyond Rosalie witnesses Betty effortlessly easing into her previous persona – moving into her apartment, taking over her job, but then Betty abruptly loses her teenage son to a gruesome murder. In a sardonic turn of events, Betty finds herself the primary suspect in her son’s death. Guare brilliantly moves back and forth in time and space to create an affecting study of the American dream gone awry.
Tickets: $12 general admission; $7 seniors and students
Ellery Eskelin Jazz Residency
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Friday, March 5, 8:15 p.m.
Post-concert discussion; free to the public
Ellery Eskelin performs with students during the final concert of his week-long residency. A discussion of his music and residency will follow the concert. All proceeds will benefit the Bill and Helen Murray Jazz Residency.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
International Cello Festival – American Tribute to Chopin
Symposium: “Chopin, Culture and Society”
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Saturday, March 6, 9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Chopin’s Life and Music
Saturday, March 6, 2 – 4:30 p.m. Classical music in the 21st Century
Scholars and practitioners from the USA and abroad will make presentations on Chopin's life and music as well as discuss classical music in the age of globalization from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Admission is free. Reservation required by March 1; call 410-704-2838.
Saturday Science: Maryland’s Teacher in Space!
Smith Hall Room 326
Saturday, March 6, 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Astronaut Ricky Arnold from NASA Johnson Space Center became the second teacher in space when he launched on Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-119 mission in March 2009. Born in Cheverly and raised in Bowie, he also began his teaching career in Maryland before getting selected into NASA’s educator astronaut program in 2004. His presentation focuses on his mission to the International Space Station during which he performed two spacewalks.
Admission is free.
 International Cello Festival – American Tribute to Chopin 200th Birthday Concert
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Saturday, March 6, 7:30 p.m.
Pre-concert lecture 6:45-7:15 p.m.
Celebrate the 200th birthday of one of the world's most beloved composers, Frederic Chopin! The inaugural concert of the American Tribute to Chopin features Chopin's Piano Concerto in F-minor, Sonata for Cello and Piano, and Rondo Op. 73 for Two Pianos, as well as a selection of songs, and the premiere of “An American Tribute to Chopin.” Performers include pianists Elizabeth Borowsky, Reynaldo Reyes, and Eva Mengelkoch, cellist Cecylia Barczyk, soprano Jennifer Casey Cabot, and the Towson University Orchestra, conducted by Brenda Leach. Proceeds will benefit the Cello Scholarship Fund.
Tickets: $21 general admission; $11 seniors; $6 students
Voice Division – Guest Artist Recital and Master Class
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Sunday, March 7, 3 p.m. Guest Artist Recital
Monday, March 8, 7 p.m. Guest Artist Master Class
Baritone, Jonathan Retzlaff from Vanderbilt University presents a vocal recital including works of Schubert, Ravel and Samuel Barber. Dr. Retzlaff presents a public masterclass in art song interpretation for Towson students during his residency at Towson University.
This event is sponsored through the Ruth and Arno Drucker Fund for Vocal Performance.
Admission is free.
Literary Readings by Rachel Eisler, poet & Kirk Nessett, novelist and short story writer
Towson Room of the Cook Library
Monday, March 8, 2 p.m.
Rachel Eisler’s debut book of poems is On Fire Island with Walt and Frank, from Finishing Lie Press.
Kirk Nessett’s book Paradise Road won the prestigious Drue Heinz Prize (previous winners include Dangerous Men by our own Geoffrey Becker).
Admission is free.
Tuesdays at Towson: Happy Birthday Barber!
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Tuesday, March 9, 7:30 p.m.
Celebrate the 100th birthday of American composer, Samuel Barber. The concert opens with his Sonata for cello and piano and then the not-often heard Capricorn Concerto for flute, oboe and trumpet. The concert is rounded out by vocal offerings from the faculty vocal quintet, QuinTUs.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
Let’s Go To China!
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Thursday, March 11, 8:15 p.m.
As a prelude to the Towson University bands and music faculty touring China from March 13-22, 2010, the band presents a pre-trip concert. Music includes American Visions by Travis Weller, Clare Grundman’s Second American Folk Rhapsody, John Philip Sousa’s arrangement of Percy Grainger’s Country Gardens. The concert includes a new arrangement of George Gershwin’s music by U.S. Navy Band arranger Scott Silbert, featuring soloist Dr. Marguerite Levin, clarinet, Francis McBeth’s Air and Dance, Leroy Anderson’s Clarinet Candy and Nicholas Hooper’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix conclude the program. The band will perform concerts in Beijing, Shanghai and at the base of the Great Wall of China.
Admission is free.
Piano Guest Artist Master Class
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Friday, March 12, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Washington Garcia, Assistant Professor of Piano at Texas State University, offers a master class for Towson University's piano students. This event is open to the public.
Admission is free.
Junior Varsity/Novice National Debate Championship
Towson Speech and Debate Team
Psychology Room 108
Debates in Linthicum, Psychology, Hawkins, CLA
March 13 – 15, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Teams from across the country compete for the championship of the largest novice/junior varsity debate tournament of the year. Schools finishing in the top ranks last year included Cornell, Massachusetts, West Virginia, James Madison, NYU, SUNY Binghamton, Towson and Kansas State. For more information on the team, visit www.towson.edu/speechanddebate.
Admission is free.
Saturday Science: The Science of Light – Is It A Particle or A Wave? 
Smith Hall Room 326
Saturday, March 20, 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.
In this fun and entertaining program, Dr. Dave Schaefer and Mr. Mark Edmonston look into the properties of light and examine how it sometimes behaves as a particle and sometimes as a wave.
Admission is free.
Pro Musica Rara: Intimate Bach – A 325th Birthday Celebration
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Sunday, March 21, 3:30 p.m.
Music of J.S. Bach: Violin Partita in D Minor, Cello Suite no. 4 in E-flat Major, selections from The Art of Fugue.
Tickets: $30 general admission; $10 students
International Cello Festival – Master Class with Cellist Cheung Chau
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Monday, March 22, 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Student soloists perform works by Bach, Chopin and other composers.
Admission is free.
Noontime Jazz in the Library: Celebrating Women’s History Month
Cook Library 3rd floor lobby
Tuesday, March 23, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Monthly noontime jazz combo: bring your lunch and enjoy jazz performed by Towson student musicians.
Admission is free.
Cook Library Book Club: “Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys” By Michael Collins
Cook Library Towson Room 507
Wednesday, March 24, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
The meeting begins with Dr. Alex Storrs, Associate Professor of Physics, Astronomy, and Geosciences, providing background on this vivid, first-hand account of space travel. Then, Librarian Carl P. Olsen leads attendees in a discussion about the book. Light refreshments will be served. Copies of the book are available for purchase at the University Store’s Customer Service Desk beginning in January.
Admission is free.
The International Cello Festival American Tribute to Chopin– Generation Y Performs Chopin
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Wednesday, March 24, 7:30 p.m.
Accomplished young cellists and guest pianists (winners of national and international competitions), and the Towson University/Maryland Cello Ensemble, perform works by Frederic Chopin. Proceeds benefit the Cello Scholarship Fund.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
 Music for Brass and Percussion
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Wednesday, March 24, 8:15 p.m.
Festive works including Brazilian José da Silva’s Suite Monette highlight this entertaining program. Famed Canadian Brass trumpeter Fred Mills who tragically passed recently is remembered with a performance of his adaptation of Samuel Barber’s Adagio. Faculty is joined by students in a rendering of stunning Renaissance music by Tielman Susato from the library of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
Brazilian Film Festival: “Alice’s House” Directed By Patrick Leblanc
Liberal Arts Building Room 2110
Thursday, March 25, 6:30 p.m.
Feature film about the livelihood of a family from Sao Paulo, Brazil, seen through the perspective of an urbanite housewife.
Admission is free.
Filthy Fluno: An Artist’s Life in Second Life™ and Virtual Art Exhibition Opening
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, March 25, 6:30 p.m.
Center for the Arts Lecture Hall Room 2032
Virtual Opening Reception: Thursday, March 25, 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. accessed in the Center for the Arts Atrium and online through Towson Innovation Lab island in Second Life™ at http://bit.ly/TUinSL
A simultaneous real-life and virtual presentation given by artist Jeff Lipsky and his avatar, Filthy Fluno, in the virtual 3D environment Second Life™. Lipsky discusses his experience exhibiting, marketing and selling his artwork via the MUVE (Multiple User Virtual Environment) Second Life™. The lecture is held live in the Center for the Arts atrium and simultaneously in the amphitheatre on the Towson Innovation Lab island in Second Life™. A virtual exhibition of Lipsky’s work opens with a reception immediately following the lecture both in Second Life™ and in real life. Lipsky’s work will be on virtual display in the Towson Innovation Lab island in the Baum Gallery. Access to the Towson Innovation Lab island will be available in the atrium area of the Center for the Arts immediately following the lecture or by using a Second Life™ account and visiting http://bit.ly/TUinSL.
Admission is free.
Spiritual Rhythms of Asia Concert Series: U Theatre- Sound of the Ocean
Stephens Hall Theatre
Thursday, March 25, 8 p.m.
Lecture and Demonstration: Wednesday, March 24, 7 p.m.
Beating out magic rhythms from Taiwan, the 23- member U-Theatre’s performance conveys a mystical experience of existence. New York Times describes: “There is a great and complex beauty to the drumming, sounds and silence and simple beats and intricate meshes of precisely articulated rhythms.” Founded in 1988, the U-Theatre, who has traveled and performed worldwide, dedicates to pursuing inner peace through exploration of the body and mind, fusing Chinese martial arts, drumming and meditation together with theatrical expressions.
Tickets: Lecture/Demo: $10; $5 AA&CC members
Performance: $30 before 3/24 ($20 AA&CC Members and TU Students); $40 at door ($25 AA&CC Members and TU Students). Price includes free admission to lecture/demo on 3/24.
Group rates are available.
 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition: Jenn Parnell
Center for the Arts Holtzman MFA Gallery
Friday, March 26 – Saturday, May 15
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 25, 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Imagery of cellular pathology inspires Sublime Affliction, a collection of wearable amuletic objects that addresses the intersection between health, belief, and body image. Parnell’s handheld and interactive objects, supported by her explorations of form and pattern, speak to both the psychological aspects of disease and the faith mechanisms necessary to cope with the diagnoses. Cellular imagery inspires decorative patterns for site-specific installation on the body, summoning questions of beauty. The works are organic in character and present avant-garde materials, forms and applications.
Admission is free.
Blasted
Written by Sarah Kane and Directed by Todd Herman
Center for the Arts Ruth Marder Studio Theatre
Thursday, March 25, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 26, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 27, 8 p.m.
In the midst of war, Ian, a tabloid journalist, takes Cate, his former lover, to an expensive hotel room. While there prejudice, violence, and torture take the spotlight in Sara Kane’s unapologetically honest play. Blasted will take the audience on a journey that will never be forgotten.
Tickets: $2 general admission
Jazz Faculty Ensemble
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Friday, March 26, 8:15 p.m.
The Towson University Jazz Faculty Ensemble presents an evening of jazz standards and original compositions.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
The International Cello Festival American Tribute to Chopin– Chopin and His Contemporaries
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Saturday, March 27, 7:30 p.m.
Critics refer to the Atma Trio as “excellent musicians who truly know the art of performing chamber music.” This internationally acclaimed ensemble presents a program of two trios of composers, Frederic Chopin and Bedrich Smetena – also on the program Robert Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro for cello and piano. Proceeds benefit the Cello Scholarship Fund.
Tickets: $21 general admission; $11 seniors; $6 students
Cosmic Carnival at TUniverse
Smith Hall Room 326
Saturday, March 27, 8 p.m.
Please join the Fisher College of Science and Mathematics in celebrating the grand opening of our new telescope and newly renovated planetarium. This family fun event will feature a talk by Nobel Laureate John Mather, planetarium shows, telescope observation, and special hands on activities.
Admission is free.
Sunday Night Opera Smackdown: Mezzo vs. Soprano
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Sunday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.
An evening of well-loved arias and duets from the soprano and mezzo soprano repertoire.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
Media Active Festival: "Create-Engage-Transform"
Wednesday, March 31, 6 – 9 p.m.
Stephens Hall Theatre
Media activism brings real issues to light. The Media Active Festival provides a forum for cause-driven student media makers to tell their stories. The Festival will screen socially-conscious media created by Baltimore area college and high school students with the goal of using media for advocacy, activism, and as a tool for social change. The festival creates a community meeting place where films and other social media promote discussions of social engagement, responsibility and strategic action. There will be opportunities for audience discussion with the film-makers. www.towson.edu/mediaactive
Admission is free.
April
Brazilian Film Festival: “Grandma Has a Video Camera” Directed By Tania Cypriano
Liberal Arts Building Room 2110
Thursday, April 1, 6:30 p.m.
The director, Tania Cypriano, introduces this documentary about the grandmother of a Brazilian immigrant family who was given a video camera as a present. She films the family over the course of 20 years, showing the trajectory of this family as they return from the US to Brazil, and then go back to the US.
Admission is free.
 Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Written by Bert V. Royal and Directed by Will C. Shelton
Center for the Arts Ruth Marder Studio Theatre
Thursday, April 1, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 2, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 3, 8 p.m.
The white beagle we knew and loved is dead, and the gang is now dealing with issues a bit more serious than kite-eating trees. Try sex, drugs, pyromania and the excessive use of hand-sanitizer as a start. That old Blockhead is back, and now he's a teenager.
Tickets: $2 general admission
Towson Trombone Studio Recital
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Tuesday, April 6, 6 p.m.
A recital of solo and chamber music works, culminating in a performance by the TU Trombone Ensemble.
Admission is free.
Tuesdays at Towson – Simple Gifts
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Tuesday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.
The original 13-player instrumentation of Aaron Copland’s quintessential American work, Appalachian Spring highlights this performance. The Department of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University offers its visual interpretation of dance for the camera to accompany this great work, inspired by the Shaker Hymn, Simple Gifts. Don’t miss the opener to this concert, a lovely duo for mandolin and guitar titled Mountain moor by Stephen Funk Pearson.
Tickets: $14 general admission; $8 seniors; $6 students
Student Composer’s Concert
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Wednesday, April 7, 8:15 p.m.
Students present an evening of their latest works.
Admission is free.
Dr. Sidney Lieberman Awards Recital
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Thursday, April 8, 11 a.m.
Student winners of the Dr. Sidney Lieberman Music Competition perform in a recital. Dr. Lieberman had a long history of service and patronage to Towson University’s fine arts programs. The Department of Music continues his generous tradition by rewarding the achievements of talented music students.
Admission is free.
Brazilian Film Festival: “Nailed” Directed By Sheldon Schiffer
Liberal Arts Building Room 2110
Thursday, April 8, 6:30 p.m.
The director, Sheldon Schiffer, introduces this film about a Brazilian young woman who falls in love with an American man. The story ends in an ironic twist of events which deals with topics of legality, immigration, and gender.
Admission is free.
A Good Brain is Hard to Find
Written by Becca Wyrick and Directed by Catherine Hagner
Center for the Arts Studio Theatre
Thursday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 9, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 10, 8 p.m.
Set in "a future with no imagination", A Good Brain Is Hard to Find centers around scientist and ex-child prodigy Hannah West. Fueled by obsessions and desperate to imagine, Hannah attempts an experiment with the potential to throw the world into an uproar. When she finds herself at the center of a bizarre murder investigation, she is forced to search out the product of her experiment, a "monster" who holds more secrets than just the truth about the murders. A Good Brain Is Hard to Find is dark and strangely comedic-- but at its heart, questions what it means to be human.
Tickets: $2 general admission
 A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Arts Symposium with Keynote Speaker Eleanor Heartney
Center for the Arts Lecture Hall Room 2032
Friday, April 9, 1:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Eleanor Heartney is a contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress and author of numerous articles and books on contemporary art, including After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art (co-author) and Art and Today. She has written for many major art publications including Art News, the New Art Examiner, Sculpture, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. She received the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism in 1992 and was honored by the French government as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2008. Other speakers at the symposium will be artists whose work can be viewed in the Complex Weave exhibition, including Blanka Amezkua, Helène Aylon, Siona Benjamin, and Sonya Clark.
Admission is free.
Maryland Clarinet Seminar
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Saturday, April 10, registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
The 3rd Annual Maryland Clarinet Seminar includes clinics on bass clarinet; jazz; and mouthpieces, performances by area student university ensembles, and master classes. Exhibits are available for trying out equipment related to playing the clarinet. The Gala concert at 7:30 p.m. includes traditional classical music for clarinet and the world premiere of two works for Jazz Clarinet Soloist and Clarinet Quartet by Jazz legend and composer, Phill Woods.
Tickets: $21 general admission; $11 seniors and students
Saturday Science: The Apollo Moon Landing Missions 
Smith Hall Room 326
Saturday, April 10, 10 a.m.
Over 40 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. Over the next three and a half years, 10 other astronauts successfully landed on the moon and safely returned back to Earth. In this program, Dr. Don Thomas takes a look at these early lunar exploration missions and what was accomplished as NASA plans to revisit the moon with astronauts around 2025.
Admission is free.
Noontime Jazz in the Library: Celebrating National Library Week
Cook Library 3rd floor lobby
Tuesday, April 13, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Monthly noontime jazz combo: bring your lunch and enjoy jazz performed by Towson student musicians.
Admission is free.
Literary Readings by Carol Quinn, poet & Kevin Stewart, short story writer
Towson Room of the Cook Library
Tuesday, April 13, 3:30 p.m.
Our own Carol Quinn, founder of the literary series, will read from her debut book of poems, Acetylene.
Kevin Stewart’s short story collection, The Way Things Always Happen Here, was published by Vandalia Press, an imprint of West Virginia University Press in 2007.
Admission is free.
Towson Student Brass Ensembles
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Tuesday, April 13, 8:15 p.m.
A recital of works ranging from the baroque to modern repertoire will be performed.
Admission is free.
Solutions Showcase
Minnegan Room
Wednesday, April 14, 2-4 p.m.
TU’s Division of Economic and Community Outreach (DECO) and College of Graduate Studies and Research annually co-sponsor the Solutions Showcase where faculty and staff, partners, clients, funders, students, and community members explore the solutions that over 20 centers, institutes, units, and faculty projects at TU can offer the businesses, non-profits, and government agencies in Maryland. The Showcase includes time to mingle with TU faculty and staff and hear key presentations on successful projects being implemented across the region.
Admission is free.
Hot Tea & Romance
Cook Library Room 507
Thursday, April 15, 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Come to the Library for a cup of hot tea and discussion about an exciting romance novel. The Towson Room is converted into a Victorian Tea Room for the occasion.
Admission is free.
A Goose, a Telephone, and Dueling Divas: 3 Comic Operas
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Thursday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, April 16 and 17, 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 18, 2 p.m.
Music for the Stage presents three comic one-act operas; The Impresario & The Goose of Cairo by W. A. Mozart and The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti. Productions are presented fully staged. The Impresario is Mozart’s comic intermezzo dealing with two dueling divas and their claim to be the best singer in town. The Goose of Cairo is a comic telling of the classic Trojan horse myth. In it, an amorous lover dupes the father of his beloved by tricking him into believing the dire predictions of a talking mechanical goose shipped direct from exotic Egypt! The Telephone is a whimsical story of Lucy’s obsession with talking on the phone while her shy boyfriend tries desperately to ask her the most important question of their lives. Phillip Collister & Theresa Bickham, stage and musical directors. Rachel Roulet, piano & assistant musical director.
Tickets: $17 general admission; $12 seniors; $8 students
Innovations
Stephens Hall Theater
Friday, April 16 and 23, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 17 and 24, 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 18 and 25, 2 p.m.
The Towson University Dance Company approaches dance performance from innovative perspectives this season. The company is honored to present: Alvin Ailey – A Dance History Perspective, five wonderful excerpts of dance master and legend Alvin Ailey’s works, including The Lark Ascending, Blues Suite, Hidden Rites and Mary Lou’s Mass. Choreographers Runqiao Du, Betsy Romer and Nicole Martinell present works. Vincent Thomas’ men’s repertory class performs as well as Jayne Bernasconi’s aerial dance class.
Tickets: $20 general admission; $10 seniors and students; Free 12 and under
Brazil Speaker Series: Solidarity Economy and Recycling Co-ops in Sao Paulo: Micro-credit to Alleviate Poverty
Linthicum Room 100
Monday, April 19, 3:30p.m.
Dr. Jutta Gutberlet, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Canada
Admission is free.
 Annual Media Arts Festival and 10th Anniversary Party
The Department of Electronic Media & Film
Van Bokkelen Hall Auditorium and the Media Center
Monday, April 19, 7 p.m. Judges’ Open Screening
Thursday, April 22, 7 p.m. Judges’ Open Screening
Friday, April 23, 7 p.m. Judges’ Open Screening
Monday, April 26, 7 p.m. Judges’ Open Screening
Saturday, May 1, 7 p.m. Best of Festival Screening & Awards Presentation
The Festival consists of judged, open screenings and a Best of Festival screening and awards presentation. Best student projects in Documentary, Narrative, Experimental, Music, Video, Corporate, Audio Documentary, and other categories are presented. Contact Danny Mydlack (dmydlack@towson.edu) or the Department of Electronic Media & Film (ww.towson.edu/emf) for more information. The EMF Department’s 10th Anniversary reception will precede the Best of Festival Screening on May 1 in the Media Center.
Admission is free.
Talent Awards Competition Recital
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Tuesday, April 20, 11 a.m.
This annual concert features the music department talent award winners from the string, winds and percussion, voice, piano, and composition divisions.
Admission is free.
5 Brass and the Band
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Tuesday, April 20, 8:15 p.m.
Two of the most admired and respected composers of the 20th century are featured in this concert: Vincent Persichetti and Leonard Bernstein. Persichetti’s Symphony No. 6, one of the great mid-century American band symphonies, remains fresh and vibrant and continues to enrich the body of literature for the wind band. The Allegro is exciting, the second movement is poignant, the third movement is charmingly delightful and the final movement in invigorating.
The TU Faculty Brass Quintet joins with the Symphonic Band to perform Suite from Mass by Leonard Bernstein. Mass was commissioned to celebrate the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Striking and beautiful, the Suite focuses on a select number of movements, often using the brass quintet to represent the vocal lines found in the original composition. The TU Brass Quintet consists of Luis Engelke and Rene Hernandez, trumpets; Gabrielle Finck, horn; Natalie Mannix, trombone; and Michael Bunn, tuba.
Tickets: $10 general admission; $7 seniors; $6 students
Michelangelo’s David: Naked Men in the Piazza
Center for the Arts Lecture Hall Room 2032
Thursday, April 22, 6:30 p.m.
Dr. John Paoletti of Wesleyan University is a renowned scholar of Italian Renaissance Art, widely published, and a former editor of the Art Bulletin.
Admission is free.
Orchestra Concert
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Thursday, April 22, 8:15 p.m.
Join us as we usher in spring by performing some of the great orchestral masterworks from the Classical and Romantic periods of music history.
Tickets: $10 general admission; $7 seniors; $6 students
Martial Arts
Translated By David M. White
Directed by Yury Urnov
Center for the Arts Ruth Marder Studio Theatre
Wednesday and Thursday, April 21 and 22, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 23, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 24, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 25, 2 p.m.
Monday and Tuesday, April 26 and 27, 7:30 p.m.
Part of The New Russian Drama Season 2009-2010 (www.newrussiandrama.org)
Should children have to answer for the crimes of their parents? In this brief, violent play, a young boy’s parents are murdered by drug-lords and the boy’s inheritance brings him unimagined trouble. As corrupt police and drug dealers storm the boy’s apartment, he finds refuge in the company of a neighbor girl. But will they survive the night?
Tickets: $12 general admission; $7 seniors and students
Brazilian Film Festival: “The Year My Parents Went On Vacation” Directed By Cao Hamburger
Liberal Arts Building Room 2110
Thursday, April 23, 6:30 p.m.
Brazil’s Official Selection for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Set in the turbulent year of 1970, this poignant and humorous coming of age story thrusts twelve year-old Mauro into a maelstrom of political and personal upheaval. When his left-wing militant parents are forced to go underground, Mauro is left in the care of his Jewish grandfather’s neighbor in São Paulo.
Admission is free.
Manuel Barrueco
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Saturday, April 24, 8 p.m.
Master class Sunday, April 25, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.; Center for the Arts room 3069
Mr. Barrueco performs a homage to Tarrega and Albeniz, in this centenary of both of the composers’ deaths.
Tickets: $35 General/$30 members, seniors, students (tickets available only at bcgs.org website)
For the Master Class, there will be a $5 fee for listening to this class
that will be taken at the door. Performers in the class will be students from the Towson University guitar department. You can register at http://www.bcgs.org/pages/master_classes_form
Pro Musica Rara: Viennese Matinee
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Sunday, April 25, 3:30 p.m.
Eva Mengelkoch, fortepiano
Mozart: Piano Concerto in A Major, K.414. Haydn: String Quartets.
Tickets: $30 general admission; $10 students
Improvisation Night IV
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Monday, April 26, 8:15 p.m.
The Improvisation Ensemble presents an evening of improvised music. This ensemble of music students creates their performances spontaneously with little or no predetermined parameters.
Admission is free.
Mystical Arts of Tibet Series: Sand Mandala Painting Demonstration
University Union 2nd floor lobby
Monday, April 26 – Thursday, April 29, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
In conjunction with the Sacred Arts exhibition, a Sand Mandala Painting Demonstration is presented by Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery over the course of four days. Of all the artistic traditions of Tantric Buddhism, painting with colored sand ranks as one of the most unique and exquisite. The monks open rituals by consecrating the site of the mandala with chants, music, and mantra recitation. At closing ceremony, the completed mandala will be swept up and the color sands poured into water, thus dispersing the healing energies of the mandala throughout the world. Sponsored by the Center for Student Diversity.
Admission is free.
Trumpet Studio Recital
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Tuesday, April 27, 6 p.m.
The Trumpet Studio is featured in solo performances of music from the standard repertoire from Baroque works through modern compositions.
Admission is free.
Mystical Arts of Tibet Series: The Symbolism of the Sand Mandala
University Union
Tuesday, April 27, 7 p.m.
The Mandala is a sacred cosmogram used as an object of contemplation to depict the pure nature of the world in which we live. Sponsored by the Center for Student Diversity.
Admission is free.
Popular Music Ensemble
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Tuesday, April 27, 8:15 p.m.
The Pop Music Ensemble presents an evening of music featuring an array of songs representing current trends in popular music.
Admission is free.
Mystical Arts of Tibet Series: Death and Dying – The Tibetan Tradition
University Union
Wednesday, April 28, 7 p.m.
Buddhism teaches that an understanding of the death process is important life knowledge; it enhances and enriches our life, and brings about a dramatic inner transformation. Sponsored by the Center for Student Diversity.
Admission is free.
Woodwind Ensembles in Concert
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Wednesday, April 28, 8:15 p.m.
A performance by various student ensembles, ranging from duets to quintets.
Admission is free.
Literary Readings by Leslie Peace Jubilee, poet & Linda Siemon, short story writer
Towson Room of the Cook Library
Thursday, April 29, 12:30 p.m.
Leslie Peace Jubilee, a graduate of Towson University, reads from her new book, A Flaying of Tulips. Linda Siemon, a PRWR graduate student, will read from her thesis of short stories.
Admission is free.
Panel Discussion: Career Paths after Graduation
Center for the Arts Lecture Hall Room 2032
Thursday, April 29, 6:30 p.m.
A panel discussion by recent TU alumni from the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education speaks about their career paths since graduation.
Admission is free.
Mystical Arts of Tibet Series: Opening the Heart – Arousing the Mind of Universal Kindness
University Union
Thursday, April 29, 7 p.m.
Love and kindness are mental archetypes that all beings possess. Buddhism presents numerous contemplative techniques for intensifying and enhancing these archetypes until they achieve full maturity and universality. Sponsored by the Center for Student Diversity.
Admission is free.
Colonnades, For Piano Solo
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Thursday, April 29, 8:15 p.m.
Douglas Buchanan’s most recent work, Colonnades, is a virtuosic, concert-length work for piano solo that confronts questions of faith, memory, identity and the function of art in a community.
Admission is free.
Recent Work: A Virtual Juried Student Art Exhibition in Second Life™
Towson Innovation Lab island in Second Life™
Center for the Arts Atrium
Friday, April 30 – Saturday, May 15
Opening Reception: April 29, 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Visit and experience a virtual exhibition of Towson University’s student art projects held in the MUVE (multiple user virtual environment) Second Life™ on the Towson Innovation Lab island. The opening reception simultaneously takes place in-world (Second Life™) with avatars and in real-world by real folks at Towson. During the opening reception, Second Life™ Team Collaborators and computers are available in the Center for the Arts atrium to assist a visitor’s experience, firsthand, the student work presented in the Towson Innovation Lab virtual island. Access to the Towson Innovation Lab island is available in the atrium area of the Center for the Arts immediately following the lecture or by using a Second Life™ account and visiting http://bit.ly/TUinSL.
Admission is free.
Senior Exhibition
Center for the Arts Gallery
Friday, April 30 – Saturday, May 15
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 29, 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Graduating seniors showcase art work from their final year and work produced in their capstone course, Senior Project. Styles and media cover a broad range of artistic endeavor.
Admission is free.
 Frozen in Time
Translated by John Freedman
Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre
Friday and Saturday, April 30 and May 1, 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 2, 2 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday, May 5 and 6, 7:30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, May 7 and 8, 8 p.m.
Part of The New Russian Drama Season 2009-2010 (www.newrussiandrama.org)
What happens when a town is forced to live its own history in the present? Life in provincial Russia is much like life in small towns in the United States: everyone knows everyone’s business, not much happens, and the young people are leaving for opportunities in the big city. When two businessmen arrive with a plan to save the town, two families must confront one another and the fate of their town, which may only survive if the businessmen can turn it into a “living museum.”
Tickets: $12 general admission; $7 seniors and students
May
“Victorian Secrets”
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Saturday, May 1, 3 p.m.
This program features the TU Choirs and highlights music and texts from the Victorian era from around the world that represent the time period.
Tickets: $10 general admission; $7 seniors; $6 students
Choral Society Concert
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Saturday, May 1, 6 p.m.
The Choral Society presents an evening of choral music featuring diverse styles from multiple genres and time periods.
Tickets: $10 general admission; $7 seniors; $6 students
Spiritual Rhythms of Asia Concert Series: Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing 
Stephens Hall Theatre
Saturday, May 1, 8 p.m.
As part of Mystical Arts of Tibet, the presentation offers a rare opportunity to witness one of the world’s most ancient sacred traditions by a group of monk artists for whom these traditions are a way of life. Back by popular demand, the Drepung Loseling monks are particularly renowned for their multiphonic chanting. Each of the main chant masters simultaneously intones three notes, thus each creating a complete chord.
Tickets: $20 general admission; $15 seniors and students; $10 AA&CC members and TU Students with ID
32 Beethoven Sonatas Series: Program No. 6
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Sunday, May 2, 3 p.m.
This is the sixth of nine series of concerts featuring all of the complete thirty-two sonatas of Beethoven. The program includes Sonata in E Major, opus 109; Sonata in A flat Major, opus 26 no. 12 and Sonata in C Major, opus 2, no. 3. All proceeds go to the Reynaldo Reyes Scholarship Foundation.
Tickets: $21 general admission; $11 seniors; $6 students
Student Jazz Ensembles I
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Monday, May 3, 8:15 p.m.
Students of the small jazz ensemble program present an evening of music as the culmination of this semester’s work.
Admission is free.
Student Jazz Ensembles II
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Tuesday, May 4, 8:15 p.m.
Students of the small jazz ensemble program present an evening of music as the culmination of this semester’s work.
Admission is free.
Threepenny Opera: A Preview 
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Wednesday, May 5, 6 p.m.
Towson University music students present a preview of selections from Threepenny Opera, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s monumental and influential musical which takes a serio-comic examination of denigration in society, the effects of greed and corruption, and the search for human decency in an uncertain world. This performance will tour to Oldenburg Germany on May 19, 2010 where it will be performed along with students from Oldenburg University as part of a year-long cultural exchange between Towson and Oldenburg.
Admission is free, but donations for this event are welcomed and encouraged. Donations will be used for travel and production expenses related to the Threepenny Opera tour to Oldenburg, Germany. Gifts are tax deductable and are managed by the Towson University Foundation.
Classical Guitar Ensemble Concert
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Wednesday, May 5, 8:15 p.m.
The classical guitar ensembles under the direction of Troy King present an evening of music featuring Maryland composers. The program will include the world premiere of “The Ocean Sings” for solo viola and guitar orchestra by Vivian Adelberg Rudow, and works by Westminster based composer Garth Baxter. Join us for a unique musical evening.
Admission is free.
Towson University Big Band Concert
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Thursday, May 6, 8:15 p.m.
Come and witness big band jazz at its finest! The band performs music from the 30s to the present in a concert that is sure to be exciting!
Tickets: $10 general admission; $7 seniors; $6 students
38th Annual Spring Pottery Sale
Center for the Arts Ceramics Suite Room 3012
Friday, May 7 – Saturday, May 8, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
An annual event, the ceramic students and faculty present functional and fine art ceramic works for sale. A vast selection of handcrafted items includes stoneware and earthenware, as well as fanciful objects are available.
Admission is free.
 Dance Major’s Performance Project (Dmpp)
Center for the Arts Dance Studio Theatre Room 1003
Friday, May 7, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 8, 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
DMPP is an exciting evening of dance featuring the choreography of students in Towson University’s Dance B.F.A. program. The concert includes a variety of dance genres including ballet, modern and jazz.
Tickets: $10 general admission; $5 students and seniors
Sounds of the New Millennium
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Friday, May 7, 8:15 p.m.
The Towson University Percussion Ensemble performs contemporary percussion music written during the first decade of the new Millennium.
Tickets: $10 general admission; $7 seniors; $6 students 2nd Annual Towson Trombone Day
Saturday, May 8, 9 a.m. -.5 p.m.
Center for the Arts
The 2nd Annual Trombone Day at Towson will include master classes and performances with guest artists including Ron Barron, Steve Davis, The Washington Trombone Ensemble and Jim McFalls.
Trombonists and music lovers of all levels are encouraged to attend.
Sponsored by Buffet Crampon/Antoine Courtois Brass and the TU Bands. Exhibits by Edwards Instrument Co. and Buffet Crampon/Antoine Courtois. Contact nmannix@towson.edu for more information.
Tickets: $20
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