Nick Foti ’19 offers his selection of events and activities to check out this weekend. Explore upcoming events on the University Events Calendar by logging in with your University NetID.
#1: Celebrate opening of exhibit to honor local painter’s life, work
The Creative Workshop at the Memorial Art Gallery will celebrate the opening of an exhibit honoring the work of the museum’s workshop instructor Dick Kane on Thursday, April 19. Kane, a prolific painter of nature and life, is a longtime exhibitor at the Clothesline Festival, where he is a past Merit Award winner. The exhibit showcases his oil paintings along with the work of his students, and it will be on view in the Lucy Burne Gallery through May 11. The reception is free and will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
#2: Hear classical works by Brahms and Faure at Strong Auditorium
The Department of Music will host two concerts this weekend. The Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Singers will give a performance on Friday, April 20. The concert begins at 8 p.m. In commemoration of the centennial of the death of Claude Debussy, the Chamber Orchestra will perform “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune” (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun). Talia Chen ‘20, a winner of the 2017 River Campus Concert Competition, will be guest soloist on C.T. Griffes’ “Poem for Flute and Orchestra.” The Chamber Singers will perform selected “Liebeslieder Walzer (Lovesong Waltzs) by Johannes Brahms and both ensembles will present Garbriel Faure’s “Requiem.” The Wind Symphony, which is conducted by Bill Tiberio, will give a performance at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 22. The ensemble will present several pieces, both contemporary and classical, including “Mars” from Gustav Holst’s “The Planets,” featuring guest conductor Greg Savich. Both concerts will be held at the Strong Auditorium and are free and open to the public.
#3: Watch students, faculty present dance performances
Students and faculty of the Program of Dance and Movement will present “S.E.E.D.: Spring Explorations and Experimental Dances” on Friday, April 20, and Saturday, April 21. The formal choreography concert includes performances by Bethany Gardner ‘18, Emily Martell ‘19, Rebecca Lawrence ‘19, Remiah Sundine ‘21, Erin Dong ‘18, Sarah Elderkin ‘18, Hannah Zhang ’18, guest artist Natalia Lisina, and faculty Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, Missy Pfohl Smith, and Roy Wood. The performances begin at 8 p.m. on Friday and 2 p.m., Saturday at the Spurrier Dance Studio on the River Campus. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door.
#4: Listen to the sounds of choral music at Eastman
The Eastman School of Music’s Repertory Singers and Women’s Chorus will give a performance on Friday, April 20. The Repertory Singers is a mixed 60-voice chorus of Eastman students presenting frequent performances under the director of graduate students in conducting, in styles ranging from Renaissance madrigals and motets to premiers of contemporary choral works. The Women’s Chorus is a select ensemble made up of Eastman music majors and women in other majors throughout the University. The program includes Giacomo Puccini’s “Humming Chorus” from Madama Butterfly; Stephen Hatfield’s “La Lluvia,” Antonin Dvořák’s “Song of Survivial,” and Heinrich Shutz work “An den Wassern zu Babel.“ The ensembles are conducted by Philip Silvey, Okawa Tan, and Joe Taff. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School. The concert is free and open to the public.
#5: Be inspired at TEDXUniversityofRochester
The 2018 TEDxUniversityofRochester is Sunday, April 22. The student-run and independently organized TED event will feature entrepreneurs, CEOs, and innovators for a day of thought-provoking questions and ideas under the theme “Making Waves: What Happens When We Rock the Boat?” Speakers include Luke Wood, president of Beats by Dr. Dre; Ranveer Chandra, principal researcher at Microsoft’s FarmBeats Project; Tyler Socash ’09, ‘15W (MS), activist at Adirondack Wilderness Advocates; Lee Feinberg, Optical Telescope Element manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA; and Rebecca Cokley, senior fellow for disability policy at the Center for American Progress. The TED talks will take place in the Feldman Ballroom in Douglass Commons. Seating is limited. Tickets are required and are $15 for faculty, staff, and the general public. Order tickets online.