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Monday, September 14, 2009
Upcoming recitals at Miami University
Mari Opatz-Muni, mezzo-soprano and Brad Caldwell, piano, and Mary E.M. Harris, viola, will perform a recital with the COSMOS trio, 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, in Souers Recital Hall, Center for Performing Arts.
Members of COSMOS, a flute, harp and viola trio from Columbus, are Harris; Kathy Borst-Jones, flute; and Jeanne Norton, harp.
The program features commissioned works by Vera Stanojevic, including the world premiere of “Songs for voice, viola and piano;” and commissioned works by Libby Larsen, Stephen Paulus, Andrew Boysen and Stephen Main.
The recital is free and open to the public. For more information, call 529-3014.
Miami University faculty member, oboist Andrea Ridilla, above, will present a recital at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, in Souers Recital Hall, Center for Performing Arts. Also performing on the program are Randy Bowman, flute; Christin Schillinger, bassoon and Ron J. Matson, piano.
The program will feature Trio for Oboe, Flute and Piano by Madeline Dring, an Ohio premiere by Bill Douglas entitled Quartet for Oboe, Flute, Bassoon and Piano, and Concertante for Oboe, Flute and Piano by Ignaz Moscheles. In addition, Andrea Ridilla will play 2 USA premieres by Macedonian composer, Stojan Stojkov based on the horrors of war (Afghanistan and Iraq) on poetry of the Poet Laureate of Iowa.
Ridilla is Professor of Oboe at Miami University and the recipient multiple teaching awards including the Miami University Excellence in Teaching Award, the Alumni Enrichment Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, and the Miami University Star Award, for outstanding support of Miami students. She serves as principal oboist of the Middletown Symphony Symphony under Maestro Carmon DeLeone. She has performed solo recitals in addition to serving as concert soloist and chamber music musician both nationally and internationally.
Randy Bowman teaches flute at Miami University and also serves on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. He has served as principal flutist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 1990.
Christin Schillinger is Assistant Professor of Bassoon, joining the Miami music faculty in 2009. Active as an orchestral musician and soloist through the United States and Europe, she served as Principal Bassoonist with the Reno Chamber Orchestra, and Second Bassoon with both the Reno Philharmonic and the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria.
Pianist Ron J. Matson is the conductor of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Matson served on the faculty of Miami University for many years as director of the Choraliers and instructor of accompanying for the department of music.
The recital is free and open to the public. For more information, call 529-3014.
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‘Four Beers’ for $10 Wednesday at the Fitton Center; performances continue through Sept. 20
“Four Beers” by David Van Vleck: Preview 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16; performances 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17-20, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, 101 S. Monument Ave., Hamilton. $10 preview; $15 members/$17 non-members regular performances. (513) 863-8873.
The Mad Anthony Theatre Company, the resident theater company at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts, will revive one of its most popular shows this weekend with “Four Beers” by David Van Vleck.
The group was originally scheduled to begin this season with “The Real Inspector Hound,” but some casting issues forced artistic director Henry Cepluch to switch gears, and so he approached Rick Carson, who directed the original “Four Beers” five years ago, about a revival. Three of the original five cast members were able to reprise their roles.
The play concerns five middle aged men who meet every Monday evening at their neighborhood bar to watch the game of the week on TV. On this particular Monday, however, they arrive to discover that the TV is broken and they will have to talk to each other for the first time. The cast includes Dan Britt, Jim Ward, Tom Redman, Denny Thomas and Chris Kramer.
Carson said he first saw the play at Dayton’s Future Fest in 2001 and struck up a casual friendship with the playwright, who soon sent him a script and permission to perform it. Since the first Mad Anthony production, ‘Four Beers’ has also had an off-Broadway run.
“It’s a show that everyone can identify with,” Carson said. “Everyone is either a person up there on the stage or their husband, father, uncle, somebody they know is just like one of them.”
Even so, Carson said the characters are more realistic than allegorical. “The topics they talk about are topics that men really talk about,” he said. “Even though the show is set in the Reagan era, even some of the timelier topics are appropriate to today’s economy.”
That is, one character laid off from his job wonders if he’ll ever be able to return to work. Others contemplate the fact that the life course they set out for themselves 20 years ago hasn’t turned out as planned.
Even though it’s the same script and some of the same actors, the play has different coloring and nuance because of the difference, Carson said.
“Every actor brings something unique to the show and it’s interesting to see how the show slightly changes,” he said. “Even the actors who were in it before respond differently.”
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