Jazz festival Sunday at Miami

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8:32 AM Friday, February 26, 2010

Jazz festival Sunday at Miami

The Miami University department of music hosts the 32nd annual Southwestern Ohio High School Jazz Festival on Sunday, Feb. 28, at Gates-Abbeglen Theatre, Center for Performing Arts.

High school jazz ensemble performances will be at 1 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. An evening concert featuring the Miami University Jazz Ensemble, directed by Jeremy Long, and guest artists and clinicians will be at  7:30 p.m.

All events are free and open to the public.

Sixteen high school jazz bands will perform and participate in jazz improvisation clinics led by Long, Jim Olcott, professor of trumpet, and Jaime Morales-Matos, associate professor of trombone.

Guest artists and clinicians are Steven Snyder, piano, associate professor of piano/music technology at Morehead State University; Michael Sharfe, bass, a founding and current member of the Blue Wisp Jazz Orchestra, the Psychoacoustic orchestra and Latin X-posure and plays with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra; and Jason Tiemann, freelance jazz drummer and applied drumset instructor at the University of Louisville, who has performed in jazz venues throughout the Midwest and East Coast, including at the Blue Note in New York City.

The festival is organized by Long and sponsored by the department of music.

For more information, contact the department at (513) 529-3014.

Miami professor talks at art museum

Stephen Lippmann, assistant professor of the department of sociology and gerontology at Miami University presents “Cultures of Consumption: from Hard Work to Hyper-Consumption” at the Miami University Art Museum at 10:10 a.m. Wednesday, March 3.

The free talk, which is open to the public, relates to the art museum 2010 exhibitions theme “Luxury, Consumption and Excess.”

Lippmann traces the ideological underpinnings of capitalism from its emergence, as considered by Max Weber in “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,” to the modern day. A major transition is characterized by the replacement of asceticism with hyper-consumption.

The Miami University Art Museum is located at 801 S. Patterson Ave.

For more information, call (513) 529-2232 or visit arts.muohio.edu/art- museum.

OxACT’s ‘Quake’ continues

Oxford Area Community Theater’s “Quake,” by Melanie Marnich, directed by Meggan Ratterman, continues at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday, Feb. 25-27, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28, at the Oxford Community Arts Center. Tickets, $10 senior/student and  $12 general, will be available at the door.

One-man  show coming  to the Knolls

David Kaplan, virtuoso juggler, magician, inventor, musician, deadpan physical comedian, will bring his one-man variety show to The Knolls of Oxford at 3 p.m. March 14. Cost is $5 per person.

For more information, call Vicky at (513) 524-7994.

Audition  for ‘Pirates  of Penzance’

Auditions for the Oxford Area Community Theater production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s musical “Pirates of Penzance” directed by Michael McVey, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 27 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28, at the Oxford Community Arts Center, at 10 S. College Ave.

“Pirates of Penzance” performance dates are April 22-25 and April 29-May 2. The production will be a platform reading, not an entire staged working of the musical.

Those interested in auditioning should be prepared to sing a song (no accompaniment provided).

For more information, contact Michael McVey at (513) 255-1386.

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