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Fall Semester 2008
Below are some of the events we are planning for this year.
The Center Stage dates have not all been confirmed.
***Sign up for tickets and trips in the
HU231B (Ingram's office) except when directed otherwise.
*** Tickets may be picked up during the week of
the performance.
***BSO--The Meyerhoff is located at 1212 Cathedral Street. All
concerts start at 8:00 PM. except where noted. All BSO concerts have 18 tickets
available to students.
***Plays--Center Stage is at 700 North Calvert Street. Most plays
begin at 8:00 PM, but some begin at 7:00 PM. The plays have 20 tickets available to students.
Seniors: Plan ahead and make a note of the wine tasting in the spring in your
honor.
September
August
Thursday, 28 |
Freshmen Class
Student Honors Council will hold registration and orientation
for new Honors Students. Details to be sent to freshmen in
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September
Monday, 1 |
Freshman Class
Discussion of Odyssey and pizza dinner in the Common
area of Theology Department, 6:00-8:00 PM |
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Tuesday, 4 |
Classes begin
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Friday, 19 |
Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra -Holst's
The Planets
Marin Alsop, conductor
Evelyn Glennie, percussion
Women of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Tom Hall, director
Wagner -
Finale from Götterdämmerung ("Twilight of the Gods") from
The Ring Cycle
Daugherty -
UFO
Holst -
The Planets
8:00 Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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Monday, 22 |
Honors Program Dinner
Dress is jacket and tie for gentlemen,
comparable attire for ladies. This event is for the ENTIRE
PROGRAM: all students and faculty. The dinner will be McGuire
Hall at 6:00 pm. RSVPS are necessary.by September 12 |
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Wednesday, 24 |
Blackfriars Stage Company
The Comedy of Errors
McManus Theatre, 7:30
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Thursday, 25 |
Blackfriars Stage Company Hamlet
McManus Theatre, 7:30 |
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Friday, 26 |
Blackfriars Stage Company
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead
McManus Theatre, 7:30 |
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October
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Friday, 3 |
The Matchmaker
Thornton Wilder
Saucy widow Dolly Gallagher Levi makes a living fixing up lonely
hearts, but can she work the same magic for herself and
tight-fisted Horace Vandergelder? Maybe so, but it will take
wit, wisdom, and generous helpings of cash before young and old
alike can find their proper mates. Center Stage, 8:00 pm. |
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November
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Saturday, 1 |
Honors Trip to New York City; the MET
--Ancient and Renaissance Tours
Sign up by September 22 with Ingram. Further details
on where and when to sign up for the buses and tours will be
announced later. The freshmen are expected to attend the Ancient
tours, which will serve as part of their art colloquia.
Additional tours will view the Arms and Armor gallery and
possibly the Renaissance rooms and are for sophomores and upper
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Friday, 7 |
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra--Sybelius
Symphony No. 2
Leonard
Slatkin, conductor
Rossini -
The Thieving Magpie
Slatkin -
The Raven
Sibelius - Symphony No. 2
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 8:00
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Thursday, 13 |
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
? Edward Albee
What’s the antithesis of marital bliss? George and Martha know,
and they make sure their guests do too.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
Edward Albee’s black comedy of manners (and lack thereof),
crashes into our drawing room with all the alcohol, dirty
secrets, and compulsions two frustrated couples can muster. Make
sure you get ringside seats for this match—the gloves are coming
off, and there’s no referee.
Center Stage,
7:00 pm |
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December
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra--Handel’s Messiah
Edward Polochick, conductor
Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Chorale
Program
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Handel: Messiah
Award-winning conductor Edward Polochick has conducted Handel’s
Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for over 25 years.
Unlike most performances of the iconic choral repertoire, this
concert presents the complete Watson Shaw edition with Mr.
Polochick conducting the orchestra and choir from the
harpsichord, just as Handel did himself. Hailed by the Baltimore
Sun as “incisive” with his approach to Messiah “distinctive…some
of the most effective interpretive choices,” don’t miss this
opportunity to see Mr. Polochick lead a critically acclaimed
version of this holiday favorite.
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall at
7:30 PM |
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Honors Christmas Party
5:00-7:00 PM. Refectory & Hug Lounge |
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Spring Semester 2009
January
February
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Friday, 13 |
Fabulation, or The Re-education of Undine
Lynn Nottage
Fabulation, or The Re-education of Undine,
a century-later companion to
Intimate Apparel,
traces upwardly mobile Undine’s fall from grace and material
wealth as she learns to accept herself and her weaknesses after
moving back in with her family in the projects. Nottage’s
distinctive vision and talent for telling the truth with humor
illuminate this sassy comedy.
Meet the Actors for a talk back after the performance.
Center Stage 8:00 pm
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Friday, 20 |
Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra--Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony
Marin
Alsop, conductor
Ives -
The Unanswered Question
Mozart -
Symphony No. 29
Saint-Saëns -
Symphony No. 3, "Organ"Meyerhoff 8:00 pm
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March
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Wednesday, 11th |
Humanities Symposium Concert
DaCamera
Singers and Performers, Directed by Ernest Liotti
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Friday 13 |
Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra--Patti Austin: An Ella Fitzgerald Tribute
Stunning interpreter of song,
Patti Austin showcases the work of jazz icon Ella Fitzgerald.
Widely considered one of the most impressive singers of the
Great American Songbook, Ella Fitzgerald's successful musical
career spanned almost sixty years. This program features songs
from Austin's Grammy-nominated album, For Ella, including
the tribute piece "Hearing Ella Sing."
Meyerhoff 8:00 pm |
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Friday-Sunday, 20-22 |
American Shakespeare Center trip.
Numbers are limited. |
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Friday, 27 |
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
John Ford
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
is
a masterstroke of taboo, proof that the classics are classic for
a reason. This 17th-century revenge tragedy features a plot
redolent of
Romeo & Juliet,
with a twist of extra-forbidden love—the star-crossed lovers are
brother and sister. Irene Lewis directs this startling
combination of antique style, poetic grace, and too modern
bloodlust—a play unlike any we’ve tackled before.
Center Stage, 8:00 pm |
April
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Friday, 3 |
.Baltimore Symphony Orchestra--Mahler's
Sixth Symphony
Marin Alsop, conductor
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Bernstein -
Opening Prayer
Mahler -
Symphony No. 6, "Tragic"
Bernstein's Opening Prayer
was premiered for the 1986 reopening of Carnegie Hall. Here it
is aptly paired with the monumental, so-called "Tragic" Sixth
Symphony of his idol Gustav Mahler, composed ironically at an
exceptionally happy time in Mahler's life after his marriage to
Alma Schindler, and the birth of their second daughter.
Considered the composer's most personal and enigmatic work, it
is also reckoned by many to be one of his finest and the most
highly regarded by musicians themselves.
Meyerhoff, 8:00 pm
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Friday, 24 |
Stephen
Temperley
Souvenir
***This is a change in play
Hilariously funny and touchingly sincere,
Souvenir
is a fantasia
on the wonders of illusion and delusion, by playwright
Stephen Temperley.
The theatrical duet with music
follows the incredible-but-true story of
real-life Manhattan socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, as
told by her accompanist
Cosmé McMoon. Jenkins, an eccentric, self-styled
diva, won renown in the Thirties and Forties (and cult
status since) for sharing her singular genius in lavish
recitals—despite (or maybe because of) her astonishing lack
of any musical ability.
Broadway veteran Judy Kaye revives her Tony-nominated role
as the vocally challenged Jenkins, popularly known as “the
Dire Diva of Din.” Her extensive credits also include a Tony
Award for her portrayal of Carlotta in
The Phantom of the Opera,
and a Tony nomination for
Mama Mia! She is
joined once again by Donald Corren, who originated the role
of McMoon. He is a recipient of the Los Angeles and San
Francisco Drama Critics Circle Awards, and is a noted writer
and performer on stage, television, and as a cabaret
pianist.
Center Stage, 8:00 pm. |
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May
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Monday, 11 |
SeniorsWine Tasting
4th Floor Programming Space, 7:00-10:00 pm.
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