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Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m; UP Orchestra Concert

November 17, 2014 By casdept2

orchestraThe University of Portland Orchestra will present “Airs, Fantasies and Diamonds: An evening of Symphonic String Music” on Saturday, November 22, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The concert is free and open to all.

As a prelude to their January 2015 tour, the orchestra will present an evening of varied music written for string orchestra. Selections will include Karl Jenkins “Palladio,” a portion of which was made famous in DeBeers diamond commercials; selections from Respighi’s “Ancient Airs and Dances,” Alan Hovhannes’ “Celestial Fantasy,” Eric Whitacre’s “October,” and Johann Stamitz’s “Mannheim Symphony.”

For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.

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Dec. 6, 2 p.m; The Slavic Concert, With The Wild Symphony & Special Guests Anastasia & Co.

November 16, 2014 By casdept2

music notesThe Wind Symphony is proud to present the American premiere of Boris Kozhevnikov’s First Symphony. This performance is presented as part of the Graves Award in the Humanities, won by Patrick Murphy to conduct research in Moscow and bring this composition to American audiences. In addition, junior oboist Janna Riley will solo with the band on Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Variations on a Theme of Glinka. The Wind Symphony also welcomes the Portland/Vancouver Russian community to this concert, and is pleased to share the stage with the Russian/English contemporary Christian band Ana Stasia & Co. Lead singer Anastasia Belonozhko is a former UP student, and she and her band have toured the United States and internationally. This concert is free, but tickets are required. Saturday, December 6 2 p.m., Buckley Center Auditorium

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Dec. 7, 3:00 p.m; Music For A Winter’s Afternoon

November 15, 2014 By casdept2

music treeThe University of Portland Presents Music For A Winter’s Afternoon on Sunday December 7th at 3:00 p.m. in Buckley Center Auditorium.  This performance will feature both Women’s Chorale and Wind Symphony and will be an event you will not want to miss

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“The West Behind Us” exhibit with photos by Bobby Abrahamson and interviews by Lisa Wells

October 8, 2014 By casdept2

CameraUniversity of Portland is hosting “The West Behind Us” exhibit with photos by Bobby Abrahamson and interviews by Lisa Wells through Friday, Oct. 17. The exhibit, in Buckley Center Gallery on campus, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., is free and open to the public. An artist’s reception will take place in the gallery from 5-7 on Friday, Oct. 10.

The exhibit documents four small rural towns in Oregon (Fields, Mitchell, Long Creek and Halfway) and investigates the challenges faced by rural communities in an age of increased urbanization and economic depression. In the tradition of WPA era collaborations like Walker Evans and James Agee’s “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” this exhibit combines black and white documentary photographs by Abrahamson with interviews and text by writer Wells to weave a lyrical narrative. The result is two independent, complementary visions of life in rural America on the cusp of the urban millennium.

Abrahamson is a Portland-based documentary photographer, filmmaker and media educator with 25 years experience producing documentary work. He has six published books of his work, and has been featured in 14 solo shows, and numerous group exhibits in the U.S. and Europe. His work is included in the permanent collections of many institutions including the Portland Art Museum, the RACC Portable Works and Visual Chronicle Collections of the city of Portland, the Oregon Jewish Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Abrahamson has taught photography and media literacy in the Portland metro area to both adults and children for the past nine years, at institutions including the University of Portland, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Mount Hood Community College, Clark College, Oregon College of Art and Craft, the Portland Art Museum, Newspace Center for Photography, Saturday Academy and Open Meadow Middle School.

Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.- 8 p.m., Saturday-Sunday 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. For more information contact the performing and fine arts department at (503) 943-7228 or pfa@up.edu.

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The 1940’s Radio Hour

October 2, 2014 By casdept2

comedydramaYou are cast as the live audience watching a live radio broadcast near Christmas time in 1942. The world is at war, but a small radio station in New York City is determined to bring some warmth and levity to your holiday season, and to the soldiers overseas. “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” are just two of the many American standards performed in this unique musical by Walton Jones. November 7-9, 13-15.  Performances at 7:30 p.m (2 p.m. Sunday), Mago Hunt Theater Tickets: $10/$5, Mago Hunt Box office, 503.943.7827

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Opera & Musical Theater Workshop Showcase

October 2, 2014 By casdept2

MusicThe Opera and Music Theater Workshop Showcase features student performances in a program entitled “Heart & Home.” Staged scenes from Bernstein’s Candide and On the Town, Sondheim’s A Little Night Music and Company, and Jake Heggie’s operatic adaptation of Dead Man Walking will be featured as well as songs from Wicked, The Wiz, and both the operatic and music theater adaptations of Little Women. Friday, October 31 and Saturday, November 1 7:30 p.m., Mago Hunt Recital Hall

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University Singers, Women’s Chorale Concert, Oct. 4

September 29, 2014 By casdept2

Choir ConcertUniversity Singers, Women’s Chorale Concert, Oct. 4: The University Singers and Women’s Chorale will open their new concert season on Saturday, October 4, at 3 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The concert is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. The University welcomes Kathryn Briggs as the new director of the Women’s Chorale with this all-choral program featuring American music, including works by Stephen Paulus, Portland’s own Joan Szymko, and honorary University of Portland alumnus Aaron Copland. For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.

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“Scenes and Revelations” Opens Oct. 1, Hunt Center Theater

September 29, 2014 By casdept2

scenes and revelations“Scenes and Revelations” Opens Oct. 1, Hunt Center Theater: The performing and fine arts department presents Elan Garonzik’s “Scenes and Revelations,” with performances on Wednesday, October 1 through Sunday, October 5, at 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. Sunday), in Mago Hunt Center Theater. In 1894, at the height of America’s westward movement, four Pennsylvania sisters must decide whether to forge ahead or to move in the opposite direction as they are haunted by their pasts and face uncertain futures. Faculty and staff can use season passes to reserve complimentary tickets, and students can reserve free tickets for the Wednesday or Thursday shows. Contact the Hunt Center box office at 7287 to reserve your seats, or visit the box office in the Hunt Center lobby from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.

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U.P. Music Dept. Graduate competed in the NATS Artist Competition

April 10, 2014 By casdept1

U.P. Music Dept. Graduate Eva Hortsch competed in the Oregon State round of the  NATS Artist Competition on March 8th.  This is a competition for classical singers who are emerging professionals. Eva was one of the winners of the Oregon division and moved on to a western regional division held in Seattle.  Eva currently studies with U.P Adjunct Voice Teacher and Portland Opera Chorus manager, Wade Baker, and will perform the recital she prepared for the competition in the Music at Midweek Concert Series on September 17th at 12:30 in the Mago Hunt Recital Hall.  Mark your calendars.
eva and wade

Dr. Nicole Leupp Hanig
Asst. Professor of Music
University of Portland

5000 N. Willamette Blvd.

Portland, OR 97203

phone: 503-943-7858

fax: 503-943-7805

hanign@up.edu

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Return of the poet: alum to read from published works, March 31st

March 27, 2014 By casdept1

LilahAuthorPhoto-300x251Spring time of most students’ senior year is filled with severe cases of senioritis, job hunting or receiving acceptance letters from graduate school. By the spring of UP alumna and poet Lilah Hegnauer’s senior year, she had published her first book of poetry.

Hegnauer will be reading her poetry at UP  March 31 at 7:30 p.m. in BC 163. The reading is in honor of her second book, “Pantry,” which was published in February of this year and has already won the Hub City Press New Southern Voices Poetry Award.

Hegnauer’s poetry career began in English professor Herman Asarnow’s poetry workshop class during her junior year. Her first book of poetry was published soon after, on the first of January her senior year. “Dark Under Kiganda Stars” was written as her honors senior thesis and reflected on her experience doing service work in Africa the previous summer. Her love of poetry has since taken her in a variety of directions after graduating in 2005 as an English major, from teaching poetry at several universities to living in the house of another well-known poet.

Her work has been widely recognized, having been published in journals such as Poetry Northwest and The Kenyon Review, but that’s not the reason she continues to write poetry.

“I think that people who write poetry write it because they cannot not write it,” Hegnauer said. “But by the same token, it’s very nice to be recognized for the thing that is your lifeblood, the actual reason for your existence.”

Her most recent book’s publication came after six months spent being paid to live and write in the home of American poet Amy Clampitt, who passed away in 1994, as part of the Amy Clampitt Poet Residency in Lenox, Mass.

“It was the most amazing blessing ever because, not only were (my husband, new baby and I) able to live off of my residency for those six months, but it was just amazing to live in Amy Clampitt’s house. Her entire library was intact, and every book she wrote, every book she read had marginalia in it,” Hegnauer said. “Her sofas, her blankets, her great aunt’s china … it was really amazing to just sort of step into her household.”

Asarnow became close friends with Hegnauer during her time at UP, as they would often spend hours discussing poetry for her senior thesis.  Her work at UP has come full circle, as Asarnow is currently teaching “Pantry” in his poetry workshop class. He said that one of the things that makes Hegnauer stand out as a poet is that her work is easily accessible and challenging all at the same time.

“Lilah’s a very powerful, risk-taking person,” Asarnow said. “She manages to use being absolutely present wherever the mind of the poem is, the mind of the speaker, and bringing together things you would never think of, to create this sense of being alive and of what it is to think through or feel through or live through various important things.”

Freshman English major Sara Coito is currently in the poetry workshop class, and agrees with Asarnow that the courage Hegnauer displays in her writing makes her especially unique. Additionally, Coito feels that she has somewhat of a special connection with Hegnauer, being that she’s in the same position Hegnauer was in several years ago.

“I think it’s really cool to see that (the students in the class) could be in (Hegnauer’s) position ten to fifteen years from now, which gives us something to look forward to,” Coito said. “I’m really looking forward to her reading… and to hearing how she perceives her own lines.”

Hegnauer, too, is looking forward to coming back to UP and reconnecting with the community and the students with whom she feels a close sense of identification. She’s also excited to enjoy some of the spring weather that, living in Boston, she’s not getting at home yet.

“I’ve been teaching at big state schools mostly, and their college experience is different than mine was (at UP),” Hegnauer said. “I’m excited to come back and feel that sense of recognition with the students there.”

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