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EIGHT VISIONS: AN ALUMNI PAINTING EXHIBITION
Through Oct. 3, 2008: 12–4 p.m. Tuesday to Friday & 12–2 p.m. Saturday Main Art Gallery, CSUF Visual Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Featuring works by Karen Brown, Deborah Davidson, Jeff Gillette, David Michael Lee, Jim Lorigan, Ann Phong, Max Presneill and Emigdio Vasquez
ASPECT OF MEL'S HOLE - GROUP EXHIBITION Through Oct. 19, 2008: Tuesday to Sunday 11 a.m.–4 p.m. with extended hours Friday & Saturday to 7 p.m. Plus the “First Saturday” of each month galleries are open until 10 p.m. Project Room Gallery, Grand Central Art Center, 125 N. Broadway, Santa Ana • Map Free In 1997 radio host Art Bell first introduced his listeners to Mel Waters, a man from Eastern Washington who claimed to have discovered an ancient and apparently bottomless pit on his property. The story of the hole was remarkable enough, but the subsequent events took an almost surreal bent - Mel was threatened into silence by the US military, exiled into cushy Wombat Restoration service in Australia, and tipped off to a second bottomless pit in Nevada.
MC RAI 8 p.m. Friday, October 3, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $10 ($8 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW MC Rai presents his fusion of chaabi, rai and modern music, a melting pot in which ancient and modern instruments — bass, guitar and keyboards, modern hip-hop and rap production techniques, accordion, African harp, North African lute, oud, African percussion, Arabian percussion, and Gumbri—simmer into exotic, genuinely cross-cultural music. READ MORE
OUR TOWN October 3–19, 2008: 8 p.m. Oct. 3–4, 9–11 & 16-18; 2 p.m. Oct. 5, 11–12 & 18–19 Hallberg Theatre, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $10 ($9 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW The Pulitzer Prize-winning OUR TOWN played to sold-out audiences on Broadway by revealing the ordinary, poignant lives of the people of New Hampshire’s Grover’s Corners. Set at the turn of the 20th century, this endearing tale of romance, love, marriage and death reminds us of what makes small town America the heart of America. “A richly timeless commentary on nothing less than the tragicomedy of human existence...” San Francisco Chronicle. Directed by Dean Hess. MORE INFO
AN AFTERNOON OF ROMANTIC DUOS 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $20 ($15 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW Three award-winning university pianists — Alison Edwards, Eduardo Delgado & Mikhail Korzhev — offer an escape to the lush sounds of Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 1 Fantaisie-Tableaux, Carlos Guastavino’s Tres Romances Argentinas and Brahms’ Sonata in F Minor, Op.34A.
Guitar master class with Laurine PhÉlut 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008 PA-120, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $10 ($5 with advance Titan discount) – Purchase directly at Box Office
Jazz Ensembles I & II 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $10 ($8 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW An evening of Jazz with works from Mantooth and Foster, and arrangements by Bill Cunliffe. Charles Tumlinson & Bill Cunliffe, directors
LAURINE PHÉLUT, GUITAR 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $20 ($15 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW French guitarist Laurine Phélut has excited audiences in France, Switzerland, Spain and Greece with her “sensitivity, musical colors and interpretations” (El Levante, Spain). Her energetic and dynamic performances bring a fresh approach to the standards of the repertoire, which will include a program of works by Bach, Asencio, Turina and others.
DELGADO PIANO TRIO 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $20 ($15 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW Joining faculty pianist Eduardo Delgado, as members of the newly formed trio are violinist David Chernyavsky and cellist Serge Oskotsky, both members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and have performed throughout the world. READ MORE
LLOYD RODGERS GROUP 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008 Recital Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $10 ($8 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW This faculty artist brings his new music group to campus. READ MORE
SYMPHONIC WINDS & UNIVERSITY WIND SYMPHONY 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $10 ($8 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW These two top Wind Ensembles share this concert of works by composers such as Grainger, Reed, Holst and others. Marc R. Dickey & Mitchell Fennell, conductors.
AS YOU LIKE IT Oct. 17–Nov. 2, 2008: 8 p.m. Oct 17–18, 23– 25, & 29–30 & Nov. 1; 2 p.m. Oct. 19, 25–26 & Nov. 1–2 Young Theatre, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $10 ($9 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW Comic disguise and tangled love collide as we follow such immortal characters as Rosalind, Orlando, Touchstone and the melancholy Jaques. This is Shakespearean romantic comedy at its best (with a touch of music and treachery in the pastoral and sometimes magical Forest of Arden)! Directed by Kevin Slay. MORE INFO
triMOTIF WITH BILL CUNLIFFE TRIO 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $20 ($15 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW An ensemble with a penchant for tangents, Trimotif is composed of the flute, oboe and bassoon supported with the Bill Cunliffe Trio. Together they create a seamless fusion of classical music and jazz with improvisation as an integral part of their work. “Fascinating glimpse of the unusual” –
James Buswell, violin with the University Symphony Orchestra 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $25 ($20 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW Word acclaimed violinist James Buswell has been hailed for his ability to combine “muscle, mellowness and musicality” (Daily Telegraph). He’ll display his prowess with Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26, one of the most popular violin concertos for its broad range of emotions from Romantic lyricism to a smooth army-like march and fireworks-like ending! Kimo Furumoto, conductor.
TUESDAY RECITAL SERIES 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008 Recital Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Free
ENSEMBLES FROM ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 8 p.m. Friday, October 24, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $15 ($10 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW Two award-winning ensembles – the Ambassador Jazz Orchestra, Keith Fiddmont, director and the OCHSA Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Russell, conductor and CSUF alum — make their Meng Concert Hall debut in this special combined concert. The Orchestra will perform British music including Britten’s “Four Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes, Vaughan Williams’ The Wasps Overture and the Legend for Orchestra plus “Ave atque vale” by Havergal Brian. (This last piece was written in the early 70s but has never had a live performance until this month!). Toe-tapping jazz rhythms will complete this exciting performane.
NOISES OFF October 24–November 9, 2008: 8 p.m. Oct. 24–25, 29–30, Nov. 1, & 6–8; 2 p.m. Oct. 26, Nov. 1–2, & 8–9 Little Theatre, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $10 ($9 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW Revel in this riotous hit detailing the shenanigans of an acting company touring the English provinces with a dreadful sex farce entitled “Nothing On.” If you have ever wondered what’s happening on the other side of the curtain, you’ll delight in this play-within-a-play called the funniest farce ever written. “Noises Off” is the hilarious comedy that took London & New York stages by storm and prompted New York Magazine to call it "As side-splitting a farce as I have seen. Ever? Ever." Directed by Joseph Arnold.
Stan Breckenridge Jazz Piano/Vocals & Ensemble 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $20 ($15 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW Accompanied by his 11-piece ensemble, singer and pianist Breckenridge will perform original material selected from his CDs Expositions, Meditations, Solo, Live in Poland, This is My Song, plus several from his new Christmas CD – A Soulful Christmas. Proceeds will go towards a scholarship fund for students, majoring in Afro-Ethnic Studies at Cal State Fullerton, assisting then with traveling abroad to broaden their educational experience.
Jeffrey Swann, piano 4 p.m. Sunday, October 26, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $20 ($15 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW With a successful international performing career, Swann has performed more than 60 concertos with orchestras including Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, Rotterdam, the London Philharmonia and more, as well as solo works ranging from Bach to Boulez. He’s recorded on Ars Polona, Deutsche-Gramophone and Agorá among others earning rave reviews, and his Complete Beethoven Sonatas was chosen Best of the Year by Fanfare magazine.
Piano Duos with Alison Edwards & Bill Cunliffe 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $20 ($15 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW Edwards, winner of the Carmel Music Society Artists Competition, joins Grammy-nominated Cunliffe join for an evening of classical piano duos.
Liederabend with Michael SchÜtze, piano FROM SCHUBERT TO SONDHEIM 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008 Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton • Map Tickets: $20 ($15 with advance Titan discount) BUY NOW FROM SCHUBERT TO SONDHEIM: Guest pianist Michael Schütze (Dresden Conservatory, Tanglewood Music Center) returns for the annual Liederabend (Evening of Song). Schütze will prepare and accompany selected graduate voice students and instrumentalists in a showcase concert of lyrical songs, duets, and ensembles. Featured composers will include Franz Peter Schubert, the Austrian master of song and chamber music, and Stephen Sondheim, modern master of the American musical stage.
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