Month: November 2011
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Julljus: Christmas in Christ Chapel 2011
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The 39th annual Christmas in Christ Chapel celebration at Gustavus Adolphus College will be presented on December 2, 3 & 4, 2011. This year’s theme, commemorating the College’s 150th academic year and celebrating the institution’s Swedish immigrant heritage, is Julljus: Light from the Old World, Light to the New.
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Kimberly Braun ’11 Leads the Cast in “A Southern Exposure”
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Kimberly Braun, a 2011 theatre honors major from the Gustavus Department of Theatre and Dance, has landed the lead role of Callie Belle Hurt in Kelley Kingston-Strayer’s A Southern Exposure produced and presented at the Iowa Theatre Artists Company. The production opened on November 11 at the Iowa Theatre Artists Company and Performing Arts Center…
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Meffert-Nelson, Knoepfel & Hill in Minnesota Opera Premiere
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Gustavus Department of Music faculty Karrin Meffert-Nelson, Justin Knoepfel and Paul Hill were in the orchestra as the Minnesota Opera premiered Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s Silent Night to sold-out audiences at St. Paul’s Ordway Center on November 12 – 20. Called “dark and elegaic” by the Daily Planet, Silent Night is based on the…
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Hillstrom Museum of Arts Opens New Exhibitions November 21
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The Hillstrom Museum of Art will open three concurrent exhibitions on November 21, 2011: Familiar Names, Familiar Faces: Portraiture by Paul Granlund; Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art; and Selections from the Hillstrom Collection. An opening reception for these exhibits is scheduled on Monday, November 21 (7-9 p.m., with brief comments…
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Reyelts & Schmidt Recital Sunday
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Vocalists Erianna Reyelts and Maria Schmidt will open the student recital season at Gustavus with a joint recital on Sunday, November 20 in Jussi Björling Recital. Reyelts will be accompanied by pianist Ruth Webber and Schmidt by pianist Yanna Georgas. This joint student recital will begin at 1:30 p.m.
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Woodwind Chamber Concert at Gustavus Sunday
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Under the leadership of Karrin Meffert-Nelson, Ann Pesavento, James DeVoll and John Engebretson, six woodwind ensembles of the Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College will present their fall recital Sunday, November 20. This event includes performances by the The Gustavus Flute Choir, the Gustavus Saxophone Quartet, the Ignotum Nomen, the Gustie Winds, the Fyra…
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Gustavus Presents Choreographers’ Gallery This Weekend
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The Department of Theatre and Dance at Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to present the innovative, unique and eclectic Choreographers’ Gallery, November 17-20 on the Anderson Theatre stage. This production is directed by Melissa Rolnick and features the work of six talented student choreographers as well as Minneapolis choreographer, Jennifer Glaws. Performances will be presented…
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Performance Added for Five Times God
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The Department of Theatre and Dance at Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to present the Ethan Bjelland ’12 translation of Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Five Times God. Three performances of Bjelland’s senior honors project in translation and direction in the Black Box (November 11 & 12 at 7:00 p.m. and 13 at 2:00 p.m.)…
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MacCarthy Directs Opera Omaha’s Hansel & Gretel
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When Opera Omaha opens its new orchestration and production of Englebert Humperdinck’s grand opera, Hansel and Gretel, on November 11, 12, and 13 at the Rose Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, Gustavus Assistant Professor of Theatre/Dance Henry MacCarthy will be directing the performances.
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Jazz At Gustavus Saturday
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The Gustavus Jazz Lab Band and the Adolphus Jazz Ensemble, directed by Steve Wright, present their combined fall concert Saturday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday’s performance by the two jazz ensembles will be presented in Jussi Björling Recital Hall. The fall jazz concert at Gustavus is free and open to the public. The Adolphus…