The Pepperdine University Fine Arts Division announces several music and theatre department performances during the months of September through December 2009 as part of the University’s Mary Pickford-Stotsenberg Performances Series. Details below:
Paul Barnes, Piano
Guest Artist Recital
Barnes, a professor of piano at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will perform a program of works by Philip Glass, among others.
Friday, September 25, 7:30 p.m., Free
Raitt Recital Hall
Pepperdine University Orchestra Fall Concert
Tony Cason, Conductor
Featuring Pepperdine student soloists Austin Grant, guitar, in Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Guitar Concerto, and Blake Maso, horn, in Richard Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 2. The orchestra will also perform Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony.
Thursday, October 1, 7:30 p.m., Free
Smothers Theatre
Pepperdine Jazz Ensemble
Brian Scanlon, Conductor
Monday, November 23, 7:30 p.m., Free
Raitt Recital Hall
Christmas Concert
This popular concert will feature Randol Bass’ Gloria, the classic “Night Before Christmas,” and other favorites, performed by the Pepperdine choir and orchestra led by Milton Pullen and Tony Cason, respectively.
Thursday, December 3, 7:30 p.m., $10
Smothers Theatre
Pepperdine Chamber Ensembles
Sara Banta, Coordinator
This concert features chamber music repertoire performed by Pepperdine’s string, guitar, woodwind, brass, and percussion ensembles.
Friday, December 4, 6:30 p.m., Free
Raitt Recital Hall
The Theatre Department Series features all student casts
The Persians
By Aeschylus
Bradley Griffin, Director
The citizens of Persia await news of King Xerxes, who has led the Persian army into an ill-advised war. When at last the herald arrives, the news is not good. As the community grapples with the concept of defeat, their queen must prepare to welcome home her son, the disgraced king. Playwright/actor Ellen McLaughlin has adapted this oldest surviving Greek tragedy into a moving, poetic, and timely consideration of war, pride, and–ultimately–loss.
Tuesday-Friday, October 6-9, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 10, 2 and 7:30 p.m., $15
$10 for Pepperdine students; $12 for Pepperdine faculty and staff
Helen E. Lindhurst Theatre, no late seating allowed
Immediately following the Wednesday performance, a forum for discussion will take place.
Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A Musical Thriller
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Cathy Thomas-Grant, Director
With the Pepperdine University Orchestra, Tony Cason, Conductor
This heart-pounding musical masterpiece of tonsorial terror and culinary crime tells of a barber who returns to Victorian London seeking revenge against the corrupt judge who exiled him and ravished his young wife. When his thirst for blood expands to include his unfortunate customers, his resourceful neighbor downstairs soon has Londoners lining up in droves to sample her mysterious new meat pies!
Thursday-Saturday, November 12-14 and 19-21, 7:30 p.m.
Matinee: Sunday, November 15, 2 p.m. $20
$10 for Pepperdine students; $16 for Pepperdine faculty and staff
Smothers Theatre
For more information, call Pepperdine’s Box Office at (310) 506-4522 or visit http://arts.pepperdine.edu/. Tickets (other than those that are discounted or free) are also available through Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787.
Pepperdine University is located at 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90263
MUSIC
Free tickets to choir and orchestra concerts are available for Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff with ID.
