This annual event, directed by Thornton faculty member Donald Crockett, features new works by Thornton composition students.

Larry Livingston, music director, USC Thornton orchestras
Sharon Lavery, resident conductor
Donald Crockett, guest conductor

Elbert Liu: Argosy
Francis Kayali: Astronomies of the Mind
Sarah Gibson: And It's Spring When the World Is Puddle-Wonderful, Concerto for Left-Hand Piano and Chamber Orchestra
Zhou Tian: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Isaac Schankler: SPLI NTE RI NG

Thursday 02/11/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the Thornton School’s Early Music program, the performance will explore the texts of the Canticum Canticorum. The beautifully sensual texts were often set to music in the 17th century, both inside and outside the convent walls. The nuns, eternally married to Christ with or without their consent, identified strongly with the florid imagery of the bride and her beloved.

Friday 02/12/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus United University Church (UMC)

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A concert pairs Thornton faculty violinist Henry Gronnier with guest artist pianist Rina Dokshitsky.

The program will include Mozart's Sonata in B-flat Major, KV 454; Beethoven's Sonata in G Major, Op. 96; and Paderewski's Sonata in A Minor, Op. 13.

Henry Gronnier is a founding member of the Rossetti String Quartet. As a soloist, he has performed worldwide in recital, including at Carnegie's Weill Hall and at Wigmore Hall in London. He has performed at many of the leading international music festivals as an orchestral soloist and as a collaborator in chamber music ensembles, including Spoleto (Italy and Charleston), Festival Mediterranean and Zino Francescatti Festival in France, and San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.

Born in Saint-Quentin, France, Gronnier began his musical studies at the Conservatoire in Saint-Quentin, where he was awarded a Premier Prix in both violin and piano. He later studied with Madeleine Thuillier-Deverge at the Conservatoire National de Region de Versailles, where he received a Gold Medal. He continued his studies with Michele Auclair at the Conservatoire National in Paris and was awarded a full scholarship to Tulsa University, where he became a student of the renowned French violinist Nell Gotkovsky.

Friday 02/12/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The Thornton Wind Ensemble performs two works by Dzubay — Fanfare for Ray and Shadow Dances — and Daugherty’s Red Cape Tango.

Also on the program are works by two Thornton faculty members: Frank Ticheli’s Angels in the Architecture and Bob Mintzer’s Go.

Sunday 02/14/2010: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Tuesday 02/16/2010: 5:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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A riveting documentary examining masculinity, sexism and homophobia in hip-hop culture.

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premiered on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens in 2007. Delivering a self-described “loving critique” of rap music, director Byron Hurt — a star quarterback in college, longtime hip-hop fan, and now a gender violence prevention educator — pays tribute to the power and creativity of hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive stereotypes of manhood in general and perpetuating negative myths about African American males in particular.

Critically acclaimed for its fearless engagement with issues of race and racism, gender violence, and the corporate exploitation of youth culture, this prophetic film is as entertaining as it is educational, as bold as the bravado it exposes.

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, produced and directed by Byron Hurt, is a co-production of God Bless the Child Productions Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC). It was executive produced by Stanley Nelson and Sally Jo Fifer, and co-produced and edited by Sabrina Schmidt Gordon.

The LGBT Resource Center and Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs are proud to sponsor this screening. For more information, email lgbt@usc.edu or visit www.usc.edu/lgbt or www.usc.edu/cbcsa.

Tuesday 02/16/2010: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240

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Wednesday 02/17/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The recital will feature selections from the Magelone song cycle by Johannes Brahms, three songs by Francis Poulenc, Ten Blake Songs for voice and oboe by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and three songs each by John Musto and Ricky Ian Gordon.   

Jonathan Mack, lecturer in vocal arts, earned degrees in French horn and voice at the Thornton School. His career as a lyric tenor has taken him throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia, as a recital, concert and opera singer. He was the leading lyric tenor for the opera houses of Kiel and Dortmund in Germany for four years. Now in his 13th season with the Los Angeles Opera, Mack has performed more than 30 roles. He has also appeared with the Netherlands, Utah, Vancouver and Columbus opera companies. Mack has performed solo recitals throughout the country under the auspices of the National Federation of Music Clubs and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. His concert work includes engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Chautauqua Festival, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra. He is featured as soloist on several recordings — most recently on John Biggs’ Songs of Laughter, Love and Tears (Crystal CDs). Mack can also be heard on the soundtracks of numerous films, including Jurassic Park, Amistad, Anastasia and Men in Black.

Friday 02/19/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The High School Choral Invitational begins at 10 a.m., and the Community College Chamber Choir Festival follows at 6 p.m.

Saturday 02/20/2010: All day

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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A native of Illinois, Bird is an accomplished singer-songwriter, violinist and guitarist also known for his other signature talents, from whistling to playing glockenspiel.

He’s what every independent music artist strives to be — a musician with a truly unique sound who has earned the enthusiasm and respect of each fan one at a time.

Trained by the Suzuki method from a young age, Bird released his first solo album, Music of Hair, in 1996. In the midst of the swing craze that swept the U.S. music industry in the mid-1990s, Bird began doing collaborative work with the band Squirrel Nut Zippers. He then took on the role of band leader in 1997 with his group Bowl of Fire, which released three albums — Thrills, Oh! The Grandeur and The Swimming Hour — before it disbanded in 2003.

Bird’s early work, which echoed gypsy jazz, blues, swing and traditional folk, has led to his current sound, which mixes rock with more broad compositions. Bird released two solo albums, Weather Systems (2003) and The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005), both distributed through the label Righteous Babe Records. He switched to Fat Possum for 2007’s Armchair Apocrypha and 2009’s Noble Beast.

Bird has performed in a variety of venues, from major music festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo to barns, churches and grand theaters. USC Spectrum welcomes Andrew Bird for his first performance at USC’s Bovard Auditorium.

Saturday 02/20/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Music from Thornton faculty members Veronika Krausas, Kristy Morrell (French horn) and Dennis Trembly (bass).

The performance will feature writer André Alexis, actor John Payne, dancers Bianca Sapetto and Daniel Passer, and the photos of James Jacobsen and Thaddeus Holownia. Also featured will be Thornton School D.M.A. students Debra Penberthy (voice), Nick Terry (percussion) and Laura Odegaard (clarinet).
 
Veronika Krausas’ works have been described as possessing an “organic, lyrical sense of storytelling [which is] supported by a rigid formal elegance [that] give her audiences a sense that nature’s frozen objects are springing to life” (The Globe and Mail, Canada).

Sunday 02/21/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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In a phenomenal show, America’s most acclaimed tap dancer reveals the essence of tap.

The trailblazing Savion Glover will present Bare Soundz, “a remarkable explosion of steel on wood” (The Washington Post). Glover and two additional dancers perform without musical accompaniment; the dancers themselves become the musicians, creating a thrilling and hard-hitting performance of music through dance.

Savion Glover is a Tony-winning winner, hoofer, choreographer and producer who has danced on stages throughout the world. His numerous credits include the Broadway shows The Tap Dance Kid; Black and Blue; Jelly’s Last Jam; and Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk, and the films Tap with Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr.; Bamboozled by Spike Lee; and Happy Feet, an Academy Award winner choreographed by Glover.

Tuesday 02/23/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Tuesday 02/23/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Wednesday 02/24/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Dr. Gloria Arjona leads a discussion on the Mexican Revolution and its impact on Mexican society today.

Dr. Gloria Arjona of the USC College exposes the causes of the Mexican Revolution, the active participation of women soldiers, and the impact of this conflict on the Mexican society.

The lecture will be interspersed with some corridos (revolutionary ballads).

Gloria Arjona received her Ph.D. on Mexican Literature at USC.

In celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and the bicentennial of Mexican Independence, the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the USC Libraries’ Beockmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies present the work of two major contemporary Mexican Artists: Marta Palau and Demian Flores.

Marta Palau, born 1934, fled Spain at age six as a result of the Spanish Civil War. She and her family found refuge in Mexico. The series of prints that will be presented, Homenaje Artistico a Lazaro Cardenas (Artistic Homage to Lazaro Cardenas) is Palau’s personal homage to Mexican President General Lazaro Cardenes, who granted refuge to thousands of exiles fleeing Spain.

Demian Flores, born 1971, examines in his work the confluence of contemporary and ancestral themes in Mexican identity. His paintings and prints comprise multilayered webs of meaning, exploring sociocultural phenomena.

Thursday 02/25/2010: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art

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Lester Barrie will serve as host.

Sunday 02/28/2010: 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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Arnay is an active and highly regarded pianist, composer, music teacher and consultant in the Los Angeles area. A member of the jazz studies faculty at the USC Thornton School and Pasadena City College, he devotes most weekday hours to his students, while performing several nights each week leading his own jazz group, as soloist, or as sideman with guitarist Phil Upchurch, reedman Bennie Maupin and others.

Sunday 02/28/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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In particular, they will draw on the American and European landscapes currently being exhibited.

Eva Beneke was born in Berlin, Germany, where she took her first guitar lesson at the age of nine and also started learning the piano. At age 14, she founded a pop/jazz band with her friends that remained active for six years. Beneke has won numerous prizes, including first prize at the International Guitar Festival “Chittarrissima” in Saluzzo, Italy; and second prize at the International Guitar Competition in Zwolle, The Netherlands. in 2008, she was a finalist in the International Guitar Competition in Culiacan, Mexico, and winner of the Donald Miller Concerto Competition in Los Angeles.

Jane Grothe was born in Berlin. At the age of 10, she was enrolled in the Julius-Stern-Institute for gifted young students at the University of Arts, Berlin. Later she attended the Academy of Music “Hans Eisler” Berlin. She received her master’s degree from the California Institute of the Arts in 2006. Grothe is currently a doctorate candidate and teaching assistant at USC. She has received many scholarships and prizes and has worked with several celebrated musicians on stages worldwide.

Wednesday 03/03/2010: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art (HAR)

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Gritty short films, music videos and docs from Kourtrajmé Productions, a Paris-based collective of emerging visual artists, filmmakers, actors and musicians.

“Beautiful women, ugly illegal immigrants, Romanian sneaker pimps, coked-up fashion babes, down-and-out thugs eating shish kebab at 3 a.m. Welcome to our Paris.” — Kourtrajmé Productions, as quoted in Anthem magazine

Kourtrajmé Productions is a collective of emerging French and Francophone visual artists, filmmakers, actors and musicians. The brainchild of internationally acclaimed directors Mathieu Kassovitz and Vincent Cassel, this production house and artist collective has garnered increasing attention and acclaim after getting millions of hits on online sites like Dailymotion and YouTube. Founded by Kim Chapiron, Romain Gavras and Toumani Sangaré, Kourtrajmé produces playful innovations and cutting interventions in popular culture and society that represent the cultural dreams, lives and crises of transnational urban and peri-urban French youth today.

This is a chance to explore the short films, music videos and documentaries that represent what legendary French filmmaker Chris Marker calls a “nouvelle nouvelle vague” of French cinema. Directors from the collective, including Ladj Ly and Toumani Sangaré, will be on hand to answer questions and discuss the group’s history and work.

Organized by Edwin Hill (French and Comparative Literature). Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and French Cultural Services, Los Angeles.

Friday 03/05/2010: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus School of Cinematic Arts, Room 108

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The Thornton Baroque Sinfonia presents a concert of sacred music by Ludiwg Senfl, Heinrich Schutz, Johann Vierdanck and Hermann Schein.

Also included are Virtuoso Fireworks for viola d’amore by Heinrich Biber, and Georg Philipp Telemann’s Wassermusik, “Hamburger Ebb und Flut”.

Music director: Adam Gilbert

Friday 03/05/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The recitals will take place at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Sunday 03/07/2010: All day

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Wednesday 03/10/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Roland and Almita Vamos are among the leading viola and violin teachers in the world. Their students have become prominent soloists, members of world renowned chamber groups and orchestras, and laureates of prestigious international competitions. The Vamoses have been recognized at the White House numerous times and were named Distinguished Teachers by the National Endowment for the Arts. They have been honored by the American String Teachers Association with the Distinguished Service Award, and showcased on CBS’ Sunday Morning News.

Monday 03/22/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Roland and Almita Vamos are among the leading viola and violin teachers in the world. Their students have become prominent soloists, members of world renowned chamber groups and orchestras, and laureates of prestigious international competitions. The Vamoses have been recognized at the White House numerous times and were named Distinguished Teachers by the National Endowment for the Arts. They have been honored by the American String Teachers Association with the Distinguished Service Award, and showcased on CBS’ Sunday Morning News.

Tuesday 03/23/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Jeanette MacDonald Recital Hall

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Seilaff will perform Debussy’s Première Rapsodie with principal conductor Carl St. Clair. Also on the program is music by Ravel and Tchaikovsky.

Larry Livingston, music director, USC Thornton orchestras
Sharon Lavery, resident conductor
Carl St. Clair, principal conductor
Sonia Sielaff, clarinet

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Debussy: Première Rapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48

Thursday 03/25/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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A satellite broadcast of The Metropolitan Opera’s unforgettable new production of Hamlet, starring Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay.

This event is part of an ongoing series of broadcasts presented in spectacular HD digital projection and 5.1 surround sound.

Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.

Conducted by Louis Langrée. Presented in French with English subtitles.

The opera will be preceded by a discussion hosted by the USC Thornton School of Music.

The opera is presented as a rebroadcast of a live performance taking place at The Metropolitan Opera in New York at 10 a.m. that day.

Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts in association with The Metropolitan Opera.

Saturday 03/27/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre Frank Sinatra Hall

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The performers will include USC faculty, students and selected guest artists.

Saturday 03/27/2010: 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The Thornton Wind Ensemble performs Copeland’s Fanfare, Salfelder’s Cathedrals, Kramer’s Mimetic Variations and other works.

The program will include Thornton faculty member Jim Self’s Tour de Force and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, featuring faculty pianist Kevin Fitz-Gerald.
 
H. Robert Reynolds, principal conductor
Sharon Lavery, resident conductor
Kevin Fitz-Gerald, piano

Sunday 03/28/2010: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Wednesday 03/31/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Dean Ernest Wilson talks with Josh Kun, Annenberg professor and director of the Popular Music Project at the Norman Lear Center.

We’ll hear about Kun’s research on the Regional Mexican music scene in California and what the songs of artists like Los Tigres del Norte and Joan Sebastian tell us about issues of immigration, cultural identity, transnational media and U.S.-Mexico border politics.

RSVP is requested. To RSVP, click here.

The USC Annenberg School’s Dean’s Series on Sustainable Innovation hosts leading innovators and scholars for an ongoing dialogue on the communication challenges of individual, organizational and societal responses to the fast-changing technological transition toward a post-industrial networked society. For a full list of events and to RSVP, visit annenberg.usc.edu/innovation.

Thursday 04/01/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) Room 207

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USC students visit the Ahmanson Theatre to see Dreamgirls, a powerful story of heartbreak and success in show business.

This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited, and advance registration is required. Due to high demand, tickets will be distributed on a lottery basis. Check-in for the event will begin at 5:30 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 6:15 a.m. and will return to campus at 11:15 p.m.

Dinner will be provided.

The dynamic production Dreamgirls has won six Tonys, two Oscars and two Grammys since its Broadway premiere in 1981. Drawing inspiration from such R&B acts as The Supremes and James Brown, the show follows the tumultuous career of Motown girl group The Dreamettes as it climbs to the top of the charts, revealing the triumphs and tribulations that come with fame and fortune. This revival of the show, launched at Harlem’s Apollo Theater in November 2009, will include new costumes, innovative set design, and new and revised songs.

Friday 04/02/2010: 6:15 PM - 11:15 PM

Ahmanson Theatre 135 North Grand Avenue Los Angeles CA 90012

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David Allen Moore, adjunct assistant professor and member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, graduated from USC in 1993, where he studied with Dennis Trembly, Paul Ellison and John Clayton. Moore continued his studies in Boston, working privately with Edwin Barker. From 1996 through 1999, he was a member of the Houston Symphony bass section under maestro Christoph Eschenbach.

Friday 04/02/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The recital will feature a new work from Bill Douglas co-commissioned by the group, and a sneak preview of Tomas Svoboda’s Trio for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon, before its official premiere in August 2010 at the National Flute Association convention in Anaheim.

Saturday 04/03/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Erik Forrester, director

Monday 04/05/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Hope has toured the world as a virtuoso soloist for many years, and has been the youngest-ever member of the Beaux Arts Trio during its last six seasons. He is renowned for his musical versatility and creativity, and for his dedication to humanitarian causes. Hope performs as soloist with the world’s major orchestras and conductors, directs many ensembles, and plays chamber music in a wide variety of traditional and new venues. Born in South Africa and raised and educated in England, Hope earned degrees at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with renowned Russian pedagogue Zakhar Bron.

Tuesday 04/06/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Marshaling the gifts of three student soloists, Thornton faculty member Lucinda Carver conducts the USC Thornton Symphony.

The annual Concerto Night concert features three great standards of the solo repertoire: Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Walton’s Cello Concerto and Koetsier’s Concertino for Tuba and Strings.

Larry Livingston, music director, USC Thornton orchestras
Sharon Lavery, resident conductor
Lucinda Carver, conductor
Ying Huang, piano
Peter Myers, cello
Zee-Woong Munn, tuba

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 83 (first and second movements)
Walton: Cello Concerto (first and second movements)
Koetsier: Concertino for Tuba and Strings, Op. 77

Thursday 04/08/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Saturday 04/10/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Magen Solomon leads the Thornton Concert Choir in works by Monteverdi, Brahms, Lechner, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Hopkins and Schütz.

Magen Solomon, conductor

Sunday 04/11/2010: 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Romero is celebrated internationally for his thrilling interpretations and flawless technique.

Dates: 04/12/2010, 04/13/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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A dynamic multimedia presentation explores the exciting possibilities for using art and technology to explore humanity and create community.

The extraordinary work of internationally acclaimed electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is engaging, provocative and beautiful. Born in Mexico City and currently living in Montreal, Lozano-Hemmer develops large-scale interactive installations in public space, usually deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces. Using robotics, projections, sound, Internet and cell phone links, sensors and other devices, his installations aim to provide, in his words, “temporary anti-monuments for alien agency.” His kinetic sculpture, responsive environments, video installations and photography have been shown in more than 30 countries, and his work has been commissioned for such events as the United Nations’ World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the celebration of the expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the 40th anniversary of the Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City (2008), and the Vancouver Olympics (2010).

In this multimedia event, Lozano-Hemmer will discuss his award-winning work.

A reception will follow.

Organized by Visions and Voices. Co-sponsored by the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.

Wednesday 04/14/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Scholars, musicians and musicologists describe how Wagner's Ring Cycle influences the way we think, feel and imagine the 21st century world.

How have The Ring themes and symbols permeated literature, philosophy, psychology, and even movies and cartoons? In collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences presents a panel that will take on the idea of the hero, violence and the cult of masculinity, "the mythic," the development of fascist theories (and governments), the power of the unconscious, the allure of death, and the mob.

No singing required. Mind-opening insights guaranteed.

Moderator

• James R. Kincaid, USC Aerol Arnold Professor of English

Speakers

• Leo B. Braudy, University Professor, Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, professor of English
• Roberto Ignacio Diáz, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature
• John P. Nuckols, vice president, Advancement, L.A. Opera
• John Carlos Rowe, USC Associates Chair in Humanities, professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity
  

Registration will open in Spring 2010.

Thursday 04/15/2010: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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USC students attend the first production in the Western hemisphere of an opera by Franz Schreker, whose career was suppressed in Nazi Germany.

This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited, and advance registration is required. RSVP beginning Thursday, March 25, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 11:30 a.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 12:15 p.m. and will return to campus at 6:15 p.m.

Lunch will be provided.

The groundbreaking Recovered Voices project, led by L.A. Opera music director James Conlon, unearths and features works unheard since their suppression by Nazi Germany. Franz Schreker, creator of The Stigmatized, was a well known and respected composer throughout Germany before National Socialist pressure ended his career. The story of this late-Romantic tragedy follows Alviano, deformed but possessing a beautiful soul; beautiful Carlotta, whom he loves; and handsome but predatory Tamare, who offers Carlotta the possibility of a more perilous affair.

Prior to the opera, James Conlon will present a preshow lecture.

Sunday 04/18/2010: 12:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 North Grand Avenue Los Angeles CA 90012

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Sunday 04/18/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Preeminent conductor James Conlon explores Wagner’s controversial personality in relation to bigotry, racism and prejudice.

James Conlon, the music director of L.A. Opera, will look at these issues as they relate to Wagner’s time and ours. The event will be presented in conjunction with the USC Thornton production of the Wagner opera Das Liebesverbot.

James Conlon has cultivated a vast symphonic, operatic and choral repertoire and has developed enduring relationships with the world’s most prestigious symphony orchestras and opera houses. Since his New York Philharmonic debut in 1974, Conlon has appeared as a guest conductor with virtually every major North American and European orchestra and has frequently been a guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. In addition to serving as the music director of L.A. Opera, he is the music director of the Ravinia Festival (the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and the Cincinnati May Festival.

In an effort to raise awareness of the significance of works of composers whose lives and compositions were suppressed by the Nazi regime, Conlon has also been devoted to extensive programming of this music in North America and Europe. At both the Ravinia Festival and the L.A. Opera, he continues to program works by these composers, including Alexander von Zemlinsky, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas, Kurt Weill, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Erwin Schulhoff and Ernest Krenek.

In 2009, Conlon won two Grammy Awards (Best Classical Recording and Best Opera Album) for conducting L.A. Opera’s production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. During the 2009–10 season at the L.A. Opera, Mr. Conlon will conduct Wagner’s Ring cycle, beginning this season with the first two installments of the cycle, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. It will be Conlon’s first time conducting this work in the United States.

Tuesday 04/20/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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Tuesday 04/20/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The talented students of the Thornton Opera Program and the Thornton Chamber Orchestra present their spring production.

Presented as part of Ring Festival L.A., a citywide cultural festival celebrating the first-ever presentation in Los Angeles of the four-opera drama The Ring of the Nibelung.
   
April 21, 6 p.m.
Pre-concert talk with Ken Cazan, conductor, and James Kincaid, resident stage director

April 21 and 23, 8 p.m.
April 25, 2 p.m.
Performances

Join us for a fun, funny, sexy, colorful and bright evening of Italian opera. Wagner’s second opera, Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love), is based on Shakespeare’s thoughtful comedy Measure for Measure.

The West Coast premiere of Das Liebesverbot will be set in 1930s Sicily as a desperately needed Depression era party. Friedrich, the German interim governor of Palermo, has declared a ban on lovemaking, under penalty of death. As if that weren’t bad enough, it is Carnival, the wild, anything goes time of year in Italy! The young, upper class Claudio is the first to suffer under love’s ban, sentenced to death for getting his lover, Julia, pregnant. His sister, Isabella, leaves her life in the convent to try to persuade the adamant Friedrich to forgive her brother and repeal the love law. Isabella cleverly traps Friedrich in his own snare, and all ends up happily as the Italians resume their pre-Lenten festivities.
 
The April 21 performance is presented by Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative. USC students, staff and faculty can reserve tickets through Visions and Voices by clicking here. For all performances, general public tickets will be available for purchase at the USC Ticket Office. To purchase tickets, go to www.usc.edu/tickets or call (213) 740-4672.

Daily: Wednesday 04/21/2010 - Sunday 04/25/2010; All day

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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Wednesday 04/21/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Soprano Christina Linhardt joins composer William Roper and his band in solo chamber works inspired by his stay in Bavaria and the music of Richard Wagner.

The evening will feature several unusual instruments associated with the era and motifs of Wagner’s Ring, including the Wagner tuba, the helicon, the cimbasso, the harp and the saxhorn.

Thursday 04/22/2010: 7:30 PM

Goethe Institut 5750 Wilshire Boulevard, No. 100 Los Angeles CA 90036

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David Schweizer directs a darkly satiric musical based on Melville’s last novel, The Confidence-Man.

The richly imaginative work of the great American novelist Herman Melville has inspired numerous contemporary adaptations, from the opera of Benjamin Britten to the performance art of Laurie Anderson. At this event, USC students will perform a work-in-progress by USC professor Joseph Boone and composer Benjamin Boone, based on Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. This tale unfolds on a Mississippi riverboat on All Fools’ Day, just before the War Between the States threatens to explode and expose the empty promises that lie at the heart of the American Dream.

The play will be directed by David Schweizer, who has won widespread acclaim for his productions in New York City and Los Angeles.

Organized by Joseph Boone (English)

Related Event
September 10-11, 7 p.m. And God Created Great Whales. Rinde Eckert reprises his 2000 Obie Award–winning performance as a monomaniacal composer desperately attempting to complete an opera based on Melville’s Moby-Dick.

Friday 04/23/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Village Gate Theatre

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Saturday 04/24/2010: 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Saturday 04/24/2010: 7:30 PM

St. John's Episcopal Cathedral 514 West Adams Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90007

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Daily: Monday 04/26/2010 - Wednesday 04/28/2010; 5:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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An exciting evening of dance by the award-winning School of Theatre Repertory Dance Company.

Artistic Advisor: Miranda Garrison

Performance Times:

Thursday, April 29 at 7:00 PM
Friday, April 30 at 7:00 PM
 

Daily: Thursday 04/29/2010 - Friday 04/30/2010; 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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The Thornton Baroque Sinfonia performs divinely with members of Musica Angelica.

This concert, led by Music Director Adam Gilbert, is jointly sponsored by The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

Thursday 04/29/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Friday 04/30/2010: 10:00 AM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The Thornton Chamber Singers perform Tarik O’Regan’s Ecstasies Above, Badings’ Trois Chansons Bretonnes, and music by Brahms, Des Pres and Jannequin.

Jo-Michael Scheibe, music director

Friday 04/30/2010: 7:30 PM

St. John's Episcopal Cathedral 514 West Adams Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90007

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Join USC’s Max Kade Institute for two days of Richard Wagner-themed discussion, theater and song.

• Wotan’s Ring Parable (street ballad). Text, Cornelius Schnauber. Music, Tom Schnauber. Performance by Christina Linhardt, soprano, and Yulia Levin, piano.
  
• Stage reading: Die Nibelungen Saga. Richard Wagner’s original story of his Ring tetralogy, read by Eric Braeden.
  
• Lectures: “Inventing Germany: Wagner and the National Imagination” by Michael Meyer, CSUN, and “How Anti-Semitic was Richard Wagner?” by Cornelius Schnauber, USC. A panel discussion will follow.
  
• Fasold and Fafner Paint the Town, Ring Rhapsody for Two Wagner Tuben and Piano by Tom Schnauber. Performed by Yulia Levin, piano, and Wagner Tuben players to be announced.

Dates: 05/09/2010, 05/17/2010: 7:30 PM

Max Kade Institute 2714 South Hoover Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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