Winter Arts Preview

The Department of Theatre will perform Sobering Thoughts in area high schools for the second year this winter and at Ohio State on Jan. 20. Shown here is last year's cast performing at Columbus Alternative High School.

College of the Arts

The College of the Arts will focus its spotlight on Restoration drama, Broadway tunes, glass artists and American composer Lukas Foss this quarter. The School of Music and Departments of Art, Dance and Theatre have a variety of events planned during the next three months.

All events are subject to change. Contact the department listed to confirm information before attending.

Music

Lectures in musicology begin this winter on Jan. 17 with a talk on "Study of Music Performance: When Novices Outshine Experts" by Caroline Palmer. Additional lectures will be given on Jan. 24 and 31 and Feb. 7, 14 and 23 (4 p.m.). All lectures begin at 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted, in the Music/Dance Library in Sullivant Hall. Call 292-9440 for more information.

Broadway tunes will be belted for the A Lullaby of Broadway concert Jan. 20-21 and 26-28. Sponsored by the opera/music theatre program, the musical revue will feature the "best of the best of Broadway." For ticket information, call 292-3535.

Concerts will take place throughout the quarter, including: Chamber Orchestra, Jan. 22; Wind Symphony/Symphonic Band, Jan. 30; Tamas Vesmas Trio, Feb. 7; Jazz Ensemble, Feb. 9; Jazz Lab Ensemble, Feb. 11 (3 p.m.); Symphonic Choir/Chorale, Feb. 13; Men's and Women's Glee Clubs, Feb. 17; Flutist Patricia Spencer, Feb. 21; Percussion Ensemble, Feb. 26; University Band/Repertory Band, March 1; African American Gospel and Spiritual, March 2; University Chorus/Master Singers, March 4 (3 p.m.); Symphonic Choir/Chorale/Symphony Orchestra, March 6; Symphonic Band, March 7; and Wind Symphony/Chamber Winds, March 8.

Unless otherwise noted, all concerts take place at 8 p.m. in Weigel Auditorium. For ticket information, call 292-2300.

The Contemporary Music Festival 2001 will be held Feb. 1-4 and this year will feature American composer, conductor and pianist Lukas Foss. A variety of concerts will be held throughout the weekend.

A special event, Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century in Retrospect, will take place at 2 and 7 p.m. Feb. 4 in the Wexner Center Performance Space. Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Sir William Walton's Facade will be presented, fully staged, in conjunction with the departments of Dance and Theatre. For ticket information, call 292-2300.

Dance

The Department of Dance winter season will begin Jan. 19-20 with OSUDance Jazz Performance. The OSUDance Winter Performance will be presented Feb. 1-3. MFA graduate students Carla Hughes, Joshua Monten and Gregory Catellier will present their final projects Feb. 22-24.

All concerts are held at 8 p.m. in Sullivant Theatre. Tickets are available at the door.

Theatre

The Department of Theatre will continue its tradition of touring shows to area schools with two productions this quarter. Roasted ShoesÉToasted Tootsies and Sobering Thoughts both explore the topic of substance abuse. Ohio State audiences can take a peek at the productions when the shows are performed in Mount Hall Studio Theatre on Jan. 20

Thurber Playwright-in-Residence Caridad Svich will lecture on Lifting the Veil: Latinas al Borde at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 1 in the Wexner Film/Video Theater.

Classic Restoration farce will take center stage Feb. 7-24 for The London Cuckolds by Edward Ravenscroft. Three beautiful wives, three ludicrous husbands and one overly ambitious, rapacious rake are the comic ingredients in this play directed by Maureen Ryan.

Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues, by Svich, will be presented Feb. 13-17. In this play with songs, a woman struggles to come to terms with the untimely death of her husband in an unnamed war.

Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, featuring the music of Edvard Grieg, will be performed March 2-4. The production is co-produced with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alessandro Siciliani. Peer Gynt is the story of a man who sets out to find his fortune in the world, and succeeds, but fails to find true happiness until he returns to the home of his youth.

For Department of Theatre productions, call 292-2295 for ticket information.

	Glass artists Shinichi and Kimiake Higuchi of Japan created the lettuce sculpture, left. The Higuchis will visit campus April 19-May 2.
The teapot lamp, right, was created by Dutch glass artist Richard Meitner, who will visit campus March 12-23.

Art

The glass program in the Department of Art is hosting several guest artists this quarter. All lectures and exhibitions will be held in the Sherman Studio Art Center, 1055 Carmack Road.

Anna Thiel, a glass sculptor from Mexico, lectured on Jan. 5. Her work will be exhibited Jan. 19. Bill Guddenratah, an artist from New York who works in the Italian vessel tradition, will give a lecture and demonstration March 8 and 9. Lampworker Richard Meitner of the Netherlands will give a lecture on March 13. Installation artist Toshihiro Kuno of Japan will lecture on March 30 and have work exhibited April 6. Shinichi and Kimiake Higuchi, casting artists who specialize in color and detail, will lecture on April 20.

Hopkins Hall Gallery is undergoing renovations this quarter, rendering the exhibition schedule flexible. For information, call 247-6740.

Wexner

The Wexner Center for the Arts will warm up the artistically inclined this winter with its offerings of spicy films, sharp architecture, sizzling jazz and energetic dance. As always, a strong international flavor will be present this quarter, with Romania, Japan, Burkina Faso and Poland among the countries represented.

Ohio State faculty, staff and students receive free admission to the galleries. For event tickets, call 292-3535. For updated schedules of events, including film screenings and lectures, visit www.wexarts.org or see the "Calendar" section of every issue of onCampus.

The film title sequence of Donnie Brasco will be screened Jan. 27-April 15 in the Wexner Center galleries for Imaginary Forces, an exhibition of opening credits for movies.

Exhibits

Suite Fantastique, curated by the Wexner Center's curator of architecture and design Jeffrey Kipnis, is an exhibition of exhibitions. The center's galleries this winter, Jan. 27-April 15, will be host to four complementary exhibitions that explore design concepts in film, architecture and furniture.

Opening movie credits from seven films will be shown on a 21-foot screen in gallery one, making Imaginary Forces the first exhibition of its kind. Renowned motion graphics firm Imaginary Forces created the title sequences from films such as Seven, Island of Dr. Moreau, Gattaca and Donnie Brasco.

Exodus, or The Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture, by Rem Koolhass will be a part of the Perfect Arts of Architecture exhibit at the Wexner Center Jan. 27-April 15.

Architectural drawings by five of the world's most prominent architects will be on display for Perfect Acts of Architecture. Work by the Wexner Center's own architect, Peter Eisenman, will be shown, as well as by Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne and Bernard Tschumi.

The tables, chairs and other furnishings that comprise the exhibit Scott Burton Furniture will be shown in all the galleries, providing the opportunity to see Burton's designs in relation to the other exhibits. Burton used a wide range of forms and fabrication techniques to create his late-modern and postmodern designs.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's hit sci-fi movie The Predator is the inspiration for the fourth Suite Fantastique exhibit. The Predator: Fabian Marcaccio and Greg Lynn combines the skills of Marcaccio, a painter, and Lynn, an architect, to create an enormous object of vividly colored vacuformed plastic that visitors will be able to walk through.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday; and noon-6 p.m. Sunday. Galleries are closed on Monday.

Theater

Britain's Improbable Theatre makes its third visit to the Wexner Center with Spirit, a humorous play drawn from the experiences of conflict-resolution worker Arlene Audergon, who worked in Northern Ireland, Croatia and Bosnia. This production, which will be performed Jan. 11-14, combines storytelling, improvisation, puppetry and vivid stage imagery.

Storyteller Spalding Gray's latest monologue, Morning, Noon and Night, bears witness to his children's ever-widening world. Gray will share his witty oral diary of a day well-spent with audiences on Feb. 22.

The OSU Department of Theatre and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra will team up to perform Peer Gynt March 2-4. This original production features members of Ohio State's Department of Theatre in a staging of Henrik Ibsen's fabled play, accompanied by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Alessandro Siciliani will conduct Edvard Grieg's score.

Music

On Jan. 19, Mingus Big Band will fill Weigel Hall with the hard-charging music of legendary jazz composer-bassist Charles Mingus. Politics and Blues is music inspired by Mingus' blues roots and dedication to calling attention to social injustice.

Trombonist Steve Turre has organized an all-star group to pay tribute to the music of Columbus-born sax giant Rahsaan Roland Kirk on Feb. 24. Kirk was a flamboyant showman in the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s, known for his surreal humor and encyclopedic knowledge of "black classical music."

Japanese butoh ensemble Dairakudakan will perform Sea Dappled Horse in Mershon Auditorium Feb. 12.

Dance

Dairakudakan, a legendary butoh ensemble from Japan, will present a vanguard dance work, Sea Dappled Horse, on Feb. 12. For this extremely rare U.S. tour, Dairakudakan revives one of its greatest productions, a primal creation myth.

African dance ensemble Salia n• Seydou from Burkina Faso melds traditional African dance vocabulary with sophisticated contemporary choreographic ideas. Salia n• Seydou's trio of male dancers will share a touching tale of friendship and the challenges of sustaining communication Feb. 28-March 3.

Aeros, a special ensemble of 15 Olympic-medalist gymnasts from Romania, will perform awe-inspiring displays of strength and high-flying grace on March 10. Aeros explores new territory in a unique fusion of modern dance aesthetics and acrobatic skills.

Ballet Met Columbus will present X-File Messiah in association with the Wexner Center on March 11. German choreographer Birgit Scherzer makes her second trip to Columbus for the world premiere of her new dance theater work, set to the music of Handel's Messiah.

Schottenstein

In addition to a full slate of athletic games, the Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center will host several entertainment events during the next three months. For ticket information, call (800) ARENA-01 or visit www.schottensteincenter.com.

Singer Andrea Bocelli will take the stage on March 28, accompanied by the 78-piece Russian Symphony Orchestra.

The Monster Truck Nationals will be held in the Value City Arena Feb. 16 and 17. These powerful vehicles generate an average of 1,500 to 2,000 horsepower and are capable of speeds up to 100 miles per hour. Although the vehicles average around 10,000 pounds, they are designed to jump up to 115 feet and up to 20 to 25 feet in the air.

Singer Andrea Bocelli will take the stage on March 28. Since being discovered in 1992, Bocelli has quickly established himself as one of the world's most exciting tenor voices able to interpret all forms of music, from ballads to operatic arias, with ease. Bocelli will be accompanied by the 78-piece Russian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marcello Rota, with a special guest soprano. Columbus will be his only Midwest stop on an eight-city spring tour.

On March 29, Carman Ministries will be featured. Singer/songwriter Carman will offer up his best-known hits and a mix of new songs from his latest CD, Heart of a Champion.

Target Stars on Ice will skate into the Value City Arena on March 31. The show will feature the farewell tour of Ohio's own Scott Hamilton, plus Kristi Yamaguchi, Tara Lipinski and many more. In addition to a full slate of athletic games, the Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center will host several entertainment events during the next three months.

For ticket information, call (800) ARENA-01 or visit www.schottensteincenter.com.

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