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Our Town (World Premiere)
Music by Ned Rorem
Libretto by J.D. McClatchy

based on Thornton Wilder's play




EVENTS SURROUNDING THE PREMIERE


THURSDAY 2-23-06
8:00 p.m.
Auer Hall
New Music Ensemble Concert featuring with "11Studies for 11 Players" by Ned Rorem

FRIDAY 2-24-06
4:00 p.m.
Auer Hall
The naming of the I.U. Jacobs School of Music
5:00 p.m.
MAC Lobby

Arts Week Reception
(Remarks by Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan, Interim Provost Michael McRobbie, and Dean Gwyn Richards)

7:00 p.m.
MAC Lobby
Opera Insights
Rorem, McClatchy, Liotta, and Higgins
8:00 p.m.
MAC Auditorium presented by IU Opera Theater
World Premiere of Our Town
David Effron, Conductor
Vincent Liotta, Director
C. David Higgins, Designer
Tickets $15-35 ($10-20 students)

PLEASE NOTE: The Opening Night will be General Admission and the auditorium doors will open at 7:00 p.m.

Approx 10:30 p.m. MAC Lobby Our Town public reception with artistic and production team.

SATURDAY 2-25-06
1:00 p.m. Sweeney Hall Ned Rorem: Words and Music (film documentary)
3:00-5:00 p.m. Ford-Crawford Hall Performance/discussion of Ned Rorem chamber works
7:00 p.m. MAC Lobby Opera Insights
(Rorem, McClatchy, Liotta and Higgins)
8:00 p.m. MAC Auditorium presented by IU Opera Theater Our Town

David Effron, Conductor
Vincent Liotta, Director
C. David Higgins, Designer
Tickets $15-35 ($10-20 students)

SUNDAY 2-26-06
2:00 p.m. MAC Lobby J.D. McClatchy poetry Reading
4:00 p.m. Auer Hall EXTENSIONS OF THE TRADITION
A concert by the African American Arts Institute
7:00 p.m. Sweeney Hall Remarks by Tappan Wilder: Our Town Yesterday and Today
7:30 p.m. Sweeney Hall Documentary Film: OT (Our Town inner-city school theater production film documentary)
8:00 p.m. Auer Hall CHAMBER ORCHESTRA - Uriel Segal, Conductor

W. A. Mozart: Serenade No. 1 in C Minor, K.388 W. A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K.488 Bartók: Divertimento (1939)

MONDAY 2-27-06
8:00 p.m. Musical Arts Center JAZZ ENSEMBLE - Brent Wallarab, Director
8:00 p.m. Auer Hall Guest Recital -Roger Vignoles & IU Voice Students Schubert Class Recital

WEDNESDAY 3-1-06
8:00 p.m. Musical Arts Center CONCERT ORCHESTRA - Cliff Colnot, Guest Conductor; Kimiko Yamada, Euphonium

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movments (1945) Horovitz: Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

THURSDAY 3-2-06
8:00 p.m. Auer Hall FACULTY / GUEST RECITAL - ViVaCe with Edmund Battersby. Presented by the Bloomington Early Music Festival

FRIDAY 3-3-06
12:30 p.m. Simon Music Center, Room 267 MUSICOLOGY COLLOQUIUM - Jane Fulcher, "From hybrid to metamorphosis: Poulenc's path to symbolic resistance and musical counter-discourse during Vichy"
7:00 p.m. Musical Arts Center, Mezzanine OPERA INSIGHTS
8:00 p.m. Musical Arts Center Presented by IU Opera Theater OUR TOWN

David Effron, Conductor
Vincent Liotta, Director
C. David Higgins, Designer
Tickets $15-35 ($10-20 students)

SATURDAY 3-4-06
7:00 p.m. Msical Arts Center, Mezzanine OPERA INSIGHTS
8:00 p.m. Msical Arts Center Presented by IU Opera Theater OUR TOWN

David Effron, Conductor
Vincent Liotta, Director
C. David Higgins, Designer
Tickets $15-35 ($10-20 students)
8:00 p.m. Auer Hall Trombone Choir - Carl Lenthe, Director

SUNDAY 3-5-06
4:00 p.m. Auer Hall ORION STRING QUARTET
8:00 p.m. Auer Hall FACULTY CHAMBER RECITAL

Jean-Louis Haguenauer, Piano Federico Agostini, Violin
Yuval Gottlibovich, Viola
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Violincello

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