Concerts

Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Festival

Jan. 23 – 25

Redifining Virtuosity — This sixth annual festival celebrates the legacy of the great violinist with performances by today’s and tomorrow’s top talents. SF State’s Alexander and Afiara string quartets, plus guest violist Toby Appel and guest pianist Lydia Artymiw will collaborate with the Cecilia String Quartet and Hausmann Quartet, the two finalists for the Morrison Fellowship Prize for a residency with the Alexander String Quartet at SFSU. The fellowship winner will be announced during the Jan. 25 concert. Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building.

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Panel Discussions: Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents 1900 – 1970
Jan 16 – 17, de Young Museum, San Francisco

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Morrison Artists Series reaches another level

The recent Morrison Artists Series concert featuring Time for Three was “brilliant,” “on another level,” “sprightly” and “beautiful,” combining “tight-knit ensemble playing and individual bursts of technical brilliance,” according to a review in the San Francisco Chronicle. Time for Three, performing at the free concert series for the second time, mixed classical woks by Bach and Brahms with folk and rock from Leonard Cohen and the Beatles.

Professor's dank, dazzling set design

In designing the set for the Bay Area premiere of the Tony winning play “The Seafarer,” Theatre Arts Professor John B. Wilson made beauty with his details of a dank, cave-like home in Ireland. Wilson’s set garnered praise from theatre critics throughout the Bay Area.

Technical services director retires after four decades at State

For the first time in 42 years, someone other than Brian Weiner will have to order new telephones for Creative Arts staff and faculty. Weiner, director of Creative Arts Technical Services (CATS), retired Dec. 24. He remained responsible for several of the same tasks throughout his career, while rising in the ranks.

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Danielle Knox: the real anchor of Atlanta

Alumna Danielle Knox embodies Lifetime Television’s “The Balancing Act.” She is a guest host on the talk show that offers solutions for women juggling career and home. Knox also recently was named weekend news anchor for the CBS affiliate in Atlanta, runs her own skin-care products company, and is a loving wife and mother of three boys. Knox (M.A., ’91) is also CEO of Play Pretty Beauty, an organic bath and body care company that she started in her own kitchen.

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