Click to view this message in a browser
Morrison Artists Chamber Music Series: Quartet New Generation
Oct. 19 @3pm FREE
To kick off the 55th season of San Francisco’s longest running chamber music concert series, the recorder collective Quartet New Generation performs contemporary works juxtaposed with early music by Bach, Bruckner, de Rore and Dowland. McKenna Theatre, Creative Arts building.
Play: ‘Machinal’
Oct. 9 – 19
Mounting technological, economic and moral pressures emerge in a mechanized society, creating a burning anxiety nationwide. Something has to give. The intense and physical production, directed by alumnus Mark Jackson, makes parallels between 2008 and the 1928 setting of Sophie Treadwell’s expressionist play. Little Theatre, Creative Arts building.
Opera Gala
Oct. 17 @7:30pm
Opera, champagne, wine, chocolate: a delightful Friday evening treat. Enjoy arias and ensembles from “Carmen,” “The Magic Flute” and more, plus sparkling wines and luscious desserts. Special guest: Vance George. Proceeds benefit the School of Music and Dance Opera Fund. Jack Adams Hall, Cesar Chavez Student Center.
More Events
School of Music and Dance: William Corbett-Jones Scholarship Concert
Series
Oct. 5 @3 pm
Documentary Film Institute: ‘CACHAO: Uno Mas’
Oct. 7 @7:30 pm – FREE
Applause
DAI faculty member wins teaching award
Martin Linder was honored with SF State’s Sarlo Excellence in Teaching Award on Aug. 25. The $5,000 award is sponsored by the Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, honoring a professor who has demonstrated individual, public and institutional respect for the art of teaching.
Creative Arts welcomes new faculty
Seven tenure-track faculty members joined SF State’s College of Creative Arts this fall, with wide-ranging expertise in painting, dance, gaming, screenwriting and graphic design.
Vance George joins Music faculty
The director emeritus of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus is named conductor of the SF State Chamber Singers, the top choir in the School of Music and Dance. “The students are very bright, eager and experienced,” said George, a Chorus America Lifetime Achievement Award winner. “I am delighted when I see them light up, overwhelmed by the beauty of the music.”
SF State launches quartet fellowship
In its first international competition for Emerging Professional String Quartets,
the International Center for the Arts will present a winning one-year fellowship
residency at SF State. The Alexander String Quartet, SF State quartet-in-residence,
will mentor the winning group.
Dig This
SF State history: Photography as fine art
The late Art Professor John Gutmann founded the creative photography program at SF State as the first curriculum in the U.S. to teach photography as fine art, in 1946 — the same year Ansel Adams and Minor White established one of the nation’s first fine art photography departments, at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Tune In
KSFS Radio
BECA students produce radio programs featuring show tunes, local news and hip-hop, bringing an independent attitude to the airwaves and Internet.
iTunes keyword: ksfs
BECA Citywide Cablecasts on EATV Cable Channel 27
Fridays, 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Oct. 3 – Dec. 12.
Bring the Creative Arts into your living room — Set your DVR for San Francisco’s Cable 27. BECA students produce “State of Events,” College Sports Reports” and “Under San Francisco,” a discussion about the city arts scene.
Stay Connected
Visit creativearts.sfsu.edu for the latest Creative Arts news and events. View a PDF of the fall 2008 events calendar. Add us on MySpace: www.myspace.com/sfstatecreativearts.
Are you an alum? Join the SF State Alumni Association. Make a gift today, and help keep the arts thriving and accessible to all at San Francisco State University.