The Fredonia School of Music will present Handel’s Messiah with two captivating performances—one in the acoustically acclaimed Rosch Recital Hall on the SUNY Fredonia campus and a second at the architecturally beautiful St. Paul’s Cathedral in Buffalo, N.Y.

The New Horizons Band of Western New York will present a Fall Concert at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18 at Fredonia High School Auditorium in Fredonia, N.Y. The concert is free, but the band would appreciate donations of non-perishable food that will be donated to the Food Pantry of the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry.

Actor Evan Harrington, ’98, who is currently part of the Broadway cast of “Phantom of the Opera,” will return to campus the week of November 16 for a series of engagements, including a short concert on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. in Rockefeller Arts Center’s Bartlett Theater.

Bringing an opera production to life is a great challenge. Marrying a dramatic work with a musical score to create a moving work of art requires collaboration on many levels by many individuals. Some behind-the-scenes insight into this year’s production was offered as an Arts and Humanities Brown Bag Lecture Series presented by SUNY Fredonia on Nov. 4.

As part of the ongoing partnership with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the SUNY Fredonia School of Music welcomes 23-year-old Israeli pianist Roman Rabinovich for a master class with Fredonia piano students on Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 4 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall.

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Travel/adventure filmmaker Fran Reidelberger will personally narrate his film “The Best of Bavaria” beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Arts Center’s King Concert Hall. Tickets for “The Best of Bavaria” will be available at the door. One child is admitted free with each adult ticket. Seating for this event is general admission.
 

Celebrating Mendelssohn's 200th birthday, SUNY Fredonia Piano Professor Jonathan Mann will present a piano recital with special guests on Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall.

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Hailed as “a deftly zany absurdist comedy” and as “comic genius” by critics, “Fuddy Meers” will open Friday, Nov. 6 and run through Saturday, Nov. 14 in Bartlett Theatre at Rockefeller Arts Center. It is a Department of Theatre and Dance production for the Walter Gloor Mainstage Series.

The SUNY Fredonia School of Music, in cooperation with the Department of Theatre and Dance, will present four performances of “La Bohème” in Marvel Theatre at Rockefeller Arts Center. Performance dates and times are Nov. 12, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 15 at 2 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 20, In the second of a four-concert series, “The Complete Works of Beethoven for Violin and Piano,” violin professor Maureen Yuen joins forces with piano professor Sean Duggan. Part three of the series will be presented on Wednesday, November 1, and the final concert of the series will be on Sunday, January 31, 2010.

The second Brown Bag Lecture in the College of Arts & Humanities will bring to life the thrills, chills, and backstage events involved in mounting an opera. The panel discussion entitled, “Putting It Together: The Art and Scholarship of Staging La Bohème,” will showcase selections from the opera set to open on November 12th on campus in Marvel Theatre. The talk will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 4, noon, in Diers Recital Hall in Mason Hall (this is a new location for the series).

SUNY Fredonia will host two poets, Dr. Ross Gay and Mr. Patrick Rosal, as part of the Mary Louise White Visiting Series. The poetry reading will be held at room 202 in McEwen Hall on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 30 12:00-1:00 p.m. Discussion/lecture - "Managing a Professional Contemporary Dance Company in Guatemala - The Challenges an...
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The Women’s Studies Program will sponsor the Women Take Aim Film Series this fall, with the first movie slated for Tuesday, Oct. 27. All films will be...
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Full day of activities begins at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1, in Mason Hall for the Fifth Annual String Experience at SUNY Fredonia's School of Musi...
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“Continuum: The MacKrell Collage Archive” by Gerald Mead will be featured in the art gallery at Rockefeller Arts Center. The exhibit will open Friday, Oct. 30 with a reception in the art gallery lobby beginning at 7 p.m.

SUNY Fredonia welcomes back the third annual Terror in the Trees event this and next weekend, held from 8 to 11 p.m. in the woods off Ring Road near the campus clock tower.  Read all about the history of this event and its predecessors, and get a glimpse into the mind of its current organizer, who has been putting on successful "haunts" since he was just 12 years old.

The SUNY Fredonia School of Music Rosch Musical Art Series will present its fourth annual collaborative concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) on Friday, October 30, at 8 p.m. in King Concert Hall on the SUNY Fredonia campus.  The world-class symphony will be led by JoAnn Falletta, acclaimed by The New York Times as “one of the finest conductors of her generation.” YouTube carries an interview with Natasha Farny.