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Set in the tumultous city of Berlin as Hitler rises to power, "Cabaret" will be performed by students of the SUNY Fredonia Performing Arts Company on April 18, 19, and 20 in Bartlett Theatre. Tickets are available at the SUNY Fredonia Ticket Office or online.

The SUNY Fredonia Concert Band will give its final performance of the year on Monday, April 21 at 8 p.m. in King Concert Hall. This event is free and open to the public.

The SUNY Fredonia School of Music presents the final College Symphony Orchestra concert of the year on Saturday, April 19, at 8 p.m. in King Concert Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Two resident vocal ensembles in the Fredonia School of Music will present a choral concert Sunday, April 13, at 4 p.m. in King Concert Hall. The Women’s Choir will be directed by Professor Gwen Coleman Detwiler, and the University Chorus will perform under the baton of Professor Barbara Brinson.  The concert is free and open to the public.

The SUNY Fredonia School of Music will present its second annual collaborative concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) on Friday, April 11 at 8:00 p.m. in King Concert Hall on the SUNY Fredonia campus. A post-concert reception will follow, free to all who attend the concert. Tickets are available online or by calling the SUNY Fredonia ticket office at 716-673-3501.

In his travels through Morocco, filmmaker Rick Ray discovered a “peaceful, progressive, well-educated, forward-looking society.” He attributes this, in part, to Morocco’s young monarch, King Mohammed VI. Now age 44, Mohammed VI came to power in 1999.

Classical ballet, Latin jazz, modern dance and dance theatre will all be on display in a 90 minute-plus extravaganza with the Fredonia Dance Ensemble from March 6 to 9 in Marvel Theatre at the State University of New York at Fredonia. “We’ve been working on this concert since the end of August,” said Helen Myers, coordinator of dance at SUNY Fredonia. “These are all new pieces.”

As the world’s foremost comedy jugglers, the Gizmo Guys have amused and amazed audiences around the globe – and now they are coming back to Rockefeller Arts Center for a night of family fun. The Gizmo Guys Family Show will take center stage in Marvel Theatre on Friday, March 14 at 7 p.m.

The SUNY Fredonia Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Paula Holcomb, will present its first concert of the spring semester on Saturday, March 8, at 4 p.m. in King Concert Hall.  Featured soloists on the program are Fredonia violin professor, Janet Sung, and Fredonia percussion music major, Doug Feig.  The event is free and open to the public

The SUNY Fredonia College Symphony, under the direction of Dr. David Rudge, will perform in King Concert Hall on Saturday, March 1, at 8 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public. This concert features one of this year’s School of Music Concerto Competition Winners, Taishi Nonaka, cellist, performing Camille Saint-Saens’ “Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in A minor.”

The East Coast premiere of a play based upon the life of the filmmaker who chronicled the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany will be staged this month by the Department of Theatre and Dance. “Aunt Raini” will be the third event in the 2007-08 Walter Gloor Mainstage Series and will feature a visit from the New Mexico playwright, Tom Smith. There will be six performances in Bartlett Theatre at Rockefeller Arts Center starting Feb. 22.

Filmmaker Dennis Burkhart will present his travelogue in person at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23 at Rockefeller Arts Center. “Hawaii: The Pacific Paradise” will be shown in King Concert Hall as part of the World Travel Series sponsored by Fredonia Place. It is part of the 2007-08 Lake Shore Savings Season at the arts center.

Soprano Angela Haas (formerly Dilkey) will perform a faculty recital Friday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. The program features Argento's Pulitzer Prize-winning song cycle "From the Diary of Virginia Woolf".  Dr. Haas will also be performing songs by Strauss, Wolf, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff with pianist Anne Kissel Harper.

On Friday, Feb. 8, “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” takes center stage for a 7 p.m. performance in Marvel Theatre at Rockefeller Arts Center. The show is the second event in the Kaleidoscope Family Series sponsored by Howard Hanna Holt Real Estate. It is part of the Lake Shore Savings Season.