Eugene Symphony plans its season finale
The Eugene Symphony will bring their season to a close tonight, with a performance of Mendelssohn’s St. Paul Overture and other musical expressions of faith and hope, including ancient Taoist traditions and a Jewish prayer for the dead.
Leonard Bernstein’s “Kaddish” powers its way to the heavens with the thunderous forces of the orchestra, a 160-voice chorus, soprano Kelley Nassief and actor Barry Kraft.
Tickets are $12 to $36, or $10 for youth and students, and are available at the Hult Center Box Office and the EMU Ticket Outlet.
Museum of Natural History exhibits a variety of cultures
Several exhibits are on display at the University of Oregon Museum of Natural History, 1680 E. 15th Ave.
Exhibits include “Archaeology of Oregon,” “Backyard Birds,” “Clues to an Unknown Culture,” “Living Traditions,” “Visions of the Dreamtime: The Art and Myth of Aboriginal Australia” and an articulated La Brea Tar Pits saber-toothed cat.
Museum hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. There is a $2 suggested donation, though admission is free for University students and museum members. For information call 346-3024.
“Mingqi: Early Chinese Funerary Ceramics” is currently one of the featured exhibits at the Museum of Art, located at 1430 Johnson Lane. The exhibit includes a selection of Chinese funerary tomb figures from the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.-220 A.D.) through the Tang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.).
In the museum’s Chinese Imperial Throne Room, the public can view works from the museum’s collection of Imperial objects from the Qing Dynasty, including textiles, furniture, glass, ceramics and the largest jade pagoda outside China.
The museum also features the newly renovated Preble-Murphy Wing of Japanese Art, including a changing print gallery with traditional wood-block prints. A second gallery offers highlights from the collections including Buddhist sculpture, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, hanging scrolls and painted screens.
Museum hours are noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday and noon to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. There is a $3 suggested admission charge, though admission is free for students, University employees and thier children and museum members. For more information, call 346-3027.
UO dance students debut original works
Nine undergraduate University students in the dance department will present dances at “Ground Zero: Reinventing Dance in the Year 2000,” the annual spring student dance concert on May 18-20.
Performances will begin at 8 p.m. each evening in the Dougherty Dance Theater in the Gerlinger Annex.
Among the three senior projects set to debut in the concert are “Saturated” by Sarah Baker, “The Long Night of Lady Day” by Sara Lybarger, and “Hoo Yoo War” by Celeste Peterson.
With faculty advisement, the presenting choreographers not only created the dances, but were also responsible for the audition, publicity, fund raising costumes and other elements required to produce the show.
Tickets are $6 for general admission and $3 for students, and are available at 7 p.m. at the door.
UO concerts scheduled
Two concerts are scheduled to highlight the skills of University students this week.
Flute students will give a class recital at 8 p.m. Sunday in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Admission to the concert is free.
And at 8 p.m. May 17, the Oregon Wind Ensemble will perform several classics, including “Fantasia in G” by J.S. Bach, at a joint concert with the Oregon Symphonic Band. The band will perform similar works, including “Come Sweet Death” by Bach.
Tickets are available at the door for $3 for students and senior citizens or $5 general admission.
