Adelphi University Announces its April 2009 Performing Arts Events

Garden City, NY
March 10, 2009

Adelphi University is pleased to offer an array of prestige concerts and mainstage productions in April featuring world-renowned musicians, guest artists, faculty, and students in its 500-seat acoustically state-of-the-art concert hall, multipurpose black box theatre, intimate recital hall, and upgraded Olmsted Theatre in the new Performing Arts Center (AU PAC), 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. Below are all the ticketed events offered in April.

10 Minute Play Festival
Thursday, April 2 to Saturday, April 4, 2009
April 2, at 7:30 p.m.; April 3, at 7:30 p.m.; and April 4, at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Black Box Theatre

This popular series returns with short plays submitted from around the country and selected for production by a committee of students, staff, and faculty. Mentored students direct, design, and perform in this groundbreaking theatrical event.

Last Seen
Sunday, April 5, 2009, at 2:00 p.m.
Concert Hall

This multi-disciplinary and multi-media event presents the work of Professors Jacqueline Jones LaMon (English) and Sidney M. Boquiren (Music) along with texts and videography that respond to the disturbing phenomenon of people who “disappear” whether as victims of crime or politics, or for unknown reasons. Faculty artists Jonathan Goodman, tenor, and William Zito, guitar, will present songs written for the occasion by Mr. Boquiren.

Student Recital
Monday, April 6, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
Recital Hall

The Jupiter String Quartet
Monday, April 20, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
Concert Hall

In their final appearance of the season, the Quartet will perform related masterpieces which express emotional depth and spiritual vision, including Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartet in A minor, Op. 13, Thomas Adès’ Arcadiana, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Quartet in A minor, Op. 132.

Stage Door
Tuesday, April 21 to Sunday, April 26, 2009
April 21, at 7:30 p.m.; April 22, at 6:30 p.m.; April 23, at 7:30 p.m.; April 24, at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; April 25, 8:00 p.m., and April 26, at 2:00 p.m.
Olmsted Theatre

Stage Door, by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, directed by Adelphi Associate Professor Brian Rose, is a valentine to the legitimate stage that perfectly sums up the business of show business on both the East and West Coasts while illustrating the ever-present tension between theatre and film.

The Adelphi Chorus
Michael Hume, Director
Monday, April 27, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
Concert Hall

The program includes Bach’s Christ Lag in Todesbanden with instruments, Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, and Faure’s Cantique de Jean Racine, with Adrienne Borbely, pianist.

For tickets, more information, and a full calendar of AU PAC season events, visit http://aupac.adelphi.edu/ or call the Box Office at (516) 877-4000.

About Adelphi University: Adelphi University, chartered in 1896, was the first institution of higher education for the liberal arts and sciences on Long Island. Through its schools and programs—The College of Arts and Sciences, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Honors College, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, University College, and the Schools of Business, Nursing, and Social Work—the co-educational university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as professional and educational programs for adults. Adelphi University currently enrolls nearly 8,500 students from 41 states and 63 foreign countries. With its main campus in Garden City and centers in Manhattan, Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie, the University maintains a commitment to liberal studies in tandem with rigorous professional preparation and active citizenship.


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