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Haochen Zhang, pianist
Monday, March 25, 2013
7 p.m.
Ayers Recital Hall, Schuech Fine Arts CenterThis event is free and open to the public.
The program will include Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major (Op. 109), Liszt's Ballade No. 2 in B minor (S. 171), Sonata No. 3 in B minor (Op. 58) by Chopin, Balakirev's Islamey (Op. 18) and selections from Debussy’s Préludes, Book II.Since his gold medal win at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, 22-year-old Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang has captivated audiences in the United States, Europe, and Asia with a unique combination of deep musical sensitivity, fearless imagination, and spectacular virtuosity. His return to Fort Worth as part of the 2010–2011 Cliburn Concerts series was lauded by the Dallas Morning News as “the kind of program you’d expect from a seasoned master, served up with dazzling virtuosity where wanted and astonishing sophistication elsewhere” and hailed among the top 10 performances of 2010 by both the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram. His Boston debut under the auspices of the Celebrity Series met with high praise by audiences and critics, making the year-end lists as part of the Boston Phoenix’s top 10 classical music stories of the year. Boston Globe critic Matthew Guerrieri remarked that Mr. Zhang displayed “poetic temperament as much as technical power… [he is] a pianist with ample reserves of power whose imagination seems nonetheless most kindled by subtle delicacy.” For more about Haochen Zhang, visit www.haochenzhang.com.
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The Second City Touring Company, social and political satire improvisation group
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Jackson AuditoriumThis event is free and open to the public. Chicago’s legendary sketch comedy theatre, The Second City: Laughing Matters features some of the best sketches, songs, and improvisations from The Second City’s fifty two year history. The Second City is truly a Chicago landmark and a national treasure. With economic uncertainty, political gridlock and a dearth of Khardashians clogging up our televisions, laughing has never mattered more and The Second City is here to bring some well needed silliness and hilarious spontaneity to a world in need of some comic relief. The Second City: Laughing Matters puts comedy first in a wickedly funny revue that skewers and celebrates in equal doses. The Second City celebrates over 50 years of cutting edge satiric revues and continues to deliver the leading voices in comedy while touring the globe. With scripted and improvisational elements, audiences always enjoy being part of the show and playing along with the next generation of comic legends. Whether it’s ripped from the morning headlines or a classic gem from their 50 year archives, The Second City is always a laugh out loud hit.
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Judy Shepard, civil rights advocate
mother of Matthew Shepard
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Jackson AuditoriumThis event is free and open to the public. In October 1998, Judy and Dennis Shepard lost their 21-year-old son Matthew to a murder motivated by anti-gay hate. Their ordeal moved thousands of people around the world to attend vigils and rallies in Matthew's honor. Determined to prevent their son's fate from befalling others, Judy and Dennis established the Matthew Shepard Foundation to carry on Matthew's legacy by embracing the just causes he had championed. This includes working for gay and lesbian equality, hate crime legislation, and raising awareness using programs developed by the foundation. Judy is determined to use her grief over her son's death to make a difference. She is now speaking to audiences nationwide about what they can do as individuals and communities to make this world a more accepting place for everyone regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, and expression. All proceeds from her speaking engagements go to support the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
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Bob Chilcott, composer
Youth Choir Festival
January 22-26, 2013For more information about the Youth Choir Festival, visit www.tlumtscma.com.
Described by the Observer as “a contemporary hero of British Choral Music”, Bob Chilcott works tirelessly as a composer and choral conductor. He has over 125 pieces published by Oxford University Press, two acclaimed recordings on Signum, Making Waves (The Sirens) and Man I Sing (BBC Singers),and he wrote the title tracks for the King’s Singers albums, Swimming over London and High Flight. His Irish Blessing featured on the multi-platinum debut album of The Priests in 2008. In March 2012 his Requiem was released on Hyperion, performed by Wells Cathedral Choir and the Nash Ensemble, conducted by Matthew Owens, and in November two complete discs of his music will appear, one by the BBC Choir of the Year, the Wellensian Consort, and the other, on Signum, on which he conducts the Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir.
In 2002 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC’s acclaimed professional choir, the BBC Singers, and he has conducted other distinguished choirs including RIAS Kammerchor, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jauna Musika, The World Youth Choir, Tower New Zealand Youth Choir, Taipei Chamber Singers, Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir, and the Kyoto Echo Choir. Since 1997 he has conducted in 23 countries, and in 2012 he has invitations to conduct in Poland, Denmark, Spain, Germany, China, Japan, USA, and Canada. For more information about Bob Chilcott, visit www.bobchilcott.com. Follow him on Twitter @bobchilcott.
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Herman Batelaan
"From Science Fiction to Reality"
Thursday, November 29, 2012
7 p.m.
Moody Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public.
What is the current status of teleportation, faster than light phenomena, and gravitational shielding? Quantum teleportation, lightning effects such as “Elves”, and levitating frogs have all been in the news, and are effects that are actually observed. They are also related to the ideas that make such science fiction series as Star Trek work. But are the observed effects really related to their science fiction counterparts, or is this all just smart marketing? And what is the current status of the research? The answers are perhaps even more surprising than the fiction.
Herman Batelaan is a theoretical physicist from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Batelaan's research areas include atomic, molecular and optical physics. Batelaan is known for his work in coherent electron control. After earning his PhD from the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands in 1991, he held positions at SUNY-Stony Brook, University of Innsbruck, UNL and the Technical University of Eindhoven.
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Arnaud Sussmann, violinist
Thursday, October 25, 2012
7 p.m.
Ayers Recital Hall, Schuech Fine Arts CenterThis event is free and open to the public. Awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2009, violinist Arnaud Sussmann is quickly establishing a reputation as a multi-faceted and compelling artist, earning the highest praise from both critics and audiences alike. Arnaud has performed as a soloist throughout the United States, Central America, Europe, and Asia, and at many renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Smithsonian Museum and the Louvre Museum. He has recently appeared with the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Monaco Chamber Orchestra, Nice Orchestra, Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, El Salvador National Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and presented recitals in numerous cities around the world including New York, Memphis, Chicago, Panama City, San Salvador, London, Paris, and St Petersburg. For more information about Arnaud Sussmann, recordings, videos and performances, visit www.arnaudsussmann.com.
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 The Grace of Silence: A Memoir by Michele Norris discovers her ancestral history and what it means to be an American through the unearthing of family secrets, research and interviews. |
Michele Norris, co-host of NPR's All Things Considered
Thursday, October 18, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Jackson AuditoriumThis event is free and open to the public.  This event will be LIVE STREAMED online.
The co-host of NPR's longest-running national program, All Things Considered, award-winning journalist Michele Norris is one of the most recognized voices in radio. Since she joined the program in 2002, All Things Considered and Norris have received many of journalism's highest honors, including a Peabody Award, duPont Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, and she was named the 2009 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists, solidifying her as an in-demand speaker on current events and American culture. She will step away from her All Things Considered duties until after the 2012 presidential campaign, while continuing to report and produce projects for the organization.
The Grace of Silence and the Power of Words Award-winning journalist Michele Norris's 2010 book The Grace of Silence started out as a quest to uncover how America talked about race in the wake of the Obama presidential election. What resulted was what Norris calls an "accidental memoir." Named one of the year's best books by The Christian Science Monitor, the book became an eye-opening family history lesson revealing her own family's racial legacy and the larger conversation surrounding race in America. The book has also led to the spinoff blog "The Race Card Project" and a deeper look at our attitudes and beliefs about race.
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Josh Gunderson, educational theatre speaker
“Cyberbullying: Perpetrators, Bystanders and Victims”
Monday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m.
Jackson AuditoriumThis event is free and open to the public.
With over six years of experience in educational theatre, Gunderson travels throughout the U.S. discussing real-life examples of positive and negative situations within the online world, specifically the detrimental effects of cyberbullying.
Josh Gunderson is a graduate of Salem State University in Salem, Mass., where he studied English and Theatre, with minors in creative writing, secondary education and performance. He served at Salem State University as director of its nationally recognized Human Action Theatre and as artistic director of its Students’ Work Theatre Project.
Part of this year’s Annual Sam and Jennie Selig Lectures, Gunderson’s presentation, "Cyberbullying: Perpetrators, Bystanders and Victims," focuses on what parents, families and students can do to decrease the harm it causes. The Sam and Jennie Selig Lectures promote the importance of respecting diversity in hopes of educating youth in order to decrease discrimination. This event will be sponsored by the Texas Lutheran University Guadalupe County Community Symposium and Brown Cultural Enrichment Endowment Fund. In conjunction with Gunderson’s cyberbullying presentation, he will also visit local middle schools in the Seguin and Marion Independent School Districts performing “Hooked On Facebook.” This high-energy program shows the pros and cons of the online world in a way that keeps students engaged and entertained, but also has them thinking twice about their digital footprint. Highlighting areas such as thinking before you post, privacy, online identity, bullying, pictures and sexting, Gunderson uses his own unique brand of comedy to explain the rules for internet safety. "Hooked On Facebook" presentations in area schools
Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 9 a.m.
Saegert 6th Grade Center in Seguin ISD
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Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 2 p.m.
AJ Briesemeister Middle School in Seguin ISD
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Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 1 p.m.
Barnes Middle School in Seguin ISD |
Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 1 p.m.
Marion Middle School in Marion ISD |
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U.S. Navy Band Country Current, the Navy's premiere country-bluegrass ensemble
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Jackson AuditoriumAbout Country Current
The United States Navy Band’s “Country Current” country-bluegrass group is the Navy’s premier country music ensemble. The seven-member group was formed in 1973 and quickly established itself in all aspects of country and bluegrass music. The group is under the direction of banjoist Senior Chief Musician Keith M. Arneson.
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Dan Cohen, Executive Director of Music & Memory
pre-festival screening of documentary ALIVE INSIDE
Thursday, September 13, 2012
7 p.m.
Jackson Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public.
Dan Cohen is a featured speaker for a special two-night event discussing the impact of music from generation to generation. Cohen will introduce ALIVE INSIDE prior to the screening, then participate in a post-screening panel with medical professionals and those who can attest to the impact music has on the lives of elderly with Alzheimer's or dementia.
On Wednesday, September 12 at 7 p.m. in Jackson Auditorium, the discussion will turn to the impact music has on the lives of children. The Texas Lutheran University/Mid-Texas Symphony Community Music Academy will present a discussion with San Antonio Symphony Assistant Director Fuji Akiko and other Texas music professionals about how music influenced their lives. After the discussion, there will be a showing of a short documentary about the CMA outreach program, followed by a performance by CMA students in the strings outreach program and training choir. |
About ALIVE INSIDEALIVE INSIDE is the story of Dan Cohen, a small town social worker who discovers the power personalized music has to "awaken" and regenerate deeply locked memories in patients with dementia and Alzheimer's.
In a clip from the film, we meet Henry, a 94-year-old dementia patient unable to recognize his daughter or even remember how many daughters he has. However, after listening to music from his past, he “awakens” almost instantly and is seemingly brought back to life. Alzheimer’s and dementia are a reality for an increasing and often unseen population. Though well intentioned, many nursing homes are not equipped to fully meet the needs of these residents. We are left with several questions without any real or comforting answers: How do I want to age? What can we do for our loved ones? Can we do better?
Alive Inside investigates these questions and the power music has to awaken deeply locked memories. The film follows Dan Cohen, a social worker, who decides on a whim to bring iPods to a nursing home. To his and the staff’s surprise many residents suffering from memory loss seem to “awaken” when they are able to listen to music from their past. With great excitement, Dan turns to renowned neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, and we follow them both as we investigate the mysterious way music functions inside our brains and our lives.
Alive Inside focuses on one man’s journey, but it raises many deep questions about what it means to still be Alive Inside. It questions when we stop being human, and what it takes to re-start a life that has faded away. It asks questions about how we see our elderly, and how we are going to treat an epidemic of these degenerative diseases.
A film by Michael Rossato-Bennett. An Ximotion Film. |
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About Music & MemoryMusic & Memory is a non-profit organization that brings personalized music into the lives of the elderly or infirm through digital music technology, vastly improving quality of life. For more information, visit www.musicandmemory.org.
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William Averitt, composer, Artist in Residence
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Jackson AuditoriumAbout William Averitt
Averitt, a native of Paducah, Kentucky, received the B.M. in Composition from Murray (KY) State University and the M.M. and D.M. in Composition from the Florida State University through an N.D.E.A. Fellowship. Mr. Averitt is the composer of numerous works which have received performances throughout the United States and in Western Europe, Russia and Asia. He has received several composer fellowships, grants and commissions from a wide variety of sources.
Averitt’s 1991 score Afro-American Fragments was the winning work of the 1992 Roger Wagner Center for Choral Studies Choral Composition Competition. This score has been performed by a number of professional choruses including Conspirare, the Washington Singers (Paul Hill), the Desert Chorale, the New Texas Festival, the Air Force Singing Sergeants, Kantorei (Denver, CO), Winchester Musica Viva and by numerous university choruses such as those at the University of South Carolina, the Cleveland Institute, the New England Conservatory and California State University at Los Angeles. In the Spring 1996, Afro-American Fragments was the featured work performed by the Connecticut High School All-state Chorus. In 2004, Conspirare released three movements of Afro-American Fragments as part of their acclaimed CD . . . through the green fuse . . .
Averitt also has been active as a conductor. He was Founder and, for ten seasons, Music Director of WInchester Musica Viva, a community-based professional-level chamber choir. In December 1988, he was presented the first annual “Artie” Award for Excellence in Music by the Shenandoah Arts Council as a reflection of his work with this ensemble in the Winchester area. He was Founder/Music Director of Consort of Voices in 1995-96. From 1981 to 1987, he was Conductor of Orchestras and Opera at Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University.
Dr. Averitt is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Composition at Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia where he has been on the faculty since 1973.
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Aron Ralston
Inspiration for the Film 127 Hours
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Jackson Auditorium |
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IntroductionGrowing up in the Mid-West before moving to Colorado with his family in 1987, Aron had little exposure to the wild outdoors.
But by the time he hiked into a remote area of Utah’s canyon country in April of 2003, he was an experienced outdoorsman out for a walk in the park. Seven miles into the canyon that day, Aron accidentally dislodged a boulder that crushed and pinned his right hand. After six days of entrapment alone, he freed himself with a cheap multi-tool knife and hiked to a miraculous rescue.
Since his amputation, Aron has written an internationally bestselling book, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, spoken to hundreds of audiences around the world, and interviewed with Tom Brokaw, David Letterman, and Jay Leno.
With new prosthetic arms that he designed, Aron returned to his outdoor passions: he finished climbing Colorado’s 59 “Fourteeners,” in winter, solo; he has skied from the summit of Denali, North America’s highest mountain; and, he has led a rafting expedition through the Grand Canyon.
Today, Aron lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he advocates for wilderness protection, and where, in February 2010, he and his wife Jessica embarked on their biggest adventure yet: raising their toddler son, Leo.
127 Hours, the major-motion-picture adaptation of his book, directed by Danny Boyle and starring James Franco, has been nominated for 3 Golden Globe Awards, 8 BAFTA Awards, and 6 Oscars. Aron’s only disappointment was that the soundtrack didn’t have enough songs by his favorite band, Phish. |
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BiographyAron Ralston
Inspiration for the Film 127 Hours
In 2003 Aron Ralston’s story made headlines worldwide. After being pinned by a half-ton boulder for nearly a week in a remote three-foot-wide slot canyon in southern Utah, Ralston narrowly escaped death by severing his right forearm with a dull pocketknife. After applying a tourniquet, he hiked and rappelled for five hours through Blue John Canyon before searchers in a helicopter miraculously rescued him.
Ralston documented the life-altering experience and his remarkable will to survive in his New York Times best-selling book, Between a Rock and a Hard Place. His story has been adapted into a movie by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle. The film, 127 Hours, is being touted as an Oscar contender. Thanks to the movie’s success, the book is back on the Best Seller’s list in 2010.
Ralston graduated as Carnegie Mellon University’s top student in mechanical engineering in 1997, with Phi Beta Kappa honors for a second degree in French. He left his job as a mechanical engineer with Intel in 2002 to follow his passion for outdoor adventures in Colorado.
Aided by radical prosthetic devices that he helped design–Ralston has expanded his adventures to the world’s great peaks, deserts, and rivers. He is the only person to have solo-climbed all 59 of Colorado's 14,000-foot-high mountains in winter; the only person with a disability to have skied from the summit of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain; and in April 2009, he became the first amputee to row a raft through the Grand Canyon.
Today, Ralston lives with his wife Jessica and their son in Boulder, Colorado. He also advocates for Utah and Colorado wilderness. |
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Monday, March 25, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Ayers Recital Hall, Schuech Fine Arts Center
The Second City Touring Company, social and political satire improvisation group
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
Jackson Auditorium
Judy Shepard, civil rights advocate and mother of Matthew Shepard
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
Jackson Auditorium
Bob Chilcott, composer
Youth Choir Festival
January 22-26, 2013
Herman Batelaan
"From Science Fiction to Reality"
Thursday, November 29, 2012
7 p.m.
Moody Auditorium
Arnaud Sussmann, violinist
Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Ayers Recital Hall, Schuech Fine Arts Center
Michele Norris, host of NPR's All Things Considered
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. Jackson Auditorium Josh Gunderson, educational theatre speaker “Cyberbullying: Perpetrators, Bystanders and Victims” Monday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m.
Jackson AuditoriumKrost Symposium 2012, Unlocking the Future: From Mass Incarceration to Restorative Justice October 1-5, 2012 TLU Campus www.tlu.edu/krostU.S. Navy Band Country Current, the Navy's premiere country-bluegrass ensemble Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:30 p.m. Jackson Auditorium Dan Cohen, Executive Director of Music & Memory Screening of documentary ALIVE INSIDE Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 7 p.m. Jackson Auditorium
William Averitt, composer, Artist in Residence
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. Jackson Auditorium Percussion Festival, featuring line upon line Sunday, March 18, 2012 TLU Campus Ricky Ian Gordon, composer Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 7 p.m. Ayers Recital Hall, Schuech Fine Arts Center Ryu Goto, violinist Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 7 p.m. Ayers Recital Hall, Schuech Fine Arts Center
Bach Society Houston
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Chapel of the Abiding Presence
Drs. Henry Leck and Lynn Brinkmeyer for TLU Youth Choral Festival
Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 4 p.m.
Jackson Auditorium
Musical Offerings Beethoven Festival
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Ayers Recital Hall, Schuech Fine Arts Center
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