Pepperdine Fine Arts Department Announces Spring Events
By: A.A. Cristi Dec. 18, 2018
The Pepperdine University Fine Arts Division announces several music and theatre performances, listed below, during the months of January through April 2019.
For more information, call Pepperdine's Box Office at (310) 506-4522 or visit arts.pepperdine.edu.
THEATRE
Well
by Lisa Kron,
Bradley Griffin, Director
Produced by special arrangement with THE Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois
"This play is not about my mother and me," begins Lisa Kron in this hilarious, moving story that combines the genres of solo performance and experimental theatre with the timeless story of mothers and daughters. Written by the author of the Tony-winning musical Fun Home, Well marked Lisa Kron's Broadway debut in 2006 both as a playwright and as a performer.
This production contains mature themes. Recommended for ages 15+.
No late seating allowed. Join a talk back with the actors and director after the Wednesday performance.
Tuesday, January 22-Friday, January 25, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 26, 2019, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
$15
Lindhurst Theatre
The Taming of the Shrew
Scott Alan Smith, Director
The Pepperdine Theatre Department's production of The Taming of the Shrew promises to be anything but tame. In this unbridled new spin on Shakespeare's comedic battle of the sexes, themes of cross-dressing, gender roles, love, power, relationships, and companionship are explored and raucous heights are reached when the shrew is truly put on the other foot . . . Scott Alan Smith directs Andrew Borba's celebrated version that thrilled audiences at the famed Chautauqua Theatre Company.
Join a talk back with the actors and director after the Wednesday performance.
Wednesday, April 3-Friday, April 5, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 6, 2019, 2 p.m.
$15
Smothers Theatre
OPERA
The Flora L. Thornton Opera Program presents
Die Fledermaus
Music by Johann Strauss (ii)
Libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée
Keith Colclough, Director
With the Pepperdine University Orchestra
Tony Cason, Conductor
Mistaken identities, love affairs, and lighthearted revenge are all tied together with the intoxicating rhythm of the Viennese waltz. Johann Strauss' beloved operetta Die Fledermaus is both nostalgic and progressive. It captures the charm of cosmopolitan Vienna and imagines what would happen if for just one night, we were free of the bonds of our social status.
Sung in German with supertitles and English dialogue.
Thursday, February 21, 2019, 7:30 p.m. & Saturday, February 23, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
$20
Smothers Theatre
MUSIC
Free tickets to choir and orchestra concerts are available for Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff with ID.
Parkening Guitar Concert Series
Christopher Parkening, Director
Tuesday, January 8, 2019, 5 p.m.
Free
Payson Library
Parkening Master Class
Christopher Parkening, Director
Saturday, February 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
Free
Raitt Recital Hall
New Music Recital
Lincoln Hanks, Director
Sunday, February 3, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Free
Raitt Recital Hall
Pepperdine Guitar Concert Series
Christopher Parkening, Director
Tuesday, February 12, 2019, 5 p.m.
Free
Payson Library
Alexander Treger Violin Master Class
Alexander Treger, Director
Saturday, March 9, 2019, 2 p.m.
Free
Raitt Recital Hall
Parkening Guitar Concert Series
Christopher Parkening, Director
Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 5 p.m.
Free
Payson Library
Pepperdine Wind Ensemble
Tony Cason, Director
Thursday, March 21, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Free
Smothers Theatre
Pepperdine Jazz Ensemble
Vincent Trombetta, Director
Monday, April 8, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Free
Smothers Theatre
Parkening Guitar Concert Series
Christopher Parkening, Director
Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 5 p.m.
Free
Payson Library
Pepperdine Orchestra and Choir Masterworks Concert
Tony Cason, Director
Featuring the 2019 Thomas M. Osborn Concerto Competition winner
Thursday, April 11, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
$10
Smothers Theatre
Pepperdine Chamber Choir and the Pickford Ensemble
Lincoln Hanks, Director
Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Free
Stauffer Chapel
Guitar Chamber Concert
Christopher Parkening, Director
Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Raitt Recital Hall
Pepperdine Orchestra
Tony Cason, Director
Thursday, April 18, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Free
Smothers Theatre
ART EVENTS
Career Night in the Arts
Thursday, February 7, 2019, 7 p.m.
Free
Weisman Museum
ART HISTORY
Gender, Grief, and the History of Emotions in Italian Renaissance Art
Dr. Heather Graham
California State University, Long Beach
This presentation explores how images of lamentation over the dead Christ created in 15th-and 16th-century Italy reflected and reinforced contemporaneous ideas about gender and emotional experience. While modeling ideal public mourning, these scenes of collective grief also visually articulate Renaissance medical understanding of the emotions as materially based and gender-specific-that is, they confirm the early modern notion that men and women were psycho-biologically predisposed to different emotional experiences. Lamentation images provide unique insight into the spectrum of emotions that Italian Renaissance people considered appropriate, on the one hand, for men and, on the other, for women.
Heather Graham is Assistant Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach. She is a specialist in Italian Renaissance art history. Her current book project, Bodies of Mourning: Grief, Maniera, and the History of Affect, c. 1520-1550, considers viewers' responses to models of grieving behaviors presented to them in public painted altarpieces created in central Italy through the dual lenses of the history of emotions and of the body. She is Co-Director of the CSULB Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, CSULB Art History Graduate Student Coordinator, former officer of the Italian Art Society, and Webmaster of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 10-11:30 a.m.
Free
Weisman Museum
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