Women in Music
Someone Will Remember Us

Lauren Pelon will be performing a concert at Loyola University Chicago on Friday, October 17, at 7:30 PM, in Mundelein Auditorium. The performance is totally free and open to the public, and is a part of the new FUCHS professional music series at Loyola.  The concert is hosted by the Loyola University Department of Fine and Performing Arts. Space can be reserved by contacting the box office, or 773.508.3847

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Theatre 

A visit from the British American Drama Academy (BADA)
David Byron, faculty member of the British American Drama Academy (BADA), will be visiting the Loyola theater department on Wednesday, October 22 at 12:30 pm in Room 1016. He'll discuss the Study Abroad programs at BADA which have enabled Loyola students to study acting in London or at Oxford University for fully transferable credit and with financial aid. Anyone unable to attend may contact David.

The British American Drama Academy (BADA), based in London during the school year and at Oxford University during the summer, was founded to enable students from around the world to study classical theatre with leading actors and directors of the British stage.  The Academy offers three separate conservatory programs to college students interested in acting, directing, playwriting and criticism.  Working closely with established practitioners of these crafts, students study voice production, scene study (Shakespeare, High Comedy, contemporary), mask work, stage combat, audition technique, movement, acting for the camera, theater history, directing, and drama criticism - and perform in fully mounted productions in professional venues in London while also attending regular Master Classes.

Past and present teachers include Sir Ben Kingsley, Alan Rickman, Kevin Spacey, Sir Derek Jacobi, Fiona Shaw, Jeremy Irons, James Bundy (Dean of the Yale School of Drama), Deborah Warner, Mark Wing-Davey, John Barton,
Henry Goodman, Simon Callow and others.  Central to
the student's education at BADA are excursions to performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre in London. Classes are held in London during the autumn, winter and spring, and at Balliol
College, Oxford, in July. Students are awarded the same, full credit as would be earned at Loyola and any financial aid the student is currently receiving is applied to the cost of the London program. The cost of a term or two terms in the London program is generally identical to that of a term
or two terms at Loyola.

David Byron teaches British theater history at Yale and at BADA, both in London and at Oxford. A graduate of Yale and of the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, David was an actor on stage and in film and television in London, New York and Los Angeles for twenty years. His
experience both as an American theater student training in London and as a teacher of those students at the present time makes him especially sympathetic to the concerns of anyone considering study abroad.

Visit BADA website for further information.

 

The Lonesome West, Loyola's next studio production, is in need of a fight choreographer. The fight choreographer needs to have been enrolled in last spring's Stage Combat class, or be trained by an accredited fight choreographer. Must also have a flexible schedule throughout October and early November. If interested, please contact Alexis Haynes or Kate York.

 

 

 

Pirates of Penzance fight workshop
This is the last chance to sign-up for the Pirates of Penzance fight workshop. The fight workshop will occur in two groups on Saturday October 18 in Mundelein Auditorium. The first group will workshop from 12:00 PM-2:00 PM while the second group will work from 2:00 PM-4:00 PM. This is a great way to start off the Pirates of Penzance audition process and an opportunity to learn stage combat techniques from Pirates of Penzance's fight choreographer Matt Hawkins. Sign up sheets are available in the theatre hallway, but space is limited so sign-up quickly. 

  

 

Special Events

Symposium: From the Natural to the Fantastic: Italian Drawings 1500-1650
Art Institute of Chicago: Friday, October 17, 2008 
Fullerton Hall, Space is limited. To reserve a seat, call (312) 443-3756

In conjunction with the exhibition Drawn to Drawings: The Goldman Collection, the Art Institute is hosting a series of lectures. It will focus on the draftsman's transformation of nature into art through the mediation of artifice. Papers will explore the tension between the imitation of nature and the creation of the  “idea” (disegno interno) of the “most beautiful form”. From 1500-1650, the dialogue between the natural and the fantastic was constantly re-adjusting: mannerist artists boldly pushed the expressive power of the elaborately posed figure to the limits of reality. Their “fantasy” was also apparent in the willful manipulation of space. In the Baroque era, with the return to a normalcy of transcription of form and a renewed emphasis on the “natural”, “fantasy” assumed a less dominant, but still significant place, frequently located in interpretive narrative and illusionistic decoration. Visit our website for further information.

Dance

Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago is performing at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance October 24 and 25.  Experience this exhilarating and energizing show you won't want to miss.  See dynamic dance choreographed or inspired by the legendary man who created the jazz dance art form, Gus Giordano.  Loyola University students and faculty can receive $5 off their tickets by using code DANCE when they call 312-334-7777 or visit our website 
 
 

Scholarship

The STA Scholarship: Jack Weiss Founder Scholarship Award: $500

There will be two Scholarships granted this year.

Details: Entrants must be STA Student Members. STA Student Membership is free. Sign up for membership at www.sta-chicago.org, or simply submit your poster. Students will automatically become members. Awarding of the scholarship will be determined by a poster competition. The competition is open to registered college students.
Entrants must have a 3.0 GPA.

One poster per entrant.
Size: 24 in. x 36 in. vertical.

Poster Theme: Typography as “meta” communication.
There is a $10 submission fee, payable via PayPal only.
Enter by emailing the poster as a high resolution pdf to president@sta-chicago.org.
Questions can be directed to president@sta-chicago.org.
The posters will be judged by the scholarship committee: Cheri Gearhart, Joseph Essex
Roberta Kozuch and Jack Weiss.
There will be two winning posters selected. The winning posters and any Honorable Mention posters will be inducted into the student section of the Chicago Design Archive.
Theme for poster:
Typography as “meta” communication.
Meta- is a prefix used to express a higher, deeper, symbolic or more complex meaning. For example, the metaphor “dense as a jungle” indicates teeming with vegetation, but it also indicates complicated, tangled or difficult to understand. While physics describes the physical arrangement of the world, metaphysics describes the spiritual or cosmological significance of the world. Meta- points in many directions – to a concept, an explanation, a definition, an example, just to name a few.
The STA will reproduce the top posters (at 24 in. x 36 in.) and invite all scholarship entrants to the holiday party where the top posters will be included in the silent auction.
Timeline:
Submission Deadline: October 29
Judging: November
Show/Holiday Party/Silent Auction: December

 

 

DFPA Resource Center Hours

Fall 2008:

Music:
Mondays  9:00am-11:00am; 1:00pm-6:30pm
Tuesdays  11:30am-6:30pm
Wednesdays  9:00am-6:30pm
Thursdays 11:00am-7:00pm
Fridays 2:30pm-6:30pm

Theatre:
Mondays 10:00am-12:30pm; 2:30pm-5:30pm
Tuesdays 4:00pm-6:30pm
Wednesdays 2:30pm-5:30pm
Thursdays 1:00pm-6:30pm
Fridays 10:00am – 6:00pm

All music and books must be properly checked out.

 

 

Faculty News

Dr. Gustavo Leone's work Mundo for Voice and Orchestra will be performed as part of the International Music Festival Bernal Jimenez on November 18, 2008 at the Palacio de Clavijero, in Morelia, Mexico. Dr. Leone is one of the guest composers at that festival.
 
Dr. Leone's Fantasia for violin, guitar and chamber orchestra, commissioned by the San Luis Obispo Chamber Orchestra will be premiered on March 22, 2009 in CA, Dr. Leone will perform the guitar part of the Fantasia at the premiere.
 
Boleros for the Disenchanted, by Jose Rivera, directed by Henry Godinez, will be produced at the Albert in the Goodman Theatre in May 2009. Dr. Leone will be writing the music for the production.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Ticket Offer

 

 

Pegasus Players

$10 tickets for the production of Continental Divide this Saturday Oct. 17.  Continental Divide is a 2 play cycle. The first play is called Mothers Against, which features the history of a more conservative political group while the second play, Daughters of the Revolution, features the history of a liberal political group. Both plays are being performed this Saturday  Oct. 17.  Mothers will be performed at 3:00 and Daughters will take place at 8:00.  If you are available to see both plays, the price is $20, or just $10 for either play. To get the discount, call Pegasus Players at (773)878-9761 ext.17, ask for Jason, and say that you're a friend of Laura Deger's looking for a $10 ticket.  It's a great way to kick off the election season!