FREDONIA – The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center will present a special free recital featuring some of the most talented students from the State University of New York at Fredonia’s School of Music on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Presented in partnership with Ekstasis Duo’s ...
The 50-member New Horizons Band of Western New York will present their Fall Concert at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The free concert will be held in the Harry A. King Concert Hall on the SUNY Fredonia Campus. After opening the concert with Jack Stamp’s arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner as a “love song to the country” in a setting intended to portray the nation’s stirred patriotism following the attacks of 9/11, the band, under the of Dr. Katherine M. McKay, music director, will show their support and respect for the Republic of Ukraine by performing their stirring national anthem. ...
The Hillman Opera returns for the 2022-23 season with a compelling work based on a play by Tennessee Williams. “Summer and Smoke” by Lee Hoiby with libretto by Lanford Wilson opens Thursday in Marvel Theatre for four performances. It is presented by the School of Music in cooperation with the Department of Theatre and Dance. The Williams play, set from 1900 to 1916 was written in 1948 and made into a movie in 1961. Hoiby and Wilson turned the play into an opera in 1971. Hillman Opera Producer Dr. Robert Strauss noted that Hoiby did a residency at Fredonia in 2010, the year ...
The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center presents Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a special program with Musicologist and Beatles Expert Scott Freiman, on Thursday at 7 p.m. The program is followed by an opportunity for audience members to ask ...
Nineteen Dance majors will perform when the Fredonia Dance Program presents the annual Merrins Chamber Concert from Nov. 3 to 5 at the State University of New York at Fredonia. The dance concert will include Contemporary Ballet, Jazz, Musical Theatre Styles and Commercial Contemporary, ...
The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center presents An Evening of Cello and Violin, with Cellist Jolyon Pegis and Violinist Maria Schleuning, on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Included on the program is the world premiere of a piano trio version of Partners, A Double Concerto for Violin, Cello ...
