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An Invitation To You From Conductor John Page
March 9, 2011 at 4:09 pm
See invitation. Boston University Symphony Orchestra Concert at Tsai Performance Center Tomorrow Night — Thursday, March 10. 8:00 pm. Admission is FREE. Fineberg Commission Performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg Les Percussions de Strasbourg joins the BU Symphony Orchestra to perform the world premier of Professor Joshua Fineberg’s Speaking in Tongues. The program also includes […]
Arts Entrepreneurship: What it is, and isn’t.
March 6, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Drexel arts administration professor James Underclofler is developing a course in arts entrepreneurship. He reminds us that arts entrepreneurship is not career counseling for artists. Such counseling is important but it is a distinct objective that might be called professional development, whereas arts entrepreneurship “…encourages whole systems (to be) rethought and reconstructed, where fundamental changes, […]
Metropolitan Museum Offers Fare Carefully Targeted To Children, Teens, and Adults
March 3, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Not resting its laurels, the venerable New York museum delivers to all audiences.
InCite 2011 — March 11-14 — New York
March 1, 2011 at 3:35 pm
The Power of Art Please join us in New York for our fifth InCite Festival. This is a wonderful opportunity to display to the New York professional arts community the accomplishments of our students, the gifts of our faculty, and the reach of our programs. Click here for details. “Every year around this time undergraduate […]
Opera’s Composer, Stephen Paulus, Lauds BU’s The Postman Always Rings Twice
March 1, 2011 at 12:00 am
The Boston University College of Fine Arts presented Stephen Paulus’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, this past week on the mainstage of the Boston University Theatre. The opera featured conductor William Lumpkin, stage director Jim Petosa, singers from the School of Music Opera Institute and vocal program, and accompaniment by the BU Chamber Orchestra, with production […]
Major Events for CFA
February 27, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Tonight I would like to call your attention to two important events: William Kentridge will give the 2011 Tim Hamill Visiting Artist Lecture on Monday, February 28, at 6:30 pm in Boston University’s Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue. One of South Africa’s leading visual artists, William Kentridge is best known for his remarkable films, works […]
BU Productions Warm Late-Winter Theatre Scene
February 26, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Aura by Carlos Fuentes Recently, I attended a School of Theatre production of Aura, based on the Carlos Fuentes novella of the same name. The story of sexuality and aging, among other things, unfolded as the audience moved from room to room. The production’s artful staging allowed the audience to be within inches of the actors […]
Should academic institutions sell their art to balance budgets?
February 21, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Inside Higher Ed reports that some academic institutions are having trouble hanging on to their art collections in the face of tight budgets. Fortunately, BU is not in this position as it is not a collecting institution. This is because our students have a broad array of galleries and renowned museums from which to choose […]
Now is the time for virtual expansion of CFA
February 13, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Yesterday, in a New York Times article, the new director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell, spoke of expanding the institution — virtually. We must also expand a virtual CFA by increasing live streaming concerts, theater productions, research lectures, and an ever-changing virtual gallery!
