CONTACT: Brad White
Marketing and Publicity Manager
Center for the Arts, Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, CA 90263
(310) 506-4055
BOX OFFICE: (310) 506-4522
http://arts.pepperdine.edu/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
FINE ARTS DIVISION

announces

MUSIC AND THEATRE DEPARTMENT PERFORMANCES

Various dates, January-April 2011
Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA

The Pepperdine University Fine Arts Division announces several music and theatre department performances, listed below, during the months of January through April 2011.

The programs are part of the University's Mary Pickford-Stotsenberg Performances Series.

For more information, call Pepperdine's Box Office at (310) 506-4522 or visit http://arts.pepperdine.edu/. Tickets (other than those that are discounted or free) are also available through Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787.

MUSIC
Free tickets to choir and orchestra concerts are available for Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff with ID.

Louise Lofquist, piano, and James Demler, baritone
Pepperdine Faculty/Guest Artist Recital
Tuesday, January 11, 7:30 p.m., Free
Raitt Recital Hall

A Keyboard Conversation® with Jeffrey Siegel
In this "concert with commentary," pianist Jeffrey Siegel will speak briefly about each composition before performing the work in its entirety, concluding the program with a short Q&A. The program, titled "Gershwin and Friends," features well-loved American pianistic treasures, including, among other works, the rarely performed solo piano version of Rhapsody in Blue, Aaron Copland's humorous Cat and the Mouse, and the Pepperdine premiere of the unpublished Meditation on a Wedding of Leonard Bernstein. Siegel will perform on Pepperdine's recently purchased Steinway concert grand piano.
Friday, January 14, 7:30 p.m., Free
Raitt Recital Hall

Christopher Parkening Master Class
Saturday, February 19, 2-6 p.m., Free for auditors
Raitt Recital Hall

Paul Barnes, Piano
Pepperdine Guest Artist Recital
Monday, March 7, 7:30 p.m., Free
Raitt Recital Hall

Andrew Malloy, Trombone
Pepperdine Faculty Recital
Monday, March 14, 7:30 p.m., Free
Raitt Recital Hall

Pepperdine Wind Ensemble
Featuring the world premiere of Fanfares to Fast Track by Pepperdine's composer-in-residence, N. Lincoln Hanks. Also featured: Pepperdine adjunct professors Andrew Malloy, trombone, and Dustin McKinney, trumpet. Malloy will perform a work by Soren Hyldgaard titled Rapsodia Borealis, and Malloy and McKinney will join forces for a performance of Joseph Turrin's Fandango.
Friday, March 25, 7:30 p.m., Free
Smothers Theatre

Pepperdine Collegium Musicum Novum and Pepperdine Percussion Ensemble
N. Lincoln Hanks and Scott Higgins, Directors
"Music in Spirals: music of minimalist composers Arvo Part, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley"
Monday, April 4, 7:30 p.m., Free
Stauffer Chapel

Pepperdine Chamber Ensembles
Monday, April 11, 7:30 p.m., Free
Raitt Recital Hall

Pepperdine Choir Masterworks Concert
Ryan Board, Conductor
Thursday, April 14, 7:30 p.m., $10
Smothers Theatre

Pepperdine Jazz Ensemble
Brian Scanlon, Director
Monday, April 18, 7:30 p.m., Free
Raitt Recital Hall

Pepperdine Orchestra Masterworks Concert
Tony Cason, Conductor
Thursday, April 21, 7:30 p.m., $10
Smothers Theatre

OPERA

The Flora L. Thornton Opera Program
Little Women
By Mark Adamo
Henry Price, Director
With the Pepperdine University Orchestra
More than a century after its publication, Louisa May Alcott's chronicle of growing up female in Civil War-era New England is as beloved as ever. In 1998 Mark Adamo set the story as an opera, which has met with glowing reviews from critics and audiences alike. "Beautifully wrought, tightly executed, and consistently entertaining" (Los Angeles Times).
Thursday and Saturday, February 24 and 26, 7:30 p.m., $15
$10 for Pepperdine students; $12 for Pepperdine faculty and staff
Smothers Theatre

THEATRE

Proof
By David Auburn
Scott Alan Smith, Director
Catherine spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a noted mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions, her estranged sister, and the attentions of one of her father's former students who hopes to find valuable work in her father's 103 notebooks. Her most difficult problem: How much of her father's madness--or genius--will she inherit? Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play. Contains adult language.
Tuesday-Friday, January 25-28, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 29, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., $15
$10 for Pepperdine students
$12 for Pepperdine faculty and staff
Helen E. Lindhurst Theatre; no late seating allowed
The audience is invited to join a talkback with the actors and director immediately after the Wednesday performance.

Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Jason Chanos, Director
Perhaps the most famous love story in all of literature, this tragic tale of the star-crossed relationship between two young scions of the Montagues and Capulets--aristocratic Italian families who happen to be in a nasty feud at a most unfortunate time--has been fast-forwarded to a future, apocalyptic world rife with gang warfare.
Tuesday-Saturday, April 5-9, 7:30 p.m., $15
$10 for Pepperdine students
$12 for Pepperdine faculty and staff
Smothers Theatre
The audience is invited to join a talkback with the actors and director immediately after the Wednesday performance.

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