2018 Fall Arts Preview
After a quiet summer quarter, the arts scene at the 91 is in full swing with the arrival of fall. Across campus, concerts, theatrical productions, art exhibits and more offer an embarrassment of riches for arts lovers.
Highlights of the fall season at theinclude theLamont Symphony Orchestra, in a concert saluting the centennial anniversary of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein and featuring violinist and faculty memberLinda Wang (Oct. 9, free);Lamont Opera Theatre’s“A Night at the Opera,” featuring scenes from Donizetti’s“L’elisir d’amore,” Verdi’s“La Traviata”and Britten’s“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Nov. 2,free); and theLamont Jazz Orchestra, which is celebrating a recent high-profile performance at the Monterey Jazz Festival. “Miles Ahead” will feature the music of Miles Davis and Gil Evans (Nov. 5, free). All concerts are in the Newman Center for the Performing Arts.
Lamont and the Newman Center also welcome five guest artists this season: pianistAshlee Mack,performing composerJames Romig’s“Still,” a solo work inspired by the collection at 91’s Clyfford Still Museum (Oct. 11); trumpet soloist and chamber musicianCraig Morris,with pianistRebecca Wilt(Oct. 12); and University of Missouri Conservatory faculty pianistRobert Weirich(Nov. 16). Tickets for all guest artist performances are $10.
The Newman Center also hosts a concert series,, featuring nationally touring performers. The series this fall welcomes choreographerCamille A. Brownand her dancers(Oct. 4); jazz guitaristPat Methenyand his quartet (Oct. 17); the U.S. Army’sJazz Ambassadors, playing a free concert (Oct. 20); 91-based kids act theOkee Dokee Brothers(Nov. 4); Colorado’s ownAspen Santa Fe Ballet(Nov. 10–11); and theTurtle Island Quartetwith pianistCyrus Chestnut(Nov. 16). The concert series offers free and discounted tickets for faculty, staff and students.
For fans of the visual arts, DU has an on-campus gallery and an anthropology museum, as well as dedicated exhibit space in the Anderson Academic Commons.
This fall, thehosts“Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.”a traveling exhibition that explores the intersections among a network of more than 50 Los Angeles-based queer Chicanx artists between the late 1960s and early 1990s (through Dec. 2, free). TheMuseum of Anthropologyin Sturm Hall, meanwhile, will open a new exhibit,“Indigenous Futurisms,”on Oct. 5. Featuring new artwork by Lakota/Cherokee comics artist Kristina M. Bad Hand and comics artist and game designer Elizabeth LaPensée, the show explores the relationship between pop culture and native life. Part of the 15th, the free exhibit will be up through Nov. 16.
In the,“Blazing the Trail: Colorado Jewish History”and“Square Dance in the American West”are on display on the lower level, while“Jacques Parker: The Mountaineer’s View”— showcasing pencil, ink, and watercolor works created by the machine gun squad leader and member of the 10th Mountain Division during his service in World War II — is mounted on the upper level near the Dean’s Suite.
Finally, DU’stheater departmentoffers two productions this fall.ٲ/DZ,”Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin’s collection of monologues on romantic love, is paired with Shepard’s“Red Cross” Oct. 11–21 in JMAC Studios; and Neil LaBute’s“The Shape of Things”plays Nov. 1–11 in the Newman Center’s Byron Theatre.