Calendar of Events

On second Sundays at the Laurel Theatre.

1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916. For information: 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org. For tickets: 865-523-7521, www.KnoxTIX.com

GO! Contemporary Dance Works, a local non-profit dance company comprised of 22 local youth aged 12-18, will present GO! Revisited. Artistic Director, Lisa Hall McKee, will present several original works as well as the reprisal of the innovative work, “The Runaway”, a victorious story of a runaway teenager and her struggle for survival. Befriended by a compassionate street veteran, the two homeless teenagers begin many fun yet sometimes eerie adventures. Combining dance and athletics, moving fences, basketball gangs and spinning umbrellas as well as dumpsters, fires in barrels and trampolines all add to the chaotic street scene the teenagers encounter along their journey. Audiences can look forward to a fascinating performance of lighthearted humor and edgy choreography mixed with a high degree of artistic excellence. Appropriate for all ages. Tickets can be purchased from the website or from Studio Arts for Dancers.

Clarence Brown Theatre, 1740 Andy Holt Avenue on the UT campus, Knoxville TN. Information: 865-539-2475, www.gocontemporarydance.com

The 3rd Annual event will blend church choristers and soloists from across East Tennessee together with Knoxville Opera soloists in a unique presentation of gospel and opera. The free-admission concert, one of the company’s yearly 100 education/outreach activities, will take place on Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 4:30 p.m. at the Greater Warner Tabernacle A.M.E. Zion Church ( 3800 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue).

Jeanie Turner Melton, Music Director of Mt. Olive Baptist Church , along with Knoxville Opera Maestro Brian Salesky, will conduct the 50-voice Knoxville Opera Gospel Choir.

Highlighting the list of soloists are cast members from Knoxville Opera’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata including Metropolitan Opera soprano Joyce El-Khoury, Zachary Borichevsky, and Kevin Thompson. Also featured are Yvonne Andrews, Denisha Ballew, Evelyn Jack, Horace Smith and, of course, The Knoxville Opera Gospel Choir.

Among the program’s selections will be We Fill the Sanctuary, Ride Up in the Chariot, Walk Together Children, When Sunday Comes, O Redeemed and excerpts from West Side Story, Big River, The Land of Smiles, Mefistofele, and Knoxville Opera’s 2011-2012 productions of La Traviata, Romeo & Juliette and Otello. Admission is free and early arrival is highly recommended.

At Greater Warner Tabernacle A.M.E. Zion Church. Information: 865-524-0795, www.knoxvilleopera.com

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will present a family-friendly concert for children ages 3-8 and their families on Sunday, October 9 at 2:30 PM at the South Campus of Cokesbury United Methodist Church. The concert, entitled Music, Music Everywhere, will explore how music can be heard all around us throughout the day: when we get up, go to school, play games on the playground, fix dinner and get ready for bed. Vocalist Katy Wolfe Zahn, animated friend Picardy Penguin® and the Sound Company Children’s Choir will all join Music Director Lucas Richman and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra on stage for this fun-filled concert.

Join us for a delicious dinner, then dance the night away as the KJO swings through the classic hits from the 1930s and 40s!

The Home of Sherri Lee
6pm Cocktails
7pm Dinner
Jacket Requested, Dancing Encouraged

$150 per person ($100 tax-deductible)
Call 522-7755 for reservations
Amy Williams, Fundraiser Chair

Library program to honor Hispanic composers for Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month and National Arts & Humanities Month, Knox County Public Library is pleased to present violinist Lisa Muci and pianist Danny Bryant in a recital of music by Hispanic composers on Sunday, Oct. 9, at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the East Tennessee History Center . Admission is free.

Lisa Muci is well-known in Knoxville for her masterful work with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. She is a frequent soloist for KSO, who most recently performed as first violin soloist in Vivaldi’s Concerto for 4 Violins in A Minor. She was Acting Co-Associate Concertmaster during KSO’s 2010-2011 season.

Muci is also a devoted music educator and has a passion for introducing people to new music and engaging her own curiosity. That passion led her to develop this recital dedicated to Hispanic composers. Her ancestry is Mexican and African American.

She is accompanied on piano by Danny Brian. One of the most in-demand accompanists on the Knoxville music scene, Danny Brian was first-place winner of the Mid-South Piano Competition and a finalist in the National Piano Competition. He is staff accompanist for the UT Music Department, organist at Cokesbury United Methodist Church and on the artistic staff with the Knoxville Choral Society.

Sunday, October 9 Visit Ijams Sunday for Animal Programs at 2, 3 and 4 pm. Free to members, $2 for non-members. No registration required.

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Grounds and trails open during daylight hours. Call for Visitor Center hours. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

Fountain City Art Center Annual Membership Show

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Avenue, Knoxville , TN 37918
October 7 - November 4, 2011
Contact Info: 865.357.2787
www.fountaincityartctr.org

129 North Main Street
Greeneville, TN 37743
(423) 787-0195

www.james-ben.com

"LARGER THAN LIFE" Exhibit at NPAC Displays Great Talent and Inspiration

As a prelude to the holiday season, the final 2011 exhibit in the lobby of the Niswonger Performing Arts Center by James-Ben: Studio and Gallery Art Center is set to open Friday, October 7th. "LARGER THAN LIFE" features work from 4 of the Art Center's most gifted artists who are expressing themselves in large format images. Barbara de Saussure, Medha Karandikar, David Daus, and Lorna Paquin have all been represented in previous NPAC exhibits but "LARGER THAN LIFE" brings together some of their more striking works in a group show of larger images. The exhibit is open free to the public and can be viewed during lobby hours at NPAC,10:00 am to 5:30 pm Monday through Friday, and during scheduled performances.

For further information about "LARGER THAN LIFE" or the Art at NPAC series, contact James-Ben Stockton at (423) 787-0195.

Justin Randolf Thompson's "The Pits" is a multi-disciplinary installation and performance that investigates the political employment of sound, both in realm of propaganda and as protest, and the visual hierarchies of the architectural organization of theatre space. The work involves a direct collaboration with sculpture, architecture and music department students and can be broken down into four interrelated parts:
-A raised stage supporting a faux marble inlay floor
-A pit orchestra performance
-A chandelier
-A series of three freestanding sculptures

This orchestra will be a collaboration with students and faculty of the UT music department. Jazz musician and composer Jason Thompson (a Knoxville local and UT Graduate) will work with this group to create an 8-10 piece pit orchestra that will be conducted to perform a score that shifts from classical, triumphant marches, into the drum and flute sound of Black Power poets, through folk styles of spiritual praise, and finally into abrasive Hip Hop. The score will be recorded with each instrument taken separately, and following the opening performance; the orchestra will be replaced (in each of their seats) by their recording. The mix of sound references is meant to associate triumph with climax and climax with ascent and the skewing of the elements geographical and cultural identity addresses sound's social transcendence and simultaneous role as entertainment.

The stage and sculptural elements will be created as a collaboration with the artist, UT's architecture department, and UT's sculpture department.

Opening Reception: October 7, 5-9pm with live musical performance as part of First Friday opening.

UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Wednesday-Friday: 11AM - 6PM; Saturday: 10AM - 3PM. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

Norman and Ethel Thayer return for the forty-eighth year to their summer home on Golden Pond. Ethel is the perfect foil for an aging Norman, who suffers heat palpitations and a failing memory—but is still as tart-tongued and observant as ever. A visit from their middle-aged daughter and her fiancé leaves them with a teenaged boy, who, for the summer, becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple always longed for. A touching, funny and warmly perceptive study of a spirited and lovable trio brought even closer together by incidence.

Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Information and tickets: 865-482-9999, www.orplayhouse.com

Norman and Ethel Thayer return for the forty-eighth year to their summer home on Golden Pond. Ethel is the perfect foil for an aging Norman, who suffers heart palpitations and a failing memory—but is still as tart-tongued and observant as ever. A visit from their middle-aged daughter and her fiancé leaves them with a teenaged boy, who, for the summer, becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple always longed for. A touching, funny and warmly perceptive study of a spirited and lovable trio brought even closer together by incidence of a heart attack.
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