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Music faculty perform Tyberg’s Song Cycle
The Department of Music, in collaboration with The Marcel Tyberg Musical Legacy Fund of the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies, will present UB faculty members Alison d’Amato (piano), Tony Arnold (soprano) and Alexander Hurd (baritone) in a performance of Marcel Tyberg’s 21-song collection from German poet Heinrich Heine’s “Lyrischen Intermezzo.”
The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. April 13 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
An Austrian-born composer who was murdered in 1944 by the Nazis in Auschwitz, Tyberg’s works were relatively unknown until 2006, when the first public performances were held. Heine was known for his lyric poems, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder (art songs).
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for faculty/staff/alumni, senior citizens and non-UB students, and free to UB students with valid ID. Tickets can be purchased in person or by calling the Slee Hall box office, the Center for the Arts box office or any Ticketmaster outlet.
Theatre and Dance to present ‘Our Town’
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present Thornton Wilder’s classic Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Our Town” April 14 through April 18 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Jerry Finnegan, associate professor of theatre and dance, and head of the acting program, directs.
“Our Town” is one of the most performed plays in America. Set in the New England town of Grover’s Corners, N.H., it traces the lives of two young lovers, Emily and George, from childhood to marriage to full maturity, capturing the great joys and inevitable sorrows of human life.
Tickets are $18 for the general public and $10 for students and senior citizens, and are available at the CFA box office and at all Ticketmaster locations, including Ticketmaster.com.
Anthropologist to give ‘Muse’ lecture
The second season of the “Scholars at the Muse” lecture and discussion series at the Muse Restaurant in the Albright-Knox Art Museum will wrap up at 4 p.m. April 16 with a talk by UB political anthropologist Vasiliki Neofotistos, assistant professor of anthropology.
Neofotistos’ lecture, titled “Averting War in the Balkans,” is based on her recent book project about the republic’s 2001 armed conflict—an ethnographic case study of tactics used by members of the Orthodox Macedonian and Muslim Albanian communities to cope with the upheaval of the Macedonian state.
The “Scholars at the Muse” series is free and open to the public and sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute and Riverrun. For more information, visit the Humanities Institute Web site.
UB to host student environmental summit
UB will host a student-run environmental summit organized by Power Shift New York April 16-18 on the North Campus.
The three-day event is being sponsored and organized by the UB Environmental Network, UB Green, UB Campus Dining and Shops, UB undergraduate Student Association, UB Office of Student Life, Geneseo Environmental Organization, Fredonia Student Sustainability Initiative, Green Alfred and Cornell University’s KyotoNOW!
Based on a 2007, national student-activist campaign to combat climate change, Power Shift New York is a volunteer network of youth and student leaders who advocate and promote sustainability in New York State. Many UB students will speak on such topics as renewable energy, biodiversity, environmental education and sustainability issues on campus.
Overall, nearly 60 speakers will participate in panels and workshops, including Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs; Cassandra Seawell, director of community programs at Buffalo ReUse; environmentalist Walter Simpson; state Sen. Antoine Thompson; and Dominic Frongillo, a green-minded politician who, at the age of 26, is the youngest to ever serve as deputy town supervisor for the Town of Caroline, N.Y.
The summit also will feature a peaceful demonstration at 3 p.m. April 16 outside the Getzville headquarters of U.S. Energy Development Corp., an oil-and-natural-gas drilling operator that is exploring drilling operations in Allegany State Park, the state’s largest state park and one of its most bio-diverse forest ecosystems.
Western New York students, businesses and residents are welcome to attend this event. For more information and to register, click here.
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