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Glorious Storytelling in August Wilson’s Politically Potent, Humorous ‘Two Trains Running’
In “Two Trains Running,” an optimistic ex-con enters the insular confines of Memphis Lee’s diner and awakens a cast of older and skeptical characters to the possibilities of a new era. Set in the turbulence of 1969, a time much like today, “Two Trains Running” is one of the most humorous and politically potent of Wilson’s 20th-Century Cycle plays.
VPA’s Yvonne Buchanan shows work in Everson’s newly renovated video gallery
“Strange Tongue,” a video/sound installation by Yvonne Buchanan, associate professor of illustration in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Art, is on view at the Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, through March 31….
Boston chamber music ensemble Dinosaur Annex to debut original piece in Setnor Auditorium
Boston-based chamber music ensemble Dinosaur Annex will present a concert featuring the premiere of a piece for violin, piano and percussion by composer Yu-Hui Chang, the ensemble’s co-artistic director, on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 8 p.m. in the Rose and…
Spaces still available for spring SU Art Workshops for Young People
The art education program at Syracuse University still has spaces available for its spring 2013 Art Workshops for Young People. The workshops, which are for children ages 5-14, offer a variety of experiences planned in the University’s art education classes….
Student produces free instrumental and dance performance to raise awareness about bullying, ally involvement
‘Uncommon Action’ to premiere on Feb. 3 at CNY Jazz Syracuse University music education senior Rachel Dentinger has enlisted 16 student musicians and a team of production assistants to produce an interdisciplinary program about bullying and ally involvement that has been…
Jules R. Setnor, benefactor of SU’s Setnor School of Music, dies at 101
Jules R. Setnor ’32 M.D.’35, a generous benefactor of Syracuse University’s Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music and Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, died Friday, Dec. 21, at his home in Longmeadow, Mass., at age…
VPA alumnus Bryan Buckley ’85 receives Academy Award nomination for short film
College of Visual and Performing Arts alumnus and award-winning commercial and film director Bryan Buckley ’85 was among the nominees announced Thursday, Jan. 10, for the 85th Academy Awards. Buckley directed the short film “Asad,” which was nominated in the…
SU Opera Theatre to present comic opera ‘Too Many Sopranos’ Jan. 25-27
The Syracuse University Opera Theatre will present Edwin Penhorwood’s comic opera “Too Many Sopranos” Jan. 25, 26 and 27 at 8 p.m. in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. The work parodies the over-the-top caricatures from various…
SUArt Galleries opens ‘Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective On Women And Progress’
The SUArt Galleries will present “Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress,” an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities and independent living had on women at the turn of the 20th century. The exhibition will feature…
SUArt Galleries opens print retrospective of renowned landscape artist Neil Welliver
The Syracuse University Art Galleries will present “Neil Welliver Prints,” an exhibition of more than 60 examples of the artist’s woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and screen prints.