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Arsonists, astronomers, folklore from India, music with a little Appalachian twang and Ukrainian folk tunes are just a sampling of what will be featured and explored in upcoming performances and exhibits.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n If using Safari or Chrome web browsers, click on each event for details.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Cress Gallery<\/p>\n The Studio Faculty of the UTC Department of Art opens their Biennial Exhbition with a Public Reception on Wednesday, August 23, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit the Cress Gallery’s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Public Lecture September 24, 2017, 5:30 p.m. Exhibition September 22 – November 3, 2017.<\/p>\n Cress Gallery<\/p>\n Chicago-based publishers, printers, artists, and musicians, Sonnenzimmer (Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi) have worked across several mediums in their decade long collaboration. While they continue to grow their practice their foothold remains in the graphic arts. Initially recognized for their idiosyncratic screen-printed posters, their practice has since morphed into an interdisciplinary toolshed spanning multiple platforms including exhibitions, performance, publishing, and design. Equal parts balancing act between art and design and radical reclamation of all aspects of visual expression, the studio is grounded in the lasting potential of the graphic arts, while exploring the friction between abstraction and communication, and how our humanity is being defined by the substrate of media.<\/p>\n For more information, visit the Cress Gallery’s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7:30 p.m. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet returns to Chattanooga with its bold vision, its trademark innovative choreography from top global choreographers and its virtuoso dancers.<\/p>\n With a deep commitment to curating new ballets while cultivating choreographic talent, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet has developed a European sensibility glossed with American ebullience that forges its aesthetic, which has come to epitomize the contemporary-classical genre.<\/p>\n Aspen Santa Fe Ballet\u2019s repertoire, ranging from accessible to sophisticated, resonates with energy and eclecticism. A house-style emerges across this diverse dance menu, layering American athleticism on a base of European refinement. The company\u2019s identity is tethered to its repertoire, which speaks a complex language, challenges audiences, and advances the art form. This repertoire is regularly performed at dance landmarks like Jacob\u2019s Pillow Dance Festival, the Kennedy Center, American Dance Festival, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts and New York\u2019s Joyce Theater, as well in cities across the United States. Internationally, the company has performed in Biarritz, Curitiba (Brazil), Tel Aviv, Moscow, Milan and Ottawa. And once again, at the UTC Fine Arts Center. Don\u2019t miss it!<\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7:30 p.m. The members of Chapel Hill\u2019s indie Americana quartet Mipso \u2013 Jacob Sharp (mandolin, vocals), Wood Robinson (bass, vocals), Joseph Terrell (guitar, vocals) and Libby Rodenbough (fiddle, vocals) \u2013 are influenced by the contradiction of their progressive home and the surrounding rural southern landscapes. Following on the success of Old Time Reverie (2015) – which shot up to No. 1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart and in the Top 25 of the Billboard Heatseekers Chart – Mipso is celebrating the release of their new album Coming Down The Mountain (April 7, 2017). With this new music, Mipso ventures further than ever from their string-band pedigree to discover a broader Americana where classic folk-rock and modern alt-country sounds mingle easily with Appalachian tradition. Adding drums and electric instruments to their intimate four-part harmonies and powerful acoustic meld, Mipso\u2019s music is lush and forward moving, with words that sear and salve in turn. Hailed as \u201chewing surprisingly close to gospel and folk while still sounding modern and secular\u201d (Acoustic Guitar), and recently recognized by Rolling Stone as a favorite 2016 festival performance, Mipso brings their distinctly unique sound to UTC\u2019s Fine Arts Center \u2013 a sound full of wistful beauty, hopeful undercurrents and panoramic soundscapes – to open this year\u2019s insight performances.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Clinics:10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. UTC\u2019s 2nd annual Fiddle Festival brings award-winning folk musicians Jim Wood, John Bouleware, and Inge Wood to lead this day long clinic. UTC\u2019s Sandy Morris will lead the orchestra. The festival is for intermediate to advanced players of stringed orchestral instruments, guitar, and mandolin, ages from high school to adult. There is no cost to participate \u2013 or to attend the concert – but lunch is on your own. The public concert is at 5:00 p.m. in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7:00 p.m. The evening\u2019s theme of nature will be presented with musical selections and narrations based on birds, flowers, trees and animals. Two musical works are loosely based on fairy tales. Alan Ridout\u2019s piece \u201cThe Emperor and the Bird of Paradise\u201d tells the story of an Emperor and his sad bird of paradise. Composer Wendy Hiscocks wrote \u201cKeshovati,\u201d which is based on a fairy tale from India about a young boy who decides to morph himself into a champa flower high up in the tree. From that vantage point he imagines himself gleefully watching his mother go about her all-too familiar daily routine all the while being hidden from view.<\/p>\n The piece \u201cTrees\u201d by Daniel Dorff is based on the familiar poem by Joyce Kilmer and \u201cHalf Moon at Checkerboard Mesa\u201d by composer Phillip Bimstein is a fantasy for flute, frogs, crickets and coyotes with computer generated accompaniment.<\/p>\n Dr. Ronda Ford will perform the flute and Mr. Steve Ray will provide the narrations. Admission is free and all are cordially invited to attend.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n The UTC Cadek Orchestra, conducted by UTC Music Professor Sandy Morris, presents \u201cTchaikovsky and More\u201d, a fall concert which includes Tchaikovsky\u2019s Symphony No. 2, the overture to Verdi\u2019s Nabucco and Longing for Your Return by Steven Amundson, Director of Orchestras at St. Olaf College.<\/p>\n This 55-member college\/community orchestra includes university music majors and non-majors from UTC and Chattanooga State, UTC music faculty members, area music educators and other talented amateur and professional musicians from the region.<\/p>\n Tchaikovsky\u2019s Symphony No. 2 deftly incorporates several Ukrainian folk tunes and was successful from its first performance because of Tchaikovsky\u2019s exciting development of the themes, winning him critical acclaim among Russia\u2019s nationalistic composers known as \u201cThe Five\u201d. Also on the concert is the overture to Verdi\u2019s Nabucco, his first widely acclaimed opera and one that chronicles the exile of the Jews from their homeland by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II. The hauntingly beautiful Longing for Your Return provides a respite between these two powerful works. The concert is free to the public<\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n UTC\u2019s renowned Percussion Ensemble, led by UTC Music Professor Monte Coulter, opens the holiday gift-giving season with its fall concert and food drive featuring a varied program of all-percussion music. This annual standing-room only Chattanooga favorite not only showcases the talents of UTC Percussion students but stocks the pantry of the Chattanooga Food Bank each year. Admission, as always, is two non-perishable food items. Always highly entertaining, Beat Hunger! features a number of colorful instruments, various styles of music, and an all-out closing number with all hands on stage.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7:30 p.m. The Arsonists is an adaptation by Alistair Beaton of Max Frisch\u2019s The Firebugs. This absurd and dark comedy about menacing arsonists that charm their way into their victims\u2019 homes reveals that people often choose to embrace bad ideas today that lead to disasters in the future.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7:30 p.m. Hailing from such prestigious UK companies as Shakespeare\u2019s Globe, the National Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, the five actors of Sir Patrick Stewart\u2019s celebrated theatre company Actors From The London Stage bring Shakespeare to life for three evenings at the UTC Fine Arts Center as one of this season\u2019s Patten Performances. Our three nights of Measure For Measure are one half of a week-long residency at UTC. Which is designed to promote a campus-wide dialogue inspired by the works of William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n Believed to be written around 1603 and first performed in 1604, Measure for Measure\u2019s themes of justice, “mortality and mercy in Vienna,” and the dichotomy between corruption and purity resonate for us today: “some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” While mercy and virtue predominate (the play does not end tragically), the play focuses on justice overall, focusing on an out-of-control attempt by the Duke of Vienna to clean up long term, rampant corruption and vice in Vienna by mysteriously vacating his position and leaving oversight of the city to an overly-zealous judge.<\/p>\n “…actors have a personal connection with dramatic texts, which is distinctive and different from the scholars. Our program gives the actor a unique platform from which to explore with professors and students what he or she does and why it is done. That exciting exchange is what Actors From The London Stage would like to bring to your campus.” – Sir Patrick Stewart, Founding Director<\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nArt<\/h2>\n
\nUTC Department of Art Faculty Exhibit<\/strong>
\nAugust 23 – September 15, 2017<\/em>
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\nExpect a broad range of media and materials from installation, video, and sound, to painting, sculpture, fiber, photography, graphic design, and more, as the Studio Faculty of the UTC Department of Art present the visual forms of their professional research in this exhibition! Participating artists are Mark Bradley Shoup, Ron Buffington, Matt Greenwell, Katie Hargrave, Phillip Andrew Lewis, Andrew O’Brien, Ray Padron, Astri Snodgrass, Aggie Toppins, Gavin Townsend, and Christina Vogel, joined by Molly Barnes, Mike Calway-Fagan, Pat Kelley, Ted Ross, Heath Schultz and Steven Sewell.<\/p>\n\nDiane Marek Visiting Artist Series: Sonnenzimmer<\/strong>
\nMonday, September 22 – November 3, 2017<\/em>
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\nAspen Santa Fe Ballet<\/strong>
\nMonday, October 30, 2017<\/em>
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\nTicket info at the Fine Arts Center’s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nASFB, since its inception, has been deeply committed to commissioning new works. Among the choreographer-collaborators creating multiple works for ASFB are Alejandro Cerrudo, Jorma Elo, Nicolo Fonte, Trey McIntyre, Moses Pendleton and Cayetano Soto.<\/p>\nMusic<\/h2>\n
\nMipso<\/strong>
\nFriday, September 8, 2017<\/em>
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\nTicket info at the Fine Arts Center’s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\nUTC Fiddle Festival<\/strong>
\nSaturday, September 23, 2017<\/em>
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\nConcert: 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\nFlora, Fauna and Flute<\/strong>
\nSunday, October 22, 2017<\/em>
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\nDorothy Hackett Ward Theatre<\/p>\n\nTchaikovsky and More<\/strong>
\nSunday, November 12, 2017<\/em>
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\nMonday, November 20, 2017<\/em>
\n<\/summary>\nTheatre<\/h2>\n
\nThe Arsonists<\/strong><\/em>
\nUTC Theatre Company Performance
\nSeptember 26-30, 2017<\/em>
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\nDorothy Hackett Ward Theatre
\nTicket info at the Fine Arts Center’s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\nMeasure for Measure<\/strong><\/em>
\nActors From The London Stage
\nOctober 25\u201327, 2017<\/em> (Three Performances)
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\nTicket info at the Fine Arts Center’s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\nSilent Sky<\/strong><\/em>
\nUTC Theatre Company Performance
\nNovember 14-18, 2017<\/em>
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