Turtle Island, the double Grammy® winning jazz string quartet, performs in the Staller Center Recital Hall on Saturday, November 17, at 8 pm with singer Tierney Sutton. Tickets are $38 at (631) 632-ARTS or online at www.stallercenter.com. The Turtle Island Quartet has re-defined chamber jazz for more than 25 years. Joined by Tierney Sutton they [...]
Soprano Soh Young Lee takes a musical journey around the globe with an eclectic repertoire of opera, art song, folk music and pop on Sunday, November 18, at 4 pm in the Charles B. Wang Center Theatre. A reception will follow the performance. With her crystalline voice and warm stage presence, Lee performs Native American, Korean, Chinese, [...]
For 25 years, professional composers from all over the country have been invited to compose music for the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players for its annual Premieres! Concert. The series has inspired the creation of more than 90 works. The Contemporary Chamber Players, with Director Eduardo Leandro, will perform its 25th Premieres! Concert on Thursday, November [...]
Dwindling attendance at some music and theater events has prompted the Department of Music and its students to find a new way to reignite interest in their art — if people aren’t coming to the performances, they are bringing the performances to the people. By taking their concerts outside the walls of the Staller Center [...]
The University Orchestra will present a concert on Tuesday, November 13, on Staller Center’s Main Stage at 8 pm. Conducted by Susan Deaver, the concert will feature two winners of the 2012 Undergraduate Concerto Competition: violinists Philip Carter and Jihyang Seo in a performance of Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major. The concert will also [...]
Theatergoers will step into a spellbinding world inspired by Anton Chekhov’s plays and diaries, told with sublimely lyrical wit from one of the world’s most talented troupes of actors, acrobats, clowns and musicians when Donka: A Letter to Chekov comes to the Staller Center Main Stage on Saturday, November 10, at 8 pm. Recalling the atmosphere [...]
The Center for Dance, Movement and Somatic Learning at Stony Brook University presents two new and original works, The Table Where We Met and When the Hedges Fall by IronWorks on the Edge, a resident performance company based at the University. The performances, sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences; The Center for Dance, [...]
Editor’s Note: As a result of Hurricane Sandy, the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra concert scheduled for November 3 has been postponed to an unspecified future date. Happenings will post the new concert date as soon as the Department of Music reschedules it. In 2005 Professor Perry Goldstein, chair of the Department of Music, was commissioned [...]
The Passing Zone, a zany duo of juggling comedians, brings its family show, “Gravity Attacks!” to Staller Center’s Main Stage on Sunday, November 4, at 4 pm. All tickets are $15. In “Gravity Attacks!” Jon Wee and Owen Morse ask audiences to join their fight against the universe’s most evil force — gravity. With their comedy [...]
The Charles B. Wang Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary with five programs that reflect the vitality and diversity of what the Center’s Asian and Asian American programming offers. Reinterpretations II: Celebrating Ten Amazing Years Exhibition, October 24 through December 2 Curated by Nicole Hixon and Jennifer Iacona, artists from the Department of Art reflect on [...]
