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Fine Arts Center highlightsNew in the Galleries
“Panoramic Landscapes.” Recent works by Patrick Burns, a Saunderstown resident who creates panoramic photographs that conjoin disparate landscape elements in attenuated compositions, some with amber tones of platinum. His featured works include printed views of sites along the East Coast, the former East Germany, and the Czech Republic. In the Photography Gallery through March 9.
“Contemporary Currents: Eccentric Landscape.” Curated by Judith Tolnick, this thematic group landscape exhibition is the latest in a series of group thematic exhibitions that identify various prominent currents in contemporary visual culture. “Eccentric Landscape” features 10 nationally recognized painters and sculptors engaged in idiosyncratic landscape practice, manifesting unusual formats and materials. In the Main Gallery through March 9.
“Case Studies: Works on Paper by Babette Allina and Rebecca Siemering.” For these two emerging Rhode Island-based artists, working on paper is a concentrated activity that stimulates whimsy and fantasy. The exhibition, comprised of works made expressly for the inherently comparative linear space of the Corridor Gallery, is a “case by case” conversation between two artists that share a pictorial sensibility. In the Corridor Gallery Feb. 4-March 11.
Fidelity Investments is a partial sponsor of the 2003 spring season of the Fine Arts Center Galleries and the primary sponsor of the Eccentric Landscape exhibition.
On Stage
The first performance of the spring semester by URI Theatre will be La Bête (the Beast), a comedy in verse by David Hirson, winner of the 1992 Oliver Award for Best Comedy of the Year. Set in 17th century France, the play revolves around an upheaval in a famous acting troupe. When the troupe’s patron, a prince, forces them to work with a common street performer, the stuffy troupe leader challenges the performer to present one of his own works in hopes of proving him incompetent. As the plan backfires, comedy ensues. URI Theatre will perform La Bête Feb. 20-22 and Feb. 26-March 1 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 23 at 5 p.m. Tickets are $12 for the general public and $10 for students/seniors/children.
Music
The University’s Great Performances series will feature Anonymous 4, four women who have become renowned for their astonishing vocal blend and technical virtuosity. They will perform “la bele marie,” a program of literature from the French Renaissance, on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall. Anonymous 4 was formed in 1986 to experiment with the sound of medieval chant and polyphony as sung by higher voices. The New York Times called them “...a union so precise that it sounds positively supernatural.” Admission is $15 for the general public, $12 for URI faculty/staff/senior citizens, and $5 for students. For information call 874-2627.
The University Artist Series kicks off its spring season with a performance by the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Larry Rachleff and featuring violin soloist Cho-Liang Lin. It will perform Romance in C Major, Opus 42, Sibelius; Violin Concerto, Opus 14, Barber; and Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Opus 93, Shostakovich on Sunday, Mar. 2 at 3 p.m. Admission is $15 for the general public and $5 for students.
Other upcoming concerts include: the URI Festival Concert featuring faculty artists and the Northeast Quintet on Feb. 1 at 3 p.m.; the Southern New England Honors Band on Feb. 1 at 7 p.m.; the Rhode Island Music Educators Association Jazz Festival on Feb. 8 (all day); a faculty recital by Gary Buttery performing several world premiere compositions for tuba solo on Feb. 21 at 8 p.m.; and the URI Symphony and Concert Choir performing in honor of African-American Heritage Month on Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. For more information about these concerts call 874-2431.
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