Centennial Music Events! ...and MORE!

Please join us in celebration of our rich history of musical excellence at Fresno State!

Thursday, October 7, 2010 8:00 PM
Fresno State Concert Hall
University Bands in Concert - Centennial Salute
Wind Orchestra and Symphonic Band
Guest Artists: Dr. Lawrence Sutherland, Conductor * Tom Ashworth, Trombone
General $7 Senior/Employee $6 Student $5

Friday, October 8, 2010 12:15 PM
Henry Madden Library
Peter's Ellipse (2nd Floor)
Ellipse Concert-Corey Whitehead, Guitar
FREE EVENT

Friday, October 8, 2010 8:00 PM
Fresno State Concert Hall
Gala Centennial Concert featuring Outstanding Alumni and Emeriti Faculty
General $15 Senior/Employee $15 Student $10

Sunday, October 10, 2010 8:00 PM
Fresno State Concert Hall
History of Jazz Band "A" (1969-1999) with Dr. Larry Sutherland - Alumni Jazz Combo
General $7 Senior/Employee $6 Student $5

Monday, October 11, 2010 8:00 PM
Fresno State Concert Hall
Jazz Composers Orchestra Centennial Tribute w/ Fresno State Jazz Orchestra
General $7 Senior/Employee $6 Student $5

Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:00 PM
Fresno State Concert Hall
Fresno State Symphony Orchestra
General $15 Senior/Employee $10 Student $5

Tickets available online at:
www.csufresno.edu/music/concerts/index.shtml

Find us on facebook at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fresno-CA/Fresno-State-Department-of-Music-Events/281595384490

The Cello Ensemble in Concert

The Third Annual Fresno State Cello Festival presents:

The Cello Ensemble in Concert
Works by Beethoven, Haydn, Hufft,Rimsky-Korsakov, Villa-Lobos and more...

Date: Saturday, October 2, 2010
Time: 8:00 P.M.
Place: Fresno State Concert Hall

Department of Music, California State University, Fresno

Admission:
$10.00 General
$8.00 Faculty/Staff/Seniors
$5.00 Students

Tickets are available on-line and at the door

www.csufresno.edu/music

The River Ran Red

Date: Friday, October 1, 2010
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane building 121

Film Screening

The River Ran Red (2008) details the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 along the Euphrates River. From his archives of 400 testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses, award-winning filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian weaves a compelling story of terrifying intensity, taking the viewer from the highland waters of the river to the burning deserts of Syria... and to the final resting place of those whose blood ran red in the waters of the Euphrates. 60 min.

Winner of the Best International Historical Documentary of the New York International Film and Video Festival and Second Place (History and Biography) of the U.S. International Film and Video Festival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_H2FyEuHc
Discussant: Dr. J Michael Hagopian (Filmmaker)

Co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/

Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.

CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

Music Gala Centennial Concert

California State University, Fresno Department of Music Gala Centennial Concert

Date: Friday, October 8, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
Place: Fresno State Concert Hall

TICKETS: $15 GENERAL - $10 STUDENTS

But tickets online at: www.csufresno.edu/music

Featuring our outstanding ensembles

• Jazz Orchestra (Alan Durst, Director), Concert Choir (Anna Hamre, Conductor),
• Wind Orchestra (Gary Gilroy, Conductor) & Symphony Orchestra (Thomas Loewenheim, Conductor)
• Emeriti Faculty Conductors: Arthur Huff, Lawrence Sutherland, Gary Unruh
• Alumni Soloists: Tom Ashworth (Trombone), Mike Dana (Guitar), Brian Hamada (Drums),
• Larry Honda (Saxophone), Timothy Zerlang (Organ), Fresno State Alumni Trumpet Ensemble
• World Premieres: “Centennial Tribute’ by Alumnus Composer John Bliss &
• “Magnificat-First Movement” by Kevin Memley--
  

Fresno State-Department of Music
Audience Development Staff
Dr. Michael Caldwell, Project Supervisor
Chika Inoue, Graduate Assistant
Calvin Carr, Webmaster

Department of Music Centennial Celebration Distinguished Alumni Panel

California State University, Fresno Department of Music Centennial Celebration Distinguished Alumni Panel

Date: Friday, October 15, 2010
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
Place: Fresno State Concert Hall

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

John Bliss, M.A. Music Performance in Composition and Conducting, 1996
Production Staff Composer and Arranger, United States Air Force Band, Washington D.C.
Composer of “Centennial Tribute” for the Fresno State Centennial

Larry Engstrom, B.A. Music Education, 1981
Director of the School of the Arts, University of Nevada

Mike Dana, B.A. Music Composition, 1975, M.A. Music Composition, 1989
Former Chair, Department of Music, Fresno City College

Larry Honda, B.A. Music , 1976
Chair, Department of Music, Fresno City College

Michelle LaTour, B.A. Music Performance, 1989, M.A. Music Performance, 1991
Soprano Opera Singer. Visiting Lecturer in Music, Voice, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Marcus Nance, B.A. Music Performance, 1988
Broadway, stage and screen actor, Toronto Canada

Richard Woods, B.A. Music 2004
Vocal Music Director, Roosevelt High School

Dr. Tim Zerlang, B.A. Music Performance, 1983, M.A. Music Performance, 1983
Lecturer in Piano and University Carilloneur, Stanford University
Director of Music, St. Marks Lutheran Church, San Francisco

Moderated by

Dr. Michael Caldwell, B.A. Music Performance, 1984
Chair, Department of Music/Chair, Academic Senate, California State University, Fresno
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Fresno State-Department of Music
Audience Development Staff
Dr. Michael Caldwell, Project Supervisor
Chika Inoue, Graduate Assistant
Calvin Carr, Webmaster

Fresno Art Hop!

Come tour the vibrant local art scene in Fresno with downtown maven, Peter McDonald, Dean of Library Services!

Date: Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Cost: $5 per person
(Tour is limited to the first 25 guests.)

Please email Dean McDonald with you and your guest(s) names.

Contact: pmcdonald@csufresno.edu

Peter McDonald
Dean of Library Services
Henry Madden Library
Fresno State
559-278-2403

Fresno State Theater Military Discount

Thank you for your service!!

Discount for those that have served in the military

Purchase your tickets at the Military Discount and put in the code: GIBILL

and receive your tickets at the student price of $10 each a savings of $5 per ticket

No Limit

www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts or call 559-278-2216

"Robert Fisk & David Barsamian: Middle East Fantasies and Myths"

CineCulture, together with The College of Arts and Humanities, and the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism present:

Presentations by Robert Fisk & David Barsamian

"Robert Fisk & David Barsamian: Middle East Fantasies and Myths"

Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: California State University, Fresno
Alice Peters Auditorium, PB 191

Open and free to the public. Relaxed Parking in University Business Center Area

Film Screening: Robert Fisk will show clips he shot in the Middle East that he calls “Shooting Death.”

Film Screening
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Place: California State University, Fresno, McLane 121

Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.

Discussant: Robert Fisk, bestselling author and journalist based in Beirut as Middle East correspondent for The Independent, he has lived in the Middle East for three decades, and holds more British and International journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. He was named British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year seven times. Fisk has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of the only two Western journalists in the city at the time), from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, from the Gulf War to the invasion and ongoing war in Iraq.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/

David Barsamian is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine and he lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. The Institute for Alternative Journalism has named him one of its "Top Ten Media Heroes" and he has received the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism in 2003.
http://www.alternativeradio.org/

Also sponsored by Fresno Center for Nonviolence.

CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.

CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

Pulitzer Prize WInning Play at Fresno State: A Soldier's Play

A Soldier's Play
By Charles Fuller
Directed by Thomas-Whit Ellis

In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a black company whose sergeant has been murdered.

Winner for the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Date: October 1-9, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM (2:00 PM Sunday)
Place: Fresno State, John Wright Theatre

Tkts: http://www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts/performances/current_season.shtml

DOG DAYS: Part II

DOG DAYS: Part II will be held on Friday, September 24th from 11:30-4:00pm in front of the Satellite Student Union. Make sure you register by September 10th to reserve your spot. Freshmen who have not yet registered can call the DOG DAYS Office at 278-4885 to register.

As a freshmen you are required to meet with your advisor before registering for your second semester. Why not meet your major department, meet other new freshmen and get lunch all for the cost of nothing!

Schedule of Events:

11:30-12:30 Check-In/ Lunch/ Academic Club Fair

12:00-12:15 University Welcome

12:15-1:00 Freshmen Mixer

1:00-4:00 Major Presentations (various times and locations)

Centennial exhibition of Fresno State's history through photos

The Henry Madden Library is currently hosting an exhibition of photographs documenting the 100-year history of California State University, Fresno.

The exhibition runs through Sept. 27 at the Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery on the second floor of the library’s Table Mountain Rancheria Tower.

A detailed timeline highlights Fresno State’s evolution through the decades from a state normal school training teachers for the region to a 21st-century university offering training in scores of fields through eight academic colleges and schools.

Showcased are some of the best and most-treasured historic photos from the University Archives, as well as memorabilia that highlights Fresno State's enduring strong connection with the community.

For additional Centennial events, see www.fresnostate100.com.

Earth (1998): Film Screening and Discussion with Bapsi Sidhwa

Film Screening

Date: Friday, September 17,2010
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane 121

Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
Earth (1998): Adapted from Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India, (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), and directed by Deepa Mehta, the movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan. English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Parsee, with English subtitles, 110 minutes.

Discussant: Bapsi Sidhwa
http://www.bapsisidhwa.com/

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu

CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department (MCJ 177T, course # 76089. The last day to add with permission # is 9-20).

CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

"A Reading and Conversation with Bapsi Sidhwa: From Page to Screen"

CineCulture, together with The Department of Mass Communication and Journalism and the MFA Program in Creative Writing presents:

Presentations by Bapsi Sidhwa

"A Reading and Conversation with Bapsi Sidhwa: From Page to Screen"

Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Time: 12 noon
Place: Fresno State, Alice Peters Auditorium, PB 191

Open and free to the public. Relaxed Parking in University Business Center Area

Internationally acclaimed author Bapsi Sidhwa was raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She is an award winning Pakistani novelist striving above all to bring women's issues of the Indian subcontinent into public discussion. She graduated from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore. Her 5 novels: Cracking India, The Pakistani Bride, The Crow Eaters, An American Brat, and Water, have been translated and published in several languages. Her novel Water is based on Mehta’s film of the same name. Her anthology City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore was published in 2006. Sidhwa’s play, An American Brat, was produced by Stages Repertory Theater in Houston March 2007 and received critical acclaim. Her play, Sock ’em With Honey, played in London in 2003.

Among her many honors Sidhwa received the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest national honor in the arts, and the LiBeraturepreis in Germany and the 2007 Primo Mondello Award in Italy. Sidhwa, who was on the advisory committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women's Development has taught at Columbia University, University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College, Southampton University and Brandeis.

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu

CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department (MCJ 177T, course # 76089. The last day to add with permission # is 9-20).

CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

Micmacs

Date: September 10, 2010
Time: 5:30 and 8:00 p.m.
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors

September 10: Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose previous work includes Amelie and The City of Lost Children. With the imagination and fantasy of a Buster Keaton picture, this French comedy tells the story of Bazil, a bad-luck orphan with a stray bullet lodged in his brain. Released from the hospital after an accident, the gentle-natured Bazil is homeless. He is taken in by a motley crew of junkyard dealers living in a cave. One day Bazil recognizes the logos of the weapons manufacturers that caused his misfortunes. With the help of his faithful gang of wacky friends, he sets out to take revenge. French with English subtitles. 105 minutes.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/micmacs/

For more information:
Contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department (MCJ 177T, course # 76089)

CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.

Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu