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Monday, April 26, 2010

Fresno State Symphony Orchestra

Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010
Time: 8:00 P.M.
Place: Concert Hall

General $15 ; Faculty & Staff $10 ; Seniors $10 ; Students $10

The Fresno State Symphony orchestra will perform Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and orchestra with faculty member, Dr. Limor Toren-Immerman on violin, and esteemed guest artist, Mr. Meidad Yehudayan from Hong-Kong on viola.

The orchestra will also perform Stravinsky’s Orchestra Suite Petrushka, one of the most complex and exciting works for symphony orchestra ever written.

Thomas Loewenheim, conductor
Limor Toren-Immerman, violin
Meidad Yehudayan, viola

Program:
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: SINFONIA CONCERTANTE
  • Igor Stravinsky: PETRUSHKA
Department of Music
California State University, Fresno

For tickets please check the Department of Music's webpage:
http://www.csufresno.edu/music/concerts/index.shtml

For more information contact Dr. Thomas Loewenheim at: Tel: 559.278.7547 or via E-mail: tloewenheim@csufresno.edu

Spring Concert

Fresno State's Jazz Bands & Jazztet Present their end of the year Spring Concert

Featuring your favorite Fresno State Musicians Playing the Music of:

Maria Schneider, Neal Slater, Thad Jones, Derek Smith, Justin Copeland, Ben Simonetti, Antonio Montanez, and more!

With Grammy-Nominated Special Guest Artist Greg Banaszak

Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010
Time: 8:00pm
Place: Fresno State Concert Hall

General Admission: $6.00
Faculty/Staff/Seniors/Students: $5.00

Come and enjoy a hard swinging evening featuring the Fresno State Student Jazz Bands, the Fresno State Jazztet playing their own original compositions, and our special guest artist Greg Banaszak.

We hope to see you there!

Dr. Alan Durst
Lecturer of Music
Jazz Studies/Saxophone
Director of Jazz Orchestra

Department of Music
California State University, Fresno
2380 East Keats Avenue, M/S MB77
Fresno, CA 93740-8024
Office: (559) 278-2537
Fax: (559) 278-6800
adurst@csufresno.edu
www.alandurst.com

Nanking

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

Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.

Nanking (2007). Directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, this film is a powerful, reminder of the heartbreaking cost of war. The film tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China, in the early days of World War II. The Japanese army invaded China’s capital city in 1937, unleashing a horrific onslaught of murder and rape. In the midst of the rampage, a small group of Westerners banded together to establish a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Unarmed, these missionaries, university professors, doctors and businessmen bore witness to the events, while risking their own lives to protect civilians from slaughter.

The story is told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, chilling archival footage and photos of the events, and testimonies of former Japanese soldiers. At the heart of Nanking is a filmed stage reading of the Westerners’ letters and diaries, featuring Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway and Jurgen Prochnow. Through its interweave of archival images, testimonies of survivors, and readings of first-hand accounts, the film puts the viewer on the streets of Nanking and brings the forgotten past to startling life.

Nanking is a testament to the courage and conviction of individuals who were determined to act in the face of evil and a powerful tribute to the resilience of the Chinese people – a gripping account of light in the darkest of times. 90 min.

Discussant: Robert Wilson (son of Dr. R. O. Wilson, a physician featured in the film)

http://nankingthefilm.com/trailer.htm

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, Fall course # 37395].

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

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu