Arts And Entertainment

The Madrigal Singers in Elizabethan costumes celebrate the holidays in traditional fashion, while the Mad River Singers swing and get funky in their annual autumn concert on Sunday, Dec. 7 in Fulkerson Recital Hall.

Three HSU percussion groups—the Percussion Ensemble, World Percussion Group and the Calypso Band—bring cross-currents of world rhythms to the Van Duzer Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 6.

“Visual storytelling just keeps blossoming,” says Professor Ann Alter, head of the film program at Humboldt State University. It is Alter’s dedication and hard work that have helped HSU’s film program grow and bloom.

With a program that ranges from Mozart and Schubert to Japanese lullabies and poems by Emily Dickinson set to the music of contemporary composers, soprano Bonnie Draina visits HSU from Boulder, Colorado, for a Guest Artist concert on Monday, Nov. 17 in Fulkerson Recital Hall.

With help from fellow musicians, HSU students pursuing a degree in Composition move their notes from the page to the air, in a concert of new work dubbed _New Beginnings_, on Saturday, November 15 in the Fulkerson Recital Hall.

An all-string trio with a twist, a groove sextet and a bop quartet are this year’s HSU Jazz Combos, performing a mix of classics and original tunes on Friday, November 14 in the Fulkerson Recital Hall.

As she left the Latino Community Reception at the "Multicultural Center":http://studentaffairs.humboldt.edu/multicultural/ last year, Humboldt State student Gabriela Girona felt like something was missing. Girona, who is Puerto Rican and originally from upstate New York, found a broader understanding of the Latino experience in the United States lacking at Humboldt State. That sense of a missing connection prompted Girona to take action.

For those who think of opera as only “operatic” melodrama involving tragic Europeans of a bygone age, the HSU Opera Workshop has a couple of surprises for its upcoming performances on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7 and 8.

Concertgoers—not to mention jazz fans—are used to the clarinet as a standard musical instrument … but it wasn’t always so.

Two of hip-hop’s most successful MC’s visit Arcata this week, bringing their funk-laden beats, lyrical acrobatics and high energy stage show along with them.

The 28 players of the Humboldt Bay Brass Band performs classics, new compositions and another newly discovered and arranged march by the legendary Humboldt County bandmaster Professor Frank Flowers, on Saturday, Nov. 1 at the Fulkerson Recital Hall.

There’s nothing like a little sin to get the creative juices flowing. Humboldt State’s "Art Department":http://www.humboldt.edu/~art/ will host a collaborative exhibit titled “Sin in Tin,” that aims to raise funds for various department programs. The show will feature work from students, faculty and staff, and focuses on the seven deadly sins.

For her second solo recital as a faculty member of the "HSU Music Department":http://www.humboldt.edu/~mus/index.php, pianist Ching-Ming Cheng plans to take the audience on a journey: “chronologically, technically and musically.”

While not itself all that old, the HSU Jazz Orchestra will highlight a composition by the man the Guinness Book of Records recognized as the founder of the oldest continuously existing jazz band on the planet—or at least it was until recently. It happens at Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata on Saturday, Oct. 18, when the Jazz Orchestra plays their half of the program, preceded by the HSU Symphonic Band.

A king, mad with jealousy, and a kingdom thrown into chaos. A beautiful queen, imprisoned and left for dead. A foundling child, left on the wild shore of a distant and now enemy country.

For Humboldt State photography Professor Tom Knight (’50, ’54), light was everything. Whether it was illuminating the crescent outline of a subject’s face or highlighting the opalescent luster of a common washbasin, Knight made finding the right light at the right moment his life’s passion.

In various combinations and as soloists, soprano Elisabeth Harrington with clarinetist Virginia Ryder and pianists Deborah Clasquin, Ching-Ming Cheng and John Chernoff perform jazz-inspired classics on Friday, September 26 in the Fulkerson Recital Hall, in the HSU Music Department Faculty Artists Series.

You could call Taj Mahal, birth name Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, a blues legend, but the guitar slinger’s sound goes far beyond simple 12-bar odes to failed love or tough times.

Arcata - The Reese Bullen Gallery at Humboldt State University will showcase a new rotation of its permanent collection in “Views from the Vault,” an exhibit of works handpicked by HSU students enrolled in the Museum & Gallery Practices class, commencing Thursday, Sept. 25. The public is invited to attend the opening reception that day from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

A monstrous forest fire that won’t end is threatening this small lumber town. People are arriving from all over to help fight it, and they are changing the town from within.

Renewing a performing partnership that goes back more than a decade, violinist Terrie Baune and pianist Deborah Clasquin headline a program of works by Dmitri Shostakovich and other Eastern European composers of the Soviet era.

A faculty and staff exhibition showcasing the talent of the artists who teach and work in Humboldt State University’s Art Department will be featured at the First Street Gallery in Old Town, Eureka. The exhibit will run from Aug. 26 through Sept. 21, with an artists reception on Sept. 6.

As students begin fall classes, Soprano Kamala Stroup Rocher, HSU Class of ’91, returns to campus for a voice recital featuring the works of Debussy, Strauss, Mozart and Verdi.

Music fit for a king might describe many classical pieces, especially those commissioned by monarchs and other high officials. But music actually composed by a king is rarely heard. On Friday June 6 at HSU, it will be, as performed by one of three chamber music groups of North Coast commoners to play that evening.

Arcata - From early childhood, pianist Ching-Ming Cheng assailed the keyboard with iron self-demand. She practiced so hard her mother had to stop her sometimes.