Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Zagreb Saxophone Quartet highlight Fanfare's fourth week
Contact: Christina Chapple
10/18/06
High resolution photos for Week Four Fanfare events can be downloaded at www.columbiatheatre.org/fanfaremedia06_photos.html. Captions below.
HAMMOND – A brilliant courtroom tragedy and a high-energy quartet of saxophonists highlight the fourth week of Fanfare, Southeastern Louisiana University’s annual festival of the arts.
The Zagreb Saxophone Quartet, four graduates of the Zagreb Academy of Music in Croatia, will present a varied program of Baroque transcriptions and new works by Croatian composers at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium on Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. The acclaimed quartet has performed in more than 16 countries, winning praise from critics and audiences alike.
Internationally renowned saxophonist Eugene Rousseau will join the quartet as guest artist. A soloist with the Southeastern Wind Symphony during Fanfare 2005, Rousseau served for 20 years as chief consultant for saxophone development and research with the Yamaha Corporation and is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University.
Tickets are $15, adults; $12, senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni; $8, non-Southeastern students; and $5, Southeastern students.
L.A. Theatre Works will bring Herman Wouk’s acclaimed World War II drama to the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts stage on Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. Based on Wouk’s 1952 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” is a brilliant courtroom tragedy. The semi-staged production, with live sound effects, includes an all-star cast drawn from the ranks of LATW regulars.
The Fanfare production will star John Vickery as Captain Queeg and Grant Shaud as Lt. Barney Greenwald, the attorney for the “USS Caine” crew. Vickery’s stage credits include portraying “Scar” in “The Lion King” on Broadway. In addition to extensive off-Broadway work, he has also appeared in episodes of television programs such as “Without a Trace,” “Frasier,” “NYPD Blue,” and “Judging Amy.” Shaud appeared on Broadway in “Torch Song Trilogy,” and was a series regular on the “Murphy Brown,” “Oliver Beene,” and “Madigan Men” television series. He has appeared in films such as “The Distinguished Gentleman,” “Wall Street,” Men Seeking Women,” “Bad Dates,” “Waltzing Anna,” and HBO’s “From the Earth to the Moon.”
“The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” is a fictitious account of the “USS Caine,” Captain Queeg, and the mutinous acts aboard the ship rocked by a typhoon during WWII. Wouk’s masterful courtroom drama was unprecedented in its harsh look at the “my country right or wrong” standard of military life. Queeg is one of the most famous characters of the American stage and screen, having been played by both Henry Fonda and Humphrey Bogart.
“The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” brilliantly rolls out the conflicts within the primary characters, showing that very little in war is a certainty -- and the line between sane and insane is sometimes fuzzy at best.
LATW’s recording of “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” was broadcast to 52 countries over The Voice of America and later aired on NPR stations nationwide.
Under the leadership of Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg, LATW has been the foremost radio theater company in the United States for more than two decades. Broadcast in America on NPR and internationally on the BBC, CBC, and Voice of America, as well as on X-M Satellite, LATW has single-handedly brought live theater into the homes of millions. The company also performs a hugely successful series of live radio theater presentations each season in Los Angeles. On the road, LATW has given live radio theater performances in Chicago, Washington, Boston, New York and Austin.
Tickets for “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” are $38, Orchestra 1 and Loge; $32, Orchestra 2 and Balcony 1; and $25, Orchestra 3 and Balcony 2. Since the show is also part of the Columbia 2006-07 season, ticket availability may be limited.
Also during Fanfare’s fourth week
-- the “Sunday With the Arts” free concert series continues with “The Twentieth Century’s Passionate Sounds” on Oct. 22 at 3 p.m. at Hammond’s First Presbyterian Church, 103 N. Pine. Southeastern pianist Henry Jones and guest flutist Elena Cecconi will present the passionate music of three 20th century composers, Sergei Prokofiev, Henri Dutilleux and Charles-Marie Widor. A reception honoring the artists will follow.
-- “Louisiana Writers Reading the South” will feature one of Southeastern’s most widely published creative writers, writer-in-residence Timothy Gautreaux. Gautreaux, whose acclaimed novels and stories capture the strength, resiliency and joy found in the lives of ordinary, modern-day Cajuns, will read from his works on Oct. 23 at noon in D Vickers Hall, room 125. The event is free.
-- on Oct. 25 at 1 p.m. in Pottle Auditorium, Southeastern history professor Peter Petrakis will present “All Too Visible: Politics and Art in Ralph Ellison and Albert Camus” as part of the Department of History and Political Sciences’ “Then and Now” Fanfare lecture series. Petrakis, a political theorist, will offer his latest analysis of "dangerous" art, which examines the politicization of two of the 20th century's foremost novelists.
-- the Italian film “Bitter Rice” will be shown on Oct. 25 at 3:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. Directed by Giuseppe De Santis, “Bitter Rice” is a story of women laboring in the rice fields of Italy. It stars former Miss Rome, Silvana Mangano, as the sultry main character, who turns down the chance to emigrate to a better life in South America in favor of a steamy affair with her best friend's lover. Rated PG 13, the free film has English subtitles.
-- the always-popular Southeastern Wind Symphony presents a concert titled “Euphoria!” on Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts. Glen J. Hemberger will conduct the concert featuring as soloist the renowned prize-winning euphonium virtuoso Adam Frey, who has appeared with many of the world's finest wind symphonies and orchestras. Tickets are $5, adults; $3, senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni; and free for all students.
-- the annual Sweet Home Folklife Days at the Sweet Home Baptist Church Museum on Hwy. 51 North in Kentwood joins the Fanfare schedule on Oct. 27-28 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Under the theme “Our Music Goes On,” the annual celebration of Kentwood’s African American community includes hands-on demonstrations of story telling, home remedies, hair styling, childhood games and music, buggy rides along a scenic nature trail and a traditional baptism at the “baptizing hole” -- Cool’s Creek. Traditional African American foods will be offered for sale and children can “meet and greet” a parade of heroes. Tickets are $2 for adults and $1 for children and information on the event is available at (985) 229‑5016.
-- just in time for Halloween, children will find "Tricks and Treats" in the form of Halloween fun, stories, and crafts at the Hammond Library on Oct. 28 at 10:30 a.m. at the Hammond Library, 314 E. Thomas St.
Fanfare tickets are available online at columbiatheatre.org and at the Columbia box office, 220 East Thomas St., Hammond, (985) 543‑4371. Box office hours are noon to 5 p.m., weekdays, and one hour before performance time for events at the Columbia Theatre.
Captions…
slu_fanfare06_henry_jones.jpg and slu_fanfare06_cecconi.jpg
PASSIONATE MUSIC – Southeastern Louisiana University pianist Henry Jones and guest flutist Elena Cecconi will present “Twentieth Century Passionate Sounds” as part of Fanfare’s “Sunday With the Arts” series on Oct. 22 at 3 p.m. at Hammond’s First Presbyterian Church.
slu_fanfare06_gautreaux.jpg
LOUISIANA WRITER – Southeastern Louisiana University Writer-in-Residence Timothy Gautreaux will read from his works on Oct. 23 at noon in D Vickers Hall, room 125. Gautreaux’s presentation is part of Fanfare’s special “Louisiana Roots” salute to the state’s artists and subjects.
slu_fanfare06_zagreb_rousseau.jpg and slu_fanfare06_zagreb.jpg
SPIRITED SAXOPHONES – Guest Eugene Rousseau will join the acclaimed Zagreb Saxophone Quartet for a 7:30 p.m. Oct. 23 Fanfare concert at Southeastern Louisiana University’s Pottle Music Building Auditorium.
slu_fanfare06_grant_shaud.jpg and slu_fanfare06_john_vickery.jpg
COURTROOM DRAMA – Grant Shaud and John Vickery will star in L.A. Theatre Works production of the riveting “Caine Mutiny-Court Martial” Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Southeastern Louisiana University’s Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts. The production is part of Fanfare and the Columbia’s 2006-07 season.
slu_fanfare06_petrakis.jpg
FANFARE THEN AND NOW LECTURE – Southeastern history professor Peter Petrakis will present “All Too Visible: Politics and Art in Ralph Ellison and Albert Camus” as part of the Department of History and Political Sciences’ “Then and Now” Fanfare lecture series on Oct. 25 at 1 p.m. in Pottle Auditorium.
More News...
