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Contact: Marian Lien (509-963-1976/fax: 509-963-3206/e-mail: lienma@cwu.edu)
ELLENSBURG , Wash. - Tickets are now on sale for the 2005-06
season of the Central Washington University Performing Arts and Presidential
Speaker series. This 12-event series includes internationally known
performers and speakers, a musical-theatre production and some of our most
popular local performers ensembles.
"The inaugural year of the performing arts series is the perfect
complement to the presidential speaker series, now in its fifth year," CWU
President Jerilyn S. McIntyre says.
The series line-up includes:
- Groove for Thought, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, in the CWU music
building concert hall. Winners of the 2005 National Harmony Sweepstakes
competition, this electrifying a cappella jazz ensemble of six men performs
a variety of jazz gospel, rhythm and blues, and pop music. The group
includes three CWU graduates, Jeff Horenstein and brothers Kelly and Kevin
Kunz;
- Peter Yarrow's "Operation Respect: Don't Laugh At Me," 7 pm
Tuesday, Nov. 1, music building concert hall. A member of the music trio,
Peter, Paul, & Mary, Yarrow's songwriting produced some memorable folk songs
including, "Puff, the Magic Dragon." Yarrow will discuss his most recent
project, intended to encourage safe, compassionate and nurturing
environments for children in schools and summer camps across America;
- "Working," Nov. 10-13 and 17-19, in McConnell Auditorium.
With nine performances, the CWU theatre and music departments collaborate on
the musical theatre production based on the best-selling book of the same
name by Studs Terkel, which takes a look at the struggles of people who earn
a living;
- The CWU Jazz Band performs "Jazz Nutcracker," 4 p.m. Sunday
Dec. 3, music building concert hall. Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
crafted the jazz arrangement of Tchaikovsky's fabled Nutcracker Suite. The
jazz version stays true to the original while incorporating Ellington and
Strayhorn's own distinctive essence;
- Martin Luther King III, "My Father's Dream, My Mission," 7
p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, 2006, Lynnwood (Wash.) Convention Center.
CWU-Lynnwood, in partnership with Edmonds Community College, will present
the elder son of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who will describe the work he
is doing to further his father's quest for equality and justice for all
people;
- The Chieftains, Jan. 30, 2006, 7 p.m., music building concert
hall. Founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1962, the six-time Grammy award-winning
band championed an authentic Irish sound that has earned the group
international acclaim. In addition to its own ambitious touring schedule and
best-selling albums, the group has performed and recorded with Emmylou
Harris, Willie Nelson, Chet Atkins, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett and Alison
Krauss;
- Kairos Quartet, Tuesday 7 pm, Feb. 14, 2006, music building
concert hall. The Kairos Quartet will celebrate Valentine's Day with a
performance with the romantic chamber music work, Borodin's String Quartet
No. 2, which was written as a special present for his wife. Two of its
melodies, "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" and "And This is My Beloved," found
their way into the 1953 musical "Kismet";
- CWU Wind Ensemble, 7 p.m. March 1, 2006, in the music building
concert hall. The ensemble will perform a concert of American band music
including Charles Ives' Country Band March and Decoration Day and Scott
McAllister's X2, featuring the CWU Student Saxophone Quartet;
- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days," Tuesday 7 p.m. April
18, 2006, McConnell Auditorium. This one-man show will feature Keillor's
casual mid-western charm and the humor that has made his public radio
program, "A Prairie Home Companion," a national favorite. The author of 11
books, including "Lake Wobegon Days" and "Wobegon Boy," Keillor will sign
copies of his latest work, Homegrown Democrat, immediately following the
show;
- Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Sunday 4 p.m., April 23, 2006,
music building concert hall. The Yakima Symphony will present two landmark
orchestral pieces, Bela Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra" and Aaron
Copland's "Clarinet Concerto," which will feature CWU alumnus and Ellensburg
native, clarinetist Jeffrey Brooks;
- CWU Chamber Choir and Orchestra, Sunday 4 p.m., April 30,
2006, music building concert hall. The performance will feature Beethoven's
Choral Fantasy for Orchestra, Choir, and Solo Piano; and
- Bolcom and Morris, Saturday 7 p.m., May 6, 2006, music
building concert hall. Heralded as one of the great musical collaborations
of our time by the Boston Globe, this husband-and-wife duo is highly
acclaimed for its finely gauged and vividly imagined interpretations of
American popular songs from the late 19th century through the 1920s and
'30s.
Season tickets and individual event tickets are available at the
CWU Tower Theatre Box Office. For more information on the series and ticket
prices, visit www.cwu.edu/president/series or call 509-963-1774.
The 2005-2006 Performing Arts and presidential Speaker Series was made possible by generous donations from the Office of the President, the College of Arts and Humanities, and our sponsors, Puget Sound Energy, the Daily Record, the SageCliffe Foundations, Northwest Public Radio, and Central Washington University Alumni Associaion.
For persons of disability to arrange for reasonable
accommodation call (509) 963-2111 or (for the hearing impaired) TDD
509-963-2143.
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