Legendary music icons Three Dog Night?known for memorable rock hits such as Joy to the World, One and Shambala?will open the 2011-12 season of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville?s Arts & Issues series Oct. 8 at SIUE?s Vadalabene Center. Sponsored by the SIUE Foundation, the 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, concert will be presented in conjunction with SIUE?s Homecoming weekend.
For more than 25 years, SIUE?s Arts & Issues series has brought great performers and distinguished speakers to Southwestern Illinois. The official media sponsors for A&I are the Edwardsville Intelligencer and KWMU-FM, while the series official hotel sponsor is Hampton Inn and Suites. The 2010-11 Arts & Issues season was partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, as is this season.
Arts & Issues Director Grant Andree said Three Dog Night is one of the banner rock groups of the early 1970s and that the music created by this group continues to be a staple in record stores and on rock radio stations throughout the world. ?The memories that this music evokes will make it a special evening for our audiences,? Andree said. ?And, young audience members also will recognize the melodies made famous by this group.
?It promises to be a great kick-off to a great 26th Arts & Issues season,? Andree said. ?We are very excited about the performers and speakers we have scheduled in the upcoming months. I hope our patrons will take advantage of the subscription sales because these concerts tend to fill up fast.?
Three Dog Night is celebrating its fourth decade of entertaining audiences with clever pop lyrics, hard driving rock-n-roll and impressive vocals. From 1969-1974 no other group achieved more Top 10 hits, sold more records or sold more concert tickets. The group?s music has been forever woven into the fabric of American pop culture, whether on radio day in and day out, in television commercials or in motion pictures. The music of Three Dog Night has served to heighten audience emotions and crystallize the group?s continuing popularity.
Other Arts & Issues events for 2011-12 series season include:
Zucchero?Thursday, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m., SIUE?s Meridian Ballroom
Adelmo Fornaciari, nicknamed Zucchero (sugar), is a talented singer and musician from Italy. His music encompasses a wide range of styles from beautiful ballads to pop, rock, blues and gospel. A European sensation since the mid-1980s, Zucchero has sold 50 million albums worldwide during a career that spans four decades. This appearance will be his first performance in the St. Louis Area..
Neil deGrasse Tyson?Wednesday, Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m., SIUE?s Meridian Ballroom
Sponsored by the Shaw Memorial Fund, the SIUE Graduate School, the SIUE Physics Club and the SIUE Math Club. This event also is funded wholly or in part through Student Activity fees; therefore, all SIUE students will be admitted free.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, who was at the center of the controversy over Pluto?s status as a planet, could be considered America?s current best known astrophysicist. His expertise is broad, including star formation and explosions, galactic structures and dwarf galaxies, which he studies through images provided by the Hubble Space Telescope and observatories located throughout North and South America. He is The Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, and has received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest award given by NASA to a non-government citizen.
Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time with speaker Curt Meine?Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2012, 7:30 p.m., SIUE?s Meridian Ballroom
Sponsored by the Madison County Regional Office of Education
The first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold, Green Fire highlights Leopold?s extraordinary career, tracing how he shaped and influenced the modern environmental movement. An early leader with the U.S. Forest Service, Leopold pioneered wildlife conservation and wilderness management techniques. Curt Meine is a conservation biologist and writer based in Prairie du Sac, Wis., and is a senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation, director of conservation biology and history for the Center for Humans and Nature, and a research associate with the International Crane Foundation.
Ken Waldman and the Secret Visitors: From Madison County to Moose Pass?Wednesday,
Feb. 22, 2012, 7:30 p.m., SIUE?s Meridian Ballroom
Ken Waldman, ?Alaska?s Fiddling Poet,? comes to SIUE with an all-star cast. Waldman will transport the audience to the grandeur of Alaska through poetry, storytelling, traditional music and dance. This one-time only event will include the North Carolina duo Appalachian Roots featuring Ira Bernstein and Riley Baugus. They will be joined by Arkansas native banjo player and singer Allison Williams, Memphis bluesman and multi-instrumentalist Andy Cohen, Austin banjo player and fiddler Jerry Hagins, as well as Chicago fiddler, guitarist and banjo player Jordan Wankoff and West Virginia native fiddler Rachel Eddy.
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of India Presents Sambhavya?Friday, March 16, 2012, 7:30 p.m., The Wildey Theatre in downtown Edwardsville
The beauty and tradition of classical Indian dance honed to near perfection will be on display when the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble performs for the Arts & Issues series at the newly renovated, historic Wildey Theatre in downtown Edwardsville. Nrityagram was founded in 1990 near Bangalore as a total immersion dance community, and is considered one of the foremost dance companies in India.
The Combined Orchestras of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and SIU Carbondale, featuring violinist David Kim, concertmaster for the Philadelphia Orchestra?Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 7:30 p.m., at the theater in SIUE?s Dunham Hall.
Sponsored by Commerce Bank
The orchestras of both Southern Illinois University main campuses will be combined for one exciting evening, featuring David Kim, a native of Carbondale who has been concertmaster for the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1999. Kim?s numerous solo engagements around the world have included the orchestras of Dallas, Pittsburgh, Capetown, KBS (Korea) and Moscow, as well as the Buffalo and Seoul philharmonics, the Polish National Radio Orchestra, the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and numerous orchestras across North, Central and South America.
Arts & Issues and the SIUe Xfest welcome the Squonk Opera presenting Edwardsville: The Opera?Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 7:30 p.m., the theater in SIUE?s Dunham Hall
Sponsored by the SIUE Credit Union
Squonk Opera is a multimedia performance troupe from Pennsylvania, ?Edwardsville: The Opera? is part of its ?hometown opera? series. Squonk will weave hometown documentation and video with its original musical score, providing a heartfelt toast and punk-vaudevillian roast to our city at the same time. While highlighting the distinct characteristics of each community, This avant-garde group?s unique performances combine music, sound and image with innovative video, slapstick comedy and unexpected surprises. Squonk Opera has performed on Broadway, in Europe and South Korea, across the United States, and in a Pittsburgh junkyard with earthmovers and choreographed cranes.
For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of the new Arts & Issues season brochure available now to the public at several locations throughout the Edwardsville-Glen Carbon area or by calling (618) 650-5194. The brochure contains information about the events and subscription sales for the 2011-12 season. For additional information about the series, call (618) 650-5774.
More information and tickets are available through the Web site: http://www.artsandissues.com.
EDITORS: The 2011-12 Arts & Issues photos suitable for print are available at http://www.siue.edu/artsandissues/PhotoIndex.shtml
Arts & Issues is a series of distinguished speakers and performers that supports the academic mission of the University. Students meet and discuss issues with renowned speakers in workshops, dinners, receptions and classes. Students in music, theater and dance work directly with visiting artists in master classes. Arts & Issues also gives students opportunities to gain experience in special events production, administration, fundraising and development.
SIUE offers the advantages of a small, liberal arts college with the low tuition rates of a state university. Our emphasis on undergraduate education, complemented by faculty research, creates practical applications for student learning. Located in the second most populated area of the state, this Illinois university draws students from all 102 Illinois counties, 42 states and 50 nations.
The SIUE College of Arts and Sciences combines foundational education with diverse and highly-specialized coursework. Faculty help students explore diversity of ideas, experiences and people while learning to think and live as fulfilled, productive members of a global society. The College offers 44 degree programs in the arts, humanities and social and natural sciences.
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