Sylvia McNair, director

Craft the night away–it’s a good way to de-stress and enjoy a study break. Make pop-up holiday cards, ornaments, and other hands-on items during this free event with snacks, music, and your friends!

Gray Squirrel Nesting Box Workshop: Thursday, December 3, at 6 p.m.

• Sign up at bit.ly/squirrelbox2015
• Registration deadline is Nov. 30
• Cost is $25 per kit*; limited to eight kits.
• Workshop Location: Paynetown SRA

It may seem early to think about nesting, but many of our wild animals get started earlier than you might think! Put a nesting box for squirrels up during January or February and it will be ready and waiting for squirrel mating season. Participants will assemble and decorate a wood nesting box for the gray squirrel and learn about this mammal’s mating and nesting behavior. One-and-a-half to two hours

*When you register for this workshop, you are reserving ONE kit – up to two people may work together on the same kit. If you wish to reserve more than one kit (for other people in your group), you must submit a separate registration for each additional kit.

There is evidence that we are in the midst of a systemic crisis, not simply an economic and political crisis. The current system is characterized by stagnant wages, endemic poverty, looming ecological crises, and growing inequality. How can these outcomes be changed, starting in our own communities? Ultimately the question is how to develop a “next system”—beyond traditional corporate capitalism and state socialism—and how to develop practical and meaningful stages of development that lay groundwork for a longer term historic transformation. They are questions both of theory and of immediate practice—e.g. politics, institution-building, strategy at all levels from neighborhood and community to state, region and nation.

Stage fright or not, the weekly OPEN MIC CABARET is your chance to shine! Open to musicians, songwriters, performance artists, poets, actors, dancers, comics—you name it! Don’t be shy! Grab your 15 minutes of fame every Thursday night. Hosted by Actor/Musician/Songwriter dwBrykalski (dwBrykalski.com).

This perennial favorite has brought its own special magic to the holiday season for more than 100 years! Treat the children in your life to a wonderful experience they’ll remember forever.

Subscriptions available now! Visit the Musical Arts Center box office,
Monday-Friday, 11:30 am-5:30 pm, or call (812) 855-7433.

This perennial favorite has brought its own special magic to the holiday season for more than 100 years! Treat the children in your life to a wonderful experience they’ll remember forever.

Subscriptions available now! Visit the Musical Arts Center box office,
Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., or call 812-855-7433.

ARTISTIC TEAM
Conductor Andrea Quinn
Choreographer Michael Vernon
Set and Costume Designer C. David Higgins

New Music Ensemble – “plugged in…”

David Dzubay, director
Jeffrey Hass & John Gibson, curators

Repertoire
Varèse: Octandre for chamber ensemble (1923)
Saariaho: Solar for chamber ensemble and electronics (1993)
Ubaldini: À blanc 2 for mezzo-soprano, ensemble,
and electronics (2013)
Kyriakides: mnemonist S. for ensemble, soundtrack,
and video text (2007)

About the Director

David Dzubay was born in 1964 in Minneapolis, grew up in Portland, Oregon, and earned a D.M. in Composition at Indiana University in 1991. Additional studies included a fellowship in composition at Tanglewood (1990) and two summers as co-principal trumpet of the National Repertory Orchestra (1988, 1989). His principal teachers were Donald Erb, Frederick Fox, Eugene O’Brien, Lukas Foss, Allan Dean and Bernard Adelstein. David Dzubay’s music has been performed by orchestras, ensembles and soloists in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Asia. His music is published by Pro Nova Music, Dorn, and Thompson Edition and is recorded on the Sony, Bridge, Centaur, Innova, Crystal, Klavier, Gia, First Edition and Indiana University labels. Recent honors include Guggenheim Bogliasco, MacDowell, Yaddo, Copland House and Djerassi fellowships, a 2011 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2010 Heckscher Foundation-Ithaca College Composition Prize, 2009 Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition, 2007 Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition, 2005 Utah Arts Festival Commission and the 2004 William Revelli Memorial Prize from the National Band Association. He is currently Professor of Music, Chair of the Composition Department and Director of the New Music Ensemble at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington. Dzubay has conducted at the Tanglewood, Aspen, and June in Buffalo festivals. He has also conducted the League of Composers Orchestra in New York, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Greater Dallas Youth Symphony Orchestra, Music from China, Voices of Change, and an ensemble from the Minnesota Orchestra, the Kentuckiana Brass and Percussion Ensemble and strings from the Louisville Orchestra at the Music at Maple Mount Festival. From 1995 to 1998 he served as Composer-Consultant to the Minnesota Orchestra, helping direct their “Perfect-Pitch” reading sessions, and during 2005-2006 he was Meet The Composer “Music Alive” Composer-in-Residence with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2011, David Dzubay joined the faculty of the Brevard Music Center as composer in residence.

About the Curators

Jeffrey Hass composes music for electronics combined with large and small acoustic ensembles, video and dance. His current work involves design of interactive wireless sensor systems for performers and dancers. His music, dance and video works have been premiered at International Computer Music Conferences, SEAMUS, Australasian Computer Music Conference, Pixilerations, Spark Festival, American College Dance Festival, the World Dance Alliance and many more. He has also delivered papers at the New Interfaces in Musical Expression Conference, Toronto Electroacoustic Conference and several dance festivals.

Awards include ASCAP/Rudolph Nissim Award, National Band Association Competition, Walter Beeler Memorial Award, Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award, United States Army Band’s Composition Award, Heckscher Orchestral Award, Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship and the Utah Arts Festival Orchestral Commissioning Award. Recordings of his works have been released by the Indiana University Press, SEAMUS, Arizona University Recordings, Albany Records and RIAX Records. His works are published by Magnetic Resonance Music, Ludwig Music Company and MMB Music Publishers.

Hass is a Fellow at the Indiana University Digital Arts and Humanities Institute. He is a former composition and theory instructor at Rutgers University and Interlochen Center for the Arts.

John Gibson’s acoustic and electroacoustic music has been presented in the US, Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia. His instrumental compositions have been performed by many groups, including the London Sinfonietta, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Seattle Symphony, the Music Today Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, Ekko!, and at the Tanglewood, Marlboro and June in Buffalo festivals. Presentations of his electroacoustic music include concerts at the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the Bourges Synthèse Festival, the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, the International Biennial for Electroacoustic Music of Sao Paulo, Keio University in Japan, the Third Practice Festival, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, and several ICMC and SEAMUS conferences. Among his grants and awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, two ASCAP Foundation Grants, and the Paul Jacobs Memorial Fund Commission from the Tanglewood Music Center. Recordings of his music appear on the Centaur, Everglade, and SEAMUS labels. Gibson holds a Ph.D. in music from Princeton University, where he studied with Milton Babbitt, Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, and others. He writes sound processing and synthesis software, and has taught composition and computer music at the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of Louisville. He is now Associate Professor of Composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

David Dzubay, director
Jeffrey Hass & John Gibson, curators

Repertoire
Varèse: Octandre for chamber ensemble (1923)
Saariaho: Solar for chamber ensemble and electronics (1993)
Ubaldini: À blanc 2 for mezzo-soprano, ensemble,
and electronics (2013)
Kyriakides: mnemonist S. for ensemble, soundtrack,
and video text (2007)

We excel in sparkling vibraphone and vocal harmonies from the American Songbook but spice it up the old with Joe Jackson and Amy Winehouse.