ART BRIEFS

Lecture-recital provides
insight into Schumann’s works
Faculty member Roberta Crawford will be the guide for an exploration of German composer Robert Schumann at a lecture and recital featuring faculty artists Thursday, February 27, in Casadesus Recital Hall. The concert begins at 8 p.m.

Schumann, who lived from 1810 to 1856, was a leader of the German Romantic School and perhaps its most powerful promoter as both a composer and writer. Together with Liszt and Chopin, he is credited as the founder of modern piano technique, exploiting the utmost possibilities of the instrument.

Those features of Schumann’s work and more will be demonstrated by clarinetist Timothy Perry, pianist Michael Salmirs, soprano Mary Burgess, violinist Patricia Sunwoo, violist Crawford and cellist Stephen Stalker. They will perform the Fantasiestucke for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 73, Liederkreis, Op. 39 and Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello in E-flat major, Op. 47.

Tickets are available calling 777-ARTS, online at anderson.binghamton.edu or at the door. They are $8 for the general public, $6 for BU faculty/staff and seniors, and free to students with a valid ID.

Chorale, chorus offer
promise of spring in March 2 concert
Binghamton University’s Harpur Chorale and Women’s Chorus will present a “Nearly Spring” concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 2, in the Anderson Center Chamber Hall. Selections include traditional Scottish and American tunes and sea chanties, a setting of 11 poems by Langston Hughes to music by Frederick Piket titled “Sea Charm,” the popular song “Embraceable You” by George and Ira Gershwin, and the inspirational “Make Our Garden Grow,” from Leonard Bernstein’s Candide.

The Harpur Chorale is conducted by faculty member Peter Browne. The Women’s Chorus is conducted by graduate student Jane True. The concert, sponsored by the Music Department, is free.

Cinema Department unveils
spring artists series
The Department of Cinema recently announced its Spring 2003 Artists Series. All events will take place at 8 p.m. in LH-6.

On Tuesday, February 25, the Black Maria Film + Video Festival features the best entries from the independent film fest.

Filmmaker and experimental puppet theater artist Janie Geiser appears Wednesday, March 5, to screen her works Spiral Vessel (2000), Lost Motion (1999) and The Secret Story (1996).

Michele Smith will appear at the screening of her film Regarding Penelope’s Wake (2002), Tuesday, March 25. The film, which created a sensation at the New York Film Festival, is a montage culled from numerous sources, including stag films, an instructional film, documentaries, science films and home movies.
On Tuesday, April 1, Gregg Biermann hosts the screening of his film Material Excess (1992-1993), which “crams the consumer goods of modern life into the framework of Dante’s Divine Comedy to create a singularly and peculiarly visceral visual and intellectual essay on the predicament of determining value in Western culture.”

Appearances by the filmmakers are sponsored by the ART Mission in Binghamton, with presentation funds from the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. The series is co-sponsored by the Harpur College Dean’s Office. For more information, call 777-4998 or Vincent Grenier at 777-4997.