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GLINT 2024: Glisten
October 25, 2024
7:00 pm
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Westminster’s Performing Arts programs provide a meaningful cultural connection between talented students and the Sugar House community. Enjoy one of the many upcoming performances firsthand, from live theatre to immersive dance ensemble experiences.
GLINT 2024: Glisten
October 25
7:00 pm
Sorenson-Fenton Studio, Gillmor Hall
GLINT is an annual video installation project by the Westminster Dance program that presents original screen dance works by students, faculty, and community artists projected on the architecture and landscape of Westminster’s campus.
GLINT 2024: Glisten
October 26
7:00 pm
Sorenson-Fenton Studio, Gillmor Hall
GLINT 2024 – Glisten portrays the multifaceted perceptions of water in various environments, reflecting its beauty, power, and vulnerability as a sustaining resource. Glisten features Utah-based artists as they consider how water shapes our inner and outer landscapes, creating dialogues between moving imagery and fixed architecture.
GLINT is an annual video installation project by the Westminster Dance program that presents original screen dance works by students, faculty, and community artists projected on the architecture and landscape of Westminster’s campus.
Faculty Recital: Resonant Horizons
October 28
7:30 pm
Emma Eccles Jones Recital Hall, Gillmor Hall
Join us for an unforgettable evening of contemporary music that explores the boundaries of sound and emotion, featuring the innovative works of two visionary composers: Griffin Irish and Devin Maxwell. The evening will feature a selection of both composers' works that employ theater, text, electronics, percussion, and acoustic instruments that test the edges of music. Devin Maxwell’s recent release, “Timebending,” was even said to be “screwing with the whole space-time continuum” by Vanessa Ague on the blog, “The Quietus.”
Westminster Chamber Orchestra
October 30
7:30 pm
Vieve Gore Concert Hall Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony
Tonight’s concert features one of the best-known symphonies in the canon, Dvořák’s “New World” symphony, which premiered at Carnegie Hall in December 1893. To say it was an unqualified success would be an understatement. Thunderous applause obligated the composer to stand and bow after each movement. The program also features Canadian composer, Mathieu Lussier’s award-winning composition Bassango – the title neatly sums up the piece: it’s a tango for bassoon! Aequora was written by Icelandic composer María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir and is her first composition for orchestra. Its title comes from a Latin word describing the surface of a calm ocean.
Faculty Recital: Pegsoon Whang, cello and Emily Williams, piano
November 04
7:30 pm
Vieve Gore Concert Hall Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
Westminster cello faculty Pegsoon Whang performs a free concert of Bach, Schubert and a new work by Utah composer Steve Roens.
Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach — Suite No. 3 in C Major for unaccompanied cello, BWV 1009
Steven Roens — Soliloquy for Solo Cello
Franz Schubert — Sonata in A minor for arpeggione and piano, D. 821
with pianist Emily Williams.
The Moors
November 07
6:00 pm
Jewett Center for the Performing Arts
By Jen Silverman
Directed by Jared Larkin
Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
Jen Silverman’s dark comedy is considered a gothic feminist thriller with tinges of absurdism, interspecies romance, and comedic farce. Themes from the Brontë sisters appear through a contemporary lens while set against the backdrop of 19th century Gothics.
The Moors
November 08
6:00 pm
Jewett Center for the Performing Arts
By Jen Silverman
Directed by Jared Larkin
Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
Jen Silverman’s dark comedy is considered a gothic feminist thriller with tinges of absurdism, interspecies romance, and comedic farce. Themes from the Brontë sisters appear through a contemporary lens while set against the backdrop of 19th century Gothics.
The Moors
November 09
6:00 pm
Jewett Center for the Performing Arts
By Jen Silverman
Directed by Jared Larkin
Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
Jen Silverman’s dark comedy is considered a gothic feminist thriller with tinges of absurdism, interspecies romance, and comedic farce. Themes from the Brontë sisters appear through a contemporary lens while set against the backdrop of 19th century Gothics.
The Moors
November 14
7:30 pm
Jewett Center for the Performing Arts
By Jen Silverman
Directed by Jared Larkin
Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
Jen Silverman’s dark comedy is considered a gothic feminist thriller with tinges of absurdism, interspecies romance, and comedic farce. Themes from the Brontë sisters appear through a contemporary lens while set against the backdrop of 19th century Gothics.
The Moors
November 15
7:30 pm
Jewett Center for the Performing Arts
By Jen Silverman
Directed by Jared Larkin
Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
Jen Silverman’s dark comedy is considered a gothic feminist thriller with tinges of absurdism, interspecies romance, and comedic farce. Themes from the Brontë sisters appear through a contemporary lens while set against the backdrop of 19th century Gothics.
The Moors
November 16
7:30 pm
Jewett Center for the Performing Arts
By Jen Silverman
Directed by Jared Larkin
Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
Jen Silverman’s dark comedy is considered a gothic feminist thriller with tinges of absurdism, interspecies romance, and comedic farce. Themes from the Brontë sisters appear through a contemporary lens while set against the backdrop of 19th century Gothics.
Westminster Concert Series: Leoš Janáček’s Diary of One Who Disappeared
November 18
7:30 pm
Vieve Gore Concert Hall Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
Following the performance, please join us for a light reception.
Fall Dance Concert: Ripple Effect
November 22
7:30 pm
Sorenson-Fenton Studio, Gillmor Hall
Fall Dance Concert: Ripple Effect
November 23
7:30 pm
Sorenson-Fenton Studio, Gillmor Hall
Westminster Concert Series: Hear & Now
February 24
7:30 pm
Vieve Gore Concert Hall Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
Celebrating its third year commissioning a new work by an emerging composer of color, Hear & Now seeks to build greater understanding and empathy by widening the repertoire that has been generationally limited in classical music spheres. The prize includes a commissioning fee, a professional recording of their new work, travel, and housing costs in Salt Lake City and time to work with students and speak with audiences at the world premiere. This year's call for compositions is for solo piano or solo piano + electronics.
The Oresteia
February 27
7:30 pm
Dumke Student Theater, Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).
The trilogy was first performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize.
Working with the translator, Emilio Casillas will be distilling this trilogy into a 90-minute production.
The Oresteia
February 28
7:30 pm
Dumke Student Theater, Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).
The trilogy was first performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize.
Working with the translator, Emilio Casillas will be distilling this trilogy into a 90-minute production.
The Oresteia
March 01
7:30 pm
Dumke Student Theater, Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).
The trilogy was first performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize.
Working with the translator, Emilio Casillas will be distilling this trilogy into a 90-minute production.
The Oresteia
March 06
7:30 pm
Dumke Student Theater, Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).
The trilogy was first performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize.
Working with the translator, Emilio Casillas will be distilling this trilogy into a 90-minute production.
The Oresteia
March 07
7:30 pm
Dumke Student Theater, Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).
The trilogy was first performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize.
Working with the translator, Emilio Casillas will be distilling this trilogy into a 90-minute production.
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