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Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra: The Color of Sound

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Oct 12, 2013 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

The Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra launches its 43rd season celebrating composers who luxuriate in colorful palettes of sound. Experience the music of Berlioz, Mahler, and Dvorak, pioneers of Romantic orchestration: the art of imagining orchestral instruments as purveyors of color and feeling. Cellist Nathan Jasinski also joins the KSO as featured guest artist for the 3rd Annual Keweenaw Honors String Festival in a performance of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto.Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra Presents . . . [read more]

2000 Years of Pep!

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Oct 16, 2013 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

Huskies Pep Band with Special Guest Pep Band Historian and Conductor Jean Peptise LullyThe Huskies Pep Band will traverse the history of Pep music from the very beginning to just a few minutes ago. . . . [read more]

Brighton Beach Memoirs

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Oct 17 – Oct 19, 2013 7:30 PM
Oct 24 – Oct 26, 2013 7:30 PM
McArdle Theatre

Tech Theatre Presents Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil SimonBrighton Beach Memoirs is a witty, yet poignant recollection of growing up during the Depression. Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical play features a 15 year old Eugene Jerome, and aspiring writer coming of age in a loving, yet crowded home in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937. Eugene struggles with his desire to hold onto childhood dreams (like pitching for the New York Yankees), while . . . [read more]

Jazz Showcase: Backstage at the Rozsa

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Nov 01 – Nov 02, 2013 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

Big Band Jazz “Up Close and “Personal” in an innovative jazz club setting. Join the MTU Jazz Lab Band and Research & Development Big Band, both under the direction of Mike Irish, for 2 great evenings of a wide variety of jazz. . . . [read more]

Superior Wind Symphony: 1913 Revisited

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Nov 09, 2013 7:30 PM
Calumet Theatre

The Superior Wind Symphony presents a program of wind music that a) existed in the world in 1913 and might have been heard in the US or UP, such as John Philip Sousa and James Reese Europe, b) existed in the greater world in 1913, such as Jean Sibelius, Gustav Mahler and Gustav Holst, and c) that evolved later out of ideas that took hold in 1913, such as Astor . . . [read more]

Unsung Songs of the Southern Nightingale

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Nov 14 – Nov 16, 2013 7:30 PM
McArdle Theatre

Tech Theatre Presents Unsung Songs of the Southern Nightingale, One-Act Plays by Tennessee WilliamsTenn’s songs of the south rang clear as a Nightingale’s melody, carrying his autobiographical depictions of a duplicitous southern culture to the ears of a worldwide audience. His tunes are at once both plaintive and beautiful. These lesser-known plays are our fall adventure!Tickets will also be sold at the door at McArdle Theatre. . . . [read more]

KSO: 1863-2013: Lincoln and Gettysburg

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Dec 07, 2013 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

The year 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address, both seminal moments during the mid-point of the Civil War. The Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra honors these historic events with music inspired by Lincoln, Gettysburg, the Proclamation, and the Civil War, including the first major symphony written by an African-American composer. President Glenn Mroz joins the KSO as narrator of Copland’s Lincoln Portrait to conclude this . . . [read more]

At Winter Solstice

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Dec 14, 2013 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

Concert Choir and conScience: Michigan Tech Chamber Singers Present At Winter SolsticeThe choirs of Michigan Tech join to present choral music to celebrate winter in the northland. Selections from Russia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Israel and the United States reflect on snow and the season of Christmas. . . . [read more]

Jazz Cabaret: Backstage at the Rozsa

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Jan 24 – Jan 25, 2014 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

Small group jazz takes the stage for 2 evenings of dynamic music featuring Jaztec and Momentum with special guests. The Rozsa captures the atmosphere and vibe of a "New York club" with the unique jazz club of the "Backstage". Jazz, Funk, Swing, Latin – you name it, we’ve got it! . . . [read more]

Rose and the Rime

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Feb 06 – Feb 08, 2014 7:30 PM
Feb 13 – Feb 15, 2014 7:30 PM
McArdle Theatre

Tech Theatre Presents Rose and the RimeRose and the Rime is a spectacular modern fairy tale of courage and hope in the face of adversity and fear. The fable features Rose, a very special girl who embarks on an adventure to save her town, Radio Falls, Michigan, from perpetual winter. The play includes dance, and original music composed by students. For younger audiences (5 and under) the Saturday performances include . . . [read more]

Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven's Eroica Symphony

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Feb 22, 2014 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

Beethoven becomes deaf. It makes him angry. He turns suicidal. Then he writes his “Eroica” Symphony. You don’t want to make Beethoven mad. . . . [read more]

Superior Wind Symphony: Flights of Fantasy

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Mar 01, 2014 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

Superior Wind Symphony’s “Flights of Fantasy” presents a mixture of the musical form “fantasia” through history (such as Alec Wilder and Antonio de Cabezon) combined with music inspired by fiction (David del Tredici and Percy Grainger). Eponine Zenker will be featured piano soloist on Wilder’s "Fantasy for Piano and Wind Ensemble.” The SWS will welcome guest conductor Dr. William L. Berz from Rutgers for this performance.Image: The Flying Carpet by . . . [read more]

Don Keranen Memorial Jazz Concert

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Mar 28, 2014 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

2014 marks the 47th year of great jazz at MTU! In honor of the groundbreaking work done by the late Don Keranen, the MTU Jazz Lab Band, Research and Development Big Band, and special guests honor this legacy in a celebratory concert. Join Director of Jazz Studies, Mike Irish and all of the MTU Jazz performers for this memorable evening of jazz! . . . [read more]

Night at the Ballet and Opera

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Apr 11 – Apr 12, 2014 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

The Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra and Tech Theatre Present Night at the Ballet and OperaThe Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra, Tech Theatre, and Keweenaw-area dancers collaborate on two riveting nights of ballet and opera. The KSO provides live orchestral music for Tchaikovsky’s enchanting Swan Lake—one of the most virtuosic of ballets—danced by high school, Tech, community, and professional dancers. On the same evening, KSO and Tech Theatre present Menotti’s Amahl and the Night . . . [read more]

John Luther Adams

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Apr 15, 2014 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

Called "one of the most original musical thinkers of the new century" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker), John Luther Adams is a composer whose life and work are deeply rooted in the natural world who will bring his talent and vision to Michigan Tech as a part of the “Ecology and Art Lecture Series” at the Rozsa. Adams composes for orchestra, chamber ensembles, percussion and electronic media, and his music . . . [read more]

Superior Wind Symphony: Musical Offerings

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Apr 19, 2014 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

Superior Wind Symphony and Campus Concert Band combine to present: "Musical Offerings." This program will feature a good helping of music from J.S. Bach, particularly from his epic, late work, "A Musical Offering." The rest of the program will be wind music selections from great Musicals such as: Leonard Berstein's "On The Town," and Kurt Weill’s "Threepenny Opera." . . . [read more]

Sing Me to Heaven: A Celebration of Sacred Choral Music

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Apr 26, 2014 7:30 PM
Rozsa Center

Concert Choir and conScience: Michigan Tech Chamber Singers Present Sing Me to Heaven: A Celebration of Sacred Choral MusicThe choirs of Michigan Tech combine to present an evening of sacred music from varied religious traditions. Selections will include music from England, Germany, Canada, Africa and the United States. . . . [read more]

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