DETROIT, Feb. 14, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Marygrove College announces its 2007 series of music, dance and theater performances, which highlight the high quality of its Visual and Performing Arts programs.
On Sunday, February 25, the Marygrove College Theatre and the UDM Theatre Players perform the "Vagina Monologues," at 2 p.m. in the Marygrove College Theatre, directed by Leslie Love and Courtney Burkett. This performance, including several Detroit "celebrities," commemorates V Day, a worldwide effort to raise awareness of and stop abuse of women and young girls. Tickets: $15; $5 for students with ID.
Also on Sunday, February 25, Marygrove will host the Orchid Ensemble Concert at 4 p.m. in Denk Chapman Hall. East meets west in this unique combination of instruments that creates a tapestry of musical textures and colors, from Chinese traditional and contemporary pieces to new music, world music and jazz. A demonstration/workshop for students about Asian music and instruments follows the next morning. Tickets: Adults $8; seniors $5; free for students with ID.
Stanton and Friends, an annual faculty concert featuring composer-in-residence Dr. Geoffrey Stanton and other performers, will be held Friday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sacred Heart Chapel. This year's event will include organ music for four hands, four feet, works produced in the college electronic music lab, and a new cycle of songs by Stanton using poems by English Department faculty member Dr. Donald Levin. A pre-concert talk at 7:00 p.m. about the new song cycle will be held with Donald Levin and Geoffrey Stanton. The concert and discussion are free and open to the public.
Friday through Sunday, April 13-15, the Marygrove College Dance Company presents "No Street Shoes," featuring choreography by Pattie Obey (international jazz artist), Gregory Robinson (Dayton Ballet), Sidra Bell (Sidra Bell Dance New York) and Barbara Selinger (Detroit Dance Collective). The annual spring concert takes place in the Marygrove Theatre on Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, 4 p.m. Tickets: $10; $5 for students/seniors.
On Sunday, April 22, the Marygrove College Chorale performs "Sacred Traditions," a performance of music from different religious traditions including music for mixed choir, women's choir, organ, handbells in the Sacred Heart Chapel. The concert features a performance of Faure's Requiem with the Chorale and Joanne Rickards Clark, Marygrove director of the sacred music program, on the historic 1928 Casavant pipe organ.
For more information about these Marygrove College events, contact Liz DiDonna, 313-927-1538 or edidonna@marygrove.edu.
Marygrove is an independent liberal arts college in Detroit since 1927. Some 1,200 students attend on-campus classes in its undergraduate and graduate programs in education, business, human resource management, social justice, social work, forensic science, science, math, criminal justice, music and dance, and the fine arts.
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