OVATIONUnion College Arts & Culture March 2012 | Volume 1 | Issue 1

The “banner stamp” art for our first issue of Ovation is inspired by an upcoming performance on campus by Stephane Wrembel (story inside).

Need a taste of something different? Try a night of award-winning jazz music at Union College. Three Indiana University students, known as the David Linard Trio, are bring-ing their music to Union’s campus on Saturday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. The con-cert, which will be performed in Conway Boatman Chapel, is free and open to the public. This concert will feature music that James Rubin, chair of the Arts and Culture Committee, says will be different than what Union College audiences may be used to. “These guys are performing jazz and it’s very unusual to get jazz to Union at all, so I think it will be fun to see students playing it,” Rubin said. The David Linard Trio is making the jump from Indiana to Union’s campus, thanks to Union College alumnus David Austin and his wife, Joan. Austin is a 1963 Union graduate and current trustee. He is also professor emeritus at Indiana Univer-sity.

The David Linard Trio is made up of pianist David Linard, bassist Nick Tucker and drummer Ben Lumsdaine. All three are students at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. They have been writing and playing their own compositions for over a year now. Recently, they won the 2011 Emerging Jazz Artist Project Award by Owl Studios. This win has guaranteed them the release of a CD through Owl Studios, and also a performance at the 2012 Indianapolis Jazz Festival. Their stop at Union is just one of many for the trio, who perform all across central Indiana. One notable performance was at the Jazz Kitchen in Indianapolis, where they played for renowned jazz educator David Baker’s 80th birthday celebration. Baker is also leader of the Jacobs School of Music’s jazz ensemble, of which all three students are members.

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Readers,  Welcome to our first issue of Ovation, Union College’s digital newsletter promoting arts and cultural events in and around Barbourville, Ky. Each month, we will feature upcoming events that we don’t want you to miss. Additionally, we will recap recent standout performances. Each issue will include a cal-endar of upcoming scheduled performances at Union College and beyond. For March, Ovation is be-ing released a little earlier than normal. We bumped up our deadline so we could promote the David Linard Trio perfor-mance, scheduled for Feb. 25. It is an opportunity you’ll not want to miss. This newsletter format allows us to provide you with links to email addresses and websites for supplemental information related to stories. We hope to expand on this capability in future is-sues. For our first issue, however, we’ve provided just a few links, including a quick video of the Hellcats, West Point’s buglers. If you’d like to submit an upcoming event, share photos or videos from an event you at-tended, send a letter to the editor or just want to let us know what you think, please do. Enjoy the March issue of Ova-tion. We hope you share it with a friend or two.

Contact UsOffice of College CommunicationsMissy Reid, director606-546-1610communications@unionky.edu

Saturday, Feb. 25

7:30 pm

Stephane Wrembel, a Gypsy-jazz guitarist who has com-posed music for not one, but two Woody Allen movies, is scheduled for a free one-night performance on Union’s campus. He will perform at the Conway Boatman Chapel Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30. Wrembel scored “Bistro Fada,” the theme to Allen’s 2011 film “Midnight in Paris,” starring Owen Wilson and Ra-chel McAdams. His music is also featured in Allen’s 2008 Golden Globe winner “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” His musical resume reaches far beyond these two mov-ies, however. He has performed with many famous artists, including Rock-and-Roll Hall of Famer Patti Smith, and one of his shows was before a packed house at the Lincoln Center. His unique style is one that has roots with music he fell in love with as a teenager. For 10 years of his life, Wrembel spent time studying, playing and learning the music of the Gypsies. Growing up in Fontainebleau, he was able to hear this music first hand, and a lot of his experience comes from sitting around the Gypsy campfires and playing along with them. In college at the Berklee School of Music, he went on to study contemporary jazz and world music. This, plus the music of the Gypsies, is what led to Wrembel defining himself as a Gypsy-jazz guitarist. This isn’t a style of music that Wrembel invented, though. Gypsy-jazz dates back as early as 1930 and is thought to have originated with the music of Django Rein-hardt. It combines the feel of American jazz with the dark Gypsy rhythms of Paris. Wrembel’s performance at Union will be his only one in the state of Kentucky on this tour. Don’t miss the chance to experience this live perfor-mance featuring the sounds that Woody Allen uses to bring magic to the big screen. Click below for a clip of Wrembel’s “Bistro Fada” as per-

formed live for a radio broad-cast.

woody allen fansWoody Allen film lovers know well that jazz has been an important ingredient for him in creating movie magic and attracting new listeners to that genre. In the ‘70s, he used Gershwin. Today, it’s Stephane Wrembel.

Wednesday, MARCH 21

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Don’t miss this spring’s production, “The Lion in Winter,” presented by the Union College Theatre De-partment. Not only is it what Dr. Rebecca Pettys de-scribes as “one of the wittiest plays ever,” it is also the last performance for Pettys on the Rector Little Theatre stage. Pettys, professor of theatre, will also direct the play. She will retire in May after having directed 49 produc-tions. “The Lion in Winter,” written by James Goldman, is scheduled for five performances, March 22-24 and March 30-31. All shows will be at 8:00 p.m. in the Rector Little Theatre in the Fine Arts Building on Union’s campus. Tickets are $7. It is not a performance that is suitable for children. The play is set during Christmas holiday in 1183 and follows Henry II of England and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. The two parents are arguing over which of their two sons will be next in line to the throne. While it is based on real historical characters, the play itself is completely fictional. It originally premiered at Ambassador Theatre in 1966, and Rosemary Harris won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Eleanor, the character Pettys will bring to life. She describes it as “one of the strongest ever writ-ten.”  It was also made into a 1968 film starring Kather-ine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole. Audiences should expect to be entertained through-out the performance, but the play should evoke more than just laughter. “It is billed as a comedy by the author. However, the play is also very moving and exciting as well as witty. Hopefully, the audience will laugh, and cry and be on the edge of their seats at one time or another,” Pettys

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said. The play is one that Pettys has always wanted to direct. Not only that, the role of Eleanor is one she has always wanted to play. This will be only the third time in 28 years that Pettys has both performed in and directed the same play. The production will also feature Dan Covington.

Shown above during dress rehearsal for “The Little Foxes,” Dan Covington and Rebecca Pettys took the stage together at Rector Little Theatre in 2010. They have teamed up once again for the upcoming production, which will also be Pet-tys’s farewell performance before retiring in May.

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The Hellcats Bugle Corps, an ensemble from the West Point Band of The United States Military Academy in New York, took stage at Conway Boatman Chapel on Friday, Feb. 3. The group per-formed patriotic classics in an educational and inspi-rational presentation. For a video peek into the performance, click here.

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This website lets the shopper find art products ranging from books to fine art prints. Students at the Rhode Island School of Design create the prod-ucts on here, and each product is unique. Some may be a little pricy, depending on what you are buying, but if nothing else, it is worth visiting the site just look at some of their offerings.

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Described on the website as the “emotional internet radio,” this website lets you listen to a radio station that is completely centered around what-ever may be going on. The different categories range from typical ones like, “jazzy, digital, romantic,” to other not-so-common ones like, “it’s raining, busy as a bee, just woke up.”

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February 25 David Linard Trio, 7:30 pm at Conway Boatman Chapel, Union College, free March 21 Stephane Wrembel, 7:30 pm at Conway Boat-man Chapel, Union College, freeMarch 22-24 and 30-31 “The Lion in Winter,” 8:00 pm at Rector Little Theatre, Union College, tickets $7 March 28 “Finding the Truth Where Certainties Collide,” Dialogic Performance Studies, Film Screenings, starting at 5:00 pm at Union College, exact location TBA, freeMarch 29 Lecture “Believing in Seeing: An Autoeth-nographic Lexicon of Dialogic Film Studies” at Union College, exact location TBA, freeApril 14 – 26 Annual Awards Gala, 8:00 pm at Rector Little Theatre, Union College, freeApril 19 – Spring Concert with Union College Singers, Union Harmony and Regional Chorus, 8:00 pm at Con-way Boatman Chapel, Union College, free

March 1-3 “August: Osage County,” various times at Guignol Theatre, University of Kentucky, tickets $15March 4 “Fiddler on the Roof,” 4:00 pm at Newlin Hall, Centre College in Danville, tickets starting at $38March 13-18 “Mary Poppins,” the Broadway Produc-tion, various times at Kentucky Center, Whitney Hall, Louisville, tickets starting at $32.75March 29-31 SCAPA presents “Into the Woods,” various times at Lexington Opera House, tickets starting at $14

March 1 Chris Botti, 8:00 pm at EKU Fine Arts Center, Richmond, tickets starting at $45March 8 Petar Jankovic Ensemble, 8:00 pm at Phelps Stokes, Berea College, freeMarch 8 The 5 Browns, 7:30 pm at Rollins Center, University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, free to faculty and staff or tickets $30 for adults and $10 for studentsMarch 20 Trans Siberian Orchestra, 7:30 pm at Rupp Arena, Lexington, tickets starting at $39.50March 28 Merrilee Elliott, flute and Michael Fogler, guest guitarist, 7:30 pm at Old Morrison Chapel, Tran-sylvania University in Lexington, freeMarch 30 UK Symphony Orchestra and the Lexington Singers, 8:00 pm at EKU Fine Arts Center in Richmond, tickets starting at $15April 28 Lexington Philharmonic, 7:30 pm at First Bap-tist Church London, free to faculty and staff or tickets $30 for adults and $10 for students

March 9-10 “Cinderella” by the Louisville Ballet, vari-ous times at Kentucky Center, Whitney Hall, Louisville, tickets starting at $27March 10 Diavolo Dance Theatre, 8:00 pm at Newlin Hall, Centre College in Danville, tickets starting at $18March 22 “Don Quixote” by the Moscow Festival Ballet, 7:30 pm at the Singletary Center for the Arts, Lex-ington, tickets starting at $25March 24-25 “Beauty and the Beast” by the Kentucky Ballet Theatre, various times at Lexington Opera House, tickets starting at $15March 27 Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet presents “Moulin Rouge” the Ballet, 7:30 pm at Newlin Hall, Centre College in Danville, tickets starting at $28

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