Semester D Classes Begin
2014-06-17

Film: When Comedy Went to School
2014-06-17 19:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Magill Commons
Why are there so many Jewish comedians? When Comedy Went to School answers this question with an entertaining portrait of this country’s greatest generation of comics – the generation that includes the likes of Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar, Jackie Mason, Mort Sahl, and Jerry Stiller – all of whom make appearances in the film, telling jokes and telling their stories. The answer is also found in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains, aka the Borscht Belt, where Jewish immigrants transformed lush farmland into the 20th century’s largest resort complex. Thos Catskill hotels and bungalow colonies provided the setting for a remarkable group of young Jewish-American comedians to hone their craft and become worldwide legends. It was truly When Comedy Went to School.
Commentary: Mr. Lawrence Richards, Director
Organized by the Jewish Cultural Studies Program and the Office for Global Initiatives
For more information please contact 732-571-4474
Monmouth University appreciates the generosity of a group of Hollywood Golf Club members who enable multi-year support for the Monmouth University Jewish Cultural Studies Program.

Met Opera Summer Encore: Rigoletto
2014-06-18 19:00 | Pollak Theatre
Originally transmitted on February 16, 2013
Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960. Piotr Beczala is the womanizing Duke, Željko Lucic is his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto’s daughter, Gilda.
Approx. Run Time: 3 hours

Met Opera Summer Encore: Rigoletto (Broadcast in HD)
2014-06-18 19:00 - 22:15 | Pollak Theatre
Tickets on sale May 9th!
Michael Mayer’s acclaimed production, the talk of the opera world when it premiered in 2013, sets the action of Verdi’s masterpiece in 1960 Las Vegas—a neon-lit world ruled by money and ruthless, powerful men. In this bold new vision (featured on 60 Minutes), Piotr Beczala is the Duke, a popular entertainer and casino owner. Željko Lučić sings Rigoletto, a comedian and the Duke’s sidekick, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto’s innocent daughter, Gilda. When she is seduced by the Duke, Rigoletto sets out on a tragic course of murderous revenge. (originally transmitted on February 16, 2013).
Broadcast in HD
Approx. Run Time: 3 hours

An Evening with Crosby, Stills & Nash
2014-07-06 19:30 - 23:30 | MAC At Monmouth
7:30 p.m. Show (Doors 6:30 p.m.)The box office will open at 5 PM for will callThere is an eight (8) ticket limit per household.
Parking Fee: $10
Tickets now on sale via Ticketmaster.com, 800.745.3000, and Ticketmaster retail outlets. A limited amount of tickets will be available for sale in person at the MAC and Pollak Theatre box offices.
Produced by TTM, Inc and AEG Live

Semester B Classes End
2014-07-07

Semester E Classes Begin
2014-07-08

AMERICAN IDOL® LIVE! 2014 TOUR
2014-07-08 20:00 - 23:59 | MAC At Monmouth
AMERICAN IDOL® LIVE! gives fans the unique opportunity to be up close and personal with Season 13 Finalists C.J. Harris, Jena Irene, Caleb Johnson, Jessica Meuse, MK Nobilette, Alex Preston, Dexter Roberts, Majesty Rose, Malaya Watson and Sam Woolf. Tickets are on sale May 9.
8:00 p.m. Show (Doors 7:00 p.m.) The box office will open at 5 p.m. for will callParking Fee: $10 There is an eight (8) ticket limit per household.
No other show in TV history has proven to be a force like AMERICAN IDOL®. Fans of the hit series can see this season’s talented Top Ten Finalists live when the AMERICAN IDOL® LIVE! tour returns this summer. AMERICAN IDOL® LIVE! gives fans the unique opportunity to be up close and personal with Season 13 Finalists C.J. Harris, Jena Irene, Caleb Johnson, Jessica Meuse, MK Nobilette, Alex Preston, Dexter Roberts, Majesty Rose, Malaya Watson and Sam Woolf.
Once again, AMERICAN IDOL® LIVE! has partnered with The Melanoma Research Alliance (www.curemelanoma.org). For every ticket purchased for the tour, AMERICAN IDOL® LIVE! will donate $1 to The Melanoma Research Alliance to help cure melanoma.
Tickets now on sale via Ticketmaster.com, 800.745.3000, and Ticketmaster retail outlets. A limited amount of tickets will be available for sale in person at the MAC and Pollak Theatre box offices.
Produced by TTM, Inc and AEG Live

Met Opera Summer Encore: La Rondine (Broadcast in HD)
2014-07-09 19:00 - 21:45 | Pollak Theatre
Tickets on sale May 9th
Puccini’s achingly beautiful score charmingly conveys the plight of Magda (the “swallow” of the title), who unexpectedly finds true love with the handsome young Ruggero. But their idyllic life comes to a premature end as she is haunted by the fear that her checkered past will ruin his future. Opera stars Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna portray Puccini’s star-crossed lovers. Nicholas Joël’s production features elegant and sophisticated art-deco sets that contribute to the dazzling stage picture. (originally transmitted January 10, 2009)
Broadcast in HD

Approx. Run Time: 2 hours 30 minutes

Semester D Classes End
2014-07-14

Princeton Review GMAT Information Session hosted by the Monmouth MBA Program
2014-07-14 18:00
Monmouth University will host a Princeton Review GMAT information session, followed by a Master of Business Administration (MBA) information session.
The sessions will both take place at the Financial Markets Lab in Bey Hall.
Registration begins at 6 p.m., and the information sessions start at 6:30 p.m.

Graduate Information Session for Professional Counseling, Mental Health Counseling, and Physician Assistant Degree Programs
2014-07-16 18:00
This information session is for
students interested in Monmouth University’s Professional Counseling, Mental
Health Counseling, and Physician Assistant graduate degree programs
The session will be held at the Monmouth Park Corporate Center, 185 State Highway 36, West Long Branch, NJ, starting at 6 p.m.

Met Opera Summer Encore: Otello (Broadcast in HD)
2014-07-16 19:00 - 22:15 | Pollak Theatre
Tickets on sale May 9th
In Verdi’s retelling of Shakespeare’s towering tragedy, Renée Fleming gives a captivating performance as the innocent Desdemona, a role long considered one of her calling cards. As the title hero, Johan Botha, delivers an imposing portrayal of a proud warrior brought down by jealousy, and Falk Struckmann is thrilling as the villainous Iago. (originally transmitted October 27, 2012).
Broadcast in HD
Approx. Run Time: 3 hours

Bang, Bang, You're Dead and the Gaggle
2014-07-18 19:00 - 2014-07-20 19:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Shadow Lawn Theatre and the Actor’s Playground
present
“Bang, Bang, You’re Dead”
Friday and Saturday, July
18 and 19 at 7 p.m.“The Gaggle” by Ralph Colombino
Sunday, July 20th at 2:00 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Bang Bang You’re Dead is a one-act play written by
William Mastrosimone. Josh’s life is a
never-ending cycle of bullying and self-loathing until he makes a decision that
destroys his life and the lives of others. He’s already in jail, but can he
face the real consequences? After a school shooting, the ghosts of five
victims demand answers. In this moving drama, Josh’s life is a portrait of
bullying, self-loathing and suicidal thoughts. What happens when he realizes
the future he stole from the victims and himself?
The
Mini Misfits’ Anti Bullying play, The Gaggle follows the story of a very unique and
empowered girl named Phoebe. She is new to Guggenheim Academy and
immediately has to deal with the meanest girl who ever lived, a bully
named Stacey, not to mention her group of friends who call themselves
The Gaggle. Stacey and her crew decide that they are going to bully the
new girl, but little do they know what they are up against. Phoebe
defends herself with wit, cunning, and guile. Guggenheim Academy would
never be the same again. Truthfully acted, wonderfully written, and
extremely relatable to its audience, The Gaggle is entertaining and
profoundly effective in the ongoing battle with bullying.

Met Opera Summer Encore: The Enchanted Island (Broadcast in HD)
2014-07-23 19:00 - 22:15 | Pollak Theatre
A contemporary take on the 18th-century genre of the pastiche, this delightful Baroque fantasy brings together some of the greatest arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, Purcell, and other composers, with a new English libretto by Jeremy Sams, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The all-star cast is headed by David Daniels as Prospero, Joyce DiDonato as Sycorax, Danielle de Niese as Ariel, Luca Pisaroni as Caliban, and the legendary Plácido Domingo as Neptune. William Christie conducts this dazzling world-premiere production (originally transmitted January 21, 2012).
Broadcast in HD
Approx. Run Time: 3 hours

Met Opera Summer Encore: Roméo et Juliet (Broadcast in HD)te
2014-07-30 19:00 - 22:30 | Pollak Theatre
Tickets on sale May 9th
The world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna as the star-crossed young couple. Their performances brought audiences to their feet in both the opera house and in movie theaters. Gounod’s ultra-sensual interpretation of Shakespeare also features Nathan Gunn as Mercutio and Plácido Domingo on the podium. (originally transmitted December 15, 2007).
Broadcast in HD
Approx. Run Time: 3 hours 10 minutes

The Simon String Quartet Free Concert
2014-08-05 20:00 - 22:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
The Simon Quartet will perform Haydn’s jocular Quartet in F Major, Op. 50, No 5, followed by Debussy’s richly textured Quartet, and finally, one of Mozart’s late masterpieces, the Quartet in B♭ Major, K. 589.
Monmouth University is pleased to announce that the Simon String Quartet and colleagues will again present free classical chamber music concerts as part of its Summer String-In workshop. The Simon String Quartet (Fiona Simon and Sebu Sirinian, violins; Lisa Suslowicz, viola; David Bakamjian, cello) is a special group of four seasoned performers whose passion for chamber music infuses their collaboration with energy and dynamism. Led by Fiona Simon, a member of the New York Philharmonic, its members each combine careers in chamber music and orchestras, and as soloists and teachers. Although currently based in New York, where they individually perform with some of the most distinguished ensembles in the area, their performing careers have taken them all over the world. The Summer String-In, now in its tenth season, is an intensive week-long music workshop for adult amateur string players that takes place on the campus of Monmouth University.

Met Opera Summer Encore: La Fanciulla del West (Broadcast in HD)
2014-08-06 19:00 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
Tickets on sale May 9th
Puccini’s musical vision of the American West is vividly brought to life in the Met’s atmospheric production. Deborah Voigt is Minnie, the “girl of the golden west” and owner of a bar in a Californian mining camp. Marcello Giordani sings Dick Johnson, the bandit-turned-lover hunted by the cynical sheriff Jack Rance (Lucio Gallo), who wants Minnie for himself. Complete with whiskey-drinking cowboys, gunplay, a poker game, and a snowstorm, La Fanciulla del West is Puccini at his most colorful. (originally transmitted January 8, 2011).
Broadcast in HD
Approx. Run Time: 2 hours 22 minutes

The Simon String Quartet Free Concert
2014-08-07 20:00 - 22:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
The Simon String Quartet will be joined by other Summer String-In faculty members – violist Kimberly Foster-Wallace and cellist Joseph Kimura – to play Dvorak’s Sextet in A Major, Op 48 and Dohnanyi’s Sextet in B♭ Major.
Monmouth University is pleased to announce that the Simon String Quartet and colleagues will again present free classical chamber music concerts as part of its Summer String-In workshop. The Simon String Quartet (Fiona Simon and Sebu Sirinian, violins; Lisa Suslowicz, viola; David Bakamjian, cello) is a special group of four seasoned performers whose passion for chamber music infuses their collaboration with energy and dynamism. Led by Fiona Simon, a member of the New York Philharmonic, its members each combine careers in chamber music and orchestras, and as soloists and teachers. Although currently based in New York, where they individually perform with some of the most distinguished ensembles in the area, their performing careers have taken them all over the world. The Summer String-In, now in its tenth season, is an intensive week-long music workshop for adult amateur string players that takes place on the campus of Monmouth University.

Semester E Classes End
2014-08-18

Semester C Courses End
2014-08-18

Cinderella
2014-08-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
The Paper Moon Puppet Theatre presents Cinderella, a delightful version of the timeless classic created specially for the puppet theatre, featuring beautiful rod puppets, scenery and hilarious characters.
For tickets and information, call Paper Moon Puppet Theatre at 732-775-0290

Labor Day
2014-09-01
Have a wonderful holiday!

Fall Classes Begin
2014-09-02
Fall 2014 Classes Begin at 8:30 a.m.

Urban Coast Institute $5 Million Challenge
2014-09-02 - 2014-12-31
An anonymous donor has committed $3,000,000 to Monmouth University to support the Urban Coast Institute’s (UCI)
Marine Science & Policy Initiative. Monmouth University must secure
commitments for an additional $2,000,000 by December 31, 2014.

Gallery Exhibition: Glory Bound. Photographs by Barry Schneier
2014-09-02 09:00 - 2014-09-30 19:00 | Pollak Gallery
September 2 – September 30Pollak GalleryOpening Reception/Gallery Talk: September 11, 6-8 pm
Throughout the 1970’s, Barry Schneier captured several iconic figures in pivotal moments of their lives, having unprecedented access to these young artists as their careers took flight. Included in the exhibit are images from Bruce Springsteen’s legendary 1974 Harvard Square Theatre show — a performance cemented in music history after Jon Landau penned the infamous line, “I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” Also featured is Patti Smith’s debut tour performance at San Francisco’s Boarding House and Van Morrison’s triumphant return to Boston as he paid tribute to the town where he conceived Astral Weeks.
Image Caption: Bruce Springsteen, Harvard Square Theatre, 5/9/1974

Gallery Exhibition: Robert Mueller - Selected Works From the Monmouth University Permanent Collection
2014-09-02 09:00 - 2014-10-17 17:00 | Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
September 2 – October 17, 2014
Rechnitz Hall
DiMattio Gallery – Second Floor
Inspired by mathematical models, literary sources, and his own social consciousness, Robert Emmett Mueller, artist, engineer, inventor, author, musician, puppet maker, and general wizard, is on a never-ending search for visual equivalents to his ideas.
“Such is his mind, and such is his personality that I know whatever he is doing artistically is a search for form, a search for beauty, and a search for the meaning of things”, said Bernarda Bryson Shahn, and artist and Mueller’s longtime neighbor in Roosevelt, New Jersey.
Mueller’s creations are largely varied. They include woodcuts, like a recent triptych entitled: Ravages of Pre-emptive War; The Devil Stalks Baghdad; America’s Bitter Presence, whose theme is the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Many of Mueller’s pieces can be found worldwide and are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the New Jersey State Museum, the Rutgers University Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum of London, and other museums worldwide. He is also a painter who describes his personal style as “Mathematico-abstract.” Mueller has written two books, The Science of Art, published in 1967, and Inventivity, published in 1963.
Mueller’s own “inventivity” took a circuitous route to art. He grew up in St. Louis, where his father was a baker and his mother was a seamstress and milliner. After serving in the Navy, he was sent to a college preparation program in Asbury Park and later graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After moving to New York City to study philosophy at New York University, Mueller began to meet artists from Roosevelt, which was begun as a planned workers’ community but had evolved into an artists’ colony that included, among others, Ben Shahn, and Gregorio Prestopino, both who influenced Mueller’s work. Mueller moved to Roosevelt with his wife Diana Lobl, an attorney, in the 1950’s. They now have two grown children, Rachel and Erik.
Mueller said that through Roosevelt he became “conscious of human inhumanity, moral and social problems, the depths of degradation, and the heights of elegance over which human nature ranges”, and he believes that artists should use their work to react to crises in society, to encourage protest, and to fight for economic, political, and human well-being.
In this exhibition, all of the above are skillfully communicated.
Image Caption: Classic Figure, 1996, Woodcut, 23 1/2″ x 17 1/2″

Gallery Exhibition: MAVIS SMITH / THINK AGAIN
2014-09-02 09:00 - 2014-10-17 17:00 | Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
September 2 – October 17, 2014
Rechnitz Hall
DiMattio Gallery – First Floor
Opening Reception: Friday, September 19, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
We interact with hundreds of people throughout our lifetimes, yet can we ever hope to grasp the intricate web of experience that makes them tick? Imagining the hidden realities of other people’s existences is a continuing theme in the work of artist Mavis Smith. “It’s not so much specific people or events, but the general sense of unknown depths that intrigues me”, says Smith. “It does not have to be dark; heroic acts toward total strangers or simple people rising to extraordinary occasions are equally in the mix.” Smith, who’s works are often done in egg tempera, brings an almost surreal aesthetic to her paintings that further suggests the dislocation of appearances and realities.
“I have a love/hate relationship with egg tempera. It’s a labor intensive medium, but the luminous effects you can achieve makes it seem worth it to me. I build up layer upon layer of thicker paint, alternating with sheer washes of pigment – back and forth, back and forth. The actual process is very meditative, and I believe it contributes to my subconscious imagination coming into play.”
Bucks County, PA resident Mavis Smith studied at the Pratt Institute in the 1970’s, and has exhibited her work in Holland and Switzerland as well as Santa Fe, New York City, and several venues in NJ and PA including a solo show in 2012 at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA. She is also a prolific illustrator and author of children’s books, having authored 10 and illustrated at least 75. This exhibition samples a range of Smith’s work from years past, as well as several new pieces, including both paintings and works on paper as well as some recent sculptural works incorporating egg shells.

Gallery Exhibition: David H. Wells
2014-09-02 09:00 - 2014-11-14 17:00 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
September 2 – November 14, 2014
Ice House Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 25, from 4:30 – 7:00 p.m.
An exhibit about the empty homes and foreclosed dreams littering the American landscape in the wake of the foreclosure crisis.
Owning a home was once the American dream. At the peak of the foreclosure crisis, one in five American homeowners was either behind on their mortgage payments or in the process of foreclosure. Their empty homes and foreclosed dreams are powerful symbols of lives shattered and families devastated.
After a house is foreclosed upon there is a fleeting moment when the ghosts of the one-time owners are all that is left – before the houses are cleaned and returned to the real estate market. The remaining signs of life photographed during this period of time echo the voices and footsteps that once filled these emptied houses.
I focused on empty homes, as they are immovable objects and stand in stark contrast to the highly mobile American dream. I chose not to focus on individual families in foreclosure because I wanted to explore the issue from a broader perspective. The final work is made more powerful by its lack of literalism and its attention to chillingly mundane objects. An open-ended canvas, viewers can project their own ideas into the photographs – about home, America and family, into the empty spaces of the houses.
I started the project in April of 2009, with the goal of understanding the upheaval we are living through. I initially photographed in the Central Valley of California, an epicenter of the foreclosure crisis. Then, I worked in Rhode Island, which has a foreclosure rate very similar to California’s. To date, I have photographed in eighteen states.
My audience is America itself, including those who worry about the possible foreclosure of their own dreams, those who have already experienced that trauma and anyone concerned or interested in what’s happening to the American dream.

On Screen in Person: The Hand That Feeds
2014-09-09 19:30 - 23:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
Co-Directors Rachel Lears & Robin Blotnick
Behind the scenes of the 63rd Street Hot and Crusty café in New York City’s affluent Upper East Side, undocumented immigrant workers face pay below minimum wage, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers. The Hand That Feeds follows a group of workers who risk deportation and the loss of their livelihoods to team up with a crew of innovative young organizers and form their own independent union.
There will be a post-screening Q & A with the filmmakers.
On Screen/In Person is made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Touring Program.
