Events

La Traviata Encore - Verdi
2012-05-24 19:00 (America/New_York)
We apologize that the date of the encore was printed incorrectly in our season brochure. Please note the correct date/time indicated above.
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium. (3 hours 7 minutes, 1 intermission)

Met Opera: ANNA BOLENA Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2012-06-13 19:00
Donizetti’s ANNA BOLENA
Anna Netrebko opened the Met’s 2011-12 season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king, singing one of opera’s greatest mad scenes. David McVicar’s Met premiere production also stars Ekaterina Gubanova as her rival, Jane Seymour, and Ildar Abdrazakov as Henry VIII. Marco Armiliato conducts.

Production: David McVicar
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Cast: Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Tamara Mumford, Stephen Costello, Ildar Abdrazakov
Original transmission: October 15, 2011
Broadcast in HD

Met Opera: LE COMTE ORY Encore
2012-06-20 19:00
Rossini’s LE COMTE ORY
Bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez sings the title role of this vocally dazzling comedy, in Bartlett Sher’s Met production. Joyce DiDonato stars in the trouser role of the page Isolier, who vies with Count Ory for the love of Countess Adèle, sung by Diana Damrau.
Production: Bartlett Sher
Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Cast: Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi
Original transmission: Saturday, April 9, 2011

Met Opera: DON GIOVANNI Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2012-06-27 19:00
Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI
Mariusz Kwiecien is the world’s most famous lover in Michael Grandage’s elegant production, led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi. The lineup of refined Mozartians also includes Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Ramón Vargas, and Luca Pisaroni.
Production: Michael Grandage
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Cast: Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Mojca Erdmann, Ramón Vargas, Mariusz Kwiecien, Luca Pisaroni, Joshua Bloom, Štefan Kocán
Original transmission: October 29, 2011
Broadcast in HD

Met Opera: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2012-07-11 19:00
Offenbach’s LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN
Bartlett Sher’s 2009 production stars Joseph Calleja in the tour-de-force title role of this fictionalized take on the life and loves of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann. Anna Netrebko is the tragic Antonia and Alan Held sings the demonic four villains. Met Music Director James Levine conducts.
Conductor: James Levine
Production: Bartlett Sher
Cast: Kathleen Kim, Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja, Alan Held
The Live in HD production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann does not include the partial nudity seen in the stage production.
Original transmission: December 19, 2009
Broadcast in HD

Teddy and Alice
2012-07-12 20:00 - 2012-07-29 19:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Thursdays – Saturdays at 8 p.mSundays at 7 p.m. Friday matinee at 2 p.m.
Book by Jerome Alden; Music by John Phillip Sousa; Lyrics by Hal Hackady Adaptations and Original Music by Richard Kapp“I
can do one of two things,” says Teddy Roosevelt at the top of “Teddy
& Alice,” “I can either be President of the United States or I can
control Alice. I cannot possibly do both!” The battle of wills between
the great American President and his free-spirited daughter provides a
spectacular double-star turn in this high-stepping, flag-waving and
heart-warming family drama, set to the immortal strains of John Philip
Sousa.

Met Opera: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Encore
2012-07-18 19:00
Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Donizetti’s bel canto tragedy in her Met role debut, with Piotr Beczala as her lover, Edgardo. Mariusz Kwiecien is her tyrannical brother. Mary Zimmerman’s hit production, first seen in 2007, is staged as a Victorian ghost story.

Production: Mary Zimmerman
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Cast: Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien, Ildar Abdrazakov

Original transmission: February 7, 2009

Met Opera: DER ROSENKAVALIER Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2012-07-25 19:00
Strauss’s DER ROSENKAVALIER
Strauss’s comic masterpiece of love and intrigue in 18th-century Vienna stars Renée Fleming as the aristocratic Marschallin and Susan Graham in the trouser role of her young lover. Edo de Waart conducts a cast that also includes Kristinn Sigmundsson and Thomas Allen.
Production: Nathaniel Merrill
Conductor: Edo de Waart
Cast: Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Christine Schäfer, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen, Kristinn Sigmundsson
Original transmission: Saturday, January 9, 2010
Broadcast in HD
Tickets go on sale Friday, April 20, 2012

Train - The California 37 Tour
2012-08-30 19:30
Location: MAC at Monmouth
TRAIN
THE CALIFORNIA 37 TOUR
With special guest MAT KEARNEY

Thursday, August 30, 2012 – Doors open 6:30 p.m.
Box Office open at 5:00 p.m. for will call
Show begins at 7:30 p.m.
The MAC at Monmouth University
Tickets are on sale Friday April 27th at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.com, phone charge at 800.745.3000 and the MAC and Pollak Theatre box offices.

Tickets: $69.50, $59.50, $49.50, $39.50 + applicable surcharges
Limit six per person
Seating Chart
The parking lot will open at 5:30 p.m.
There will be a $10 parking fee per car and tailgating is prohibited.
Beer Garden will open at 6:30 p.m.
Produced by TTM, Inc and AEG Live

For more about the band, visit trainline.com.

Ed Gallucci - The Crawdaddy Years and Beyond
2012-09-07 - 2012-10-17 | Pollak Gallery
September 7 – October 17, 2012*
Pollak Gallery
Free & Open to Public
Opening Reception and Artists Lecture:
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Reception: 5 p.m.
Lecture: 7:30 p.m.
This exhibition features selections from freelance photographer Ed Gallucci’s life work and includes photographs of celebrities like Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Jerry Garcia, Paul Simon, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, and many others.
Part of Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium.
* Please note that the gallery will be closed on October 11 for a private event.

Fresh Beat Band - Afternoon Performance
2012-09-07 15:00
NICKELODEON’S FRESH BEAT BAND
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th
DOORS 2:00 PM – SHOWTIME 3:00 PM
The MAC at Monmouth University
All tickets $39.50 and $29.50 + applicable surcharges
Limit four per person.
Seating Chart
Tickets on sale Friday, April 13th at 10 a.m. Through Ticketmaster.com phone charge at 800-745-3000 and the mac and Pollak Theatre box offices
Produced by TTM, Inc and AEG Live

Fresh Beat Band - Evening Performance
2012-09-07 18:30
NICKELODEON’S FRESH BEAT BAND
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH
DOORS 5:30 p.m. – SHOWTIME 6:30 p.m.
The MAC at Monmouth University
All tickets $39.50 and $29.50 + applicable surcharges
Limit four per person.
Seating Chart
The parking lot will open at 4:30 p.m.
Tickets on sale Friday, April 13th at 10 a.m. Through Ticketmaster.com phone charge at 800-745-3000 and the mac and Pollak Theatre box offices
Produced by TTM, Inc and AEG Live

Steven Brower - Influence, Parody, and Process
2012-09-10 - 2012-11-16 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
September 10 – November 16, 2012
Ice House Gallery
Artist Lecture:
Thurs. September 13 | 4:30 p.m.
Wilson Hall Auditorium
Opening Reception in Gallery:
Thurs. September 13 | 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public
Designer Steven Brower explores his origins and how he filters early and later influences through his own personal sensibility. Not limited to visual art, graphic design or illustrations those influences include Groucho Marx, Woody Guthrie, Louis Armstrong, right along side PushPin Studios, Mad Magazine, and Jack Kirby.

Argentine TANGO CLASSES
2012-09-17 19:00 - 2012-10-22 19:00 | The Great Hall
Argentine TANGO CLASSES
6 Week Session :
September 17 – October 22, 2012
Mon. at 7 p.m.
Location: Changed to EYAS Lounge, 2nd Floor of the MAC

Everyone is welcome. Join us for a series of Tango classes with Lee Sager of Tango Pantera. No partner or experience needed.
Series Fee
Monmouth Students: $50
Monmouth Faculty and Staff: $75
General Public: $100
To register please call the box office at 732-263-6889 or buy online

Josh Emmons
2012-09-19 16:30
Josh Emmons was born in Bangkok and grew up in northern California. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he published his first novel with Scribner in 2005, “The Loss of Leon Meed,” which won a Copernicus-James Michener Award and has been translated into French, Hebrew, German and Dutch. His second book, “Prescription for a Superior Existence,” came out in 2008 from Scribner, and a Turkish translation is forthcoming. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in “The American Scholar,” “The New York Times Book Review,” “McSweeney’s Quarterly,” “Details,” “People,” “FiveChapters,” “Esquire,” “The San Francisco Chronicle,” and elsewhere.

Two of his short stories have been given honorable mention in “The Best American Non-required Reading,” and he has received several fellowships to the Yaddo Colony in Saratoga Springs, NY. Emmons has taught at Grinnell College, the University of Iowa and Loyola University, and he is now an assistant professor of creative writing at Monmouth University. He lives in Philadelphia.
www.joshemmons.com

On Screen In Person: Gen Silent
2012-09-19 19:30
Gen Silent
Gen Silent is the critically-acclaimed documentary from filmmaker Stu Maddux that asks six LGBT seniors if they will hide their friends, their spouses – their entire lives in order to survive in the care system.

Seán Tyrrell
2012-09-22 19:30
One of the world’s most breathtaking interpreters of
traditional Irish words and music — a man who’s turned epic 18th century poems
into opera, co-created a concept album tribute to an Irish hero of the First
World War, and caught the attention of the international folk music community.
Seán Tyrrell returns Stateside on the heels of his starkly
beautiful new album Walker of the Snow,
a set that sees the singer-guitarist lend his quiet power to material that
ranges from Dublin poet Charles Dawson Shanley’s haunting titular folktale, to
the vintage pop perennial “You Are My Sunshine.” The intimate setting of the historic
Woods Theatre makes an ideal forum for the mesmerizing storytelling skills of
this ageless master.
www.seantyrrell.com

Retro-Perspective
2012-09-25 16:30
RETRO-PERSPECTIVE
by award-winning, iconic performance artists Lois Weaver & Peggy Shaw
A
performed compilation of their greatest hits, featuring a medley of work that
has made the politics of gender and sexuality and the humor of human relations
accessible to all ages and persuasions for the last 30 years. Peggy Shaw and
Lois Weaver, along with Deb Margolin, founded the company “Split Britches” in
New York City 32 years ago. Since 1980 Weaver and Shaw have transformed the
landscape of queer performance with their vaudevillian and satirical
gender-bending shows.

Steve Earle - CANCELLED
2012-09-25 19:30
*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*
Tickets: $27, $40, and $50
A protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark,
roots rocker and country legend Steve Earle is a master storyteller in
his own right. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie
Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, The Pretenders,
Joan Baez and countless others. His own albums garnered both Emmy and
Grammy Award nominations. Earle’s 14th Studio Album, I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, which shares the same name with his 2011 debut novel was called “American roots music at its best” by the New York Post

Purchase tickets through Ticketmaster.com phone charge at 800-745-3000 or in person at the Monmouth University Central Box Office.
For more information visit www.SteveEarle.com

Produced by TTM, Inc.

Runaway
2012-10-12 | Pollak Theatre

Red Baraat
2012-10-12 20:00
Red Baraat (Red BA-rot) has been described as “a fiery blend of raucous Indian bhangra and funky New Orleans brass” — a “Big Band for the world,” playing “Bollywood with a go-go beat.” Of course such a unit could only hail from the flavorful melting-pot fondue that is millennial Brooklyn — and if Red Baraat seems to defy attempts to pinpoint their sound on the cultural GPS, its members do so purely out of the sheer joy of making a big and boisterously infectious sound; a delightfully boundary-busting attack that’s been likened to everything from gypsy punks Gogol Bordello to the nationwide marching-band underground.
Whether they’re playing Lincoln Center, the Montreal Jazz Festival or a superheated sold-out club in their native NYC, Red Baraat have made instant converts of listeners who wouldn’t have known Sufi standards from Bhangra Funk five minutes earlier.
Fronted by MC Sunny Jain and his driving two-headed dhol drum, Red Baraat offers up a big and boisterously infectious sound that mixes
saxophones, brass, drums and percussion with raps, traditional Hindi vocals and just about anything else that maintains the energy level and excitement. It’s a delightfully boundary-busting attack that’s been likened to everything from gypsy punks Gogol Bordello to the nationwide marching-band underground.
Coming off a first-ever appearance at the annual Bonnaroo Music & Art Festival, and a Spring 2012 European tour behind their debut
studio album Chaal Baby, Jain and company have used that momentum to issue a live release (Bootleg Bhangra) and get busy on their forthcoming second studio set, tentatively titled Shruggy Ji.
Still, the live, real time setting — whether it’s in an underground club, a church, a Fashion Week runway, a historic hall or a cramped radio studio — is where Sunny’s crew shines; taking the North Indian bhangra rhythms that have thrilled generations, and infusing them with healthy doses of New York attitude and street-busker savvy.
www.redbaraat.com

Met Opera: L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Broadcast in HD)
2012-10-13 12:55
Donizetti’s L’ELISIR D’AMORE
Sat., October 13, 2012 at 12:55 p.m.
Encore: Fri., November 2, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Approx. Runtime: 3:02

Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani star in one of the greatest comic gems in opera, as the fickle Adina and her besotted Nemorino. Bartlett Sher, whose previous productions of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Comte Ory, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann have delighted Met audiences, guides this lively staging, where surface charm will meet with real emotion. Mariusz Kwiecien is the blustery sergeant Belcore and Ambrogio Maestri is Dulcamara, the loveable quack and dispenser of the elixir. Maurizio Benini conducts.
Broadcast in HD
Production a gift of the Monteforte Foundation, Inc., in honor of Wim Kooyker

California Guitar Trio & Montreal Guitar Trio
2012-10-14 19:00
CGT stands for California Guitar Trio, one of the most fanatically
followed groups of instrumental adventurers in existence — and the
missing link between Beethoven and Burl Ives, Franz Schubert and Freddie
Mercury, or Vivaldi and The Ventures.
MG3 means The Montréal Guitare Trio, a threesome of modern masters
who’ve wowed audiences from major European festivals to BB King’s in NYC
with their heartwarming stage presence and their spine-chilling
virtuosity.
While they may have found themselves joined together in musical
matrimony (a union in which the only argument generally centers around
settle strings vs. nylon), the members of CGT and MG3 have created an
entity that’s more than a marriage of convenience — touring the planet,
sharing the stage and releasing a live album in 2011. The supercharged
sextet comes to Monmouth University for a concert event that takes the
“acoustic” guitar into dynamic dimensions that many people never thought
possible. As CGT, the three veterans of the British guitar guru’s
Guitar Craft program have released fourteen studio and live albums,
filmed a tour documentary and carried their music across international
borders as easily as they’ve broken through the barricades of musical
genre.
Making their first area appearance are the members of The Montréal
Guitare Trio (Sébastien Dufour, Glenn Lévesque, Marc Morin), all of whom
have made a name for themselves beyond their native Quebec — covering
classic rock songs from The Beatles and others; folding stylistic
influences from Scandinavia to South America into their original
compositions, and bringing more than just “one more country” to the
multinational mix.
Audiences should expect nothing less than the unexpected when CGT+MG3
take the stage — a set of intricately wrought surprises that can take
in everything from baroque fugues, surf music (Dick Dale’s “Misirlou”),
arena rock (Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”) and bluegrass picking with some
interlocking mathematical-puzzle originals. It’s a brand of subtle
pyrotechnics that “skips merrily among genres” with wry showmanship and
genuinely awesome technique — one of those off-the-map crossroads where
the happiest of accidents occur.
More Info:www.cgtrio.com or www.mg3.ca

On Screen In Person: Runaway
2012-10-15 19:30
Runaway
*please note the date of this screening was changed from Fri. Oct. 12
Filmed in Bangladesh, Runaway by Amit Ashraf is about one man running from his past, while another tracks him down and forces him to face it.

Meena Alexander
2012-10-16 16:30
Meena Alexander considered one of the foremost Indian poets of her generation, was born in India and raised both there and in Sudan. At eighteen she went to England to study. She has published six volumes of poetry including Illiterate Heart, which won the PEN Open Book Award, Raw Silk and Quickly Changing River. She has also published three chapbooks of poetry: The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts, Night-Scene, the Garden and in 2012 Shimla. Her poems have been translated into several languages including French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Macedonian, Arabic, Malayalam and Hindi.
She is the editor of Indian Love Poems and author of the volume of poems and short prose pieces: The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience. Her memoir Fault Lines was picked as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the year. Poetics of Dislocation appeared in 2009 in the Poets on Poetry Series, University of Michigan Press. Her prose includes two novels, Nampally Road and Manhattan Music and two academic studies on early English Romanticism, one of which is Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley.
Her fellowships include those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Arts Council of England as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has been in residence at the McDowell Colony and at Yaddo where she had the Martha Walsh Pulver Fellowship for a Poet.

American Rococo: Asbury Park Trek
2012-10-17 16:30 - 2012-10-18 10:00 | Art Building
American Rococo: Asbury Park Trek
with artist Duane McDiarmid
Lecture:
Wed. October 17, 2012 4:30 p.m.
Magill Club Rooms 107&108
Walking Tour:
Thurs. October 18 begins at 10:00 a.m.
Art Building Courtyard
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
A performative walking tour through economically varied sections of the communities surrounding Monmouth University. This project explores a society that has advanced to a point where an excess of highly specialized tools and goods results in a trajectory towards some form of collapse.
Audiences and participants can come and go as they please as we trek from Monmouth University to Asbury Park. We’ll meet on the boardwalk in AP for an after performance “picnic” (*picnic go-ers pay for their own meal). Students, Faculty, and Staff who want to take part in creating
Duane McDiarmid’s piece in advance can contact Prof. Anne Massoni.

Tinariwen with Special Guest Kishi Bashi
2012-10-21 19:00
Location: Pollak Theatre
The multi-generational, Grammy winning musical force that is
Tinariwen (tee-nahree-WEN) brings the sound and culture of the Sahara’s
nomadic Tuareg people to the Jersey Shore for the first time — mixing
regional ethnic forms with Western pop influences within an electrified
wall of sound. Tinariwen have won new fans on five continents, a journey
that’s taken them from the refugee camps of Gaddafi’s Libya to
top-ticket music fests and The Colbert Report.
Kishi Bashi, a master at building songs from live violin loops, layered singing and beatboxing, will open the show.
www.tinariwen.com

Great Hall Milonga
2012-10-28 15:00
DUE TO WEATHER, GREAT HALL MILONGA IS CANCELLED FOR SUN. OCT. 28
Great Hall Milonga
a social dance for Tango lovers at all levels of experience
Sun., October 28
Beginner’s Lesson at 3 p.m.
Milonga from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Cost: $25 at the door; $20 for Monmouth University employees/faculty; Free for Monmouth students with ID

All tango lovers (beginners through experienced)
and even those who are just thinking about learning to tango are
invited to join us for a sensational afternoon of dancing amongst the
beautiful background of Wilson Hall. There will be an intro to tango
lesson for all beginners an hour before the Milonga given by Lee Sager
and Silvana Brizuela of Tango Pantera. Live music will be performed by
world-renowned tango pianist Emilio Teubal and bandoneonist Raul
Jaurena. Refine your skills or learn new ones while meeting people who
are passionate about tango.
For more information on Tango Pantera and the Milonga Viversidad, visit http://tangopantera.blogspot.com/p/monmouth-university-pantera.html.

Gallery Exhibition: Historic Wilson Hall
2012-11-01 - 2012-12-21 | Pollak Gallery
Historic Wilson Hall
Designated a Historical Landmark in 1985
November 1 – December 21, 2012
Pollak Gallery
Free & Open to Public
The splendor of the golden age of American palaces will be featured in  an exhibit of photographs depicting Shadow lawn estate as it appeared from 1903 through 1937. The exhibit features images of the original colonial wood frame structure built in 1903 that was destroyed by fire in 1927, and the neoclassical French limestone structure that replaced it in 1929. The exhibit includes images of President Woodrow Wilson making his acceptance speech on the steps  of Shadow Lawn, the opulent décor of the interiors, and the greenhouses and grounds that supported the estate.

This exhibition is part of an ongoing historical project that we hope to grow and enhance by learning more through oral histories and individual memories. If you or a family member had a special connection or story to share about Shadow Lawn Mansion or Wilson Hall, please submit it. We will be collecting this information for use in future research and exhibitions.

Met Opera: TEMPEST
2012-11-10 12:55
Thomas Ades’ TEMPEST
Encore: Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 12:55 p.m.
Approx. Runtime: 3:30
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Metropolitan Opera premiere of his 2004 work, which has been widely praised as a modern masterpiece. Director Robert Lepage recreates the interior of 18th-century La Scala, including the hidden workings underneath the stage, where Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, practices his otherworldly arts. The magnetic baritone Simon Keenlyside stars as Prospero, a role he has sung to great acclaim in London.
Production a gift of Mrs. Bert S. Turner and Robert L. Turner
A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and L’Opéra de Québec
In collaboration with Ex Machina
