MU Faculty Exhibition
2012-01-17 - 2012-03-09 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
MU Faculty Exhibition

January 17 – March 9, 2012
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 27 from 7 – 9 p.m.
ICE HOUSE GALLERY
Featuring the work of the Monmouth University Department of Art & Design faculty.

SAMINA QURAESHI - Reflections on a Sufi Path
2012-01-30 17:00 - 2012-03-15 19:00 (America/New_York) | Pollak Gallery
SAMINA QURAESHI: Reflections on a Sufi Path
January 30 – March 15, 2012
Opening Reception:
January 30, 2012
from 5:00-7:00 pm
Pollak Gallery
Admission compliments of Monmouth University
Imaginative, vibrant, and saturated with the rich colors of South Asia, Samina Quraeshi’s photographs, calligraphic works, and mixed media montages reflect the diversity of Islamic expressions of faith. Her work is a creative response to the experience of pilgrimage to the Sufi shrines in the Indus Valley. The images evoke the music, dance, and acts of faith that animate these sacred spaces.
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In The Mood: A 1940s Musical Revue
2012-02-12 15:00
Back by popular demand, In the Mood returns with their big band orchestra, singers, and swing dancers. This retro 1940s musical revives the music that moved a nation’s spirit and helped win a war. The combination of up-tempo instrumentals and intimate, romantic ballads set the mood for a future filled with promise, hope, and prosperity. This Big Band theatrical Swing revue features the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Erskin Hawkins, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra, and more.

For More Information
In The Mood Web Site
Cost: $42/35

Faust Encore - Gounod (Broadcast in HD)
2012-02-16 19:00
With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last season. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts on the heels of his Don Carlo success.
(4 hours 20 minutes, 2 intermissions)
Broadcast in HD
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Carolina Chocolate Drops with M Shanghai String Band
2012-02-17 20:00
“The Carolina Chocolate Drops are…revisiting, with a joyful vengeance, black string-band and jug-band music of the Twenties and Thirties—the dirt-floor dance electricity of the Mississippi Sheiks and Cannon’s Jug Stompers.” — Rolling Stone
“To call them a string band does not really do justice to the flying instruments, the role changes and the strong and sometimes dangerous singing of Rhiannon Giddens …” — New York Times
“The hottest thing to hit the old-time music community in decades.” — NPR
The M Shanghai String Band will open the show. For more information about the bands visit: carolinachocolatedrops.com and mshanghaistringband.com
Cost: $32
