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BYU Fine Arts and Entertainment Calendar for April 2015

Tickets are available at the BYU Ticket Office in the Harris Fine Arts Center or Marriott Center, by phone 801.422.2981 or visit byuarts.com.

1-3 - The Winter's Tale will be performed at 7:30 p.m. in the Pardoe Theatre. Myth and misunderstanding intersect as a cast of colorful and passionate characters search for their happy ending in this tragicomedy, one of Shakespeare's last plays. Tickets are now available.

1 - Songwriters Showcase will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall. Admission is free.

1 - Clarinet Studio Recital will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Rm 151 or the Tanner Building. Admission is free.

2 - BYU Jazz Voices will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall. BYU Jazz Voices will present an evening of Greatest Hits.  Come enjoy a toe-tapping and finger snapping evening of hit songs made popular by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, U2, Nora Jones, Alanis Morisette, One Republic, Taylor Swift, Pentatonix and many others. Tickets are now available.

3 - 50th Anniversary Celebration is an evening of art exhibitions, film screenings, food, dancing, as well as live performances from many of BYU's student ensembles, including Ballroom Dance Company, Broadway Cabaret, BYU Philharmonic, BYU Singers, BYU Theatre's The Winter's Tale, Concert Choir, Contemporary Dance Theatre, International Folk Dance Ensemble, Living Legends, Songwriter's Showcase, Synthesis, Theatre Ballet, Vocal Point, Wind Symphony, and Young Ambassadors. More information can be found here. Tickets are now available.

7 - Evening of Percussion will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Come celebrate 50 years of music making with things that you hit, shake and scrape. Tickets are now available.

7 - Brass Chamber Night will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the University Parkway Center, Rm 313. Admission is free.

7 - Group for Experimental Music will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall. Admission is free.

8 - Jazz Guitar Ensemble will perform at 9:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall. Admission is free.

8 - BYU Symphony Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Tickets are now available.

9 - BYU Wind Symphony will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Under the baton of Donald Peterson, BYU's esteemed wind band presents a ?bon voyage? concert prior to embarking on a spring tour to Japan, South Korea, and Mongolia. Tickets are now available.

9-10 - BFA New York Showcase will be held at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. in the Nelke Theatre. Graduating seniors from the BFA acting and music dance theatre (MDT) programs will travel to New York in May to present a showcase of songs, scenes, and dances as an audition for industry professionals. These four on-campus performances allow you to preview the students' work before they travel to the nation's entertainment capital in hope of landing a job. All proceeds from the performances contribute to student travel and expenses for the showcase. Tickets are now available.

10 - BYU Philharmonic will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Tickets are now available.

10-11 - BYU Final Cut Film Festival will be held at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in the Pardoe Theatre. The BYU Department of Theatre and Media Arts and the BYU Student Film Association present this student-produced, student-created film festival featuring a collection of the best student-made fiction films, documentaries, commercials, animations, and more. Tickets are now available.

10-11 - Ballroom in Concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Marriott Center. A matinee performance will also be held at 2 p.m. on April 11. Championship formation dancing, breath-taking lifts and spins?all performed in a seemingly endless stream of shimmering costumes-no one does it better than the Ballroom Dance Company. The first American team ever to win the prestigious British Formation Championships, a feat they have repeated an unprecedented 22 times. Tickets are now available.

11 - BYU Symphonic Band will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Tickets are now available.

11 - University Orchestra & University Strings will perform at 2 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Tickets are now available.

11 - Jazz Lab Bands will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall. Admission is free.

11 - University Bands will perform at 11 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Tickets are now available.

14 - University Chorale will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Tickets are now available.

14 - An Evening With the Opera Chorus will be held at 7:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. at the University Parkway Center, Rm 229. Admission is free.

BYU Museum of Art in April

  • Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 29 - Through 2016.
  • e.g. Courtney Kessel: You and Me - January 29, 2015 - May 16, 2015.
  • Kim Schoenstadt: Block Plan Series: Provo - September 2014 - April 18, 2015.
  • Loving Devotion: Visions of Vishnu - September 5, 2014 - March 21, 2015.
  • In Word & Deed: Five Centuries of Religious Art from the Collection of the BYU Museum of Art
  • Shaping America: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection of American Art - Through March 2018.
  • Michael Whiting: 8-bit Modern - Through April 11, 2015.
  • Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami - January 29 - June 20, 2015.
  • Deco Japan: Shaping Art and culture, 1920-1945 - February 13 - July 18, 2015.

2 - Take 5 Faculty Panel will be held at 7 p.m. Join us for this fast-paced interdisciplinary exchange of ideas as four of your favorite BYU professors discuss topics related to our current exhibitionDeco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945.

3 - HFAC 50th Anniversary Celebration The museum will be open until 10:30 p.m. for HFAC 50th events and regular museum exhibitions.

16 - Dance Performance: On Site will perform at 6 p.m. On Site, a mobile dance series which engages the Utah Valley community through dance performances, will be responding to the MOA's current exhibition Kim Schoenstadt: Block Plan Series: Provo.

18 - Open Studio will be held from 10 a.m. to noon. On the first and third Saturday of each month, families can drop in to the MOA anytime between 10 AM and 12 Noon to participate in Open Studio, a free-choice, self-guided art making experience related to one of the Museum's current exhibitions.

30 - Guest Lecture: Brian Kershisnik will present a talk entitled "A Woman's Work." Seating is limited, so please arrive early.

 

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