Calendar of Events

March 1—30

Faculty Biennial Art

Show, Perkinson Art

Gallery

Friday, March 3

After 5 Live!,

5:00-7:30 pm at Blue

Connection Art Gallery,

117 N. Water St.

Saturday, March 4

Jazz at Lock, Stock &

Barrel with Billy Rogers

& the Hip Replacements,

3:30-5:30 pm

Millikin-Decatur

Symphony Orchestra

presents Masterworks

IV, 7:30 pm in Kirkland

Fine Arts Center

Sunday, March 5

Millikin Wind Ensemble,

4:00 pm in Kirkland Fine

Arts Center

Monday, March 6

Guest Instrumental

Recital featuring Andy

Miller and Aaron

Villarreal, percussion,

6:00 pm in Kaeuper Hall

Faculty Instrumental

Recital featuring Claire

Taylor, bassoon, 7:30 pm

in Kaeuper Hall

Saturday, March 11

Women of Ireland,

7:30 pm in Kirkland Fine

Arts Center

Perkinson Art Gallery

Faculty Biennial Art Show February 27-March 30

Perkinson Art Gallery in Kirkland Fine Arts Center

Gallery Hours: Monday—Friday, 12:00-5:00 pm, or by appointment

Free and open to the public

Works from the faculty in the Art Department will be featured in this exhibition. On view will be a variety of mediums and styles representative of a diversity of aesthetic approaches toward art making. Included in the exhibition: John Hansen, Jamie Kotewa, Johnny

Power, Lyle Salmi, James Schietinger, Edwin Walker, and Jessa Wilcoxen. There will be a closing reception Thursday, March 30, 5:00-7:30 pm in Perkinson Gallery.

Blue Connection Art Gallery

After 5 Live! Featuring Millikin Art Student, Tyrone Perry

Friday, March 3, 5:00-7:30 pm Blue Connection Art Gallery, 117 N. Water St.

Millikin art student, Tyrone Perry is the featured artist during the month of March at Blue Connection. The title of his show is Unapologetically Black. His work explores the relationship between the issues regarding multiculturalism, self-identity, social isolation, and sexual frustration. With influences as diverse as Edvard Munch to Jean-Micheal Basquiat, his work predominantly consists of symbolism. Connecting a chain of events, to one image, begins to be understood as a sway of lust transforms into issues among society. A sense of corruption emerges, as the viewer is left with the limits of the world, through the perspective of the minority.

CFA Patrons Society

The Millikin University College of Fine Arts Patrons Society was created to benefit the over 600 Millikin student-artists participating in nearly 20 degree programs. The Patrons Society provides budget support and helps create special projects which might otherwise go unfunded. The society’s mission is to bring together the university and individuals who believe in the promotion and support of the fine and performing arts and the student-artist at Millikin University. If you would like more information about the Patrons Society, you can visit the web at:

www.millikin.edu/patrons-society, or you may also contact us by phone at the College of Fine Arts 217-362-6499.

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Calendar of Events

Contined

Saturday, March 18

Jazz at Lock, Stock &

Barrel with Dixie

Daredevils,

3:30-5:30 pm

Monday, March 20

Millikin Men Irish/Celtic

Salute, 6:00 & 7:30 pm

in Kaeuper Hall

Thursday, March 23

Faculty and Guest

Instrumental Recital:

Bartok’s Sonata for Two

Pianos and Percussion

featuring Chung-Ha Kim,

piano; Jeremy Brunk,

percussion; ISU Faculty,

6:00 pm in Kaeuper Hall

March 23 ,24 &25

Mauritius, 7:30 pm in

The SPEC,

1099 W. Wood St.

March 24 & 25

Millitrax Playhouse

Weekend beginning at

6:30 pm on March 24

and ending at 4:00 pm

on March 25

March 25 & 26

Mauritius, 2:00 pm in

The SPEC,

1099 W. Wood St.

Saturday, March 25

Jazz at Lock, Stock &

Barrel with Decatur Big

Band, 3:30-5:30 pm

Sunday, March 26

Faculty Recital Series

featuring Amy Catron,

cello & Silvan Negrutiu,

piano, 4:00 pm in

Kaeuper Hall

Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra

Millikin University Symphonic Wind Ensemble Gary R. Shaw, conductor

featuring the music of Staff Sergeant Scott Ninmer Sunday, March 5, 4:00 pm Kirkland Fine Arts Center

Free and open to the public

Arranger Staff Sergeant Scott Ninmer joined "The President's Own" United States Marine Band in September 2014. Staff Sgt. Ninmer began his musical instruction on piano at age 4, trombone at age 8, and in composing and arranging at age 12. While in high school, Scott performed in the Decatur Youth Symphony Orchestra and studied trombone with Gary Shaw at Millikin University. After graduating in 2007 from Taylorville High School, he earned a bachelor's degree in jazz trombone performance in 2011 from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (UI). In 2013, he earned a master's degree in jazz composition from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. He studied trombone with Jim Pugh of UI and composition with Jim McNeely of the Manhattan School and Jonathan Tunick, the Tony, Emmy, Grammy, and Academy Award-winning Broadway orchestrator. Prior to joining "The President's Own," Staff Sgt. Ninmer was a freelance composer, arranger, and copyist in New York. Staff Sgt. Ninmer is responsible for the production of music that encompasses many styles and instrumental combinations, many of which are performed at the White House, in the Washington, D.C., area, and across the country during the band's annual concert tour.

Scott is the son of Ron and Jean Ninmer. Ron is Technical Services Manager/Team Leader at Millikin University and Jean is Director of choirs and bands at Taylorville Jr. High School. Scott’s sister, Breanna, is an elementary education major at Millikin University and clarinetist in the Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

This program of American music includes Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, Bernstein’s “Profanation” from Symphony No. 1 and five compositions for band by Scott Ninmer; Idyll, Night Fall, The Long Road Home, The Wind in the Willows and his most recent work, Harlem Drive, written in 2016 for the Millikin University Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

School of Music

Masterworks IV Saturday, March 4, 7:30 pm

Kirkland Fine Arts Center

Tickets: $13-$16.50

Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 (his last) is a surreal exposition where nothing is quite as it seems, where quotations from music of

Rossini, Wagner, and Glinka, take us on an existential journey into the beyond. This concert also features winners from Millikin’s Young Artists Competition.

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Faculty Instrumental Recital

Claire Taylor, bassoon Monday, March 6, 7:30 pm

Kaeuper Hall

Free and open to the public

Come and enjoy a varied program of bassoon works by Dutilleux, Weber, Vivaldi,

Schoof, Mockert, and Mingus. Also featured will be fellow Millikin faculty such as

Sam Gingher on the piano and members of the Faculty Jazz group including

Randy Reyman, Perry Rask, Mark Tonelli, Stephen Widenhofer.

Kirkland Fine Arts Center

Women of Ireland Saturday, March 11, 7:30 pm

Kirkland Fine Arts Center

Tickets: $30-$50

Women of Ireland brings together all the

most adorned elements associated with Irish

& Celtic music. This magnificent show

toured throughout Europe, North America,

Asia, and Australia during the 2015-16

season, and returns to the U.S. for 2016-17!

Women of Ireland features an-all female

lineup of today’s leading Irish step dancers, including lead dancers from Riverdance and Michael Flatley’s

Lord of the Dance. The show also features very special guest male dancer, the four-time world champion and

former lead dancer with Riverdance - Anthony Fallon. Alongside principal and world champion dancer Kelly

McDonnell, Women of Ireland's dancers cannot be trumped on any stage world-wide.

School of Music

Irish/Celtic Salute Featuring Millikin Men and MU Bluegrass Band

Monday, March 20, 6:00 & 7:30 pm

Kaeuper Hall

Free and open to the public

In conjunction with St. Patrick's Day, the Millikin Men present their annual Celtic

Concert featuring Irish Music of several genres. The Millikin Men are joined by the

MU's Bluegrass Band (turned Celtic band) and Neal Smith on tin whistle and bagpipes.

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Faculty and Guest Instrumental Recital

Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Thursday, March 23, 6:00 pm

Kaeuper Hall

Free and open to the Public

Dr. Tuyen Tonnu and Dr. David Collier from Illinois State University and Dr. Chung-Ha Kim and Dr. Jeremy

Brunk from Millikin University will perform Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. The piece,

which was composed in 1937, showcases Bartók's compositional skills and requires a high degree of precision

and coordination on behalf of the performers. The performance will be preceded by a brief lecture that sheds

light on the composer as well as the piece itself. The event is free and open to the public. Millikin's Piano Club

will host a reception in the lobby of Perkinson Music Center immediately after the performance.

Dr. Tuyen Tonnu Dr. David Collier Dr. Chung-Ha Kim Dr. Jeremy Brunk

School of Theatre and Dance

Mauritius By Teresa Rebeck

Rated R

March 23, 24 & 25, 7:30 pm

March 25 & 26, 2:00 pm

The SPEC, 1099 W. Wood St.

Tickets: $10

After their mother's death, two estranged half-sisters discover a book of rare stamps that may include the

"crown jewel" for collectors. In this gripping tale, a seemingly simple sale becomes dangerous when all the

characters are willing to do anything to claim the rare find as their own.

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School of Music

For students interested in auditioning for the School of Music, experience first hand the level of engagement

enjoyed by our Music Business and Commercial Music majors while you collaborate with faculty and current

students to record and market a song-all in the space of twenty hours! Millitrax Playhouse-play, produce,

perform!

Check out all of the details at http://www.millikin.edu/academics/cas/music/special-events/millitrax-playhouse

Faculty Recital Series

Amy Catron, cello March 26, 4:00 pm

Kaeuper Hall

Free and open to the public

On March 26, cellist Amy Catron will present a recital, which will conclude

the faculty recital series for 2016-2017. The program will include the Sixth

Solo Cello Suite, BWV 1012 by John Sebastian Bach. Originally composed

for violoncello piccolo with five strings, this suite has become one of the

most virtuostic pieces in the cello repertoire. Catron will also give the

world première of Particle 1 for solo cello by composer Robert Chumbley.

Robert Chumbley has a distinctive and elevated profile in many musical

disciplines: composition, conducting, and piano and vocal coaching. Particle 1 was commissioned by

Chumbley's friend and renowned cellist, Nicholas Anderson. He passed away suddenly before the work was

completed. So the final movement, Elegy, is a tribute to Anderson. The recital will conclude with the

Sonata for Piano and Cello, Op. 69 by Beethoven. Catron will be joined by pianist and Millikin faculty, Silvan

Negrutiu in this work composed very near the time of Beethoven's monumental Fifth Symphony. The Sonata

is dedicated to Beethoven's amateur cellist friend, advisor and supporter, Baron Ignaz von Gleichenstein.

After this, Beethoven asked Gleichenstein to help find Beethoven a wife!

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School of Theatre and Dance News

SOTAD alum, Anthony Norman (’15) has been very busy since

graduating MU in 2015. Along with a pair of staged readings at

Porchlight Music Theatre and productions of Bye Bye Birdie and Crazy

For You at Drury Lane theatre, he appeared in the Broadway National

Tour of Disney’s smash hit, Newsies. Last fall, while playing in Los

Angeles, Newsies was filmed for the big screen and will enjoy a limited

release on the big screen February 16, 18, and 22 at selected theatres

across the country. Up next for Anthony is tackling the role of Tobias in

Steven Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at the award winning Paramount

Theatre in Aurora, IL.

SOTAD alum, Jessica Tyler Wright (’95) Appeared in the recent sold out New

York City Opera production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, Starring Linda Lavin,

Gregg Edelman, and Jay Armstrong Johnson. Directed by the legendary Harold

Prince, Receiving very positive notices, Jessica appeared in the role of Paquette, a

role she had also played in the 2008 City Opera production. Jessica has also been

seen in the Broadway productions of War Horse, Company, Sweeney Todd, and

LoveMusik, also directed by Harold Prince.

SOTAD alum, Brian Collier (’00) is currently serving as the

Associate Choreographer for the upcoming Broadway revival of

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, starring Glenn Close.

Brian served as the Dance Supervisor and Dance Captain for the

Broadway production of Disney’s Mary Poppins and as Dance

Supervisor for the Broadway National Tour. Brian also appeared in

the Broadway production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

Kevin Hoffmann, the newest full-time member of the School of

Theatre & Dance faculty, appeared in a television commercial for Decatur

Memorial Hospital that premiered locally during the Super Bowl. In

addition to the advertisement that aired in February, Hoffmann shot an

additional commercial that is expected to air locally in the near future,

and will appear on several billboards in the Decatur area. You can view

the Super Bowl commercial at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYSYkQsQpuw

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Art Department

The Annual Robert Crowder Summer Residency

Application for 2017 Junior, senior or graduating senior Bachelor of Fine Arts - Studio Art students are

eligible to apply for the 2017 Robert Crowder Summer Artist Residency. This residency

is funded by The Robert Harrison Crowder Endowment for Arts Entrepreneurship.

The late Mr. Crowder was a member of the Millikin class of 1933 and a native of

Bethany, Illinois. A celebrated artist, business owner, and author, he was an expert in

the Byobu style of Japanese painting and his works filled many art galleries and

homes. His lifetime of achievements in Japanese art was all the more remarkable given

that he spent nearly two years in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. Today,

his name lives on through Robert Crowder & Associates in Los Angeles, a successful

design firm now owned by Mr. Crowder’s former assistant.

This endowed residency program is the first of its kind in Millikin’s Arts Entrepreneurship program. It was

created to allow Millikin art students an opportunity to create in Blue Connection (117 N. Water St., Decatur, IL)

where students will have exposure to commerce and expectations for making connections with the community.

Interested students should contact Lyle Salmi lsalmi@millikin.edu for an application. Applications are due

March 24, 2017.

School of Music Student Recitals

Sunday, March 5

Senior Voice Recital, Alaina Frederick, mezzo-soprano, 2:00 pm in Kaeuper Hall

Thursday, March 9

Junior Instrumental Recital, Emma Taylor, upright bass, 7:30 pm in Kaeuper Hall

Tuesday, March 21

Junior Instrumental Recital, Jasmine Acosta, alto saxophone, 7:30 pm in Kaeuper Hall

Thursday, March 23

Senior Voice Recital, Lydia Burke, soprano and Michael Sheldon, tenor, 7:30 pm in Kaeuper Hall

Monday, March 27

Junior Instrumental Recital, Justin DeBo, percussion, 6:00 pm in Kaeuper Hall