Upcoming Student Events:
Music
Free Admission, no tickets necessary. For more information, please call the Humanities Office at (239) 489-9332.
November 13, 2011
Edison State College Concert Band
3:00 p.m., Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Free Admission
Enjoy an afternoon of music that includes some of the finest works from the Concert Band tradition. Included on the program will be perennial favorites Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich; The Sinfonians by Clifton Williams; Four Scottish Dances by Malcolm Arnold; Under the Double Eagle by J.F. Wagner, and Jim Curnow’s Concertino for Tuba and Band.
November 20, 2011
Edison State College Jazz Ensemble
3:00 p.m., Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Free Admission
This exciting concert features the twenty piece Edison Big Band, and is comprised of some of the finest jazz musicians and vocalists in the region, performing both new and traditional Big Band Jazz. Featured on the program will be Maynard Ferguson’s Cruisin’ for a Bluesin’; Tadd Dameron’s Ladybird; a swinging arrangement by local composer, Mark Taylor, of Jerome Kern’s and Oscar Hammerstein’s All the Things You Are; Oliver nelson’s Stolen Moments; and much, much more. Don’t miss this afternoon of instrumental and vocal Jazz..
December 5, 2011
Edison State College Symphony Orchestra and Edison State College Chorale Combined Concert
7:30 p.m., Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Free Admission
Under the direction of Candace Baranowski-Sundby, hear the Edison State College Chorale, joined onstage by the Riverdale High School Chorus, as they perform excerpts from Messiah. Included on the program will be the Hallelujah Chorus, Comfort Ye My People, Every Valley Shall Be Exalted, along with many more selections from George Friedrich Handel’s beloved Oratorio. In addition to the Messiah, the Edison Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Smith, will perform the Overture from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067, for string orchestra and flute; and one of Franz Joseph Haydn’s most famous “London” symphonies: “The Clock,” Symphony No. 101.
April 13, 2011
Edison State College Concert Band
Director, Dr. Tom Smith
7:30 p.m., Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Free Admission
The Edison State College Concert Band’s Spring Concert will be an exciting mix of classic Band and Wind Ensemble favorites. Included on the program will be: Overture from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss; Trittico by Vaclav Nelhybel; Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky; Aaron Copland’s Variations On A Shaker Melody; and several works featuring Edison State College trumpeters, including audience favorite Bugler’s Holiday by Leroy Anderson. If you are a fan of great American Band Music, this is an experience that should not be missed. This talented group carries on the tradition of the classic American Wind Band and delivers it with a twenty-first century performance.
April 18, 2011
Edison State College Jazz Ensemble
Director, Dr. Tom Smith
7:30 p.m., Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Free AdmissionThe Edison State College Jazz Ensemble has an exciting concert scheduled for their end of semester event. This 20 piece Jazz Big Band, comprised of some of the finest musicians in the region, will be swingin’ the night away as they perform both new and traditional Big Band jazz. Featured on the program will be works by Count Basie; Herbie Hancock; Gordon Goodwin; Thad Jones; Duke Ellington; George and Ira Gershwin; and many more. Don’t miss this night of instrumental and vocal Jazz.
May 2, 2011
Edison State College Symphony Orchestra and Edison State College Choir Combined Concert
7:30 p.m., Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Free Admission
The Edison State College Symphony, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Smith, will perform one of the best loved orchestral works ever written: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Pastorale. Also on the program will be Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Cellos, featuring two of Edison State College’s most talented student performers.
Under the Direction of Candace Baranowski-Sundby, and accompanied by Mary Griffin-Seal, the Edison State College Choir will be performing classic works from Choral literature and contemporary favorites. One of the finest mixed choruses in the region, the Edison State College Choir is a group not to be missed.
Free Admission, no tickets necessary. For more information, please call the Humanities Office at (239) 489-9332.December 6, 2010
Edison State College Symphony Orchestra and Edison State College Choir Combined Concert
7:30 p.m., Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts HallThe Edison State College Symphony, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Smith, will perform an exciting program of some of the best loved Orchestral works ever written. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 will open the concert; followed by the beautiful Meditation from Thais by Massenet, featuring student solo violinist, Becca Sherman. The Orchestra’s final offering will be the Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, by Edvard Grieg, including Prelude, Anitra’s Dance, and In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Under the Direction of Candace Baranowski-Sundby, and accompanied by Mary Griffin-Seal, the Edison State College Choir will be performing works for this Holiday Concert by Samuel Barber: Sure On This Shining Night (in honor of his 100th birthday). Two German Carols by Ehret; Hanerot Halalu; Antiphonal Noel (with Brass Accompaniment); and the joyous North Pole Rock and Roll will round out the program.
December 12, 2009
Edison State College Concert Band, Director, Dr. Tom Smith
3:00 p.m., Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts HallThe Edison State College Concert Band’s Fall Concert will be an exciting mix of classic Band and Wind Ensemble favorites. Included on the program will be: Clifton Williams’ Fiesta, Symphonic Dance No.3; Haydn Wood’s Manx Tone Poem, Mannin Veen; Alfred Reed’s First Suite for Band; and a medley of Dave Brubeck tunes from his famous Time Out album, including: Take Five, Blue Rondo ala Turk, and Unsquare Dance; plus much more. If you are a fan of great American Band Music, this is an experience that should not be missed. This talented group carries on the tradition of the classic American Wind Band and delivers it with a twenty-first century performance.
December 13, 2010
Edison State College Jazz Ensemble, Director, Dr. Tom Smith
7:30 p.m., Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts HallThe Edison State College Jazz Ensemble has an exciting concert scheduled for their end of semester event. This 20 piece Jazz Big Band, comprised of some of the finest musicians in the region, will be swingin’ the night away as they perform both new and traditional Big Band jazz. Featured on the program will be works by Count Basie; Charlie Parker; Frank Mantooth; Horace Silver; fusion guitar legend, Pat Matheny; and many more, including a tribute to Jazz vocalist, Ella Fitzgerald, and her first Hit with the Chick Webb Band: A Tisket, A Tasket.
November 23, 2009
Edison State College Symphony Orchestra and Chorale
8:00 p.m., Barbara B. MannFeatured works on the program will be Farandole (Bizet); the beautiful “Unfinished” Symphony No.8 (Schubert); the first Movement from the “Jupiter” Symphony, No. 41 (Mozart); and the third movement of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Bach).
December 1, 2009
Edison State College Concert Band
8:00 p.m., Barbara B. MannThe Concert Band’s Fall Concert will be an exciting program of classic band and wind ensemble favorites including, among others, the William Tell Overture (Rossini); An American In Paris (Gershwin); and Fanfare For The Common Man (Copland).
December 7, 2009
Edison State College Jazz Ensemble
8:00 p.m., Barbara B. MannFrom Ol’Man River to Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, the Jazz Ensemble will be swinging and struttin’ their stuff all night long. This fine group of outstanding musicians will be performing Big Band Jazz at its best. Compositions by Mark Taylor, Sammy Nestico, Cannonball Adderley, and many others, will be showcased by some of Edison’s most talented performers.
April 11, 2010
Edison State College Symphony Orchestra and Chorale
3:00 p.m., Barbara B. MannFeatured works on the program will include Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.1; Excerpts from famous Operatic Choruses including Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Verdi’s Nabucco, and the Humming Chorus from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Other highlights of the program will include special solo performances for Trumpet (Hovhaness’ Prayer of St. Gregory), and Marimba/Vibraphone (Rosauro’s Serenata).
April 20, 2010
Edison State College Jazz Ensemble
8:00 p.m., Barbara B. MannFrom Chick Corea’s Spain to Miles Davis’ Four to Herbie Hancock’s Chameleon, the Jazz Ensemble will be swinging and struttin’ their stuff all night long. This fine group of outstanding musicians will be performing Big Band Jazz at its best. Compositions by Charlie Parker, Sammy Nestico, Leonard Bernstein, and many others, will be showcased by some of Edison’s most talented performers.
April 25, 2010
Edison State College Concert Band
3:00 p.m., Barbara B. MannThe Edison Concert Band’s Spring Concert will be an exciting mix of classic band and wind ensemble favorites including, among others: Finale from the New World Symphony (Shostakovich); Whatsoever Things (Camphouse); Irish Suite for Band (Cornish); and The Thunderer (Sousa). Also featured on the program will be three special showcases for Edison soloists: Concerto for Trumpet (Arutunian); Concert Piece for Bassoon (Phillips); and “Rondo” for Clarinet (Movement III, Mozart’s Concerto for Clarinet).
Free Admission Tickets are available at the Barbara B. Mann Box Office. For more information, please call the Box Office at 239-481-4849 or Toll Free at 800-440-7469.
Art
November 30, 2010
SYNC/SINK Student Art Show &
Couillard | Krupp | Malecot Fall 2010 Portfolio ReviewOpening Reception: 6 p.m. J-Bldg – all 3 floors
Exhibit Dates:
SYNC/SINK: November 30 – December 10, 2010
Couillard | Krupp | Malecot Fall 2010 Portfolio Review: November 30 – December 5, 2010November 18 – December 6, 2009
Transplant and Pardon Our ArtTwo art exhibits, titled “Transplant” and “Pardon Our Art,” will be on display throughout the Richard H. Rush Library on the Lee Campus from November 18 until December 6.
The exhibits will feature new art work by Edison State College students, and include painting, drawing, installations, performance and photography.
The Lee Campus Café Arts & Media Club will provide a formal reception at 6:00 pm on November 18 in the Quiet Study Room located on the second floor of the Library in Room J-204. Food and beverages will be served.
January 13 & 15, 2010
Art 48Create + Compete= Cash Prizes
WHAT is Art 48?
- ART48 is an interdisciplinary art event open to all Edison State Students (or teams of students) to compete for cash prizes. Rules and prompts will be given to all interested Students, who then have 48 hours to create a work of art based on the prompt. Categories of work include visual art, performance art, and film.
WHEN is Art 48?
- Wednesday, January 13 at 6:00 p.m. All interested students meet in L-119B.
At this meeting the rules are explained and the students are given a "prompt" which contains elements that must appear in the work. The students then have 48 hours to create a work of art based upon the prompt.
- 48 Creative Hours Later…..
- Friday, January 15 at 6:00 p.m. the students report to the first floor of the J building to present their work. The work will fall into one of the following categories.
1. Visual
2. Performance
3. Film
Judging begins at 7:00 p.m. Wendy Chase, Steve Chase, Ron Bishop and Jim Houston will serve as the 4 judges. One award will be given in each of the 3 categories. All art lovers invited.Questions about Art 48? Please contact one of the three sponsoring faculty members: Professor Stuart Brown, Professor Dana Kern, or Professor Tom Smith.
February 8 – 11, 2010
Graffiti Art
April 22 – 30, 2010
Annual Student Art ShowThis exhibition features the work from Edison State College art students and includes painting, drawing, design, ceramics and photography.
Annual Student Art Show Application
Theatre
March 31 – April 9, 2011
Edison State College Theatre presents Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends (A Final Evening with the Illuminati)
March 31 through April 2 at 8:00 p.m.
April 3rd and April 6th at 2:00 p.m.
And April 7th through April 9th at 8:00 p.m.When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
~Jane WagnerEdison State College's Theatre program presents Larry Larson & Levi Lee's hilarious and irreverent comedy Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends (A Final Evening with the Illuminati) directed by Stuart Brown.
The play is set in a bombed-out church in some not-so-distant future. The Reverend Eddie, a pill-popping evangelist, prepares his final sermon, while battling the paranoid, hallucinatory whispering of his arch enemies, the Illuminati.
Reverend Eddie's hilarious monastic rants veer from pugilism to petulance all the while oddly familiar as echoes of contemporary, rabid cable television pundits. Providing a foil to the paranoid, egotistical, Reverend Eddie, is the ever credulous Brother Lawrence, a childlike, sweet-tempered, hunchback formed in the twisted mold of Quasimodo.
The play launches a fulsome assault on misguided religiosity and offers a mirthful but potent warning about the dangers of faith gone wrong.
The play will be at Edison State College Black Box Theatre (L-119b), 8099 College Parkway, Fort Myers.
Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for students.
Tickets can be purchased on Brownpapertickets.comFor more information about Edison State College Theatre, please contact Stuart Brown at Edison State College (239) 433-8007.
November 12 – 15 & 19 – 22, 2009
A Midsummer Night’s DreamShakespeare Under the Stars!
Imagine a world where true love always triumphs, where fairies are free to meddle with the lives of mortals, and where the person of your dreams could be ... a donkey?
The Edison State College Theatre Department presents Shakespeare’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream November 12-15, and 19-22, outside in the Mary Jo Sanders Garden of Inspiration on Edison State College’s Lee Campus. Curtain is at 8 p.m. for the Thursday through Saturday shows, and at 2 p.m. for the Sunday matinees. General admission is $7.00, and student admission is $5.00. Tickets and information: 481-4849 or email: tickets@bbmannpah.com
Join us for Shakespeare’s starlit romp though the mysterious woods outside of Athens. Anything is possible.
March 18 – 21 & 25 - 28, 2010
Good“A dream of reason produces monsters” --Goya
What makes us happy can’t be bad. Can it?
That’s the question Edison State College Theatre’s play Good poses to theatre-goers in a sophisticated mix of humor, music and drama. Centered around bookish professor, John Halder, during the rise of the Nazi Party in pre-World War II Germany, Good examines how a series of small, expedient decisions can lead to things terrible and totally unimaginable. Halder’s journey from simple man to villain is a poignant, witty, and sometimes surreal expedition into ethical marshes that begs the question: what is good? And how can good men do evil things?
Good runs March 18th-21st, and 25th- 28th at Edison State College, in L119 B in the Humanities Hall. Curtain is at 8pm, tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for students. For tickets, call the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Center at 239-481-4849 or tickets@bbmannpah.com. Due to adult language, those under 17 years of age will not be admitted.
For more information about Edison State College Theatre, please contact Stuart Brown at Edison State College (239) 433-8007.
