The Rep includes three plays presented in rotating performance over a two-week period. The plays include Smart People by Lydia R. Diamond, How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel, and We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1885-1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury.
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
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The concert opens with contemporary composer Michael Torke’s December, evoking his memories of “cozy cheer in the early days of winter” in Milwaukee. It is followed by Pulitzer-winning composer Kevin Puts’ bright and beautiful Flute Concerto, with Dallas Symphony flutist and Meadows faculty member Kara Kirkendoll as soloist. The concert concludes with Tchaikovsky’s richly expressive Fourth Symphony. Written during a turbulent period of his life in 1877-78, it focuses on the power and inevitability of fate, yet ends on a positive note recognizing the possibility of happiness. The composer called it “an echo of my most intimate spiritual life.”
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
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Chekhov’s final play is a modern masterpiece. Madame Ranevskaya returns to her family estate in the Russian countryside just as the estate may be sold for debts. Selling their famous cherry orchard would rescue the estate – will it be done? Chekhov’s comedy uses frustrated love, identity, class, just-missed opportunities, and a group of delightful, contradictory characters to examine the nature of social change and the human struggle for happiness.
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
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Reception at 6 p.m.
$25; $20 for DIHC members; $10 for educators and students; discounts for groups of 5 or more
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The program features two pieces from Benjamin Britten’s tragic 1945 opera Peter Grimes, the composer’s first to become a critical and popular success. Four Sea Interludes, which includes “Dawn,” “Sunday Morning,” “Moonlight” and “Storm,” and the Passacaglia both provide psychological cues in the opera’s dramatic story of a fisherman accused of murdering his apprentices. The second half of the concert features Gustav Mahler’s ebullient, colorful Symphony No. 4, which explores themes of childhood, innocence and spirituality. Its final movement is based on a German song that translates as “The heavenly life,” offering a child’s view of heaven, and will feature soprano soloist and Meadows alumna Alissa Roca.
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
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This award-winning play by the late Sam Shepard follows the jagged, complex relationship between two families. Considered a landmark work by a playwright at the height of his powers, it moves between Montana and California, husbands and wives, parents and children, and brothers and sisters. Both raw and moving, funny and frightening, A Lie of the Mind explores the hungry heart of the American landscape.
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
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For our first concert of the season, we are thrilled to be joined by our friends from the extraordinary Dallas Street Choir, under the direction of Dr. Jonathan Palant. Founded in 2014, the Dallas Street Choir offers a musical outlet for those experiencing homelessness and severe disadvantage. The choir made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2017. Join us for this celebration of the unifying power of song!
FREE
In lieu of admission, please make a donation to the North Texas Food Bank, either in person at the concert (cash, check, or non-perishable food item) or online at ntfb.org.
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SYZYGY presents George Crumb’s landmark chamber work Ancient Voices of Children with Meadows Performer's Diploma student Lauren Davis as the mezzo-soprano soloist. Also featured on the program is Meadows alumna Olga Amelkina-Vera’s work for Pierrot ensemble, Submerged Worlds, a piece that won the 2018 American Prize for Composition in its category. Amelkina-Vera’s piece was directly influenced by Crumb’s music. The program will also feature music that influenced Crumb’s unique compositional voice, including Anton Webern’s Five Pieces, Op.
FREE
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Prize-winning organist Christophe Mantoux, who will replace Professor Stefan Engels during Engels’ sabbatical leave in fall 2018, will present a recital with works of Bach and French masters. Mantoux is professor of organ at the Conservatoire régional de Paris and Pôle supérieur de Paris in France and a winner of the prestigious First Prize in Interpretation at the Chartres International Organ Competition. His international career as a concert organist has taken him to more than 20 countries on four continents.
FREE
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Meadows Chamber Music Ensembles
Experience Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ for string quartet as led by Aaron Boyd, director of chamber music at the Meadows School of the Arts, in the context of the religious art and objects on display in the Meadows Museum.
$15 for nonmembers; $10 for museum members; $5 for SMU students, faculty, and staff Reservations required; call 214.768.8587.
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