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Graduation Dances

SUNY Brockpor

Harmony. Isn’t that what life should be about? The harmonies of the Chorus are a perfect finale for this year’s Fine Arts Series.

Brockport University-Community Chorus

SUNY Brockport

Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World is a song cycle featuring a variety of characters in a variety of locales, from a Spanish galleon in 1492 to a contemporary New York penthouse apartment. The characters (including Mrs. Santa Claus) are each facing a personal dilemma – a “moment of decision,” according to the composer – and reflect about life, love, and making choices.

Songs for a New World

Celebrating all things African, artistic director Jenise Akilah Anthony and musical director Mohamed Diaby mesh movement and music together to produce a rollicking, rhythmic event that bursts off the stage to enthrall every audience member. Sankofa’s guest artists only add to the international flair of the concerts.

Sankofa African Dance & Drum Ensemble

With the audience surrounding their dances on three sides, student choreographers are excited to create adjudicated pieces for such a palpable and personal setting. Join in the post-concert talk following the Friday evening performance.

Dance/Strasser

Hartwell Hall

Grace Browning (harp) and Benjamin Krug (cello)—a husband and wife team of Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra musicians—present a program of unique duo arrangements, including works by Tchaikovsky and Dvořák, as well as a premiere of Schubert’s beloved “Arpeggione Sonata” arranged for cello and harp. This interactive recital of multi-genre works provides new insights into this unique collaboration as well as the beautiful inner workings of partners in music and in life.

Society for Chamber Music in Rochester presents The Browning/Krug Duo

In this Tony Award® and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a brilliant mathematician passes away after a long bout of mental illness. His daughter, a mathematician in her own right, teeters between genius and madness herself. Her sister and a student of the father’s arrive for the funeral, but what is it they are all after? Is it to determine, once and for all, who authored an extremely complicated mathematical proof? Can one prove their love and devotion, while also proving one’s brilliance?

Proof

Celebrate Mardi Gras with the big, brassy sounds of Prime Time Brass! With its mix of movie themes, some Chicago tunes, some Sinatra and Beatles songs, or just some hot New Orleans-style second-line jazz, you won’t want to miss this concert.

Prime Time Brass

Brockport University-Community Chorus Holiday Concert: Sounds of the Season

One night, Christopher discovers his neighbor’s dog has been murdered. In his determination to solve the crime, he uncovers other interconnected secrets that have been locked away for years. Feeling threatened, Christopher—whose autism sometimes hampers his interactions with other people—summons up bravery

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

A feast of dynamic movement, striking design, and fascinating sounds, DANSCORE is a spell-binding concert featuring contemporary dances by Brockport’s internationally-acclaimed faculty, whom Rochester’s City magazine calls some of the “top names” in the field.

Danscore

The power of dance speaks volumes with just a gesture. These breathtaking and inspirational student works are the culmination of months of studio work, embodying intensive immersion in the creative process.

Dance/Hartwell

A spooky Friday the 13th awaits you when the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra makes a rare visit to the Brockport campus. Featured on the program will be selections by Gounod, Grieg, Liszt, and Prokofiev, along with music from Spiderman, Coco, Harry Potter, and—in a celestial/Eclipse-setting mood—“Also Sprach Zarathustra” aka the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

With a clock hovering above them and the audience choosing the order, the acting company is challenged to perform 30 plays within the allotted 60 minutes. The plays, as short as they are, cover a wide range of topics, from serious to absurd. It’s interactive and mind- and time-bending and a whole lot of fun. Not to mention the pressure for the actors to beat the clock!

30 Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

DC Theatre Scene

Saxophonist John Viavattine has been a fixture of the Rochester music scene for more than 30 years. For many of those years, Viavattine was the director of bands at Spencerport High School. He is a member of The Mambo Kings and has played with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Chuck and Gap Mangione, and accompanied such singers as Aretha Franklin, Vic Damone, and Lou Rawls.Richard DeLaney, of The Mambo Kings, and several of Viavattine’s former students will join him on stage.Friday, September

SUNY Brockport Fine Arts

May 17, 2024

Graduation Dances

May 11, 2024

Brockport University-Community Chorus

SUNY Brockport Fine Arts