February at Meadows

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FEBRUARY 2014 EVENTS AT SMU’S MEADOWS SCHOOL
OF THE ARTS & MEADOWS MUSEUM

Hawn Gallery Exhibit: “Agents of Change: Works by Arthur Koch”
What: This exhibit by Arthur Koch, retired professor of studio art at SMU, examines
concepts of “natural” and “artificial” in the process of working with wood.
Koch said, “Questions about the relationships of the words ‘natural’ and
‘artificial’ led me to realize that while wood is a natural material, unlike plastic
and glass which I have also used, the process I applied to wood was a process
that could be considered artificial. Asking myself what process might be
thought of as natural led to further questions. I attempted to allow the rhythms
of growth and energy of wood to reveal themselves. That sense of energy
remained even when masked by alterations by man or natural forces, which I
named the Agents of Change. This turned the making of art into a more
passive activity, which I call ‘found processes.’ All this name-making is an
attempt to keep myself from losing myself in this sea of questions. Nothing is
as expressive as the wood itself.”
When: Through February 16, 2014. Open during regular library hours: 8 a.m.-
midnight Mon.-Thurs.; 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Fri.; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat.; 1 p.m.- midnight
Sun.
Where: Mildred Hawn Gallery, Hamon Arts Library – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop
Blvd. on SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-2303.

Pollock Gallery Exhibit: “Work by the Faculty of the Division of Art”
What: Works in a variety of media – painting, sculpture, ceramics and more – will
be exhibited.
When: January 24 – February 22, 2014. Hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon., Tues., Thurs.
and Fri., and 1-5 p.m. Sat.
Where: Pollock Gallery in Hughes-Trigg Student Center, 3140 Dyer St. on SMU campus,
Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-4439.

Faculty Organ Recital: Christopher Anderson
What: Join organist Christopher Anderson, Associate Professor of Sacred Music, at
SMU’s magnificent C. B. Fisk organ for an evening of music by Bach, Reger,
Franck, Pinkham and Ives, as well as a seldom-heard work by the Japanese
composer Hideki Chihara.
When: February 3 at 8 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-2787.

Meadows Opera Theatre: La finta giardiniera (The Pretend Garden Girl) by Mozart
What: An exuberant exploration of the excesses of love, the plot involves attempted
murder, violence, fake identities, insanity, mad scenes, three love triangles – and
it’s a comedy! As the characters become caught up in a labyrinth of heightened
emotions, timeless questions of loyalty, fidelity, honor, friendship, social class,
forgiveness and reconciliation come to life in ebullient, sparkling music of great
emotional range and imagination by an 18-year-old Mozart! Sung in Italian with
projected English translation, and accompanied live by the Meadows Symphony
Orchestra. Directed by Hank Hammett; conducted by Paul Phillips.
When: February 6-9; 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. and 2 p.m. Sun.
Where: Bob Hope Theatre in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU campus,
Dallas (75205)
Cost: $13 adults, $10 seniors, $7 students/SMU faculty & staff
Info: Call 214-768-2787.

Meadows Museum Symposium: Sorolla and America
What: Held in conjunction with the exhibition Sorolla and America, the symposium will
be moderated by the exhibition curator and artist’s great-granddaughter Blanca
Pons-Sorolla. Guest speakers include Marcus Burke, senior curator, Museum
Department, The Hispanic Society of America; Alisa Luxenberg, professor of
18th- and 19th-century European art at the University of Georgia; and Lucia
Martinez, conservator at the Prado Museum.
When: February 8 from 2-5 p.m.
Where: Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-4677.

Music at the Meadows: The Rise of Flamenco - Lorca, Falla, Sorolla, Andalusia 1920-39
What: In conjunction with the Meadows Museum’s Sorolla symposium, the Orchestra
of New Spain will present a preview of its annual staged production. This year
the production brings together two of Dallas’s stellar flamenco companies –
Daniel de Cordoba’s Los Bailes Españoles and Delilah Buitron’s Flamenco
Festival – as well as international guest artists, who will join the Orchestra in a
celebration of flamenco dance and its surroundings in early 20th-century
Andalusia. This preview will add music and dance to Joaquín Sorolla’s images
of the national dance form. The program includes works by Federico Garcia
Lorca and Manuel de Falla.
When: February 8 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost FREE, but reservations are required.
Info: For information or reservations, call 214-750-1492 or visit
orchestraofnewspain.org.

Meadows Museum Art Activity: “Drawing from the Masters”
What: Guest artist Ian O’Brien leads afternoons of informal drawing instruction based
on works in the Meadows Museum’s galleries. Designed for adults and students
ages 15 and older, and open to all levels of experience. Drawing materials will be
available, but participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchpads and
pencils. No registration is required. Attendance is limited to 20 and is on a
first-come, first-served basis.
When: February 9 and 23, 1:30-3 p.m.
Where: Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: Free with regular museum admission, which is $10 for adults; $8 for seniors; $4
for non-SMU students; and FREE for children under 12, museum members and
SMU students, faculty and staff.
Info: Call 214-768-4677.

Re-Connections Museum Access Program
What: This casual social gathering is designed for people who currently participate in
or want to learn more about Connections, a program for individuals with early
stage dementia and their family members or care partners. Attendees may drop
in to visit with friends over coffee and light refreshments, visit the galleries or
enjoy an informal gallery activity. No registration necessary.
When: February 12 at 10:30 a.m.
Where: Constantin Foundation Seminar Room in the Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop
Blvd. on SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-4677.

Museum Friday Gallery Talk: “Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa’s Moulin Rouge,
Exit to the Box Seats”
Who: Larisa Chavez, Curatorial Intern, Meadows Museum
What: Meadows Museum gallery talks feature art research and perspectives from local
guest speakers.
When: February 14 at 12:15 p.m.
Where: First Floor Galleries, Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on
SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-4677.

Meadows Symphony Orchestra: “Student Conductors’ Concert”
What: Graduate students in the conducting program at SMU Meadows lead the
Meadows Symphony in a concert featuring winners of the Meadows
Undergraduate Concerto Competition as soloists. The program will include
Mozart’s Overture to The Abduction from the Harem, Schubert’s Symphony
No. 3, the first movement of Nielsen’s Concerto for Flute and the first movement
from Gordon Jacob’s Concerto for Horn and Strings. Meadows graduate student
Daniel Peterson will conduct, and featured soloists will be Sami Eudi, flute, and
Scott Leger, horn.
When: February 14 at 8 p.m. and February 16 at 3 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: $13 for adults, $10 for seniors, $7 for students, faculty & staff
Info: Call 214-768-2787.

Altius Quartet
What: The national award-winning Altius Quartet presents its second recital as the
post-graduate Ensemble-in-Residence at Meadows. Enjoy the charm and wit in
Joseph Haydn’s first “Prussian” Quartet, the haunting and grotesque sounds of
Shostakovich’s Ninth String Quartet, and the beautiful, lush melodies of the
String Quartet in C minor by Johannes Brahms.
When: February 15 at 8 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-2787.

Faculty Artist and Distinguished Alumni Recital Series: Emanuel Borok, violin, with
Liudmila Georgievskaya, piano
What: Outstanding soloists and SMU faculty members Emanuel Borok and Liudmila
Georgievskaya present a chamber music concert of fascinating works by
Beethoven, Weber and Grieg. Borok, a Meadows distinguished artist-in-residence
in music, is an internationally known violinist and retired concertmaster of the
Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Georgievskaya is an award-winning pianist who
has performed with orchestras throughout Europe and the U.S.
When: February 17 at 8 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: $13 for adults, $10 for seniors, $7 for students and SMU faculty & staff
Info: Call 214-768-2787.

Guest Organ Recital: Stefan Engels
What: Stefan Engels is professor of organ at one of Europe’s oldest and most
prestigious musical institutions, the University of Music and Theatre “Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig, Germany, and is the founder and artistic
director of the European Organ Academy Leipzig. Winner of the “Concerto
Gold Medal” at the 1998 Calgary International Organ Competition, he
maintains a busy international concert schedule with performances from
London to Vienna to Seoul. He has also recorded two highly acclaimed CDs
on the Naxos and Priory labels.
When: February 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-2787.

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Myra Greene
Who: Myra Greene is associate professor of photography at Columbia College Chicago.
She writes, “Throughout my artistic practice, I have returned to the body to
explore issues of difference, beauty, physical and emotional recollections as
they play out on the surface of the skin.” Her work is in the permanent collection
of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts
in Houston, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art in Kansas City and The New York Public Library.
When: February 19 at 7 p.m.
Where: O’Donnell Hall, Room 2130 – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-2698.

Museum Lecture: “Sorolla, Zorn, Boldini, Sargent: Why are they NOT Impressionists?”
Who: Rick Brettell, Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair and Co-director of the
Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Museums, The University of Texas at
Dallas; Art Critic, The Dallas Morning News
What: The so-called “masters of the loaded brush”– as the four artists featured in this
lecture are often termed – have been commonly related to their then lesser-known
contemporaries, the Impressionists. Brettell will consider the work of both sets of
artists and deal with both the commonalities among and contrasts between them,
stressing the latter.
When: February 20 at 6 p.m.
Where: Bob & Jean Smith Auditorium in the Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on
SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-4677.

SYZYGY
What: Meadows choral group Diva Dolce, directed by Jodi Coke, joins SYZYGY, the
Meadows new music ensemble, for a performance of Nico Muhly’s How Soon?,
based on a poem by George Herbert. Works by Anna Clyne, Sarah K. Snider and
Stephen Hartke round out the night’s program of 20th- and 21st-century music
for winds, strings and percussion.
When: February 21 at 8 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: For more information, follow @MeadowsSYZYGY on Twitter or call
214-768-2787.

Guest Organ Recital: Douglas Cleveland
What: Douglas Cleveland gained international prominence when he won first prize in
the 1994 American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition, and
has since performed throughout the U.S. and in concert halls from Berlin to
Moscow to Yokohama. He has played with such orchestras as the Chicago
Symphony and National Symphony and participated in major international
festivals. Many of his concerts have been broadcast on National Public Radio
and the BBC, and he has recorded four critically acclaimed CDs on the Gothic
label. He currently serves on the organ faculty at the University of Washington
School of Music.
When: February 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-2787.

Guest Piano Recital: Andrew Parr
What: Andrew Parr, piano professor at Stephen F. Austin State University in
Nacogdoches, has performed extensively in solo, chamber and concerto settings.
Composer Aaron Copland said of Parr’s performance of Copland’s Piano
Variations, “... He performed the work as though he had written it himself.”
When: February 26 at 1 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-2787.

Faculty Piano Recital: Liudmila Georgievskaya
What: Award-winning Russian pianist Liudmila Georgievskaya presents a solo recital.
An honors graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Georgievskaya
received an Artist Certificate from the Meadows School in 2010 as a student of
Joaquín Achúcarro and is currently on the Meadows faculty. She has performed
as a recitalist or soloist with orchestras in Russia, Ukraine, Italy, France, the
United Kingdom, Hungary, Uzbekistan, Panama and across the United States.
When: February 26 at 8 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-2787.

Play: Richard III by William Shakespeare
What: A towering and thrilling Shakespearean masterpiece featuring one of the theater’s
most entertaining villains and the array of brilliant women and men who oppose
him. Master of a diabolically cruel wit, Richard boasts that he “can smile and
murder whiles I smile….” In response, the poet W.H. Auden suggests that the
murderous king “must always make enemies, for then he can be sure he exists.”
Directed by Associate Professor Michael Connolly.
When: February 26 – March 2; 8 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sat. & Sun.
Where: Greer Garson Theatre in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: $13 for adults, $10 for seniors, $7 for students and SMU faculty & staff
Info: Call 214-768-2787.

Museum Lecture: “The Ancient Synagogue and Village at Huqoq, Israel”
Who: Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early
Judaism, Dept. of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
What: Since 2011, Magness has been directing excavations in the Roman-Byzantine
village and synagogue of Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee. In June 2012, excavations
reached the synagogue’s floor and revealed that it is paved with stunning mosaics.
One section, made of tiny stone cubes, depicts female faces flanking a Hebrew or
Aramaic inscription referring to rewards for those who perform good deeds.
Another section preserves part of a large male figure dressed in a Roman military-
style tunic. To the figure’s left are pairs of foxes with their tails tied together and
a lighted torch between them in a depiction of Judges 15:4. In this slide-illustrated
lecture, Magness presents an overview of the excavations, including the
discoveries from the summer 2013 season. This Joukowsky Lecture is sponsored
by the Archaeological Institute of America Dallas-Fort Worth Society.
When: February 27 at 6 p.m.
Where: Bob & Jean Smith Auditorium in the Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on
SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214-768-4677.

Museum Friday Gallery Talk: “Past and Present: Sorolla and the Tradition of Plein-Air
Painting”
Who: Lilian Garcia-Roig, Artist
What: Meadows Museum gallery talks feature art research and perspectives from local
guest speakers.
When: February 28 at 12:15 p.m.
Where: Second Floor Galleries, Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: Free with regular museum admission, which is $10 for adults; $8 for seniors;
$4 for non-SMU students; FREE for members, children under 12, and SMU
faculty, staff & students.
Info: Call 214-768-4677.

Meadows Wind Ensemble: “American Originals, with a Twist”
What: Join the Meadows Wind Ensemble for an evening featuring music by “original”
American composers known for their unique styles, including Aaron Copland,
Leonard Bernstein, Timothy Broege, Charles Ives and Frank Zappa. Director
Jack Delaney calls it a concert of “quirky music by quirky composers, played by
what some might call a quirky ensemble!”
When: February 28 at 8 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on SMU
campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: $13 for adults, $10 for seniors, $7 for students and SMU faculty & staff
Info: Call 214-768-2787.



CONTINUING

Meadows Museum Exhibit: “Sorolla and America”
What: During a single month in 1909, more than 150,000 people flocked to see the
portraits, genre scenes and sun-filled beachscapes of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
(1863-1923) in his first U.S. exhibition, held at The Hispanic Society of
America in New York. He was the most popular Spanish artist in the world
until the arrival of Pablo Picasso. Sorolla and America brings together
approximately 150 works of art that will explore for the first time this artist’s
unique relationship with early 20th-century America, examining his immense
popularity, as well as his associations with contemporaries and collectors. For
more information call 214.768.2516. This exhibition has been organized by the
Meadows Museum, SMU, The San Diego Museum of Art, and Fundación
MAPFRE. The contributions of The Hispanic Society of America have been
crucial to the success of this exhibition. A generous gift from The Meadows
Foundation has made this project possible. Promotional support provided by
the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau and The Dallas Morning News.
When: Through April 19, 2014. Museum hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-
Sat.; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs.; 1-5 p.m. Sun. Closed Monday.
Where: Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Cost: $10 for adults; $8 for seniors; $4 for non-SMU students; FREE for members,
children under 12, SMU students, faculty and staff; FREE Thurs. after 5 p.m.
Info: Call 214-768-2516.


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