LOU HONORED WITH DEDICATION, SHOW
Two upcoming exhibitions and a dedication will honor the life and career of master artist and Linfield College professor emeritus Nils “Skip” Lou, who passed away in 2013.
“The Play Spirit,” featuring selected pieces on loan from Lou’s extensive catalog of ceramic vessels, sculptures, paintings and drawings, will be on display Feb. 9 through March 4 in the James F. Miller Fine Arts Center at Linfield College. A dedication of an exhibition space, the former studio gallery, along with a reception, will be held Saturday, Feb. 21, at 3 p.m. in the new space. During the ceremony, a plaque will be unveiled. In conjunction with the dedication and show, a second art exhibit featuring work by Linfield faculty in honor of Lou, will be held in the Linfield Gallery.
“Nils’ positive influence on hundreds of students and fellow artists is incalculable as is his place in contemporary ceramic history,” said Cindy Hoskisson, ceramic artist and adjunct professor of ceramics.
Lou, who passed away Dec. 25, 2013, has been described as an artist, teacher, golf coach, and beloved and playful spirit. He devoted over 30 years of creativity, passion and brilliance to Linfield College. He remained an active and engaged professor, publishing and exhibiting his work, having shown in more than 200 exhibitions during his career. He received numerous awards and recognitions, including two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Oregon Odyssey of the Mind Creativity Award. He was one of the founders of the East Creek Anagama kiln and the author of several books, videos and articles including “The Art of Firing” and “The Art of Play.” His works are featured in collections throughout the world including the Moscow Kremlin in Russia, Kanto Gakuin University in Japan and the National Museum of Art in Costa Rica.
All exhibits are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. For more information, call ext. 2804 or visit www.linfield.edu/art/gallery-now.html.
TAG DAY TOPS PHILANTHROPY WEEK
The Student Alumni Association (SAA) is celebrating Philanthropy Week Feb. 11-13 with a Tag Day and Thank-a-Thon.
Wednesday morning, Linfield students will wake up to large signs resembling gift tags placed around campus highlighting how gifts from alumni, parents and friends make a difference. Philanthropic gifts support building and technology improvements, scholarships, financial aid, research opportunities and much more.
Throughout the week, SAA members will invite their classmates to sign thank you cards to one or more of Linfield’s 6,000 generous donors. Stop by Dillin Hall during lunch and dinner hours to share your gratitude.
The SAA strives to educate Linfield students on the impact of a lifelong connection to Linfield and the importance of giving back to the college and their community. For more information, contact Heidi Reeley, ext. 2282, hreeley@linfield.edu.
‘NEIGHBORHOOD 3’ BACK IN MARSHALL
“Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom” will be remounted for two performances after being one of three shows chosen to appear at the Region VII Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF).
A suspense thriller about video games and the impact technology can have on lives and relationships, “Neighborhood 3” runs Feb. 12-13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Marshall Theatre in Ford Hall. All proceeds from the performances will go toward the cost of the trip to the festival.
The production, by Jennifer Haley which originally ran in November, explores the impact of technology on identity and human relationships and delves into the ethics encountered in virtual reality. In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The play also investigates the communication gap between parents and children, according to Janet Gupton, director and associate professor of theatre arts.
“It serves as a cautionary tale about the need to question how much time is healthy to be spent on the internet in an already ‘plugged-in’ world,” said Gupton.
The play was chosen from 30 eligible productions presented by colleges and universities from nine Western states, including Alaska, northern California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, northern Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. More than 70 schools and 1000 individuals will attend the annual Region VII festival Feb. 16-22 at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Wash.
KCACTF is an annual drama conference that provides Northwest theatre students with the opportunity to attend workshops, performances and seminars on a variety of theatrical topics including directing, acting and design. Some 24 Linfield students will attend the annual festival, perform in the show, take part in workshops and represent the college in a number of competitions including the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Auditions and others.
Tickets are $5 and available at http://www.linfield.edu/arts, by phone or at the Marshall Theatre Box Office on Wednesday, Feb. 11. The box office is open 3-5 p.m. and until 7:30 p.m. on performance days. The Marshall Theatre is fully accessible.
For more information, call ext. 2292.
PANGELINAN RECITAL KICKS OFF SPRING
Cassandra Pangelinan ’15 will present a senior vocal recital Friday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Ice Auditorium.
The program will include classical, romantic and 20th century works, as well as cabaret and musical theatre songs. A reception will follow in Jonasson Hall.
Pangelinan is a music and psychology double major. She began singing in choirs at a young age and began playing the violin at age 9. She also is involved in the theatre and has performed at Gallery Theater in McMinnville. At Gallery, she played Amy in “Little Women,” the Artful Dodger in “Oliver!,” Dorothy in “The Wiz” and Crystal in “Little Shop of Horrors,” among others. She will appear as the title character in the upcoming production of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.”
Pangelinan gained professional theatre experience last summer when she played a cheerleader in Salem’s Enlightened Theatrics production of “High School Musical.” At Linfield, Pangelinan has participated in the Opera Workshop as Cherubino in “The Marriage of Figaro,” Stephano in “Romeo et Juliette” and Giuletta in the Barcarolle scene from “Tales of Hoffman.”
This recital is free and open to the public, and sponsored by the Linfield College Department of Music. For more information, call ext. 2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
BAROQUE ORCHESTRA TO PERFORM
The Portland Baroque Orchestra (PBO) will present “Mozart’s Clarinet and Grand Sextet” Saturday, Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Ice Auditorium.
Sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Series, the performance will feature Eric Hoeprich, basset clarinet, and Monica Huggett, artistic director and violin, along with the chamber soloists of Portland Baroque Orchestra — Carla Moore, violin; Victoria Gunn, viola; Rob Diggins, viola; Tanya Tomkins, violoncello; and Michael Unterman, violoncello.
Hoeprich, the world’s foremost period clarinetist, joins the orchestra for one of Mozart’s most popular works, “Quintet in A major for clarinet and strings.” Huggett pairs this with a unique period arrangement for string sextet of Mozart’s concerto for violin and viola, “Grande Sestetto Concertante, after Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola.”
Hoeprich has specialized in performing on historical clarinets in music from the baroque to the late romantic periods. Educated at Harvard University and the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, he is currently on the faculties of the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, the Royal Academy of Music, and Indiana University, Bloomington. A founding member of Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the 18th Century, Hoeprich has performed frequently as a soloist with this orchestra, as well as many of the major early music ensembles and several modern orchestras.
Huggett has been PBO’s artistic director since 1995. She is considered one of the world’s premier baroque violinists. In 2008, she was appointed inaugural artistic director of The Juilliard School’s Historical Performance Program, where she is now artistic advisor and artist in residence. She co-founded, with Ton Koopman, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; founded her own London-based ensemble, Sonnerie; worked with Christopher Hogwood at the Academy of Ancient Music and Trevor Pinnock with the English Concert; toured the United States in concert with James Galway; and co-founded, in 2004, the Montana Baroque Festival. In addition to her position as artistic director of PBO, she is also the artistic director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra.
Emerging in the early 1980s as a grassroots cooperative of musicians in the Pacific Northwest, the Portland Baroque Orchestra has matured as a polished, professional ensemble within the ranks of the best period-instrument orchestras in North America and Europe. Since 2009, PBO has been guest period ensemble and statewide touring ambassador for the Oregon Bach Festival. Portland Baroque Orchestra also collaborates regularly with Portland Opera and has been a featured guest ensemble at festivals and series throughout the Pacific Northwest region. Cost is $10 and Linfield students with a current ID are admitted free. Tickets are available at the door. The performance is sponsored by the Linfield Music Department and the Lacroute Arts Series. For more information, call the Linfield Department of Music at ext. 2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
COMPETITIVE SCHOLARSHIP DAY SET
The Office of Admission will host the annual Competitive Scholarship program Feb. 14-16. A full day of activities is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 15, and campus will host nearly 1,000 total guests. Many prospective students will stay in residence halls Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, dining in Dillin Hall throughout the weekend and visiting classes Monday.
An agenda of events and additional details can be found online at www.linfield.edu/csd. For more information, call the Office of Admission at ext. 2213.
DRAKE TO READ FROM LATEST WORK
Barbara Drake, professor emerita of English, will read from her latest work on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading room of the Jereld R. Nicholson Library.
The memoir, “Morning Light: Wildflowers, Night Skies, and Other Ordinary Joys of Oregon Country Life,” describes her life in western Oregon’s Yamhill Valley and the lessons and adventures that arose from living in the country. What Drake thought would be a temporary relocation turned into an appreciation and exploration of rural life. Ultimately, she and her husband decided to remain living in the rural countryside as long as possible. “Morning Light” articulates the couple’s farm life experiences, which include training herding dogs, encounters with a man who lived on their farm 80 years before, and lessons in family and natural history.
Drake taught composition and women’s studies at Michigan State University before coming to Linfield College in 1983 to teach creative writing and develop the English Department’s new creative writing major. In addition to “Morning Light,” she is the author of “Peace at Heart: an Oregon Country Life,” which was an Oregon Book Award finalist in 1999. Drake’s books of poetry include “Driving One Hundred,” “Love at the Egyptian Theatre,” “What We Say to Strangers,” “Life in a Gothic Novel,” “Bees in Wet Weather” and “Small Favors.” Her writing appears in numerous literary magazines and anthologies.
The reading is part of Linfield’s Readings at the Nick series. It is free and open to the public, and sponsored by the Linfield Nicholson Library and the Linfield English Department. For more information, call ext. 2517 or email swhyte@linfield.edu.
LINFIELD HOSTS NORDIC VOICES
Nordic Voices, a six-member a cappella group, will perform in concert Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Ice Auditorium.
The concert, sponsored by the Linfield Lively Arts Series in collaboration with Friends of Chamber Music, will feature a diverse program, including both serious and humorous works from early to modern repertoire.
Formed in 1996, Nordic Voices is made up of six graduates from the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Norwegian Academy of Opera, who, in addition to their singing backgrounds, have a broad range of experience from choral conducting to teacher training and composition. This range of interests leads them to explore a wider than usual spectrum of musical expression, from plainchant to new works commissioned from leading Norwegian composers; and from the most sacred of religious texts to the definitely profane.
Nordic Voices concerts are an unusual blend of sophisticated music-making and stylish performance, with a dash of humor. In addition to regular concerts in Oslo and around Norway, recent concert tours have included visits to Taiwan, Stockholm, cities in Germany and regular tours of the United States. Their recordings have been nominated for the Norwegian Grammy Award. Nordic Voices is supported by the Arts Council Norway and the State Department of Culture.
The concert is sponsored by the Linfield College Department of Music and the Linfield Lively Arts Series. Tickets are $10 at the door and free for Linfield students with current ID. For more information, call ext. 2275 or visit www.linfield.edu/arts.
CHOIR PERFORMS TOUR HOME CONCERT
Members of the Linfield College Concert Choir will present the final concert from their Hawaiian tour Saturday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Ice Auditorium.
The choir took part in a six-day concert tour throughout Oahu, Hawaii, Feb. 3-8, where they performed for and interacted with various communities along the way, sharing music, providing service and engaging in cultural exchange. The program at Linfield, under the direction of Anna Song, assistant professor of music, will encompass a wide variety of tour music including songs from New Zealand, Latvia, and Hawaii, along with works by Britten, Handel, Finzi and Hassler.
“The choir tour supports Linfield’s mission to connect learning, life and community,” said Faun Tiedge, Linfield Department of Music chair. “With music, we hope to share our appreciation for the people we meet and the places we visit in beautiful Hawaii. There are many students at Linfield who call Hawaii home.”
The Linfield College Concert Choir is the premier choral organization at Linfield. This select group of 40-50 voices was the first such ensemble in the Pacific Northwest and has toured every year since its formation in 1930, traveling throughout the western states, Hawaii, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, China, Southeast Asia and Costa Rica. The choir has also performed at state, regional and international conferences.
Song joined the Linfield music faculty in 2008. She holds a master of music in conducting from the School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University and recently completed her doctoral studies in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition to teaching at Linfield, she is co-founder and Artistic Director of In Mulieribus, a professional women’s ensemble that focuses on the performance of early music. The ensemble is regularly featured on national radio programs such as Performance Today and presents their own concert series in Portland.
For more information, contact the Linfield Music Department, ext. 2275 or visit www.linfield.edu/arts.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Jennifer Knight, associate director of financial aid, has been elected president-elect of the Oregon Association of Financial Aid Administrators (OASFAA). The position is a three-year term and her training will kick off with the National Association of Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., March 1-3. She has been an OASFAA member since 1995.
A photo by Ty Marshall, professor of theatre arts, was one of 16 included in the Corners of Oregon section of 1859 – Oregon’s Magazine. The photo depicts a dory, Native Son, sliding back onto the beach in Pacific City. See the photo at http://1859oregonmagazine.com/corners
CAMPUS CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11
Today through Friday: Philanthropy Week; Tag Day and Thank-a-Thon
THURSDAY, FEB. 12
7:30 p.m.: “Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom,” Marshall Theatre
FRIDAY, FEB. 13
Today through Sunday: Swimming at NWC Championships
2 p.m.: Baseball vs. Corban
6 p.m.: Women’s basketball vs. Puget Sound
7:30 p.m.: “Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom,” Marshall Theatre
7:30 p.m.: Cassandra Pangelinan ’15 senior recital, Ice
8 p.m.: Men’s basketball vs. Puget Sound
SATURDAY, FEB. 14
9 a.m.: Track and field at Boise State Team Challenge
2 p.m.: Baseball vs. Puget Sound
3 p.m.: Women’s tennis at Portland
4 p.m.: Women’s basketball vs. Pacific Lutheran
6 p.m.: Men’s basketball vs. Pacific Lutheran
7:30 p.m.: Portland Baroque Orchestra, “Mozart’s Clarinet and Grand Sextet,” Ice
SUNDAY, FEB. 15
All day: Competitive Scholarship Day
Noon: Baseball vs. Oregon Tech
2 p.m.: Women’s tennis at La Verne
