Fall Semester 2019
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Accent on the Arts! 2019 – 2020 Concert Series >>
Owens Concert Band Fall Performance
Directed by Fred Dais
Sunday, October 6 at 2:30 p.m.
Mainstage Theatre
Free admission
The Fall Concert will feature a variety of musical styles including marches the “Fireman’s Quick Step”, and the “Great Waldo Pepper March.” A Latin flavor will be added with the “Habanera” from the opera Carmen, and popular music from “Pirates of the Caribbean”, Ray Charles, and Tony Bennett. Featured will be Soprano Jodi Jobuck, singing the jazz favorites “Yes Indeed” and “I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin” from the musical Porgy and Bess. FREE refreshments served after the program.
Owens Voices of Children Performance
Directed by Dr. Janet Brehm-Ziegler
Tuesday, October 29 at 7 p.m.
Rotunda
Free admission
The Owens Voices Choir will be performing a selection of songs that represent the point of view of groups of children around the world that have faced war, poverty, discrimination, exile, emigration, as well as hope, play, gratitude, and love. The songs will be paired with a few poems and spoken verses to help relay their meanings and to start open conversation.
Student Theater Production – Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters
Translated by Jeffrey Hatcher and Paolo Emilio Landi
Directed by Chloe Whiting Stevenson
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$12 for general public; $8 for students; staff, faculty and alumni
Mainstage Theatre
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A cross between traditional Italian commedia, circus and vaudeville, this adapted version of Goldoni’s classic pits the madcap servant Truffaldino against masters, mistresses, lovers, lawyers and twenty-seven plates of meatballs.
19th Annual Faculty Recital – Denise Grupp-Verbon, Harpist
Wednesday, November 13 at 7 p.m.
Studio Theatre
Free admission
12th Annual Theatre Express
Saturday, November 16 at 7:30
Mainstage Theatre
Free admission
Twenty-four actors perform brand new plays by six playwrights. A theatre-fest of plays written, staged and then performed in a 24 hour time frame!
Electric Lunch with Eric Wallack
Monday, November 25 at Noon
Rotunda
Free admission
Owens Pop Ensemble Concert
Directed by Eric Wallack
Tuesday, November 26 at 2 p.m.
Rotunda
Free admission
Owens Voices Choir Performance
Directed by Dr. Janet Brehm-Ziegler
Tuesday, December 3 at 7 p.m.
Mainstage Theatre
Free admission
Owens Concert Band Holiday Performance
Directed by Fred Dais
Sunday, December 8 at 2:30 p.m.
Mainstage Theatre
Free admission
Be sure to celebrate Christmas 2019 with us at Owens Community College. Familiar songs of the holidays will be presented including Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride”, “A Christmas Pageant Overture” and a “Merry Brassy Christmas “. Also performed will be marches, songs from “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood”, the patriotic “Lest We Forget”, and “Persuasion” featuring Alto Saxophone soloist Gary Herren. After the concert free refreshments will be served in the theater lobby and contributions will be accepted by the Cherry Street Mission to help feed the homeless during the Christmas Season.
Accent on the Arts! Concert Series
Homegrownups
Monday, December 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Free admission
Mainstage Theatre
Homegrownups is an indie rock band, founded in 2017 by four friends who met at the University of Toledo. Their music draws influence from bands like Catfish and the Bottlemen, The Killers, and The 1975. Their sound drew people in from their first gig.
Nicolas Carter
Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.
Free admission
Mainstage Theatre
Nicolas Carter is a talented and versatile international harpist, born in Minnesota and raised in Paraguay where he learned to play the Paraguayan harp. Carter creates unique performances blending his musicianship and skills as an artist/storyteller. Carter has been composing, recording, teaching and performing for more than 25 years and has played in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Israel.
The 78s
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.
Free admission
Mainstage Theatre
From their choice of songs to the quirky way they deliver them, The 78s are a unique musical experience, upbeat and full of smiles and melody; multi-instrumentalists, Brett and Faith will capture your ears and your heart.
