Meadows Distinguished Artist Recital Series: Alessio Bax
What: First prize winner of both the renowned Leeds and Hamamatsu international competitions, pianist and SMU faculty member Alessio Bax is established throughout the world as an accomplished performer. He has played with major orchestras from London to Tokyo to Dallas and with significant music festivals worldwide. The concert will feature Bach’s “Air” from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major and “Siciliano” from his Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord, Beethoven’s Sonata in F minor, Opus 57 “Appassionata,” and Brahms’ Four Ballades, Op. 10 and Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1.
When: March 1 at 8 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: $13 for adults, $10 for seniors, $7 for students, faculty and staff
Info: Call 214.768.ARTS.

Meadows Chorale
What: The Meadows Chorale presents an afternoon of choral music that reflects many of life’s searches – the search for self, the search for home, the search for love – composed by Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Maurice Ravel, Michael McGlynn and Halsey Stevens.
When: March 2 at 3 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: $13 for adults, $10 for seniors, $7 for students, faculty and staff
Info: Call 214.768.ARTS.

Brown Bag World Music Series: Jelykunda Drum and Dance Ensemble               
What: A performance of African music and dance with Moussa Diabate and his group “Jelykunda.” A master dancer, drummer and musician, Moussa has toured throughout the world and performed on Broadway. He is a Griot, or repository of oral tradition, of the Malinke people of Guinea, West Africa. He was taught the dance, music, storytelling, history and mythology of West Africa by his father, Komba Ansou Diabate, the “Great Griot of Guinea,” and by his mother, one of the first leading dancers with Les Ballets Africains. Moussa has trained and toured with the National Ballet Djoliba and the National Theatre of Dakar’s Ballet Silimbo.
When: March 5 at 12 p.m.
Where: Hope Lobby of the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214.768.1951.

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Roger Tibbetts
What: Roger Tibbetts is a sculptor and professor of fine arts at Massachusetts College of Art. He has had exhibitions at the Ruggiero Gallery, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Rose Museum, Brandeis University. He has received National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grants twice, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant and a Guggenheim Foundation Grant.
When: March 6 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214.768.2489.

Meadows Opera Theatre: “Opera Free For All”
What: A Brown Bag series of scenes from opera and musical theatre.
When: March 7 at 1:00 p.m.
Where: Taubman Atrium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214.768.1951.

Comini Lecture Series: “Alma Mahler and Her Vienna: Of Mixed Marriages, Anti-Semitism, and Cancelled Careers”
What: Alma Schindler Mahler-Gropius-Werfel’s (1879-1964) three marriages to historical giants (cleverly lampooned in Tom Lehrer’s satirical songs of the 1960s) have overshadowed her own musical achievements in imperial Vienna just before World War I. Framed by a live performance of her Lieder by SMU voice professor Virginia Dupuy and faculty
composer/pianist Simon Sargon, this lecture by Dr. Alessandra Comini, University Distinguished Professor of Art History, examines the composer’s formative years. Co-sponsored by the Wagner Society.
When: March 18 at 6 p.m.
Where: Meadows Museum auditorium, 5900 Bishop Blvd., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: FREE but reservations are required.
Info: Call 214.768.2698.

Faculty Chamber Music Recital
What: Outstanding faculty artists from SMU’s Division of Music, including Andrés Díaz (cello), Chee-Yun Kim (violin), Paul Garner (clarinet), Carol Leone (piano) and Kara
Welch (flute), will perform Oliver Messiaen’s masterwork Quartet for the End of Time and George Crumb’s dramatic Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whales).
When: March 25 at 8 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214.768.1951.

Meadows Symphony Orchestra: “New Talent”
What: The Symphony features the “stars of tomorrow” – winners of the annual Meadows Concerto Competition in keyboard, strings, voice and woodwinds/brass/percussion.
When: March 28 and 30; 8 p.m. Fri. and 3 p.m. Sun.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: $13 for adults, $10 for seniors, $7 for students, faculty and staff
Info: Call 214.768.ARTS.

Meadows Chamber Music Showcase
What: The concert presents chamber works ranging from the early Classical period to the 20th century, composed for trios, quartets and quintets.
When: March 29 at 8 p.m.
Where: Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214.768.3888.

Meadows Museum Exhibit: Fernando Gallego and His Workshop: The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo – Paintings from the Collection of the University of Arizona Museum of Art
What: The exhibition focuses on 27 of the largest, most beautiful and iconographically ambitious paintings made in 15th-century Spain: 26 panels from the Cathedral of Ciudad Rodrigo, now in the collection of the University of Arizona Museum of Art, and a panel of unknown origin in the collection of the Meadows Museum entitled Saint Acacius and the 10,000 Martyrs. Executed by Fernando Gallego (c. 1440-1507), Francisco Gallego and another painter known only as Maestro Bartolomé, the altarpiece tells the biblical story from the Creation to the Last Judgment. The crowning achievements of remarkable artists, the panels have been examined in depth both art historically and, in collaboration with the
Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, using the latest methods of technical analysis.
When: March 30 – July 27, 2008. Museum hours are 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Tues. – Sat.; Thurs. until 8:00 p.m.; 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sun.
Where: Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus
Cost: $8 for adults; FREE for museum members, children under 12 and SMU faculty, staff and students; FREE Thurs. after 5:00 p.m.
Info: Call 214.768.2516. 

Hawn Gallery Exhibit: “Christine Sanford: Paintings”
What: New England painter Christine Sanford’s first one-person exhibit in Texas will consist of small paintings which, while undoubtedly abstract, refer to the natural world of color, light and atmosphere that make up the unique environment of Nantucket Island.
When: March 31 – May 3, 2008. Open during regular library hours, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 midnight Mon. – Thurs.; 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Fri.; 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sat.; 1:00 p.m. – 12:00 midnight Sun.
Where: Mildred Hawn Gallery, Hamon Arts Library – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: FREE       
Info: Call 214.768.4439.

Hawn Gallery Exhibit: “Leonard Stokes: Collages”
What: This exhibition will feature a survey of collages by New York artist Leonard Stokes in conjunction with his participation as a visiting artist in the Division of Art. While trained as a painter at Yale, Stokes has been creating collages incorporating pop, classical and Asian elements for more than 30 years, working digitally since 1991. His work has been displayed extensively in New York, as well as in other cities around the country.
When: Through March 15, 2008. Open during regular library hours, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 midnight Mon. – Thurs.; 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Fri.; 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sat.; 1:00 p.m. – 12:00 midnight Sun.
Where: Mildred Hawn Gallery, Hamon Arts Library – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: FREE       
Info: Call 214.768.4439.

Pollock Gallery Exhibit: “The Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky Gift of Contemporary Drawings”
What: The exhibit showcases the Kramarsky family gift to the Pollock Works on Paper Study Collection of 36 rarely-seen contemporary drawings by American artists. The gift illuminates Wynn Kramarsky’s ongoing affection for the abstract, the geometric, and the minimalist vein of American art produced mostly since the 1960s and centered primarily on
individuals working in New York.  Wynn Kramarsky emerged in the last decade as the major advocate for American contemporary drawing. Amassing a collection that once
numbered several thousand works, he has systematically donated almost all of them to university art galleries and major museums both public and private. Unlike most major
collectors, he prefers to have his collection shown where it can be viewed and studied by students. Kramarsky currently serves on the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern
Art and played a crucial role in the creation and subsequent development of the renowned Drawing Center in New York, the only not-for-profit institution in the country to focus
 solely on the exhibition of drawings, both contemporary and historical.
When: Through March 22, 2008. Gallery hours are 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Mon., Tues., Thurs. & Fri.; 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Sat.
Where Pollock Gallery in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center, 3140 Dyer St., Dallas 75205, on the SMU campus
Cost: FREE
Info: Call 214.768.4439.

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