Spectrum Arts & Lecture Series 2008-2009 Season
For nearly three decades, AU's popular Spectrum Series has brought world-class talent to Ashland, Ohio. Every year, our series promises to challenge your thinking, delight your senses and set your spirits soaring with the wonder of classics infused with energy for a new generation. Experience the arts at Ashland University!
Past performances and programs (1980-2008)
Video of Sylvia McNair, Robert Wesner and Ted Taylor with Ashland Regional Ballet
HOMECOMING COMEDIANS from "VH1'S BEST WEEK EVER"!
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
7 PM & 9 PM, REDWOOD HALL
"VH1's Best Week Ever" is a free-wheeling and funny review of the most entertaining news and pop culture stories of current times. Since its debut in 2004, the show's signature blend of comedy and commentary has become can't-miss TV viewing for pop culture junkies and casual viewers alike. Don't miss your chance to see Christian Finnegan, John Mulaney and Doug Benson from "VH1's Best Week Ever" at Ashland University!
Tickets:
General Admission: $10
AU Students w/ID: $2
CAPITOL STEPS COMEDY TROUPE
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
7:30 pm, HYT (CENTER FOR THE ARTS)
The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them.
In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom ("Don't quit your day job!"), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.
Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded 28 albums, have been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard 4 times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide.
Tickets:
General Admission: $10
AU Students w/ID: $2
CHANTICLEER - "AN ORCHESTRA OF VOICES"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2009
7:30 PM, ASHLAND UNIVERSITY CHAPEL
Called “the world’s reigning male chorus,” by the New Yorker magazine, Chanticleer will perform more than 100 concerts in 2007-08, the GRAMMY Award-winning ensemble’s 30th Season.
Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for their “tonal luxuriance and crisply etched clarity,” Chanticleer will tour to 22 states across the United States this season, including appearances at Walt Disney Concert Hall under the auspices of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Chanticleer has been named the 2008 “Ensemble of the Year” by the editors of the Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts, the first time a vocal ensemble has been so recognized.
Chanticleer—based in San Francisco--has developed a remarkable reputation for its vivid interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz, and from gospel to venturesome new music. With its seamless blend of twelve male voices, ranging from countertenor to bass, the ensemble has earned international renown as “an orchestra of voices.”
Tickets:
General Admission: $10
AU Students w/ID: $2
To purchase tickets for any of the Spectrum Series events, please call the Ashland University Box Office at 419-289-5125, Monday through Friday, between the hours of Noon and 6 pm.
The AU Box Office will open for the season beginning September 8, 2008.
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