On Campus - Oct. 29, 2009

ART

UI Prichard Gallery on Main Street in Moscow will feature “Up On the Wall, 6 Painters from the West” Oct. 16 to Dec. 5. Work from painters in four states will feature diverse approaches to technique and media.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“Mingle‚” two distinct bodies of work, portraits and still life’s, by painter Craig Cully, assistant professor at New Mexico State University, will be display Oct. 7 - 30 at WSU’s Gallery II in the Fine Arts Center. The exhibition will consist of small to medium-sized images painted with oil pigment on wood panels.

Gallery II is open to the public Monday through Friday, 8 -5 with a noon break.

MUSIC

WSU Symphonic Orchestra performs tonight, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m. in the Bryan Hall Theatre. Conducted by Ruth Boden, the will play works by Rossini, Sir Edward Elgar and Franz Joseph Haydn. The concert is free and open to the public.

WSU Jazz Big Band II concert will be at 3:10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, in the Kimbrough Concert Hall. The band is directed by Patrick Sheng, a graduate student in the School of Music.

WSU Jazz Festival Nov. 4 with noon concert featuring pianist Brent Edstrom performing with the award-winning WSU Jazz Big Band directed by Greg Yasinitsky. Edstrom is an associate professor of music at Whitworth College in Spokane where he teaches jazz piano and coordinates the music theory and composition program.

The faculty group Jazz Northwest will also perform at the concert in Bryan Hall.

The festival will feature school groups from throughout the Northwest performing in Kimbrough Concert Hall 8-11:40 a.m. and from 2:20-3:40 p.m. Edstrom will present a clinic at 1 p.m. in Bryan Hall Theatre

The festival is supported by the WSU School of Music, the Jazz Society at WSU and a Student Programming Grant from Campus Involvement.