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A Berlin-inspired cabaret evening highlights "Impassioned Images" at "Late Night at the Lehman Loeb," on October 2, 2008
Bass-baritone Robert Osborne, accompanied by pianist Richard Gordon, will perform this evening of cabaret, previously heard last fall as part of Carnegie Hall’s “Berlin in Lights Festival” in New York City at the Neue Galerie.
The evening will feature songs in both German and English by composers Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, Franz Waxman, Friedrich Hollander, Paul Lincke, Mischa Spoliansky, Arnold Schoenberg, Jean Wiéner, and Cole Porter.
ABOUT ROBERT OSBORNE
Robert Osborne has researched, recorded, and performed extensively the little-known works of John Alden Carpenter, Henry Cowell, Leo Sowerby, and Harry Partch. A dedicated singer of art songs, he has presented recitals throughout the United States as well as in France, Spain and Italy. Mr. Osborne has sung throughout the United States, Europe, Russia, Central and South America, and Asia under such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Michael Tilson Thomas, Dennis Russell Davies, Vladimir Spivakov, and John Williams. He has appeared on television on the BBC Omnibus Series, Soviet Arts Television, the PBS Great Performances broadcast of the Bernstein at 70! Gala, and on PBS in Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy.
With an operatic repertoire of more than 40 roles Mr. Osborne has sung with opera companies in Berlin, Paris, Houston, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and New York. His extensive concert repertoire has taken him to Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Royal Albert Hall in London, Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris, Victoria Hall in Singapore, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Gran Teatro in Havana, and Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. Mr. Osborne has also appeared with the Tanglewood, Schleswig-Holstein, Nakamichi Baroque, USArts/Berlin, Redwoods, Cape May, Aspen, and Marlboro Festivals. He is the artistic director of the Doissat Festival de Musique in southwest France. Brought up in Washington, D.C., Robert Osborne holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Yale University School of Music. He joined the Vassar College music department faculty in 1997.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: IMPASSIONED IMAGES
The touring exhibition Impassioned Images: German Expressionist Prints, to be seen August 22-October 26, 2008 at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, explores the visions of numerous artists who engaged their charged emotions with the medium of printmaking. Organized by the Syracuse University Art Collection, Impassioned Images presents fifty woodcuts, lithographs, and etchings by many of the seminal German artists of the early twentieth century, including Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Erich Heckel, George Grosz, Otto Dix, and Max Beckmann. The Expressionist groups Der Blaue Reiter and Die Brücke and the post-war trend of Neue Sachlichkeit are all represented by a range of vigorous works. Impassioned Images is presented in the art center's Prints and Drawings Galleries, and this showing is generously supported by the Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Exhibition Fund.
ABOUT LATE NIGHT AT THE LEHMAN LOEB
“Late Night at the Lehman Loeb” extends the museum's hours every Thursday until 9:00 pm, for the public to tour the galleries, attend special performances, and enjoy refreshments. Admission to the museum is always free.
ABOUT THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center was founded in 1864 as the Vassar College Art Gallery. The current 36,400-square-foot facility, designed by Cesar Pelli and named in honor of the new building’s primary donor, opened in 1993. The Lehman Loeb Art Center’s collections chart the history of art from antiquity to the present and comprise almost 18,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and glass and ceramic wares. Notable holdings include the Warburg Collection of Old Master prints, an important group of Hudson River School paintings given by Matthew Vassar at the college’s inception, and a wide range of works by major European and American 20th-century painters. Vassar was the first U.S. college founded with a permanent art collection and gallery, and at any given time, the Permanent Collection Galleries of the Art Center feature approximately 350 works from Vassar’s extensive collections.
MUSEUM HOURS AND FURTHER INFORMATION
Admission to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is free. The Art Center is open to the public Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 10:00 am–5:00 pm; Thursday, 10:00 am–9:00 pm; and Sunday, 1:00–5:00 pm. Located at the entrance to the historic Vassar College campus, the Art Center can be reached within minutes from other Mid-Hudson cultural attractions, such as Dia: Beacon, the Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt national historic sites and homes, and the Culinary Institute of America. The Art Center is wheelchair accessible. For more information, the public may call (845) 437-5632 or visit fllac.vassar.edu.
Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.
Posted by College Relations Wednesday, December 31, 1969
About the Arts
Powerhouse Theater
The Powerhouse Theater is a collaboration between New York Stage and Film and Vassar College. It is dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development and production of new works for theater and film. During an intense eight-week summer residency on the Vassar campus, up to twenty different projects are publicly presented, typically engaging more than 200 professional artists and theater students. Plays, musicals, and screenplays are presented in a variety of forms: readings, workshops, and fully staged productions. Since the first Powerhouse Theater season in 1985, New York Stage and Film and Vassar have served more than 2,000 artists and over 175,000 audience members through the development and production of artistically exceptional and affordably priced performances.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Located just inside Vassar's Main Gate, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center houses the college's permanent collection, over 18,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and glass and ceramic wares, charting the history of art from antiquity to the present. The Permanent Collection Galleries feature 350 works, ranging from the sculpted Head of Viceroy Merymose from His Outer Sarcophagus (Egyptian, c 1375 BCE) in the Antiquities Gallery to Marsden Hartley's oil on canvas Indian Composition (1914-15) in the Twentieth Century Gallery. For information on current and upcoming special exhibitions, self-guided and curriculum-based tours, and group visits, please visit the website. The art center is open to the public, and admission is free.
James W. Palmer Gallery
Located in the College Center in Main Building, the James W. Palmer III '90 Gallery presents eight shows annually, including exhibitions by renowned artists and photographers, studio art faculty and students, and local arts organizations. Recent highlights included Andrea Baldeck’s black-and-white photo exhibit, Touching the Mekong: A Southeast Asian Sojourn, organized by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; the Vassar Haiti Project’s annual exhibition and auction of imported arts and handcrafts; and Design Inside, showcasing the work of Vassar’s College Relations design team. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. For information on upcoming exhibitions, visit the website or call (845) 437-5370.
Music Department
Located in the Belle Skinner Hall of Music, the Martel Recital Hall is wonderfully suited, both acoustically and aesthetically, to music performance. With seating for 500, the Martel is home to the Vassar College Orchestra, Choir, Women's Chorus, Madrigal Singers, and numerous chamber groups and ensembles. The Martel concert schedule routinely includes distinguished guest artists, faculty recitals, senior recitals, and special musical events, such as last year's series of organ recitals celebrating the installation and dedication of the college's superb pipe organ, designed by masterbuilder Paul Fritts. For information on upcoming concerts and events (which are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted), please visit the website.
Dance Department
The Department of Dance sponsors several public performances each year. Among those, the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre (VRDT) has a series of Works in Progress showings in the fall, a winter Modfest performance in conjunction with the The Department of Music, winter galas at the 1869 Bardavon Opera House, and two All Parents Weekend performances in the spring. The department's Master Class program annually invites at least one ballet and one modern expert to campus in addition to two people in other areas of dance. Public performances and lectures are often associated with these renowned visitors. Guest artists in the past have included: Irina Kolpokova, Arthur Mitchell, Helene Alexopoulos, Gregory Hines, Anna Kisselgoff, Donald Byrd, Edward Villella, Ronald K. Brown, Irene Dowd, Allegra Kent, Gelsey Kirkland, Pilobolus w/Adam Battlestein, Suzanne Farrell, Mummenschantz, Eldar Aliev, Deborah Jowitt, Bill T. Jones, Pascal Rioult, Clinton Luckett of ABT, Bill Irwin, and Donald McKayle. Many of the department's dance performances are in the Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, located in Kenyon Hall.