The ARTSPod: Episode 2, March 21, 2008

In this edition of the ARTSPod, we'll hear selections from the February Orchestra Concert at Sherwood Auditorium in La Jolla, followed by a couple pieces from the Music in the Meadows performance here on campus. We will then showcase excerpts from four visiting authors brought to campus by the Creative Writing Department. Then we will hear a number of pieces from Musical Theatre in the Meadows and finish up with two selections from the last Jazz Concert.  

From the concert we have: Presto from Octet in E-flat Major, Op 20 - performed by the Miro' Quartet along with students, Dima, Lijia, Rita and Hyon Jae. Then, Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy by Tchaikovsky.

After that we will hear two selections from Music in the Meadows: David will play Image by Bozza on the flute. Then Dima will play Caprice No. 21 by Paganini on the violin.

Then we have two readings from visiting authors who were brought to campus as part of the Creative Reading Series sponsored by the Creative Writing Department. Cecily Parks, poet and author of Field Folly Snow and Jennifer Chang, Poet and author of The History of Anonymity will both read selections from their poetry. Then we have a brief selection from a question and answer section with two more visiting artists - Timothy Solon Woodward, Novelist and Author of Cadillac Orpheus and Beena Kamlani, Fiction Writer and Essayist and author of short stories in Ploughshares and Virginia Quarterly Review and essays in Growing up Ethnic in America.

After the readings, we will hear seven selections from Musical Theatre in the Meadows from students: Caitlin, Georgina, Kelsey Ann, Aari, Brad, Kelsey and then Caitlin again.

Last in today's ARTSPod are two selections from the recent Jazz concert.

ENJOY!