The showing of the jazz documentary “Music Inn" will held be at noon on Thursday in the Bear Cave in McIntosh Center. The film lasts just more than an hour, and the event is free and open to the public. After the showing, producer George Schuller will be available for a discussion about jazz and the film.
“Music Inn” tells the story of the famous educational summer camp and artist-colony experience that shaped today’s biggest names in jazz.
Schuller, son of the famous Gunther Sculler, is a composer, arranger and drummer.
Guest artist Staff Sgt. Mike Forbes will present a tuba recital at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 5 in Presser Hall.. The event is free and open to the public. He will be accompanied by Eric Jenkins on piano.
Forbes began his career as a tubaist with the U.S. Army Band. He is associate lecturer of low brass at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Jenkins is a collaborative pianist and vocal coach at Emory University and Kennesaw State University.
The ONU Observatory will have a public star party to celebrate the autumnal equinox, the astronomical start of fall. Viewing will take place from 8-10 p.m. on Friday. The observatory is located on West Lincoln Street near Klingler Road.
On this day, which can also land on early Sept 23, the Earth's equatorial plane intersects the Sun. Consequently, we experience approximately equal durations of nighttime and daytime ("equi-nox" means equal night).
A play "Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches" will be presented at the Freed Center from Sept. 28 until Oct. 1. The drama is an examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s.
The writer, Tony Kushner, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for the play that has been described as the most influential play of the last 25 years.
Set in 1985 in Manhattan, in the age of Reagan and at the onset of the AIDS epidemic, Kushner’s play faces head on the central crises of American culture. Political, religious and social conflicts underpin a story with characters whose personal crises of love and abandonment interconnect with larger societal questions.
The University Singers of Ohio Northern University will present a concert at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24 in Presser Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
The Homecoming weekend concert will feature all of the University’s choral ensembles. The program includes contributions by Polar Rhythms, a self-directed student a cappella group; University Singers, Men’s Chorus and Chamber Singers, directed by ONU music faculty member Christopher Larsen; and Women’s Chorus, directed by ONU music faculty member Marilyn Roth-Basinger
