News Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: Billie Moser
Marketing/Public Relations Manager
Hult Center for the Performing Arts
Eugene, Oregon
Phone: 541.682.8380
Billie.c.moser@ci.eugene.or.us
http://www.hultcenter.org/
Celebrating Hult 25
Another Evening of Memories:
Resident Companies In Concert
Celebrate with Us! Dress up, you won’t be alone!
Eugene, Oregon, September 5, 2007 — The big celebration is just around the corner as September 2007 marks the 25th anniversary of the Hult Center’s opening. The celebration is specifically designed to recognize the contribution that the citizens of Eugene made to turn the dream of a performing arts center into a reality. The weekend of September 28-29 is packed with exciting and first-time-ever events. Another Evening of Memories: Resident Companies In Concert is THE highlight event of the festivities.
In celebration of an extraordinary twenty-five years, the City of Eugene, the Hult Center for the Performing Arts and the eight Resident Companies of the Hult Center come together for a special evening of memories. A gift to the community, Resident Companies In Concert is a once-in-a-lifetime, free performance that features outstanding pieces by the Eugene Ballet Company, Eugene Concert Choir, Eugene Opera, Eugene Symphony, Oregon Bach Festival, Oregon Mozart Players, The Shedd Institute, and the Willamette Repertory Theatre. Laura Niles, Interim Cultural Services Director says: “In my 25 years at the Hult Center, there has never been a more exciting event. All of the wonderful eight Resident Companies on one stage in one evening. What a treat for the community! It’ll be an evening to remember, just like Marilyn Horne on Opening Night in 1982!”
Prior to the performance in the glorious Silva Concert Hall, an invitation-only gala dinner takes place at the Hilton Hotel to honor the arts in our community.
Paul Winberg, Executive Director, Eugene Symphony Association and Resident Company representative on the Cultural Services Advisory Committee says: “It is a great honor for all of the eight Resident Companies to bring our artists together for this special night to thank our community and celebrate their support of the arts at the Hult Center for the past 25 years. And we are excited about the next 25! ”
Program (subject to change):
A collaboration between the Eugene Ballet Company and The Shedd Institute
Excerpts from "The Swing Kings" choreographed by Toni Pimble and featuring Steve Stone and The Emerald City Jazz Kings.
Eugene Concert Choir
Handel: "Hallelujah Chorus" from the Messiah
Carl Orff: "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana
Eugene Opera
Puccini: La Rondine
Aria: "Che il bel sogno di Doretta"
Kristin Vogel, soprano
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Aria: "Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja"
Christopher Feigun, baritone
Duet: "Pa-pa-pa-gena!"
Kristin Vogel, soprano
Christopher Feigun, baritone
The Eugene Opera Orchestra
Kelly Kuo, conductor
Eugene Symphony
Tchaikovsky: Overture 1812, Op. 49
Oregon Bach Festival
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto (to be announced)
Guy Few, special guest
Oregon Mozart Players
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Willamette Repertory Theatre
A scene from Lee Blessing's hypnotically eerie drama, A Body of Water, directed by Kirk M. Boyd.
Please click here for the Complete Listing of Celebrating Hult 25 Events in September.
Summary, including ticket distribution, of the two Another Evening of Memories events on September 28:
Friday, September 28 at 8:00 pm
Another Evening of Memories:
Resident Companies In Concert
Silva Concert Hall
Tix: Required. Complimentary tickets available in Hult Center Lobby (use 6th Avenue entrance) on 9/14 from 10 am to 1 pm or until distributed. Limit of 2/household, accessible seating available. Tickets must be picked up in person.
The Lobby will stay open late after the Resident Companies In Concert performance, so you can continue to make new memories with friends and family and reminisce about Opening Night 25 years ago. Music and no-host bar available.
Friday, September 28 at 8:00 pm
Another Evening of Memories:
Eugene Rocks!
The Studio
Tix: Free. Ticket required; available at Ticket Office beginning 9/18
A special dance party for grades 6, 7 and 8 under a ceiling of laser lights in The Studio at the Hult Center, planned by middle school students for middle school students, including the selection of the DJ and decorations. Eugene Rocks! will be a fun and safe environment, supervised by adults.
Just imagine the memories they will be making and will share when the Hult Center's 50th birthday celebration comes around!
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