All-Tchaikovsky, all-UGA performance

Monday, September 13, 1999

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Under the direction of conductor Mark Cedel, the UGA Symphony Orchestra will perform an all-Tchaikovsky program--Symphony No. 4 and Piano Concerto No. 1, with soloist Evgeny Rivkin--Sept. 16.
Rivkin has been at the UGA School of Music since 1995. In addition to presenting master classes worldwide, he performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe. Rivkin has released three compact discs on the ACA Digital label, one featuring his favorite solo piano music by Tchaikovsky; one devoted to the music of Brahms, in collaboration with violinist Levon Ambartsumian; and one with cellist David Starkweather featuring cello sonatas by Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich.
Rivkin has received several awards for his playing, including top prizes in the Bavarian Radio Musik Competition in Munich, the International Tchaikovsky Competition held in Moscow, the U.S.S.R. National Piano Competition of St. Petersburg, and the Russian National Piano Competition held in Moscow.
Cedel joined the faculty of the music school in 1994. He is the director of orchestral activities and instructor of conducting, viola and chamber music.

--Lisa Bartholow

Moby Dick opens University Theatre season

University Theatre’s 1999-2000 season gets under way this week with Orson Welles’s adaptation of Melville’s novel. Moby Dick--Rehearsed will be the first presentation in University Theatre’s expanded season.
The production, directed by new drama faculty member Mark Monday, offers an unusual perspective on the novel. The play depicts a company of actors assembled for a rehearsal of Shakespeare’s King Lear. The leader announces that, instead of rehearsing Lear, the company will work on a new play.
The company thus sets about rehearsing Moby Dick using only what is available to them in the theater--a few properties and set pieces arranged for the rehearsal of Lear. The daunting task before the actors is to create, out of these materials, the experience of sailing on the open seas in search of the white whale.
Whereas the script was originally written for a cast of 12 men and one woman, Monday’s primarily female cast explores issues of gender and adaptation by reversing roles.
Katherine Sanderlin, a graduate acting student in the department of drama, appears in Moby Dick--Rehearsed as the central storyteller, Ishmael.
“We’re presenting the play as if we were a professional feminist company,” Sanderlin says. “As actors, we have spent a lot of time exploring what this particular play would have to offer such a company. The play was written for a mostly male cast, so a production featuring women really highlights how much the story is about obsession, cruelty and sanity.”
Moby Dick--Rehearsed will be presented in the Cellar Theatre in the Fine Arts Building Sept. 15-18 at 8 p.m. and Sept. 19 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for students and seniors. The box office in the main lobby is open weekdays noon-5 and one hour before show times. During those hours, the box office can be reached at 542-2838.
Subscriptions to the University Theatre season are still available. Call 542-4235 for more information.

--Jessica Maerz

Levi’s final ASO performance in Athens

The Atlanta Symphony will perform in Hodgson Hall Sept. 19 at 2 p.m. This concert will be the final performance of the ASO in Athens under the direction of Yoel Levi, who leaves his position as music director after this season. He will conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and Mozart’s Symphony No. 29.
Since being appointed music director of the Atlanta Symphony in 1988, Levi has tranformed the symphony into a world-class orchestra, noted for clarity, virtuosity and sonic beauty. Hailing this metamorphosis, Gramophone said, “Yoel Levi has built a reputation for himself and his orchestra that is increasingly the envy of his Big Five American counterparts in New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Boston and Chicago.” Levi has also served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at UGA’s School of Music.
Among the 28 recordings Levi has made with ASO for Telarc is a highly regarded recent release of Mahler’s Fifth. Mahler composed the symphony during the summers of 1901 and 1902.

--Bobby Tyler

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