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Sam Maloof Exhibition & 92nd Birthday Party Close to 30 pieces of Maloof furniture will be on display beginning January, 2008. The exhibition, showcasing chairs, seatees, cabinets, tables and music stands, will be supported by photographs, models, patterns, drawings and an instructional area dedicated to the fascinating process of making a chair. A program of educational events, including art history lectures, gallery talks and a woodworking symposium, are also scheduled to run throughout the exhibition. To kick off this amazing exhibition, the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum and the Department of Art at Cal State San Bernardino, in conjunction with the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, will host a 92nd Birthday Party on January 26, 2008, honoring world-renowned master craftsman and wood worker Sam Maloof. The birthday party will not only offer guests with an exclusive preview of the Maloof exhibit at the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, it will also provide an unprecedented opportunity to attend the first-ever auction of the Sam Maloof 92nd Birthday Edition Rocking Chair. Proceeds from this event will help: 1. Support the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts 2. Fund a Sam Maloof Scholarship for Art Students at Cal State San Bernardino 3. Support an acquisition fund for Ceramics at the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum Price Per Ticket: $92 To RSVP for tickets please call 909-537-3369 or e-mail museumRSVP@csusb.edu For more information visit the Museum website: http://museum.csusb.edu
CSUSB Chamber Singers Return From Abroad The CSUSB Chamber Singers were invited to participate in a festival concert of Carl Orff’s masterwork Carmina Burana on the Amalfi Coast. The eleven-day tour, which took place from June 18 through June 28, included a variety musical and cultural-interest stops in Pisa, Florence, Rome, Assisi, Pompeii, Capri and the breathtaking Amalfi Coast.
Opera at CSUSB CSUSB Opera Workshop director, Dr. Stacey Fraser, will direct the students in a full length operatic production of Offenbach's rare one-act opera,"RSVP or a Musicale at Mr. Cauliflower's". The two-night performance will feature a double cast in the principal roles of Ernestine and Babylas and will take place on Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Recital Hall. Tickets are $10 General, $8 Senior/Staff/Faculty and $5 Students. This wonderful and hysterically funny opera that makes fun of opera and all of its “operaisms” has beautiful, as well as, catchy melodies that will keep you humming long after the performance! The opera will feature CSUSB's top voice students, as well as CSUSB theatre professor Tom Provenzano in the starring role of Stuart Offenbach. Tickets can be purchased through the Music Department website at http://music.csusb.edu/calendar. For more information, call (909) 537-7516.