Calendar

11:45 am 

Modlin Center for the Arts is pleased to present Friday Free For All: A Series of Free Performances. Performances feature a wide variety of music, theatre and dance, and will be suitable for audiences of any age.

12:00 pm 

University of Richmond acappella groups perform for famillies and students.

7:30 pm 

Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer return to the Modlin stage in a debut performance with internationally-renowned tabla player Zakir Hussain.

7:30 pm 

Albert, the violinist for the University of Richmond’s Grammy-winning ensemble-in-residence eighth blackbird, brings his Chicago colleague Andrew McCann to Richmond to showcase the expressive range of the violin in duo repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the contemporary.

7:30 pm 

In a long-awaited sequel to its electrifying performance at the Modlin Center in 2005, Pilobolus Dance Theater returns to our stage in a program of mind-boggling choreography and exuberant athleticism.

7:30 pm 

In a long-awaited sequel to its electrifying performance at the Modlin Center in 2005, Pilobolus Dance Theater returns to our stage in a program of mind-boggling choreography and exuberant athleticism.

7:30 pm 

The grand tradition of jazz piano – Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, Bill Evans, and many more – is filtered through Esleck’s mind and fingers, sprinkled with a little Beethoven, Debussy, Ives, Bartok, Reich, and even a little Billy Preston, Keith Emerson, or Jerry Lee Lewis.

7:30 pm 

A work of poetry, music and theater staged against a frenzied backdrop of images and soundscapes, Ameriville scrutinizes our nation under a microscope, using the lens of Hurricane Katrina to analyze the state of the union and explore national attitudes toward race, poverty, politics, history and government.

7:30 pm 

Cellist Lynn Harrell, whose work and artistry places him in the highest echelon of today’s classical musicians, will collaborate with the Shanghai Quartet on the quartet’s first of two concerts this season.

7:30 pm 

Renowned baritone Thomas Hampson marks the 250th anniversary of the first song written in America with a 50-state concert tour illuminating American history as narrated, in verse, by our poets and, in music, by our composers.

7:30 pm 

This stunning “theater without words” mixes traditional big-top acts such as juggling and aerial work with innovative cabaret theater, movement and humor.

7:30 pm 

This stunning “theater without words” mixes traditional big-top acts such as juggling and aerial work with innovative cabaret theater, movement and humor.

3:00 pm 

Guest artists Judith Cline and Cara Ellen Modisett present Alan Smith's landmark composition Vignettes: Ellis Island.

7:30 pm 

Crumb, whose cartoons are controversial, funny, at times bizarre and always idiosyncratic, occupies a place of honor in the world of high culture and art. His graphic narrative Genesis, scheduled for release in the fall of 2009, has generated more-than-eager anticipation. Crumb will participate in a conversation with Françoise Mouly, art editor for The New Yorker since 1993.

7:30 pm 

The Longwood Wind Symphony, conducted by Dr. Gordon Ring, perform with the University of Richmond Wind Ensemble. The concert will include Ring's Fanfare and Ceremonial Music and Henri Rabaud's Solo de Concours with David Niethamer as soloist.

7:30 pm 

As one of the most influential jazz composers and performers of his generation, Blanchard has garnered Grammys, released poll-topping CDs and contributed award-winning film scores for directors including Spike Lee—all of which attest to a musical genius that is nothing short of breathtaking.