Benjamin Britten's War Requiem

Silva Concert Hall – Hult Center for the Performing Arts

Eugene Concert Choir in Concert

• Eugene Symphony | Oregon Festival Choirs
• Diane Retallack, conductor
• Tamara Wilson, soprano | Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor | Kevin McMillan, baritone

Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem is an enormous, poignant and moving choral masterwork. The vivid and heart-wrenching poetry of World War I poet Wilfred Owen is chillingly juxtaposed with the traditional Latin Requiem Mass in a work that is all too relevant today.

Tickets start at $15.

Ongoing Event: Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

November 1, 2011 – February 5, 2012

Works from the Permanent Collection & Works by Joe Sacco

For nearly 80 years, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art has engaged audiences with exhibitions that continue our founder’s belief that art builds understanding across different cultures to help create a peaceful world. This fall the JSMA continues that tradition with comic journalist Joe Sacco’s exhibition, which is presented in partnership with the Eugene Symphony’s “Counterpoint 2011: War + Peace” initiative.

Ongoing Event: Samuel Beckett's Endgame

Lord Leebrick Theater Company

November 2 through November 20

Irish-born playwright Samuel Beckett survived the ravages of World War II as an undocumented alien living in France and joined forces with the fledgling French Resistance. The war's influence on his writing is unmistakable. Endgame is a modern masterpiece, blending the absurd vaudeville rhythms of Waiting for Godot with gallows humor as master and servant vie for power in the last corner of the world.

• November 2 & 3 | 8 PM, Endgame Preview
• November 4 | 8 PM, Gala Opening
• November 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 17 & 19 | 8 PM, Performances
• November 13 & 20 | 2 PM, Performances
• Tickets start at $14

Ongoing Event: Memories of War, The New Generation

LCC Main Campus, Building 11, 4000 East 30th Avenue

FREE: Art Exhibit—Lane Community College Art Gallery

October 24 through December 1

Memories of War, The New Generation showcases regional artists’ works from all mediums that explore a new generation’s viewpoints of war and peace in the post-September 11 era.

A special reception will be held on Thursday, November 3| 5:30 – 7 PM

In The Telling

Oregon Humanities Center: 180 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall – UO Campus

FREE: Documentary Film Premiere

In 2008, Eugene-based military veterans and family members staged “Telling: Eugene” which offered the community the chance to re-humanize its veterans in the aftermath of a distant and difficult war.  In the Telling follows these individuals through the making of “Telling: Eugene,” highlighting their transition to civilian life.

Additional showings at the Bijou Theatre on Saturday, November 5 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, November 6 at 2 PM.  Screenings are free but tickets are required.  Visit ohc.uoregon.edu or call 541-686-2458 for tickets. 

Everything is a Present

Temple Beth Israel - 1175 E. 29th Avenue

FREE: Documentary Film Screening & Discussion

This documentary examines the remarkable Czech-born musician, Alice Herz-Sommer, a woman whose life was dominated, although never defined, by her survival of the Holocaust. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Deborah Green, UO Greenberg Associate Professor.

The Internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans During World War II

The Studio – Hult Center for the Performing Arts

FREE: Lecture with Gordon Hideaki Nagai

December 7, 1941 ushered in one of the darkest episodes in our nation’s history: the evacuation and internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans. Gordon Hideaki Nagai will share his internment camp experience against a backdrop of the Japanese-American community in exile. His story has a stunning conclusion: he believes the evacuation and internment experience, while tragic, was ultimately one of the most shining moments in our nation’s history.

Eugene Symphony Guild Concert Preview

The Studio – Hult Center for the Performing Arts

FREE: Lecture with Danail Rachev & Joyce Yang

Music Director Danail Rachev and guest pianist Joyce Yang, discuss Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Shostakovich’s LeningradSymphony.

Benjamin Britten's War Requiem

Eugene Public Library – Bascom Tykeson Room

FREE: Lecture with Diane Retallack

Diane Retallack, Eugene Concert Choir Artistic Director, will give a lecture on Britten’s War Requiem, an enormous masterwork that dramatically expresses a message of peace and shared humanity.

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor

Soreng Theater – Hult Center for the Performing Arts

FREE: Pre-Concert Performance

• Matthew Fuller, violin         | Sasha Chandler, violin
• Kathryn Lucktenberg, viola | Diana Rosenblum, cello

Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor was written over the course of three days in 1960 as a distraction from a project to write a film score about the Dresden fire bombings of WWII. Vivid, dramatic, mesmerizing and devastating, this work embodies the lifetime of Shostakovich’s music.

Rachmaninov's Rhapsody & Shostakovich's Leningrad

Silva Concert Hall – Hult Center for the Performing Arts

Eugene Symphony in Concert 

• Danail Rachev, conductor | Joyce Yang, piano

Join the Eugene Symphony for Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody, flawlessly performed by Van Cliburn medalist, Joyce Yang.The evening concludes with a groundbreaking work of enormous scope, Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, whose historic overtones recall the siege of Leningrad.

Concert tickets start at $15

The Eternal Struggle

The Studio – Hult Center for the Performing Arts

FREE: Lecture by Photochoreographer, James Westwater

During his 30 year career, photochoreographer Dr. James Westwater has performed with over 150 orchestras across North America and abroad. During his lecture, Westwater will discuss the research and artistic process that culminated in his work, The Eternal Struggle, presented in conjunction with the Eugene Symphony’s performance of Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait.

A Salute to Veterans

Beall Concert Hall, UO School of Music and Dance

Eugene Symphonic Band

The Eugene Symphonic Band celebrates the men and women of the armed forces in a variety concert with a patriotic flair! Please join the Band in their celebration by attending this special concert performed in the American concert band tradition.

Adults $10, seniors and students $8, general admission

The Voice of a Generation

Soreng Theater - Hult Center for the Performing Arts

Reception and Lecture with Tom Brokaw

Tom Brokaw has traveled the world to cover elections, summits, wars, political turmoil, and more during his rich career in network news.In his lecture, The Voice of a Generation, Brokaw will entertain, enlighten and inform audiences with his experiences and observations; providing an unparalleled world-view and renewed understanding of the global village.

Tickets to the private reception with Tom Brokaw and priority seating at the lecture are $95.

General admission tickets to the lecture are $38.

A Lincoln Portrait Narrated by Tom Brokaw

Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Silva Concert Hall

Eugene Symphony in Concert

• Eugene Symphony Chorus | Pacific Youth Choir
• Danail Rachev, conductor | Sharon Paul, chorus director | Mia Savage, youth choir director
• Tom Brokaw, narrator | James Westwater, photochoreographer

Tom Brokaw joins the Eugene Symphony for a commemoration of two critical events that shaped the American landscape – the attacks of September 11 and the beginning of the Civil War. In an astounding program narrated by Brokaw, audiences will be captivated by Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, choreographed with compelling images depicting our country’s progress towards freedom, justice and equality. The evening also includes John Adams’ September 11 remembrance, On the Transmigration of Souls.

 Tickets start at $30