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SCCC Announces Spring 2008 Special Events

 

For Immediate Release:                                            Contact:          Heather Meaney
Jan. 9, 2008                                                                                        (518) 381-1250

Schenectady County Community College

Announces Spring 2008 Events

SCCC invites the public to the following events on campus this spring:

SCCC Chamber Music Concert, Faculty and Friends
Wednesday, January 30, 7:30 p.m., Carl B. Taylor Community Auditorium. Free.

The Capital Region Wind Ensemble presents Music by the Book
Sunday, February 10, 3:00 p.m., Carl B. Taylor Community Auditorium
Tickets: $8-general public, $6-students. Please call (518) 381-1231 for tickets.

Musicians of Ma’alwyck Concert Preview, Pierrot Lunaire
Tuesday, February 26, 11:30 a.m., Begley  Building, Room 160. Free.

SCCC Chamber Music Concert, Avanti Woodwind Quintet
Wednesday, February 27, 7:30 p.m., Carl B. Taylor Community Auditorium. Free.

Artist-in-Residence Steve Pollock, tenor saxophonist, Monday, March 3- Friday, March 7 Lecture, performance, and master class. Please call the Music Department at (518) 381-1231 for dates, times and locations for events. 

Steven Pollock, tenor saxophonist
Wednesday, March 5, 7:30 p.m., Carl B. Taylor Community Auditorium. Free.
Stephen Pollock is the tenor saxophonist and a founding member of the New Century Saxophone Quartet. He has performed as Principal Saxophonist with the Western Piedmont, Salisbury, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Charlotte, North Carolina, Charleston South Carolina, and the Tanglewood Massachusetts Festival Symphonies. He has also appeared with entertainers such as Steve Allen, Helen Reddy, Marvin Hamlisch, Boots Randolph, and Natalie Cole. When he is not on the road with the New Century Saxophone Quartet or playing solo recitals, he is the Adjunct Professor of Saxophone as well as Saxophone Chamber Music Coach at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Penn. He has released two cds, So Near, So Far and Songs of the Heart.

Tony Sano, guitar and Michael Wicks, bass, featuring J.S. Bach’s
Cello Suite 3, BWV 1009, Tuesday, March 25, 11:30 a.m., Begley Building, Room 160. Free.

The Empire Jazz Orchestra featuring David “Fathead” Newman, saxophone
Tuesday, April 8, 8:00 p.m., Carl B. Taylor Community Auditorium
Tickets: $15-general public, $6-students. Please call (518) 381-1232 for tickets. While playing with Buster Smith (Charlie Parker’s mentor), David “Fathead” Newman met Ray Charles. In 1954, David began a 12-year association with the Ray Charles Band as the baritone player and soon became the star tenor soloist. He has recorded many albums for Atlantic, Warner Brothers and Prestige records. He has gigged with many of the world’s great jazz musicians and has worked as a studio musician on recording projects with Herbie Mann, Aretha Franklin, Hank Crawford and Aaron Neville.

Musicians of Ma’alwyck Concert Preview
Tuesday, April 15, 11:30 a.m., Begley Building, Room 160. Free.

The SCCC Players present columbinus by the United States Theatre Project
Wednesday, April 16, 8 p.m. (All seats are free for this performance);
Thursday, April 17, 8 p.m.; Friday, April 18, 2:15 p.m. and 8 p.m. ; and
Saturday, April 19, 8 p.m., Carl B. Taylor Community Auditorium
Talk backs will take place following each performance.
Tickets: $5 general public; $3 seniors and students. Free to the SCCC Community. 

columbinus, a riveting docudrama, merges an impression of the contemporary suburban American high school with the facts of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. It was written my Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli, conceived by PJ Paparelli, with dramaturgy by Patricia Hersch.
Please note: This production depicts violence and contains adult language. It is not suitable for young children. 

SCCC Woodwind Chamber Ensembles and SCCC Basic Ensemble
Monday, April 21, 7:30 p.m., Lally Mohawk Room. Free.

SCCC Wind Ensemble
Friday, April 25, 7:30 p.m., Carl B. Taylor Community Auditorium. Free.

SCCC Guitar Ensemble
Monday, April 28, 7:30 p.m., Lally Mohawk Room. Free.

SCCC Jazz Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble
Wednesday, April 30, 7:30 p.m., Carl B. Taylor Community Auditorium. Free.

SCCC Chorus and Vocal Chamber Ensemble
Monday, May 5, 7:30 p.m., Carl B. Taylor Community Auditorium. Free.

Capital Region Wind Ensemble  presents A Trick of the Light
Sunday, June 8, 3:00 p.m., Carl B. Taylor Community Auditorium
Tickets: $8-general public, $6-students. Please call (518) 381-1231 for tickets.
For more information on any of these events, please call the SCCC Public Relations Office at (518) 381-1250.

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Student Housing Update

Due to delays in the tight schedule, the student housing project proposed for South Church Street will probably not be ready for Fall 2008.  The College will continue to work with developers and the SCCC Foundation on this and other student housing options.  Watch our web site for further updates.