Exhibition showcases faculty art

Tonight at 5:30, the Joseph Gross Gallery will present a reception for the annual faculty exhibition. The exhibition is in conjunction with The University of Arizona Museum of Art. Faculty artists exhibiting work in the gallery include Harmony Hammond, Jim Cook, Moira Geoffrion, Josh Goldberg, Paulus Musters, Charles Hitner and James Schaub. The Joseph Gross Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Complex. For more information, call 626-4215, or go online to http://www.arts.arizona.edu/galleries.

Symphony features oboe soloist

Also playing tonight at 7:30 will be Neil Tatman. Tatman is the faculty soloist with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra for the Family Weekend performances. Tatman performs George Rochberg's "Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra" written in 1983. The 73-member orchestra, conducted by Thomas Cockrell, also will perform the overture to Mozart's "Cos“ fan Tutte" and Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36."

An assistant professor of oboe, Tatman joined the UA School of Music and Dance faculty in 1999 and has been an active recitalist, clinician and recording artist since 1975. He has a bachelor's degree from Lawrence University and a master's and doctoral degree from Indiana University.

Tatman was principal oboist for the Sacramento Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the San Francisco Opera, San Jose Symphony and the Sacramento Opera. He frequently performs at music festivals. A member of the Arizona Wind Quintet, he also performs at the Carmel Bach Festival, Music in the Mountains and the Desert Foothills MusicFest.

Cockrell, director of orchestral activities and the Nelson Riddle endowed chair in music, is regarded as one of America's most versatile young conductors, equally at home on the symphonic podium or in the opera pit. He appears regularly with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and has guest conducted the Louisville Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic, Orange County Philharmonic and several orchestras in Romania and Italy. Recent operatic engagements include productions for the Dayton Opera, Opera Colorado, Opera Theatre of the Rockies and Washington D.C.'s Summer Opera Theatre. He is a former associate conductor of the Cincinnati Opera, Opera Colorado, The Colorado Symphony and the Spoleto Festivals.

Cockrell has served as music director of Denver Young Artists Orchestra and on the faculties of the University of California, Irvine, the State University of New York at Purchase, the Bucharest Academy of Music and the AcadŽmie Internationale de Musique, Ch‰teau de Rangiport. Presented by the School of Music and Dance in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona. Tickets vary in price, for more information call 621-2998.

ÎLullaby' a tribute to Broadway

"The Lullaby of Broadway" plays tonight at 7:30 in the Theatre Arts Building

Musical Theatre Studio, Room 125. The show is a musical revue saluting Broadway and New York City. Some of the songs included will be "Give My Regards to Broadway," "New York, New York," "42nd Street" and "All Aboard for Broadway." The UA will present a song-and-dance musical celebrating the two most glorious words in the English language: musical comedy!

Professor Richard Hanson, its founder and current director, created ENCORE! to feature freshmen musical theatre students by providing a platform on which young artists can test themselves in preparation for professional careers in theater. This high-spirited musical group has grown to be one of the School of Theatre Arts best-loved touring ambassadors.

The show is $5. For more information call the Fine Arts Box Office 621-1162.