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Streak To Bring Improv to Cat
Primitive Streak has served the laughing community here at Oberlin
College for just about 10 years. Currently an eight-person operation,
Streak presents it’s final showing of the semester, a night
of unbridled improv comedy.
Leading up to Streak, MAD* Factory Improv will present a show featuring
the intermediate acting troupe from the MAD* Factory Theater in dowtown
Oberlin. Taught and mentored by Streak members, the 9-13-year-old
troupe will present both scripted and improv acts.
MAD* Factory Improv: Cat in the Cream. Friday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m.
Primitive Streak: Cat in the Cream. Friday, Dec. 6 at 10 p.m. Both
events are free.
—Douglass Dowty Obertones
To Evolve in Finney
The Obertones will bring an a cappella extravaganza entitled Evolution
to Finney this Friday. The performance will showcase over an hour
of songs, skits and sketch comedy in the Obertones’ innovative
musical style.
Finney. Chapel, Friday, Dec. 6 at 9 p.m. $2 in advance at Wilder
Desk, $3 at the door.
—Douglass Dowty
OJE
to Play with JASM in Finney
The Oberlin Jazz Ensembe under Wendell Logan will play a concert
with JASM, a small emsemble comprised of junior Ryan Snow, trombone,
sophomore Kevin McHugh, piano, senior Steve Wood, bass, 1st-year
Matt Nelson, tenor saxophone, and 1st-year Patrick Barter, drums.
Selections on the program will feature music by Oliver Nelson, Lennie
Tristano, Bennie Moten and others.
Finney. Saturday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. Free.
—Douglass Dowty
Piscapo’s
Arm Brings Hardcore Sketch to ’Sco
Piscapo’s Arm, Oberlin’s only sketch comedy collective,
will present Packed With the Devil, an hour-long fast-paced comedy
routine that promises non-stop action from start to finish. Six
troupe members and one outside contributor wrote the 14 sketches
on display in this act, which promises to be the most ambitious
and diverse yet from the group. Piscapo’s Arm was founded
in 1999 and has 10 performers who carry equal weight in the group’s
performances and other activities.
’Sco. Friday, Dec. 6 and Saturday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. Free.
—Douglass Dowty
Con Vocalists Sing Baroque
The Collegeium Musicum Oberliniense under the direction of Conservatory
Musicology Professor Steven Plank will sing an all-Baroque recital
featuring works by Bach, Scheildemann, Schultz and Scheidt. Conservatory
Organ Professor David Boe will accompany the vocalists in this program
of German-composed songs.
The Collegium Musicum Oberliniense, an ensemble of about 40, has
been under the direction of Plank since 1989. Specializing in liturgical
polyphony of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they perform
twice yearly in Fairchild Chapel and in various venues throughout
the region. Recent tours have taken them to Pittsburgh, Washington,
DC, and to Kenyon College.
Fairchild. Friday, Nov. 6 and Saturday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. Free.
—Douglass Dowty
Library
Book Sale In Time for Holidays
Booklovers will flock to Mudd today for the Student Friends of the
Oberlin College Library Book Sale. If you are not a member, you
can sign up upon entry for $2. Lots of general interest, gender
studies, fiction, history, politics, ethnic studies and literature
books will be on sale. In advertising the event, the sponsors remind
you used books make great holiday gifts for a low, low cost!
Mudd Rm. 202 (near the rainbow couches on the second floor). Friday,
Dec. 5 from 2 p.m to 6 p.m. For Student Friends of the Oberlin College
Library members only; membership is $2 and dues can be paid at the
door.
—Douglass Dowty
Musical
Union and Chamber Orchestra Join for Choral Concert
The Oberlin Musical Union under Conservatory Vocal Director Hugh
Floyd will team with the Conservatory’s Chamber Orchestra
in a performance of Duruflé’s Requiem, Haydn’s
Te Deum and Brahms’s song Nanie. All three works are written
for large choir and orchestra and together span three centuries
of composition.
Finney. Sunday, Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. Free.
—Douglass Dowty
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