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Cultural E
Koger Arts Center
educates students
in arts appreciation
By SCOTT PRUDEN
Staff writer
Feeling a bit uncultured? Too much Stallone and
not enough Shakespeare this summer?
Now that students are back at USC, they can indulge
in culture by the bucket-loads, thanks to the Koger
Center for the Arts, now on the verge of its second
season.
The London Philharmonic isn't flying into town
again, but the schedule still isn't short of national and
international talent to supplement the appearences of
your favorites from the ranks of USC's performing
arts.
The big names, however, will be noticeably absent.
"One of the things we tried really hard to do is not
have all the big names and to bring in people at the
middle or early levels of their careers," says the Koger
Center's Ron Pearson, "because it's so much easier to
get them to do master classes and get them in touch
with both students and the community." ]
Pearson also adds that less-known names give the
Koger Center the ability to charge less for tickets, but <
still give the audience plenty of entertainment for its i
dollar. <
'This way, we can put some artists on the list for
KOGER PRESENTS 1989SEPTEMBER
'89
8 Ian Hobson- Pianist
16 Black Swan Quartet- String Jazz Quartet
22 Tschaikovsky Chamber Orchestra
28 ISO and The Bobs
OCTOBER '89
1 *Jim Cullum Jazz with William Warfieid, Includes Porgy and Bess
4 Benny Kim- Violin
15 * St. Paul Chamber Orchestra- Peter Bay, Conductor
24 Warsaw Sinfonia- Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor; Robert McDuffieViolin
27 Andre Watts- Pianist
28 "Nexus- Percussion Ensemble
NOVEMBER'89
12 "Orchestra of the 18th Century- Frans Bruggen, Conductor
16 Me and My Girl- Broadway Musical
JANUARY '90
15 Philharmonia Orchestra of London-Giuseppe Sinopoli, Conductor
19 Roadside Theater in Pretty Polly
22 "Dvoika!"- Emanuil Sheynkman, Balalaika; Richard Patterson- Guitar
25 Drilling Miss Daisy- Broadway Play
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$6 or $8 in hopes that we would get some people in
here that might not take a chance on us at $15, and
who find that they may like something and come
back."
For the Koger Presents programs, Pearson lists a
schedule of alternative performing art that would normally
not be seen by a Columbia audience. These include
the Black Swan Quartet, a strine iazz auartet:
The Bobs, an a cappella group; and the Nexus Percussion
Ensemble.
"We also have the chance to get a fairly substantial
country singer in the fall, and it's important for us to
do something like that, to see if people like something
and then respond to it," Pearson said.
The Koger Center will also be experimenting with
its style of presentation, especially with jazz artists.
"There's a good jazz market here, and we're not going
to omit something just because it's not viable with the
box office," says Pearson.
One area of the performing arts that received little
attention during the Koger Center's first season was
live drama. That situation is to be aptly rectified this
season with the presentation of several recent Broadway
shows, including the touching Driving Miss
Daisy, which documents the relationship of a chauffeur
and his crotchety mistress.
Negotiations are also underway to get several other
Broadway hits to grace the stage of Gonzales Hall,
Pearson said.
Not to neglect the classical audience, the Koger
Center has been sure to include several major orchest*al
performances, as well as the best rhamtv>r rwrhA
?tras and up-and-coming soloists.
Showcased this season are the Tschaikovsky Cham90
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
MARCH '90
3 Warsaw Ballet
14 Jessye Norman-Soprano
20 "Seattle Mime Theatre
21 Alley Theatre in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
26-27 Bella Lewitsky- Modern dance; Two different programs
29 Moscow Philharmonic-Dmitri Kitaenko, Conductor
APRIL '90
1 "John O'Neal in funtbug fahho /ours I
4 Aman Dance & Music Company-Modern folk with musicians
22 "Summit Brass- Ensemble of twenty
30 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa- Soprano
MAY '90
7 Boston Chamber Players
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played last season.
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Weekend and Benny Kim, a rising star in the world of
classical violin.
With university and community productions filling
the gaps between the Koger Presents series, the Koger
Center is going to be quite a busy place this season. In
an attempt to make each guest's visit more pleasant,
Pearson says, "We're going to bust our buns to break
down any perception on anybody's part, student or
community, that this is a facility for the elite."
To do that, friendliness is going to be stressed from
the house staff to the upper levels of Koger Center
management, and patron feedback will also play an
important role, he said.
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"We really hope people will perceive us as a
friendly place that really cares about them, and we're
going to be asking people 'how did we do' as they go
out the door."
"We want people to come for the programming and
we want them to come for the experience. We're going
to be asking them to come see people they've
never heard of, but hopefully they'll think that if it's
being presented here, it's worth a gamble. And we
want you to take a gamble," he said.
The ticket buying system has been changed and
special pre-show programs for children at selected
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