Remember, it’s not too late to get your free Vail Series tickets to see the United States debut of Dada Masilo! You can get your tickets on the second floor of Slayter tomorrow and Friday. This is a do not miss performance. We hope to see you there.

The Vail Series brings Dada Masilo to campus February 3rd at 8pm. A performer since age 13, Masilo is known for taking Shakespeare’s Hamlet and forcing the viewer to reconsider Ophelia by viewing the classical subject matter through Masilo’s own preferences in choreography, light, and music. Reviews of her work describe her drive to innovate within traditional subject matter. Accoladed from Businessday South Africa to CNN here in the United States, Dada Masilo’s dance should be viewed as a glimpse into the very best of modern dance: an extraordinary occurrence for Granville, Ohio. We hope you’ll join the Vail Series for a departure from our usual fare to the privilege of seeing the decidedly unusual performance of Dada Masilo.

Student ticket distribution continues on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday — be sure to stop by Slayter 2nd Floor to pick up your ticket!
Faculty and staff distribution continues through campus mail.

The next Vail Series Concert features the Munich Symphony Orchestra, which according to press releases, performs with nothing less than “Apollonian excellence”. They open the performance with Verklärte Nacht, a Romantic work that contains the triple distinction of being an early example of programmatic music for chamber ensemble, based on a Romantic poem featuring an adulterous lover, and the unrecognized “inverted ninth chord” which lead to the piece’s rejection by the Vienna Music Society.

After the intermission, we will be listening to Mozart’s Requiem, which as those who have seen Amadeus know, is the intense choral work he died writing. Luckily we have performers to match the piece: Gloria Dei Cantores and our own Denison Chamber Singers will be doing the singing. With a program this dramatic, there is no excuse not to make it up the hill on what we hope to be a fine October evening.