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The Performing Arts You’re in Music City, so we’ll start with music. Vanderbilt is right next door to Nashville’s famed Music Row, and you know folks back home are going to ask if you went to the Grand Ole Opry and tell you about the time they saw Little Jimmy Dickens at Kroger. But if you’re the type who never quite got Hank Williams, and bluegrass music just reminds you of the “Beverly Hillbillies,” Vanderbilt has its own music scene. Besides the clubs around Elliston Place and Hillsboro Village, there’s plenty of music for your ears right on campus. Music on the Mountain Perched atop Nashville’s highest hill, Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatory draws school groups, stargazers and music lovers. During the Blair School’s “Music on the Mountain” series of free outdoor concerts, you might hear Appalachian music, jazz, big band, Caribbean or classical. Concerts usually begin in early evening—the better to catch amazing sunsets. Catch the shuttle from the parking area near the intersection of Granny White Pike and Old Hickory Boulevard. Pack a picnic, and bring your own blankets or lawn chairs. Weather permitting, the observatory’s Seyfert Telescope is open following performances. Thanks to Amy Kurland, owner of the famed Bluebird Café in Green Hills, musical offerings at Dyer Observatory also include “Bluebird on the Mountain,” a series featuring top Nashville songwriters. The series debuted in May with rocker Marshall Chapman, BA’71, with Danny Flowers and Tom Kimmel, whose songs have been covered by the likes of Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt and Jimmy Buffett. Tickets for Bluebird on the Mountain, which continues monthly through October, are sold through Ticketmaster. A special carload ticket is available for those traveling in one vehicle (no RVs). Dyer Observatory, 1000 Oman Drive, Nashville 615/373-4897 www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu Quintets, quartets, solo instrumentalists and vocalists, large group ensembles, lectures by famous composers—whenever you’re in town, chances are good that something worth hearing is happening at the Blair School of Music. Once an academy that was part of Peabody College, Blair became the University’s 10th school in 1981. Blair counts a stellar lineup of performing artists among its own faculty, or you may have a chance to hear Blair students at the collegiate or precollege level. Performances take place in either Martha Rivers Ingram Performance Hall, a soaring 618-seat acoustic marvel completed in 2001, or the Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall, which provides an intimate space for solo and chamber music. Besides the Blair Concert Series, which annually showcases classical and contemporary music, there is the Blair Conversations Series, where music giants such as Amy Grant, Marty Stuart, Joshua Bell, Awadagin Pratt and Randy Newman have talked about their work. And there are collaborations with local arts groups, as when Blair and Nashville Ballet join forces to present new dance works by rising choreographers created with Blair composers. Vanderbilt University Opera Theatre also presents two productions annually. 2400 Blakemore Ave. 615/322-6042 www.vanderbilt.edu/Blair V a n d e r b i l t M a g a z i n e 47
48 The Performing Arts For more than three decades, Great Performances at Vanderbilt has brought dance, music and theatre from around the globe to Nashville. From dance legend Merce Cunningham and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble to hiphop artist Will Power and the documentary theatre group The Civilians, the lineup is always diverse. Shows take place at the Ingram Center for the Performing Arts or Langford Auditorium. 615/322-2471 www.vanderbilt.edu/sarratt/great Mention Neely Auditorium, and watch how alumni of a certain age gingerly pat their posteriors, recalling the wooden pews on which they sat through chapel, Western Civilization classes and commencement exercises. Thankfully, the torturous pews have been long banished, and nowadays Neely is home to Vanderbilt University Theatre. Recent productions with talented student casts included Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical “Company,” Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever,” and Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House.” Works by contemporary writers like Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, David Mamet and David Hare also are presented each season. Curtain is at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. for the mainstage shows. Throughout the academic year, you can catch a Noontime Theatre show: oneact plays staged by student directors, actors and designers. Neely Auditorium 615/322-2404 www.vanderbilt.edu/vut Countless Vanderbilt students have taken in their first foreign or art film at Sarratt Cinema, where a student committee still selects all the films and handles special programs. You can catch nearly first-run films like “Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,” blockbusters like “The Passion of the Christ,” documentaries like “Supersize Me,” or action fests like “Jackie Chan’s First Strike.” The tickets S u m m e r 2 0 0 5 The Little Film Festival That Grew Remember the old Sinking Creek Film Celebration, born at Vanderbilt in 1969? One of the longest-running film festivals in the country, it’s now known as the Nashville Film Festival —the largest and most international film festival in the mid-South. Held at the Regal Green Hills Cinemas, NFF last April attracted some 13,000 people to screenings of more than 200 films from more than 40 countries. The festival provides workshops and panels with participants in the film and music industries. A short list of recent attendees includes Patrick Swayze, Oprah Winfrey, Diane Ladd, Michael Moore, John Waters, Alison Kraus, Natalie Cole and Tracy Nelson. Buy individual tickets to the films of your choice, or purchase a pass to all festival screenings and events. 800/965-4827 www.nashvillefilmfestival.org Vanderbilt Dance Program
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