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Cool off with some hot concerts by several Academic Music ensembles in July at the Moraine Valley Community College Fine and Performing Arts Center (FPAC). Performances are free, unless otherwise noted, and will take place in the Dorothy Menker Theater on the main campus, 9000 W. College Parkway, Palos Hills. The Moraine Valley Orchestra will…

As the oboe player tuned the Moraine Valley Orchestra, the audience eagerly anticipated the director’s arrival to open the group’s spring concert – Juxtapositions. Before lifting her baton, director Maryann Flock explained the premise of the performance aligned with the college’s One Book, One College selection – “The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia” – embodying the…

Get ready for some heartland rock and jangly guitars with “Listen to Her Heart: The Tom Petty Experience” on Friday, May 15, 7:30 p.m., at the Moraine Valley Community College Fine and Performing Arts Center’s (FPAC) Dorothy Menker Theater, 9000 W. College Parkway in Palos Hills. Listen to Her Heart: The Tom Petty Experience is…

The Moraine Valley Community College Academic Theater Department is holding open auditions for William Shakespeare’s “Richard III” as part of Shakespeare Under the Stars on Monday, May 4, from 6 to 9 p.m., in the Fine and Performing Arts Center (Building F), 9000 W. College Parkway in Palos Hills. Shakespeare masterfully depicts the rise and…

When more chairs must be brought into a concert venue minutes before the show starts to accommodate a growing audience, you know it’s going to be a performance to remember. The latest Flute Choir concert, “Final Farewell: Flute Choir Favorites” on March 27, was the last hurrah for ensemble director, Tammi Carlson, as she sets…

The Moraine Valley Community College Academic Theater Department presents its upcoming production of “The Thanksgiving Play,” April 24 to 25 and May 1 to 2, at 7:30 p.m., and April 26 and May 3 at 3 p.m., in the Fine and Performing Arts Center’s (FPAC) John and Angeline Oremus Theater, 9000 W. College Parkway in…

Several Academic Music ensembles will perform in April and May at the Moraine Valley Community College Fine and Performing Arts Center (FPAC), 9000 W. College Parkway in Palos Hills. All performances will take place in the Dorothy Menker Theater and are free to attend, unless otherwise noted. The Moraine Valley Orchestra presents “One-Book One-Orchestra: Juxtapositions”…

“The Power of Pride” by artist Vincent Frimpong is the next art display at the Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery in the Moraine Valley Community College Fine and Performing Arts Center (FPAC), 9000 W. College Parkway in Palos Hills. The show runs from April 22 to May 17, featuring a reception with Frimpong on Thursday,…

From the first snap of the director’s fingers to the final echo of the steelpan, the Moraine Valley Jazz Ensemble’s latest concert on Feb. 27 gave the audience a taste of big band jazz with a bit of the Caribbean. After the ensemble members sauntered onto stage, director Doug Bratt filed in, counted off and…

Celebrated folk and bluegrass band Damn Tall Buildings is set to get toes tapping on Saturday, April 11, 7:30 p.m., at the Moraine Valley Community College Fine and Performing Arts Center’s (FPAC) Dorothy Menker Theater, 9000 W. College Parkway in Palos Hills. Damn Tall Buildings is a Brooklyn, NY-based trio that weaves heartfelt lyrics into…

An accordion and clarinet start a band…it sounds like the lead up to a punchline but instead describes musical duo Bridge & Wolak in “Scandalous Romantics” on Saturday, March 28, 7:30 p.m., at the Moraine Valley Community College Fine and Performing Arts Center (FPAC), 9000 W. College Parkway in Palos Hills. With Michael Bridge on…