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Take the A Train to the 9th Annual Harlem Renais- sance Rent Party, a costume party for a cause, on Thurs., Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. on the Harlen Adams Theatre stage. CSU, Chico's Black Faculty and Staff Associa- tion, in conjunction with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Cross-Cultur- al Leadership Center, and the School of the Arts, invites you to celebrate Black History Month with this culminating event. Join in a night of live-art, music, food, entertainment, and School of the Arts Techni- cal Director Mike Johnson's world famous stage design. Rent parties were a way for Harlemites in the 1920s and 1930s to pay their rent. Hosts would hire musicians, cook food and with the pro- ceeds have money to cover their rent. In honor of the Harlem Renaissance, partygoers are encouraged to dress up as a person — real or fictional — who would have been alive from 1919 to 1929. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement from the 1920s and 1930s in New York City's Harlem neigh- borhood. It marked the first time that African American literature and the arts attract- ed significant attention from the nation at large. This is a family friendly event and all are welcome to attend. Donations of $5 at the door are suggested. Pro- ceeds benefit Chapman Ele- mentary School. 4A Daily News – Thursday, February 20, 2014 Breakfast: Mon-Fri 9am-11am Lunch & Dinner: Mon-Thurs 9am-9pm Fri-Sat-Sun 9am-9:30pm Everything! 50% OFF! (excludes Seafood) may not be combined w/any other offer 604 Main St. Red Bluff (corner of Antelope & Main) We're Celebrating 13 years of Business 529-5154 Now Available for -Corporate Events - Reunions - Private Events - Parties - Rehearsal Dinners Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Join Us In Celebrations! Saturday March 1 st Doors open at 6 Sunrise Rotary's Surf & Turf Crab & Tri-Tip AUCTION Dinner 413 Walnut Street, Red Bluff Call Jessie 528-8000 for more info. 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Honoring the late Alfred Loeffler, compos- er and music professor at Chico State, this year's symposium brings to Chico a wonderful mix of chamber music and film. The evening concerts will include music by student composers on Feb. 27; the genre-defying music of the clarinet duo Sqwonk on Feb. 28; and Chico's own Pull-String Duo performing a live score to the 1920 silent movie The Golem, on March 1. Featured performers Sqwonk will present their unique take on chamber music for Friday's con- cert. The virtuoso bass clarinet duo draw upon a wide range of influences — from klezmer, heavy metal, and blues, to mini- malism and free improvi- sation — to create a repertoire that is striking- ly contemporary, yet broadly accessible to a wide audience. On Saturday's concert, Chico State faculty mem- ber and composer David Dvorin will premier his new score for the 1920 masterpiece of silent cin- ema, The Golem. Set in medieval Prague, the German expressionist film is a visually striking take on an old Jewish folk tale, wherein a Golem (an artificial man made from clay) is creat- ed to save the persecuted citizens of Prague's Jew- ish quarter. Written expressly to be performed live by Pull-String, which con- sists of Dvorin and vio- linist Matej Seda, the score combines acoustic guitar and violin with electronic elements creat- ed from such diverse sources as turn-of-the- century cylinder record- ings of Jewish cantors and Yiddish musical the- ater songs, prepared pianos, broken music boxes, and recorded sounds from the guitar and violin themselves. "This film is absolute- ly amazing," said Dvorin, who is also the artistic director of the New Music Symposium. "Not only does it feature ele- ments of fantasy that inspired such works as Shelley's Frankenstein, but it also deftly inter- twines romance, intrigue, and action to make a very compelling story." University to host free lecture and recital REDDING — A Simpson University music profes- sor will lead a free-lecture recital on American jazz singer Johnny Hartman in honor of Black History Month. The presentation by Dr. Cyril Myers Jr. will be 7- 8:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, in LaBaume-Rudat Hall, room 204, on the university campus, 2211 College View Drive. The event is sponsored by the university's History Department. The lecture-recital, which includes discussion and singing by Myers, is titled "Johnny Hartman: Perspec- tives on 'The Voice'." Hartman, who had nearly 350 recorded charts and was described in popular publica- tions as having "the best voice in the industry," sang during the 1940s to 1960s, part of the legacy of jazz balladeers/crooners that includes Hines, Gillespie, Coltrane, Strayhorn and others. So why wasn't "the voice of gold" more famous dur- ing his lifetime? Myers will discuss this and other ques- tions about Hartman's life, his missed opportunities, and his music. The presentation will include excerpts of some of Hartman's famous charts as well as Myers' ren- dition of three ballads Hartman recorded. Myers joined Simpson University's faculty in fall 2013 as a choral professor, overseeing the Simpson Chorale and Trinity Repertory Singers. He holds a doc- torate in choral conducting from Michigan State Uni- versity and has been a choral director at Walla Walla University, Indiana University-Purdue University Ft. Wayne, and Southwest Michigan College. Dr. Myers is also an alumnus of three professional ensembles: Ore- gon Bach Festival; Gaechinger Kantorei - Stuttgart, Germany; and Male Ensemble Northwest. For more information about Simpson University's History Department, visit simpsonu.edu/history. Learn more about the Music Department at simpsonu.edu/music. Ailey II at the Cascade Ailey II is universally renowned for merging the spirit and energy of the most talented young dancers with the passion and creative vision of today's out- standing emerging choreographers. The company embodies Alvin Ailey's pioneering mission to establish an extended cultural community that provides dance performances, training, and com- munity programs for all people. Under the new artistic direction of Troy Powell, the Ailey spirit shines as this critically-acclaimed company presents an exhilarating and diverse repertory of time- less classics and thrilling new works. The group will perform March 1 at the Cascade The- atre in Redding. Tickets are $28-$48 and available at the Cascade Theatre Box Office at 1733 Market St. in Redding, by phone at (530) 243-8877 or directly through www.cascadetheatre.org. Harlem Renaissance Rent Party