ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ performances hit crescendo in November

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With student performances of music and drama and a recital by Maine’s best-known pianist in store, the days before Thanksgiving have a lot to offer in the arts at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College.

The Robinson Players, one of the oldest student theater companies in the nation, offer their second David Ives piece for the autumn: All In The Timing, a collection of absurdist one-acts playing at 7 p.m. Nov. 15-17 in the Benjamin Mays Center.

Meanwhile, the Department of Theater and Rhetoric offers Sex and Death, an evening of three one-acts written by Diana Amsterdam and directed by students in Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz’s directing class, at 7 p.m. in the Gannett Theater Nov. 19 and 21, and Dec. 5-6.

In addition, the dance department offers a showcase performance of work by Boston choreographer Sara Sweet Rabidoux in Chase Lounge at 7 p.m. Nov. 15.

At 8 p.m. Nov. 15-16 in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Choir sings a cantata from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Mozart’s Solemn Vespers of the Confessor with orchestral accompaniment.

Frank Glazer, a resident artist at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and a pianist of international renown, performs music by Schumann, Beethoven, Debussy and Liszt at 8 p.m. Nov. 20, also in Olin.

Finally, in the visual arts, a Purdue University professor of art, design and women’s studies offers a lecture at 4:10 p.m. Nov. 15 in Skelton Lounge. Pheobe Farris will survey contemporary female Native American artists.