The 2007-2008 arts and performance season at Rider will bring to both campuses a wide range of arts events, ranging from solo recitals, chamber music, choral and instrumental concerts, theater, music theater, opera and lectures.

Each of Westminster’s choral ensembles will present fall performances, with a repertoire that ranges from major choral works and madrigals to gospel and world premieres of contemporary compositions. Westminster’s Faculty Recital Series will feature vocal, piano and organ performances. Westminster’s faculty will once again offer the popular Kaleidoscope Chamber Series of chamber music recitals in Gill Chapel in Lawrenceville. The first performance, entitled Acoustic Mélange, is September 30.

The theater season on both campuses includes three music theater productions -- Sweet Charity in Lawrenceville, Into the Woods on the Westminster campus in Princeton and Oklahoma at the Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center at Princeton High School. Rider’s fine arts department will also present the plays Proof in February and The Trojan Women in April.

All of this season’s dance performances will serve as benefits for an orphanage in Kenya through the Global Volunteer Network.

The Rider Art Gallery will present four exhibits this year beginning with works by New Jersey abstract painter Peter Stroud, which opens on September 20. The gallery will also expand its recital series, presenting four performances by Westminster faculty in the coming year.

The studio program in art will present a lecture series in the fall. Naked Facts: The Nude in 19th and 20th Century Art will focus on the nude in modernism, narrative and abstraction. The speakers include Mary Tompkins Lewis, noted Cézanne scholar, and Lance Esplund, chief art critic for The New York Sun.

Rider University students, faculty and staff receive free tickets for many performances. To learn more, go to the Web site to view the complete arts schedule at www.rider.edu/arts.

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