Robert and Judi Newman Center for Performing Arts

The Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts

Established	2003
Location	Denver, Colorado, United States
Website	newmancenter.du.edu

The Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts is located on the University of Denver campus in Denver, Colorado at the southwest corner of E. Iliff Ave. and S. University Blvd. Robert and Judi Newman were asked by then Chancellor Daniel L. Ritchie to spearhead the fundraising effort for the Center. They also made a substantial donation to the Center's fundraising efforts. The Newman Center officially opened in the fall of 2002 with the commencement of classes, and the three main performance venues officially opened in spring 2003.

Aerial View of Newman Center for the Performing Arts

While the Newman Center appears from the outside to be one large building, it actually consists of six distinct buildings, each with its own foundation, separated one from another by two inch gaps for acoustical isolation. The Center is divided into many academic and rehearsal spaces as well as multiple performance venues, including Virginia E. Trevorrow Hall on the north end of the building, which houses the Lamont School of Music, and includes other academic and rehearsal facilities. The three main performance venues are located on the main floor of the Center and include June Swaner Gates Concert Hall, an opera house with nearly 1,000 seats, Frederic C. Hamilton Family Recital Hall, an intimate recital space of 222 seats, and Elizabeth Eriksen Byron Theatre, a black box theater seating up to 350. The Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation Meet-the-Artist Room serves as a reception room for many events.

The Newman Center hosts nearly 500 performances each season, including theatre, dance, jazz, world and classical music. Up to 150,000 people each season attend events in the Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Performers include international touring artists, local performing arts organizations, as well as the award-winning musicians, singers and thespians of the University of Denver. The University's own "Newman Center Presents" series is a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural offering of renowned touring artists. It was inaugurated in the fall of 2003. Newman Center Presents mixes well-known performers with rising stars from around the world. Almost half of the artists presented by NCP have never appeared in Denver before. NCP regularly commissions new works and provides educational residency activities for students of the University and pre-college students. Most of the performances in the Newman Center are open to the general public as well as University faculty and students.

June Swaner Gates Concert Hall

This venue is the most widely used performance space in the Newman Center. It is known for its great acoustics, which were designed by Kirkegaard Associates. Gates Concert Hall has a large performing stage, an orchestra pit, a Wenger orchestra shell used for full symphony and chamber orchestras, and tiered seating for the audience. The HVAC system for the Hall is underground, thus isolating mechanical noise. Air conditioned and heated air is supplied through hundreds of vents in the floors of the Hall so that large volumes of air can be moved very slowly, thus reducing the "white noise" created by blown air. The walls of the Hall are hand-applied plaster, and the shaping of the walls along with this material helps create the outstanding acoustics. Acoustical banners can be raised and lowered via a winch system in the attic, thus increasing or decreasing natural reverberation, as appropriate depending on the nature of the event taking place. Gates Concert Hall is used for operatic, musical and dance shows as well as jazz, classical music, corporate presentations, memorial services, and other events. It seats from 849 to 971 people, depending on the configuration of the pits. Gates Concert Hall includes multiple 9-foot New York Steinway pianos, the newest one acquired in the fall of 2013 through the generous support of the University of Denver/Newman Center, the Newman Family Foundation, and the Denver Friends of Chamber Music.

Joy Burns Plaza

This is the main gathering space in the Newman Center and serves as a lounge and study area for staff and students during the day and as a lobby for performances that take place during the evenings. The Plaza is elegant with a high vaulted ceiling, large clerestory windows, tall columns, alabaster chandeliers, Italian travertine floors and custom-made furniture by Daniel Strawn. The M Allan Frank Family Box Office is located in the Plaza, which is where tickets for performances may be purchased. Tickets are also available online at www.newmantix.com.

Frederic C. Hamilton Family Recital Hall

This hall is used for recital performances by the students and faculty members of the Lamont School of Music, but is also available for public rental. Hamilton Hall includes a 9-foot Hamburg Steinway concert grand piano and the William K. Coors organ, a 2,850-pipe tracker action organ designed and built by the Karl Schuke Berliner Orgelbauwerkstatt in Berlin. It seats 222 people. As with Gates Concert Hall, acoustical banners can be raised and lowered via a winch system in the attic, thus increasing or decreasing natural reverberation, as appropriate depending on the nature of the event taking place.

Elizabeth Eriksen Byron Theatre

Also known as the "Byron Flexible Theatre," or just "the Flex," this space is used for theatre students to learn the practice of theatre production. The theatre is capable of making more than 40 different seating and staging arrangements and has an adjacent rehearsal room. There are some professional performances shown in this theatre, especially during the University of Denver's winter and summer breaks. It seats up to 350 people.

Virginia E. Trevorrow Hall

This is the north wing of the Newman Center and its facilities are mainly used by the Lamont School of Music faculty, staff and music majors. The Lamont School of Music has approximately three hundred music majors as well as non-music majors who use the facilities throughout the year. The following facilities are included in this hall.

Academic facilities

The academic spaces include Lamont offices (Main Administrative Office, PR Office and Lamont Admissions), state-of-the-art classrooms, 42 faculty studios, 35 student practice rooms on the Morey C. Ballantine Student Floor, the Marvin and Judi Wolf Conference Room (22-seat boardroom style meeting space), a recording studio which contains a drum booth (with walls lined with river rocks for acoustical reasons), an electronic piano lab, the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Music Library, and a student lounge.

Rehearsal facilities

There are various rehearsal and practice rooms that are available to both faculty and students on a regular basis. The Carol L. Moore Vocal Rehearsal Room is the main rehearsal space for the Lamont School of Music Opera and Choral programs. The Instrumental Rehearsal Room is the main rehearsal space for the Lamont Symphony Orchestra, the Lamont Wind Ensemble and the Pioneer Pep Band. There is also a Jazz Rehearsal Room, which is used by the Jazz Studies program at the school. Virtual Practice Rooms are also available that are equipped with Virtual Room Acoustic Systems, which electronically create reverberations in a small space so the acoustics in the rooms can sound like a variety of spaces, from a large concert hall or cathedral to a small, acoustically "dead" club. On the Morey C. Ballantine 5th floor, there are various Student Practice Rooms, which are available for student use on a first-come, first-served basis and are each equipped with a piano. The Lamont School of Music was the 27th "All Steinway" music school in the U.S.

Carl and Lisa Williams Recital Salon

This room is used for solo recitals, chamber music recitals and rehearsals, and a large lecture classroom. It is the venue used for "Flo's Underground," a free, live jazz performance on Fridays during the academic year from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm given by current Lamont jazz students. It seats 80 people.

Performing Arts Series and Seasons

Newman Center Presents

The Center's primary series open to the public, Newman Center Presents currently hosts 20-25 performing artists each season. The series began during the Newman Center's inaugural season, 2003-04.

Performance History

2003-04 Inaugural Season

Performance title	Date(s)
The Actors' Gang: The Guys	17-21 September 2003
Cantus	12 October 2003
Lila Downs	15 November 2003
Felix Hell	5-6 December 2003
Duke Ellington Orchestra	16 January 2004
Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal	28 February 2004
Joshua Bell, violin	11 March 2004
Terry Gross	19 April 2004
Moscow Chamber Orchestra with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone	8 May 2004

2004-05 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Mystical Arts of Tibet: Sacred Music Sacred Dance	17-18 September 2004
Capitol Steps	8 October 2004
Les Violons du Roy with La Chapelle de Quebec	30 October 2004
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet	November 6, 2004
Ensemble Galilei with Neal Conan	4 December 2004
Bobby McFerrin	25 January 2005
Ben Heppner, tenor	5 February 2005
Aquila Theatre Company: The Invisible Man	26 February 2005
Mingus Big Band	5 March 2005
Billy Collins	16 March 2005
Twyla Robinson, soprano	19 April 2005
Jean Guillou	22-23 April 2005
Luciana Souza	7 May 2005

2005-06 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Imani Winds with Paquito D'Rivera	30 September 2005
Mark O'Connor and the Hot Swing Trio	15 October 2005
Camerata Ireland with Barry Douglas	October 28, 2005
Edgar Meyer and Bela Fleck	12 November 2005
Charles Taylor	18 November 2005
Trio Mediaeval	1 December 2005
Peter Cincotti	21 January 2006
Diavolo Dance Theater	4 February 2006
Salzburg Chamber Soloists	4 March 2006
Children of Uganda	11 March 2006
Bill T. Jones: Blind Date	31 March 2006
The Acting Company: The Three Musketeers	27 April 2006
Machomer	6 May 2006

2006-07 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Tiempo Libre	28 September 2006
Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band: NEA Jazz Masters on Tour	29 September 2006
London Symphony Chorus with Lamont Symphony Orchestra	14 October 2006
The Race Show	18 October 2006
Sō Percussion	28 October 2006
Ivo Pogorelich	11 November 2006
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra	2 December 2006
Ute Lemper	18 January 2007
Roby Lakatos Ensemble	8 February 2007
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet	3 March 2007
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra with Eliot Fisk	21 March 2007
Doug Varone and Dancers	28 April 2007
The Carl Rosa Opera Company: Pirates of Penzance	12-13 May 2007

2007-08 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Diavolo Dance Theater	28 September 2007
Ann Akiko Meyers, violin with Lamont Symphony Orchestra	4 October 2007
Yamato, The Drummers of Japan	13 October 2007
Dianne Reeves	27 October 2007
Andrew Manze, violin and Richard Egarr, fortepiano	9 November 2007
Tapestry: In the Company Angels	1 December 2007
Badi Assad	19 January 2008
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo	26 January 2008
Russian National Orchestra with Stephen Hough, piano	20 February 2008
Piotr Anderszewski, piano	23 February 2008
Capitol Steps	12 March 2008
Urban Bush Women and Compagnie Jant-Bi	22 March 2008
The Manhattan Transfer: Fifth Anniversary Celebration	26 April 2008
Rik Reppe: Glorious Noise	10 May 2008

2008-09 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Universes: Slanguage	2 October 2008
London Symphony Chorus with Lamont Symphony Orchestra: Verdi's Requiem	15-16 October 2008
Soweto Gospel Choir	28 October 2008
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet	1 November 2008
Kronos Quartet & Alternative Radio	8 November 2008
Turtle Island Quartet: Solstice Celebration	6 December 2008
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet	31 January 2009
Either/Orchestra: Ethiopiques	14 February 2009
David Dorfman Dance: underground	28 February 2009
Academy of Ancient Music: Bach, Brandenburg Concertos 1-6	19 March 2009
Aquila Theatre Company: The Iliad	27-28 March 2009
Australian Chamber Orchestra	30 April 2009
Maya Beiser, cello: Provenance	9 May 2009

2009-10 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Keigwin + Company: Bolero Colorado	26 September 2009
The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later ... An Epilogue	12 October 2009
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago	20 October 2009
Mariza	14 November 2009
Rebel, Ensemble for Baroque Music	17 November 2009
Cantus: All is Calm	10 December 2009
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra	15 January 2010
Pilobolus	26 January 2010
Mile High Voltage Festival	19-20 February 2010
Russian National Orchestra	24 February 2010
Ladysmith Black Mambazo	16 March 2010
Marcus Tardelli, Brazilian guitar	25 March 2010
The Secret Life of Bees	10 April 2010
Martha Graham Dance Company: Essential Graham — Prelude and Revolt	20 April 2010
American Bluegrass Masters	8 May 2010

2010-11 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
YOA Orchestra of the Americas	9 July 2010
Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile	30 September 2010
Paul Taylor Dance Company	16 October 2010
Buika: El último trago	3 November 2010
Eddy Marcano and the Trio Acústico	13 November 2010
A Night in Bethlehem	7 December 2010
Guitar Legends, featuring Eliot Fisk and Bill Frisell	21 January 2011
Whiffenpoofs of Yale	29 January 2011
A Far Cry with Joel Fan	8 February 2011
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet	19 February 2011
Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell	11-12 March 2011
Like Father, Like Son?	25 March 2011
Alarm Will Sound: 1969	23 April 2011
Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca	6 May 2011

2011-12 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Ballet Hispanico	1 October 2011
Jane Monheit	18 October 2011
Abraham Inc.	12 November 2011
Anonymous 4	8 December 2011
Whiffenpoofs of Yale	5 January 2012
Two Men Talking	19 January 2012
Vivaldi Pyrotechnics	29 January 2012
Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers	14 February 2012
The Rivalry	1 March 2012
Boston Brass and Imani Winds	21 March 2012
In the Dark: JACK Quartet	14 April 2012
Brad Mehldau Trio	11 May 2012
Axis Dance	28 April 2012
The Sinking of the Titanic	15 April 2012

2012-13 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet	22-23 September 2012
Colorado Symphony: American Fanfare	25 September 2012
Capitol Steps	6 October 2012
Sphinx Virtuosi: Music of the Americas	18 October 2012
Quatuor Ébène: Fiction	10 November 2012
Cantus: All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914	6 December 2012
Whiffenpoofs of Yale	4 January 2013
A Journey of the Human Spirit	16-17 January 2013
Billy Childs Jazz-Chamber Ensemble with The Ying Quartet	5 February 2013
Meryl Tankard's The Oracle	13 February 2013
Colorado Symphony: Giants of Classicism	20 February 2013
Limón Dance Company	21 March 2013
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain	4 April 2013
Strings on Fire featuring the Assad Brothers	25 April 2013
New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: The Mikado	3-4 May 2013
Colorado Symphony: The Art of the Baroque	4 June 2013

2013-14 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Mark Morris Dance Group	21-22 September 2013
Chris Thile, mandolin	5 October 2013
Colorado Symphony with Natasha Paremski, piano	16 October 2013
Cameron Carpenter, organ	9 November 2013
Momix: Botanica	22-23 November 2013
Ethel with Robert Mirabal and Opera Colorado Chorus: Music of the Sun	12 December 2013
Chick Corea and Béla Fleck	16 January 2014
Trey McIntyre Project	31 January 2014
The Miners' Hymns	11 February 2014
Colorado Symphony: Hilary Kole pays tribute to the music of Judy Garland	23 February 2014
Gabriel Kahane and yMUSIC	6 March 2014
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo	20 March 2014
Paco Péna and Eliot Fisk	26 April 2014
Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra with Kim Nazarian: A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald	10-11 May 2014
Colorado Symphony: Beethoven, Triple Concerto	14 May 2014

2014-15 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer	23 September 2014
Hot Sardines: Speakeasy Nights	10 October 2014
Capitol Steps	17 October 2014
Mummenschanz	8-9 November 2014
Colorado Symphony with Pinchas Zukerman	16 November 2014
BeijingDance/LDTX	18 November 2014
The King's Singers	10 December 2014
Renaud Garcia-Fonz Quartet: La Línea del Sur	10 January 2015
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company	24-25 January 2015
Alarm Will Sound + Medeski Martin & Wood	5 February 2015
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet	21-22 February 2015
Roomful of Teeth with Colorado Symphony	6 March 2015
Donal Fox Inventions Trio: Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project	2 April 2015
it gets better with Speak Theater Arts and Gay Men's Chorus of LA	24 April 2015
Diavolo	9-10 May 2015

2015-16 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Twyla Tharp 50th Anniversary Tour	24-25 September 2015
Colorado Symphony: Inside the Score: Brahms' 4th Symphony	6 October 2016
Vertigo Dance Company: Reshimo	17 October 2015
Michael Feinstein: The Great American Songbook	22 October 2015
Anonymous 4: Final Season Tour	14 November 2015
Boston Brass and Brass All Stars Big Band	2 December 2015
Brooklyn Rider: Almanac	14 January 2016
Kyle Abraham / Abraham.in.Motion with Cleo Parker Robinson Dance	20 January 2016
Sō Percussion with Shara Worden	6 February 2016
Paul Taylor Dance Company	20-21 February 2016
Colorado Symphony: Learning to Hear Color	25 February 2016
Metropolitan Opera: Rising Stars Concert Series	5 March 2016
globalFEST On the Road	29 March 2016
Gabriel Kahane and Timothy Andres	2-3 April 2016
Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge: Avalon	21 April 2016
Billy Childs: Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro featuring Dianne Reeves, Becca Stevens, and Alicia Olatuja	5 May 2016

2016-17 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Momix	29-30 September 2016
Capitol Steps	6 October 2016
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet	20 October 2016
Bridgman Packer Dance	19 November 2016
Cecile McLorin Salvant	30 November 2016
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Bach Brandenburg Concertos	12 December 2016
Roomful of Teeth: Coloring Book	18 January 2017
Edgar Meyer and Christian McBride	26 January 2017
Kodo	14-15 February 2017
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet	25-26 February 2017
DakhaBrakha	9 March 2017
yMusic	23 March 2017
Black Grace	5 April 2017
Musica Nuda	27 April 2017
Branford Marsalis Quartet	13 May 2017

2017-18 Season

Performance title	Date(s)
Black Violin	28-29 September 2017
Martha Graham Dance Company	7 October 2017
A New World: Intimate Music from Final Fantasy	20 October 2017
Gregory Porter	4 November 2017
Erth's Dinosaur Zoo Live	11 November 2017
Mavis Staples (canceled)	17 November 2017
The King's Singers	19 November 2017
Spanish Harlem Orchestra	7 December 2017
Windham Hill: A Winter's Solstice	12 December 2017
Whiffenpoofs of Yale	6 January 2018
The Tierney Sutton Band: Sting Variations	11 January 2018
Spectrum Dance Theater: A Rap on Race	26 January 2018
wild Up	1 February 2018
Antonio Sánchez: BiRDMAN Live	22 February 2018
L.A. Dance Project	10 March 2018
Sarah Chang, violin	13 March 2018
Cashore Marionettes	23-24 March 2018
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble	6 April 2018
ODC Dance: The Velveteen Rabbit	27 April 2018
Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective	3 May 2018

Art in the Newman Center

Exterior Works

Bas Relief Sculptures

The exterior of the Newman Center includes three sculptures created by Denver artists Madeleine Weiner and Kathy Caricof. The two M Allan and Margot Gilbert Frank Bas Relief Carvings on the north facade of the Newman Center were designed to act as "bookends" on the north wall of Trevorrow Hall, home of the Lamont School of Music. The artists wished to depict and celebrate music, specifically jazz (trumpet, bass, drum and saxophone) and classical (opera, horn and violin). The figures and instruments are carved in an energetic style, a constant reminder of the music being created behind the walls. Each relief is 24 feet tall by 12 inches deep, and is carved from Indiana Limestone. The sculpture on the west patio of the Newman Center, against the exterior wall of the Department of Theatre's Byron Theatre, was also designed and carved by Denver artists Madeline Wiener and Kathy Caricof. This sculpture depicts three characters from the Commedia Dell’Arte, Italian quasi-improvisational theater popular during the Renaissance. Colombina (Columbine), who hides behind Arlecchino (Harlequin), is demure and gentle, while Arlecchino gestures to the throne on which passers-by can sit to join the audience. The smaller figure represents Pantalone, a miserly, scheming masked character in tattered clothing. He clutches a purse, out of which coins are falling. Note also the hat on the ground that is filled with coins, as if the players are collecting money for a performance. This sculpture is 12 feet tall and is carved from Indiana Limestone. Don’t miss the cute bunnies under the feet of the characters on the left, each of which even has on its own theatrical mask.

Bowlen Family Sundial

The Bowlen Family Sundial is placed vertically on the south face of the Gates Concert Hall stage house and was inspired by similar sundials in Italy. It has two sets of hour markers. The larger, outer set is used to tell the time in the summer months when the sun is high in the sky and the shadows cast by the gnomon are long. The smaller, inner set is used in the winter months when the sun is low in the sky and the shadows are much shorter.

Saunders Family Rose Window

The Saunders Family Rose Window is located in the student lounge on the fifth floor of Trevorrow Hall. Cab Childress, University Architect Emeritus, wanted the Newman Center to have its own rose window, not an ecclesiastical one, but rather a real rose. Mark Rodgers, current University Architect, picked a rose from the University’s rose garden and used it to create plans for the carving. It is hand carved in Indiana limestone. The rose is the logo of the Newman Center, roses being traditional gifts to performers at the end of concerts.

Interior Works

"Harlequin"

Inside the west entrance of the Newman Center is a free-standing sculpture entitled "Harlequin" (c. 1957) by Marion Buchan (1895-1971). "Harlequin" was one of several near life-size treatments of the subject by Buchan, who was Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting at the University's School of Art from 1944 to 1958. This version was commissioned by Campton Bell, Theatre Department chairman, around 1957. In 1993, it was removed from the lobby of the Lamont School of Music, which was then located in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood. "Harlequin" was professionally restored in 2002 and prepared for long-term installation at the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Restoration was generously supported by the Save Outdoor Sculpture! Foundation and by Holly Buchan. The sculpture was installed courtesy of Bruce and Martha Clinton in honor of Robert and Judi Newman.

"Trio and Tone Shapes"

The west lobby of the Newman Center includes a bronze cast entitled "Trio and Tone Shapes" by Arnold Rönnebeck (1885-1947). Rönnebeck was Instructor in Sculpture at the University's School of Art from 1929 to 1935. "Trio and Tone Shapes" was an unrealized 1939 commission for a Denver Public Schools auditorium. A 1968 account by Vance Kirkland, then director of the University's School of Art, indicates that the piece was rejected by DPS as “too modern.” The relief was retrieved from the Hosek Manufacturing Company by Kirkland in 1968 and incorporated into the University’s art collections. The 2007 casts were taken from the painted plaster original; the remaining bronze resides in the collection of Denver’s Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art. The relief was cast at the Fedde Bronze Works, Denver. The University gratefully acknowledges the cooperation of the family and estate of Arnold Rönnebeck, and the support of the JFM Foundation.

Flemish Tapestry

At the mid-point of the grand staircase in Joy Burns Plaza is a Flemish tapestry, a gift of Robert and Judi Newman. It was created in the late 16th or early 17th century. It is probably from studios in the town of Audenarde. The scene is “The Story of Moses,” or “Exodus.” Moses is the bearded figure to the left of center as you look at the tapestry; he holds a staff in his right hand. His brother Aaron is farther to the left and wears the miter. Their sister Miriam is the largest, and central, figure in the piece. She and other ladies are musicians and are leading the people in celebration after having escaped the bondage of the Pharaoh. Approximately 10’ x 14’.

"Chenrezig" (Sanskrit: Avalokiteshvara)

The stage level elevator lobby on the west side of the Newman Center includes Thangka painting on fabric, completed in 2007. The painting was made by Lobsang Choegyal and Sarika Singh, Founders & Master Painters of the Thangde Gatsal School and was a gift to the Newman Center of University Professors Roscoe Hill and Sheila Wright to honor Lobsang and Sarika and all the University's students who participated in Project Dharamsala. This Thangka depicts the Mandala of Chenrezig, the bodhisattva of compassion. In September 2004, Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery created a sand mandala in Joy Burns Plaza in the Newman Center devoted to Chenrezig. When finished, the sand painting was swept up and put into the river, as an acknowledgment of the impermanence of things. To commemorate the event, the Newman Center for the Performing Arts commissioned this painting from the Thangde Gatsal Studio in Dharamsala, India. Thangka painting is a uniquely Tibetan tradition that evolved between the 7th and 12th centuries. Thangkas are works of art, objects of devotion, and aids to spiritual practice. The Dalai Lama is considered to be the reincarnation of Chenrezig. This artwork installed courtesy of Bruce and Martha Clinton in honor of Robert and Judi Newman.

Illuminated Manuscript Page

The stage level elevator lobby on the west side of the Newman Center also includes an illuminated manuscript page of tempera colors and gold leaf on vellum parchment from Northern Italy or France (c. 1380-1420). This manuscript page once belonged to an antiphonary (a book of liturgical music) and was a gift of the Carol Margolin Family to the Newman Center. In Catholic liturgy, the passages appearing on the page are associated with the week leading up to the celebration of Pentecost. However, the scene portrayed inside the large illuminated letter “C” on the side shown is the feast of the Last Supper. The initial “C” begins the phrase Cibavit eos… (“He fed them...”). "Cibavit eos frumenti, alleluia; et de petra, melle saturavit eos, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Exsultate Deo adjutori nostro; jubilate Deo Jacob." (“He fed them with the fat of wheat, alleluia; and filled them with honey out of the rock, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Rejoice to God our helper; sing aloud to the God of Jacob.”)

"Allegro"

Inside the Hamilton Family Recital Hall, on the Gallery Level, is "Allegro," sculpted by Anne Cunningham. Modeled after the pet parrot owned by Joe Docksey, Director of the Lamont School of Music when the Newman Center opened, the sculpture was a gift by Lamont students, faculty and the Lamont Music Associates.

"Play it Again, Philippe"

The Marvin and Judi Wolf Conference Room includes a work of mixed-media and plaster life casts entitled "Play it Again, Philippe" (1988) by Lee Milmon (1940-2005). Milmon received her BFA from the University of Denver in 1962 and her MFA in 1971. After completion of her degrees she continued to work in various media, including drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and weaving. She taught at the Colorado Institute of Art, Metro State College, the Colorado Women’s College, and at the University of Denver's School of Art and Art History.

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