BG Reel continues its longstanding presentation of 48 Hour Film Projects with this screening of short films. If you made a film, or just need a break from your daily routine, don’t miss this crowd-pleasing event.------------------------ Weeks of Welcome Aug. 20-Oct. 3 | This event is part of Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Fall Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community that will help you embrace the adventure of creating your own ultimate BGSU experience.

Running in repetition over the course of two weeks, these two pieces by celebrated Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, ask actors to perform scripts that they do not see until they are in front of an audience. The plays engage audiences to think about authority, identity, and the power of story.White Rabbit Red Rabbit: September 18, 26, and 27 | 8:00 p.m. and September 20 & 21 | 2:00 p.m.BL_NK: September 19, 20, & 25 | 8:00 p.m. and September 27 | 2:00 p.m.------------------------ Weeks of Welcome Aug. 20-Oct. 3 | This event is part of Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Fall Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community that will help you embrace the adventure of creating your own ultimate BGSU experience.

Running in repetition over the course of two weeks, these two pieces by celebrated Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, ask actors to perform scripts that they do not see until they are in front of an audience. The plays engage audiences to think about authority, identity, and the power of story.White Rabbit Red Rabbit: September 18, 26, and 27 | 8:00 p.m. and September 20 & 21 | 2:00 p.m.BL_NK: September 19, 20, & 25 | 8:00 p.m. and September 27 | 2:00 p.m.------------------------ Weeks of Welcome Aug. 20-Oct. 3 | This event is part of Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Fall Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community that will help you embrace the adventure of creating your own ultimate BGSU experience.

Running in repetition over the course of two weeks, these two pieces by celebrated Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, ask actors to perform scripts that they do not see until they are in front of an audience. The plays engage audiences to think about authority, identity, and the power of story.White Rabbit Red Rabbit: September 18, 26, and 27 | 8:00 p.m. and September 20 & 21 | 2:00 p.m.BL_NK: September 19, 20, & 25 | 8:00 p.m. and September 27 | 2:00 p.m.------------------------ Weeks of Welcome Aug. 20-Oct. 3 | This event is part of Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Fall Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community that will help you embrace the adventure of creating your own ultimate BGSU experience.

Running in repetition over the course of two weeks, these two pieces by celebrated Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, ask actors to perform scripts that they do not see until they are in front of an audience. The plays engage audiences to think about authority, identity, and the power of story.White Rabbit Red Rabbit: September 18, 26, and 27 | 8:00 p.m. and September 20 & 21 | 2:00 p.m.BL_NK: September 19, 20, & 25 | 8:00 p.m. and September 27 | 2:00 p.m.------------------------ Weeks of Welcome Aug. 20-Oct. 3 | This event is part of Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Fall Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community that will help you embrace the adventure of creating your own ultimate BGSU experience.

The BG Philharmonia will present their first concert of the semester. Tickets for this performance are $10, and can be purchased here. Free admission for BGSU students with ID card at the door.LIVESTREAM LINKPROGRAMD'un matin de printemps | Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)                         Pavane pour une infante défunte | Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Jared Beu, DMA assistant conductor-brief intermission-Variations on an Original Theme, Opus 36, Enigma | Edward Elgar (1857-1934)                                     Theme (Andante) 1. Variation I "C.A.E." 2. Variation II (Allegro) "H.D.S-P." 3. Variation III (Allegretto) "R.B.T." 4. Variation IV (Allegro di molto) "W.M.B." 5. Variation V (Moderato) "R.P.A." 6. Variation VI (Andantino) "Ysobel" 7. Variation VII (Presto) "Troyte" 8. Variation VIII (Allegretto) "W.N." 9. Variation IX (Adagio) "Nimrod" 10. Variation X (Intermezzo: Allegretto) "Dorabella" 11. Variation XI (Allegro di molto) "G.R.S." 12. Variation XII (Andante) "B.G.N." 13. Variation XIII (Romanza: Moderato) "***" 14. Variation XIV (Finale: Allegro) "E.D.U."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BG Philharmonia Personnel – September 2025 Dr. Emily Freeman Brown, Director of Orchestral Activities Jared Beu, DMA Assistant Conductor; Christopher Hutras, Bo Young Kang, MM Assistant ConductorsOrchestra Personnel Rotating Concertmasters: Boulanger, Eric Funk concertmaster, Brayan Cabeza, principal II. Ravel, Eric Funk concertmaster, Brayan Cabeza principal II. Elgar, Brayan Cabeza concertmaster, Eric Funk principal II.Violin I Brayan Cabeza* co-concertmaster Benjamin Christiaansen Mahlia Proctor Rose Fedan Alexandra Jones Trevor Achtyes Leah Mellinger Clarissa Yanke^Violin II Eric Funk* co-concertmaster Mary Jo Johnson Quincy McCormick Courtney Spencer Katherine Tyson Jenna Milkus^ Caylee Farley Ryley Amos Diego Ortiz Mary Natvig^Viola Natalia Velasquez* Jake Weil Natalie Holstine Zion Spencer Sam Atkinson Zavion Henderson Madison Estep Nyomi Bell Sierra Wood Lexam Andersen Bryce Kline Matthew MeyersCello Che Dixon* Nicholas Callcut Jackson Cook Calem Nagy Caitlin Slusarski Jacob Burger James Reed Emily Ward Dominic Gomez Samuel Johnson II Amelie Nicol Matthew Stewart Aubrey Hemming Jessica Bohaczenko Luna Brenoski GonyaBass Eliana Kornowa* Natalie Fry Mitchell Iwinski Nina PetersheimFlute/Piccolo Ashley Busch* Gloria Pan* Eliseo Hernandez Kiersten SwihartOboe/English Horn Leah Piccirillo* Megan Strait* Kathryn SwansonClarinet/Bass Clarinet/E-flat Michael Hudzik* Ryan Moore Adam WilliamsBassoon/Contrabassoon Audrey Boyles* Jordan Wier Cruz StockHorn Brayden Adamisin Bird Birmingham* Elena Maria Farmer Mitchell Hemme*Trumpet Trace Coulter* Ariana Coan* Kirby ZinnielTrombone Jeremy Ong* Matthew Ross Ryan HogueTuba Connor Remington* Kyle ReckerPercussion/Timpani Liam Lockhart* Evan McCord Cahaya Odle Vic McPheron Anthony DouglasHarp Bianca Bares Nora CufrPiano/Celesta Isabella Brill*section principal or co-principal ^Guest ArtistNotes for Elgar’s Enigma Variations-Theme- (Andante)1. Variation I "C.A.E." - The composer’s wife C. Alice Elgar is portrayed in “a prolongation of the theme with what I wished to be romantic and delicate additions.”2. Variation II (Allegro) "H.D.S-P." – Friend & pianist Hew David Steuart-Powell. “His characteristic diatonic run over the keys before beginning to play is here humorously travestied in the semiquaver passages; these should suggest a Toccata, but chromatic beyond H.D.S.-P.s liking.”3. Variation III (Allegretto) "R.B.T." – Richard Baxter Townshend was a friend and amateur actor. His resonant bass voice is captured by the sound of the bassoon.4. Variation IV (Allegro di molto) "W.M.B." William Neath Baker was “a country squire, gentleman and scholar. In the days of horses and carriages, it was more difficult than in these days of petrol to arrange the carriages for the day to suit a large number of guests. This Variation was written after this host had, with a slip of paper in his hand, forcibly read out the arrangements for the day and hurriedly left the music-room with an inadvertent back of the door…There are some suggestions of the teasing attitude of the guests.”5. Variation V (Moderato) "R.P.A." Richard Penrose Arnold was the son of poet Mathew Arnold and a ‘great lover of music, which he played on the piano in a self-taught manner, evading difficulties by suggesting in a mysterious way the real feeling. His serious conversation was continually broken up by whimsical and witty remarks.”6. Variation VI (Andantino) "Ysobel" Isabel Fitton, who studied violin with Elgar. She switched to viola – hence the prominence of that instrument in this variation.”7. Variation VII (Presto) "Troyte" Arthur Troyte Griffith was an architect who had a gift for saying the unexpected –hence the cross-rhythms in this variation.8. Variation VIII (Allegretto) "W.N." Winifred Norbury and her sister Florence were music lovers. She was the secretary of the Worcester Philharmonic Society.9. Variation IX (Adagio) "Nimrod" Nimrod was a hunter and the German word for hunter is ‘Jaeger’. Elgar is depicting his friend August J. Jaeger. This Variation is “the record of a long summer evening talk, when my friend discoursed eloquently on the slow movements of Beethoven and said that no one could approach Beethoven at his best in this field, a view with which I cordially concurred. It will be noticed that the opening bars are made to suggest the slow movement of Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata.”10. Variation X (Intermezzo: Allegretto) "Dorabella" Dora Penny was a close friend whom Elgar nicknamed Dorabella, from the Mozart opera cosí fan tutte. “The movement suggests a dancelike lightness.”11. Variation XI (Allegro di molto) "G.R.S." George Robert Sinclair was a cathedral organist. The Variation is however, about his dog ‘falling down a steep bank into the River Wye…paddling up stream to find a landing place…and his rejoicing bark on landing. Apparently, “G.R.S. said ‘Set that to music.’ I did; here it is”12. Variation XII (Andante) "B.G.N." Basil G. Nevinson was an amateur cellist. “The Variation is a tribute to a dear friend whose scientific and artistic attainments, and the wholehearted way they were put at the disposal of his friends, particularly endeared him to the writer.” The variation includes a beautiful cello solo.13. Variation XIII (Romanza: Moderato) "***" “The asterisks take the place of the name of a lady who was, at the time of composition, on a sea voyage. The drums suggest the distant throbbing of the engines a of a liner over which the clarinet quotes a phrase from Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.”14. Variation XIV (Finale: Allegro) "E.D.U." stands for “Edoo” Alice Elgar’s pet name for the composer. He paints himself as bold and vigorous in style. He also quotes from Alice’s Variation and from Nimrod.Compiled from Jonathan Kramer’s Listen to the Music.