For immediate release
January 18, 2008
The UTB/TSC Patron of the Arts will start the spring season, continuing its 23rd year, with several upcoming features in January.
Marimba Nandayapa, marimba quintet,
will start the month off with a solo and duo concert at 8 p.m.,
Friday, Jan. 25 and a
group performance at 8 p.m.,
Saturday, Jan.26 in the Science, Engineering and
Technology Building Lecture Hall. 
The group was started by Maestro Zeferino Nandayapa, who recently performed in two concerts with the Madrid Symphonic Orchestra in Madrid, Spain, and Mexico City. He and his four sons, Javier, Oscar, Norberto and Mario comprise Marimba Nandayapa. They are the only Mexican marimba group to perform twice at New York Carnegie Hall and have been praised by All About Jazz for knowing “how to balance technical skill with romance and soul.”
Admission to concerts will be $10 for non-member adults, $7 for senior citizens and children, $3 for UTB/TSC students with their student id, and $35 for a season pass.
Kicking off the art season is Fine Arts Professor Carlos Gomez, who has juried and curated an exhibition of black and white photographs by local artists. The exhibit will open with a reception at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 28, in the art gallery at Rusteberg Hall and will continue until Thursday, Feb. 14.
Gomez said the photographs will vary from portraits to landscapes, from darkroom to digital, but all containing great talent and creativity from talented artists.
“The strength and quality of photograph is to a point well above the rest of the other visual arts,” he said. “This can be argued and should.”
The winner will receive a one-person show at the art gallery at in spring of 2009.
Admission is $3, Patron of the Arts member get in free, and a season pass is $5.
For more information contact the fine arts department at 882-8247 or visit their website. http://blue.utb.edu/finearts/PatronHome.htm.