School of Communication, Media and Arts

A mystery that captured the attention of a wide region before Ryan Zalduondo was born -- the disappearance of local teen Heidi Allen -- has turned into a WRVO podcasting series for the SUNY Oswego senior journalism major.

It takes three Alisons to interrogate a lifetime of memories of one brilliant, complex, self-destructive, but ultimately loving father in the SUNY Oswego theatre and music departments' soon-to-open spring musical, "Fun Home."

SUNY Oswego’s spring musical, "Fun Home," is a memory play that director and theatre faculty member Jonel Langenfeld likens to a snow globe -- one that allows the main character to observe from outside the good, the bad and the ugly of her fraught but loving relationship with her late father.

Juliet Forshaw, a member of the SUNY Oswego music faculty, will appear in concert Sunday, April 14, with duo partner Michael Judge and bassist and 2012 Oswego alumnus Taylor Ricks to perform "Living on Faith" and other original songs of "sharing your life with another person."

Quest will provide a showcase Wednesday, April 3, for hundreds of scholarly and creative pursuits, such as senior broadcasting and mass communication major Tahirah Abdo's presentation on femininity and the absence of people of color in the television show "Sex and the City," still popular on a variety of media.

SUNY Oswego faculty member Paul Leary, who specializes in music technology, composition and flute, will offer a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 31, in Tyler Hall's Room 11, featuring two students, his wife, one or more of his electronic music inventions, and a mix video from the recent premiere of Leary's original multimedia work, "Larger Than Us."

A master of the traditional Japanese horizontal harp or zither, the koto, Masayo Ishigure will bring to SUNY Oswego the talent that led to her playing on a Grammy Award-winning soundtrack by famed composer John Williams.

SUNY Oswego's annual Faculty Art Exhibition, opening Friday, March 8, will remember Richard Zakin, the late emeritus professor of art, with a display of his beautifully fashioned works -- from sculptures to ceramics, digital to hand-sketched pieces -- that helped define the art community at SUNY Oswego and in the community for half a century.

Combine classic tales by famed Russian writer Anton Chekhov with the wit and whimsy of Neil Simon, the author of many Broadway hits, and the result is "The Good Doctor," a series of 10 vignettes in one play, to take the stage in March as SUNY Oswego's annual student honors production.

The SUNY Oswego music department will present the Bacchus Saxophone Quartet -- performing a wide variety of styles appropriate for all ages and musical tastes -- at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 3, in Sheldon Hall ballroom.