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Date: October 09, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Music Admin. Bldg., Room 125
Title:
Musicology Colloquium: Meta Film Music: Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt"
Description: Jean-Luc Godard’s _Le Méprisz_ (Contempt) is one of the most celebrated films of the French Nouvelle Vague. It is a film about film-making. Godard commissioned the music from Georges Delerue, one of the preferred Nouvelle Vague composers, who delivered a score of around twenty minutes with two main themes, one in a late romantic style resembling Bruckner and Mahler and one influenced by the popular neo-Baroque vogue of 1960s France. Since the topic of the film is cinema itself, the densely orchestrated, overtly melodramatic music is self-referential. It appears as though Delerue’s score metonymically represents film music in general. Through its detachment from the narrative, it stresses a flagrant artificiality and a profound nostalgia for a “lost” cinema. It is therefore not surprising that Godard envisioned Bruckner-like music, since one of his inspirations for _Le Mépris_, Luchino Visconti’s _Senso_, has a soundtrack consisting of excerpts from Bruckner’s seventh symphony. Godard’s nostalgia for past cinema is signaled at the beginning of _Le Mépris_, when he quotes the “father of the Nouvelle Vague,” André Bazin: “The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.” In _Le Mépris_ these desires are primarily evoked by its music. When one strips the soundtrack from the film – as the Italian producer Carlo Ponti did with the dubbed Italian version – and replaces it with another soundtrack (Ponti imposed a jazz and blues score by Piero Piccioni), one realizes that the key message of the film – its nostalgia for cinema as a vehicle for the fulfilling of our desires – has been severely compromised.
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Date: October 11, 2008
Time: 8:30 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
Jesse Langen, guitar
Description: Student of Anne Waller
Program includes Variations sur “Folia de España” et Fugue by Manuel Maria Ponce; Variaciones sobre un Tema de Sor, op. 15 by Miguel Llobet; Fantasia 13 and Ricercare 57 “La Compagna” by Francesco Canova Da Milano; Algo by Franco Donatoni; Rondo Brilliante in A minor, op. 2 no. 2 by Dionisio Aguado.
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Date: October 12, 2008
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
Raja Burrows, tenor
Description: Student of Kurt Hansen
Assisted by Karina Kontorovich, piano
Program includes “Say Love, if Ever thou Didst Find” and “What if I Never Speed” by John Dowland; Danksagung an den Bach, Du bist die Ruh, and Der Einsame by Franz Schubert; Infidielité, Si mes vers avaiant de ailes, and L’Huere exquise by Reynaldo Hahn; “Ecco ridents in Cielo” from Il barbierer di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini; Lu Buena Cancion, La Niña de Guatemala, and Metamorfosis by Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes; Malinconia, Ninfa gentile, and Ma, rendi pur contento by Vincenzo Bellini; Oтнeгo? and зaцeм by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky; and The Masochism Tango by Tom Lehrer.
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Date: October 13, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Northwestern University Jazz Faculty Concert
Description: Victor Goines, saxophone and clarinet; Elliot Mason, trombone; Peter Martin, piano; Carlos Henriquez, bass; Herlin Riley, drums; Christopher Madsen, tenor saxophone
An exciting concert featuring the debut of Victor Goines, Northwestern’s new director of jazz studies, and the new jazz faculty members. This concert is supported in part by The Owen L. Coon Foundation.
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Date: October 14, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place
Title:
Brazilian Guitar Quartet Master Class
Description: Everton Gloeden, Tadeu do Amaral, Luiz Mantovani, and Clemer Andriotti
The Brazilian Guitar Quartet coaches accomplished guitar students from the Bienen School of Music.
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Date: October 15, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
A Trio of S, No. 1: Camille Saint-Saëns
Description: Alan Chow, piano; J. Lawrie Bloom, clarinet; Jennifer Gunn, flute
Faculty members Alan Chow and J. Lawrie Bloom join Bloom’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra colleague Jennifer Gunn in the first concert of this special miniseries.
Camille Saint-Saëns, Allegro appassionato in B Minor, Sonata in E-flat Major, Sonata in G Major, Romance in F Major, and Tarantelle in A Minor
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Date: October 16, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Brazilian Guitar Quartet
Description: Everton Gloeden, Tadeu do Amaral, Luiz Mantovani, and Clemer Andriotti
The Brazilian Guitar Quartet’s sparkling repertoire has been delighting audiences throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas for nearly a decade. Unique among guitar ensembles for their use of two eight-string guitars, Brazil’s own “Dream Team” visits Northwestern with a new program featuring Bach, Villa-Lobos, Albéniz, Guarnieri, Santoro, and Mignone.
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Date: October 17, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Cahn Auditorium
Title:
Northwestern University Marching Band: Homecoming Concert
Description: Daniel J. Farris, conductor
Kick off Northwestern’s Homecoming Parade in style as the Wildcat Marching Band brings the sights and sounds of Ryan Field indoors to Cahn Auditorium.
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Date: October 18, 2008
Time: 8:30 PM
Location: Alice Millar Chapel
Title:
Emanuele Andrizzi, conducting
Description: Student of Victor Yanpolsky
Assisted by Ana Fau, piano
Program includes The Creatures of Prometheus, Overture by Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann, and Symphony no. 6 (“Pathetique”) by Piotr Tchaikovsky.
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Date: October 19, 2008
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
Newberry Consort: Handel in Miniature
Description: George Frideric Handel was a consummate showman, able to write music that was both intellectually stimulating and easily accessible, and one of the few composers to remain consistently popular from his own 18th-century era to our own. The respect for his work among performers and musicologists is exceeded only by his appeal to the public at large, a result of his ability to write music of astonishing beauty. The Newberry Consort will present some of Handel’s greatest hits in miniature through the artistry of Dutch recorder virtuosa Marion Verbruggen, baroque diva Ellen Hargis, Handel specialist and Newberry audience favorite Drew Minter, harpsichord wizard David Schrader, and consort director and gambist David Douglass.
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Date: October 19, 2008
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
“The President’s Own” United States Marine Band
Description: Colonel Michael Colburn and Major Jason Fettig, conductors
Free general-admission tickets may be obtained only by calling the Pick-Staiger ticket office for reservations; four-ticket limit per customer. All ticket holders must be seated by 2:45 p.m.
Founded in 1798 by an act of Congress, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band is America’s oldest professional musical organization. Its mission is to provide music for the president of the United States. In addition, the Marine Band gives approximately 500 public performances each year throughout the capital city area and tours for a month each fall — a tradition begun in 1891 under the band’s legendary 17th director, John Philip Sousa. A Washington Post review declares, “The U.S. Marine Band demonstrated once again that it is not only the best in the land but, very likely, the best in the world.”
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Date: October 23, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Elizabeth Shapovalov, conducting
Description: Student of Robert Harris
Assisted by full choir and full orchestra
Program includes Mass in C Major, Op. 86 and Choral Fantasy by Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Date: October 24, 2008
Time: 4:30 PM
Location: Alice Millar Chapel
Title:
Kanad Khanna
Description: Student of Richard Graff
Assisted by Samantha Barnes, soprano; Patrick O’Malley, flautino; Dipika Cherala, alto; and Grover Schiltz, baroque oboe.
Program includes Sonata Prima per Flauto Dolce by Dario Castello, “Di due rai, languir constate…” by Antonio Vivaldi, 2° Fantastic en la-mineur and TWV 40:2 by Georg Philipp Telemann, Sonate et trio, Op. 3, No. 6 by Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, “Piu bel piacere” by Antonio Caldara, Sonate für Flöte e-moll, BWV 1034 by Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto per Flautino in La by Vivaldi.
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Date: October 24, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Description: Mallory Thompson, conductor; She-e Wu, timpani
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Grundman), Overture to Candide
Aaron Copland (arr. Singleton), The Promise of Living
Michael Daugherty, Raise the Roof
Percy Grainger, Children’s March
David Maslanka, A Child’s Garden of Dreams
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Date: October 25, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra: Oh Say, Can You See
Description: Victor Yampolsky, conductor; Eric Greene, baritone
This summer Eric Greene reprised the role of Jake in Porgy and Bess at the Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique, and this fall he debuts with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Baltimore Opera, and San Francisco Opera as well as at the Granada International Festival in Spain and in Caen and Luxembourg. This winter and spring he appears as Ping in Turandot with Opera Company of Philadelphia and Opera Carolina.
George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess: Symphonic Picture
Richard Danielpour, Pastime for baritone and orchestra
Peter Schickele, Symphony No. 1 (“Songlines”)
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Date: October 26, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Alice Millar Chapel
Title:
HymnFest VII: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Description: Stephen Alltop, conductor
Experience mighty hymns in a majestic space! The Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Millar Brass Ensemble, and audience join the 100-rank Aeolian Skinner organ to “raise the roof” in hymn arrangements by Stephen Alltop, Robert McConnell, Edwin Childs, Richard Webster, Mack Wilberg, and others.
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Date: October 30, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
Music of Richard Danielpour
Description: James Giles and Toni-Marie Montgomery, piano; Gerardo Ribeiro, violin; Stephen Balderston, cello
An evening of solo and chamber works by Richard Danielpour, a composition professor at the Manhattan School of Music and Curtis Institute of Music, as part of his weeklong residency at Northwestern.
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Date: October 31, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
Pamela Hinchman: Studio Recital I: “From Menotti to Mollicone”
Description: Jeffrey Peterson, piano; Pamela Hinchman, director; Emily McHugh, soprano; Elizabeth Koehler, soprano; Jimmy Luo, bass-baritone; Mark Donlin, tenor
Gian Carlo Menotti, Telephone
Henry Mollicone, Face on the Barroom Floor
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Date: October 31, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Symphonic Band: Symphonic Screams — Music for All Hallows Eve
Description: Symphonic Band: Symphonic Screams — Music for All Hallows Eve
Friday, October 31, 7:30 p.m.
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, $7/5/4
Ryan T. Nelson, conductor
Stephen Gryc, Masquerade Variations
Ron Nelson, Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H)
Nancy Galbraith, Danza de los Duendes
Richard Strauss, Allerseelen (All Souls’ Day)
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Date: November 01, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Regenstein Recital Hall
Title:
Jill Felber, flute
Description: An admired soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, Jill Felber is well known for her commitment to promoting contemporary music as well as for commissioning and performing new works for the flute. She has performed with the Detroit Contemporary Ensemble, and her collaborations have included projects with composers Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller, George Rochberg, and William Bolcom. Currently, she is Professor of Flute at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Principal Flute with the Santa Barbara Grand Opera.
Charles-Marie Widor, Suite
Glen Cortese, The Star Maidens
Albert Roussel, Joueurs de Flute
Linda Holland, Flute ‘n’ Boots
Albert Franz Doppler, Fantaisie pastorale hongroise
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Date: November 01, 2008
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Regenstein Recital Hall
Title:
Jill Felber Flute Master Class
Description: Flutist Jill Felber coaches talented students from the Bienen School of Music.
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Date: November 01, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
Pamela Hinchman: Studio Recital II: “From Menotti to Mollicone”
Description: Jeffrey Peterson, piano; Pamela Hinchman, director; Emily Becker, soprano; Michael O’Halloran, baritone; Mark Donlin, tenor
Gian Carlo Menotti, Telephone
Henry Mollicone, Face on the Barroom Floor
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Date: November 01, 2008
Time: 8:30 PM
Location: Regenstein Recital Hall
Title:
Kanad Khanna, flute
Description: Student of Richard Graff
Assisted by Zalman Kelber, piano and organ, and Will Curry, conductor
Program includes Sonate C-dur, Wq. 87, H 515 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; Konzert G-dur, K. 313 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Variationen über Volkslieder, Op. 107 by Ludwig van Beethoven; Introduktion and Variationen über “Trockne Blumen” by Franz Peter Schubert; and Siegfried-Idyll by Wilhelm Richard Wagner.
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Date: November 08, 2008
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Not in Kansas Anymore: Music from The Wizard of Oz
Description: Click your heels and enjoy beloved songs and characters — in costume — from this legendary story as performed by the cast of Northwestern’s 67th annual Dolphin Show.
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Date: November 08, 2008
Time: 6:15 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
Kanad Khanna, flute
Description: Student of Richard Graff
Assisted by Zalman Kelber, piano; David Saad, percussion; Joseph Gonzalez, percussion; and Patrick Slevin, percussion
Program includes Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 94 by Sergei Prokofiev; Idyll for the Misbegotten by Georg Crumb; Soaring by Joseph Schwantner; A Night Piece by Arthur Foote; and Sequenza I per flauto solo by Luciano Berio.
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Date: November 08, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
NU Voices: A Choral Showcase
Description: Robert A. Harris, Amy G. Weller, Stephen Alltop, and Mollie Stone, conductors
Join us for the only concert featuring all of Northwestern’s choral ensembles: University Chorale, University Singers, University Chorus, University Women’s Chorus, and the Alice Millar Chapel Choir.
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Date: November 09, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Alice Millar Chapel
Title:
Baroque Music Ensemble: Italian Glories
Description: Stephen Alltop, conductor; David Douglass, instrumental coach; Ellen Hargis, vocal coach
Members of the Baroque Music Ensemble present the North American premiere of Egidio Duni’s Nerone (1735), credited as the first Italian comic opera. Rounding out the program is Antonio Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in C Major and Baldassare Galuppi’s Lauda Jerusalem for solo voices, chamber choir, and orchestra.
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Date: November 10, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Stephen Hough Master Class
Description: Stephen Hough, 2008 winner of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, coaches talented Bienen School of Music students.
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Date: November 11, 2008
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place
Title:
Stephen Hough Master Class
Description: Stephen Hough, 2008 winner of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, coaches talented Bienen School of Music students.
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Date: November 11, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Percussion Ensemble
Description: She-e Wu, conductor
Northwestern’s new director of percussion, associate professor of music She-e Wu comes here from Rutgers University. A featured artist at percussion conventions around the world, she has also performed at prestigious colleges, universities, and percussion events throughout the United States and abroad. Originally a timpanist and percussionist in her native Taiwan, she came to the United States in 1991 to study at the University of North Texas, where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Her teachers included Robert Schietroma, Leigh Howard Stevens, Ed Soph, and Tzong-Ching Ju.
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Date: November 11, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Regenstein Recital Hall
Title:
Trio Cayenne (Steven Cohen and Friends)
Description: Steven Cohen, clarinet; Mark Ostoich, oboe; William Ludwig, bassoon
Jean Françaix, Divertissement
W. A. Mozart (arr. Oubradous), Divertimento No. 4
Alexandre Tansman, Suite pour Trio D’Anches
Erwin Schulhoff, Divertissement
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Date: November 12, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place
Title:
Stephen Hough Piano Practices Master Class
Description: Stephen Hough, 2008 winner of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, coaches talented Bienen School of Music students.
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Date: November 12, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra
Description: Victor Goines, conductor
Northwestern’s newly appointed director of jazz studies and professor of music Victor Goines has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993. With these legendary ensembles he has toured worldwide and has performed on more than 20 recordings, including Marsalis’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Blood on the Fields, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Congo Square, and the soundtracks for three Ken Burns documentaries. Also a renowned solo artist, Goines has made seven recordings with his own quartet and quintet. Among the many noted jazz and popular artists with whom he has collaborated are Terence Blanchard, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Charles, Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Green, Lionel Hampton, Freddie Hubbard, B. B. King, Lenny Kravitz, Diana Ross, and Stevie Wonder. Also active as a jazz educator, Goines was artistic director of the Juilliard School’s jazz studies program for seven years.
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Date: November 13, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Stephen Hough, piano
Description: British pianist Stephen Hough is the 2008 winner of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, a biennial Bienen School of Music award honoring pianists who have achieved the highest levels of national and international recognition. Widely regarded as one of the most distinctive pianists of his generation, Hough integrates brilliant technique and imagination with scholarship and intellectual rigor. His more than 40 CDs on the Hyperion label have garnered numerous international honors, including Gramophone magazine’s 1996 and 2003 Record of the Year, the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, the Diapason d’Or, Le Monde de la Musique, and several Grammy nominations. Since winning the 1983 Naumburg International Piano Competition, Hough has appeared with almost every major American and European orchestra. He was also the recipient of a 2001 MacArthur Fellowship.
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Date: November 14, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Description: Mallory Thompson, conductor
Richard Strauss, Serenade in E-flat
Richard Wagner (arr. Boyd/Votta), Trauermusik
Bernard Rands, Ceremonial
Bright Sheng, L’AI (Love Song)
Joseph Schwantner, . . . and the mountains rising nowhere
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Date: November 14, 2008
Time: 8:30 PM
Location: Regenstein Recital Hall
Title:
Charles Asch, cello
Description: Student of Hans Jensen
Assisted by Fumiko Jensen, piano
Program includes Suite No. 4 in E flat Major, BWV 1010 by J.S. Bach; Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 by Antonin Dvorák; and Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8 by Zoltan Kodály.
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Date: November 15, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
An Evening of Opera Scenes
Description: Jay Lesenger, director
Talented graduate students from the voice and opera program perform scenes from celebrated operas.
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Date: November 16, 2008
Time: 6:15 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
Hye Sun Lee, violin
Description: Student of Almita Vamos
Assisted by Tatyana Stepanova, piano; Almita Vamos, violin
Program includes Sonata in G minor (“Devil’s Trill”) for Violin and Piano by Giuseppe Tartini; Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A major, op.13 by Gabriel Fauré; Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 by J.S. Bach; and Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 15 by Henri Wieniawski
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Date: November 18, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Evening of Brass: 400 Years of Masterworks for Brass Ensemble
Description: Gail Williams and Gerard Morris, conductors
Enjoy a majestic program of music for brass ensemble.
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Date: November 20, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
International Contemporary Ensemble
Description: The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is a uniquely structured chamber ensemble made up of emerging performers and composers who are dedicated to advancing the music of our time. Through innovative programming, multimedia collaborations, commissions for young composers, and performances in nontraditional venues, ICE brings together new music and new audiences. John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune praises the group’s “crackling virtuosity and palpable commitment . . . their music grabs the listener by the lapels and refuses to let go.”
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Date: November 21, 2008
Time: 8:30 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
Anna Spina, horn
Description: Student of Gail Williams
Assisted by Yoko Yamada-Selvaggio, piano; Lindsey Klecka, violin; Adam Neely and Allyson Goodman, viola; Martin Nocedal, cello; David Cohen and Rachel Serber, trumpet; James Anderson, trombone; and Josh Biere, tuba
Program includes Quintet for Horn and String Quartet in E flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Berceuse, Op. 19 by Jean-Michel Damase; Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich; and Morning Music for Brass Quintet by David Samson.
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Date: November 22, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra: Russian Treasures
Description: Victor Yampolsky, conductor; Geraldine Ong, piano
Student pianist Geraldine Ong appears as a 2008 Northwestern Concerto/Aria Competition winner.
Yuri Falik, Symphonic Etudes
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor
Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony No. 3 in C Minor
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Date: November 23, 2008
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Lutkin Hall
Title:
Women’s Chorus
Description: Mollie Stone, conductor
Choral music from various periods and genres, composed exclusively for treble voices.
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Date: November 23, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Philharmonia: Great British Composers
Description: Robert G. Hasty, conductor; Bernard J. Dobroski, narrator
William Walton, Crown Imperial (Coronation March)
Benjamin Britten, Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell)
Eric Coates, London Suite (London Every Day)
Edward Elgar, The Wand of Youth Suite and Pomp and Circumstance, Military March No. 1 in D Major
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Date: November 24, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Contemporary Music Ensemble: Concertinis
Description: Ryan T. Nelson, conductor
Lei Liang, Brush Stroke
Lee Hyla, Amnesia Variance
Helmut Lachenmann, Concertini (U.S. premiere)
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Date: November 25, 2008
Time: 8:30 PM
Location: Regenstein Recital Hall
Title:
Edmund Rollet, horn
Description: Student of Gail Williams and William Barnewitz
Assisted by Kay Kim and Rebecca Rollett, piano
Program includes Partita by Verne Reynolds, “Ich Habe Genug” from Cantata no. 82 by J.S. Bach, Summer Music by Samuel Barber, Sonata for Horn and Piano by Quincy Porter, and Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings by Benjamin Britten
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Date: December 04, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra: First Symphonies
Description: Robert G. Hasty, conductor; Steven Cohen, clarinet
Elliott Carter, Symphony No.1
Sergei Prokofiev (arr. Kennan), Clarinet Concerto (transcription of Flute/Violin Sonata) in D Major
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 1 in C Major
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Date: December 04, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Regenstein Recital Hall
Title:
Northwestern University Saxophone Ensemble
Description: Frederick Hemke, conductor
A concert of diverse transcriptions and original music from the Bienen School of Music’s newest performance ensemble.
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Date: December 05, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Symphonic Band: Wildflowers — The Music of Percy Grainger
Description: Ryan T. Nelson, conductor
Percy Grainger, The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare, Molly on the Shore, Irish Tune from County Derry, Shepherd’s Hey, Lads of Wamphray March, Handel in the Strand, Sussex Mummers Christmas Carol, and Lincolnshire Posy
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Date: December 06, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
University Chorale: 69th Annual Christmas Concert
Description: Robert A. Harris and Amy G. Weller, conductors
The Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, University Singers, University Chorale, and University Chorus perform choral music for the holiday season, including the magnificent cantata Hodie for soloists, chorus, and orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Date: December 07, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Regenstein Recital Hall
Title:
Guarneri String Quartet Master Class
Description: Featuring accomplished Bienen School of Music string students.
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Date: December 07, 2008
Time: 10:40 AM
Location: Alice Millar Chapel
Title:
A Festival of Lessons and Carols
Description: Stephen Alltop, conductor; Michael Henoch, oboe
The Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Philharmonia, and Millar Brass Ensemble are heard in this beloved holiday tradition combining readings and musical gems to portray the Christmas miracle. The carol settings — from medieval to modern for brass, strings, organ, and choir — include “The Shepherd’s Carol” by Bob Chilcott and “O Magnum Mysterium” by Jeff Ens. Also featured is music by Herbert Howells, John Rutter, and Camille Saint-Saëns plus carol arrangements for strings by Matthew Naughtin.
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Date: December 07, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Regenstein Recital Hall
Title:
A Conversation with the Guarneri String Quartet
Description: A unique opportunity for conversation and reminiscences in an intimate setting with this esteemed ensemble.
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Date: December 07, 2008
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
University Chorale: 69th Annual Christmas Concert
Description: Robert A. Harris and Amy G. Weller, conductors
The Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, University Singers, University Chorale, and University Chorus perform choral music for the holiday season, including the magnificent cantata Hodie for soloists, chorus, and orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Date: December 07, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Guarneri String Quartet
Description: Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley, violin; Michael Tree, viola; Peter Wiley, cello; Peter Lloyd, string bass
National Public Radio describes the renowned Guarneri String Quartet as “among the most revered and enduring ensembles of its kind in the world.” Since its founding in 1964, the quartet has circled the globe countless times, playing in the most prestigious halls in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The Guarneri has been featured on many television and radio specials, documentaries, and educational presentations in North America and abroad. In addition to mastering the finest works in the quartet repertoire, the group has performed and popularized works by today’s foremost composers. At the end of this season, the quartet will retire after 45 years of performing. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear this legendary ensemble one last time as the inaugural concert of this year’s Winter Chamber Music Festival, with Northwestern faculty member Peter Lloyd as special guest.
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Date: December 11, 2008
Time: 11:30 AM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Denyce Graves Master Class
Description: Recognized worldwide as one of today's most exciting vocal stars, Denyce Graves continues to gather unparalleled popular and critical acclaim in performances on four continents. Her career has taken her to the world's great opera houses and concert halls. The combination of her expressive, rich vocalism, elegant stage presence, and exciting theatrical abilities allows her to pursue a wide breadth of operatic portrayals as well as delight audiences in concert and recital appearances. USA Today calls her "One of the singers most likely to be an operatic superstar of the 21st century." In this master class, she will coach talented vocalists from Northwestern’s Bienen School of Music.
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Date: December 12, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Title:
Keyboard Conversations: Basking in Beethoven
Description: Jeffrey Siegel, piano
Featuring Für Elise (who was she, and why did Beethoven write this work for her?), the delightful Bagatelles, and the “Farewell” Sonata in E-flat (who was leaving, and why was the composer so deeply affected?).
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