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March 2014
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MUSIC
Check out our FACEBOOK page:
Online Ticketing page: fac.umass.edu/MusicandDance
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March 4 Tuesday 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
OPUS ONE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Elizabeth Chang, faculty coordinator
A faculty-student collaboration with music by J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 &
Josef Suk: Serenade for Strings
Online Ticketing or see below
UMass students free |
March 7 Friday 1:25-2:15pm FAC Room 44
MUSIC THEORY SPEAKER
A talk by John Cooper
Differences and Similarities between the Music of India and the West
John Cooper is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and co-founder of the Cooper Music Studios and the East-West Chamber Ensemble.
Free & open to the public |
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 Historic photo: Lynn Klock with Sax Quartet
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March 7 & 8 Friday & Saturday
Bezanson Recital Hall
32nd Annual NEW ENGLAND SAXOPHONE SYMPOSIUM
Lynn Klock, host
Celebrating Prof. Klock's 35 years at UMass with Alumni & current student saxophone solo & quartet concerts
Free & open to the public
75th Anniversary webpage for details |
March 9 Sunday 2pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
33rd Annual JAZZ SHOWCASE
Jeffrey W. Holmes, producer
Spotlight: Jazz Alumni spanning six decades
Ensembles: Alumni Big Bands, Vocal Jazz & more
Directors: Jeffrey W. Holmes, Tom Giampietro, Catherine Jensen-Hole & Felipe Salles
Guests: Frederick Tillis, Dave Sporny & Adam Kolker
Free & open to the public
Alumni: See 75th Anniversary webpage |
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March 10 Monday 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
FACULTY RECITAL
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata;
Frederic Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues; Charles Ives: Concord Sonata
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March 11 Tuesday 8pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
WIND ENSEMBLE
Megan Cooney, conductor
James Patrick Miller, music director
Music by Mozart, William Walton, Vincent Persichetti & Karel Husa
Online Ticketing or see below |
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March 12 Wednesday 8pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
Tian Hui Ng, conductor
Janáček: Fanfare from Sinfonietta
Haydn: Overture to L'isola disabitata
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Mozart: Symphony No.41, K.551 "Jupiter"
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
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Ticketed concerts:
Free for Music/Dance majors or minors (except special events)
$3 for UMass Amherst students (except Dance concerts)
$5 for other students, seniors & children under 18
$10 for general public
Box Office 413-545-2511 or usually available at the door
Online Ticketing page: fac.umass.edu/MusicandDance
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OFF-CAMPUS PERFORMANCES
Minuteman Marching Band, Timothy T. Anderson, director
Thomas Hannum, associate director
Macy's Thankgiving Day Parade
New York City,
November 28, 2013
5th Annual Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference, Dallas
January 8-11, 2014
UMass Amherst Jazz Nonet, Jan 11, 12 noon, Conservatory Stage
Student Composition Showcase, Jan 11, 2pm, Pegasus Ballroom, includes September Again by winning composer & JAAMS student Lucas Apostoleris
Jeffrey W. Holmes with Earl MacDonald & the Jazz Education All-Stars,
Jan. 10, 12 noon, Inspirations Stage
Jazz & African-American Studies Music Program
has a booth (#410) with Jazz in July.
Chamber Choir, Tony Thornton, conductor
At the Eastern Div. Conference, American Choral Directors Association,
Baltimore, February 5-8, 2014
www.acdaeast.org
UMass Amherst Symphony Band, James Patrick Miller, conductor
At the College Band Directors Assoc. Eastern Div. Conference
New England Conservatory, Boston, March 6, 2014
With guests: percussionist Michael Burritt; composers Gunther Schuller & Daniel Nelson; conductors Heidi Johanna Miller, Robert Franzblau & Timothy T. Anderson
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Professor Ronald Steele, who founded the University Orchestra program, has passed away. There will be calling hours from 4-6pm on Tuesday, March 4 at the Douglass Funeral Home, 87 North Pleasant Street, Amherst. A short service will begin at 6pm at the Home.
A native of New Jersey, Ronald Steele was devoted to both music and photography from an early age. After a tour of duty with the US Air Force Symphony Orchestra and graduate study in violin performance at the University of Michigan, Steele joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts in 1963. Active as a conductor as well as a performer throughout his career, he was widely known on campus for his popular course, an introduction to music, which was transformed into an award-winning, nationally-syndicated radio show, The Listening Room, in the mid-1970s. A founder of the UMass Symphony Orchestra (1963) and the Five College Chamber Soloists, Steele resumed his passion for photography in the late 1970s, opening the Ron Steele Photography Studio, which became an increasing creative outlet after his retirement from the university in 1997. |
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FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS:
Here is a Video about the Music Program at UMass Amherst
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