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FEBRUARY 2008
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February 1 Friday
Notes for Buddy
FACULTY RECITAL
Eric Berlin, trumpet with guest pianist Elvia Puccinelli & Janna Baty, mezzo-soprano
Includes world premiere of Robert Bradshaw's Notes for Buddy, in memory of Berlin's Lab/Retriever companion of 14 years, plus Robert Suderburg: Chamber Music VII - Ceremonies for Trumpet and Piano, Kent Kennan: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (original version), Howard Buss: Skylines &
G.F. Handel: Let the Bright Seraphim
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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February 2 Saturday
23rd ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL HONOR BAND
Laura Rexroth, conductor
Virginia Allen, guest conductor
Selected students from seven states perform a diverse program of concert band music
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 Laura Rexroth |
7 pm * Fine Arts Center Concert Hall * No Charge
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February 3 Sunday
2nd Annual What Superbowl? Event
FACULTY RECITAL
Laura Klock, horn &
Nadine Shank, piano
Jan Krzywicki: Ballade for Horn & Piano, Frederick Tillis: Spiritual Fantasy
No. 5, Emanuel Rubin: Prelude for Horn Alone & Josef Rheinberger: Sonata for Horn & Piano, Op. 178
4 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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February 8 Friday
FACULTY RECITAL
Janna Baty, mezzo-soprano & Nikki Stoia, piano
With Robert Glynn, percussion; Nicholas Gold, cello; Patrick T. Jones, harpsichord; Saya Namikawa, percussion & Nicholas Woodbury, timpani
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Schumann: Frauenliebe und–leben, Messaien: Poèmes Pour Mi, Obradors: Canciones Clásicas Españolas &
Britten: Phaedra, Op. 93 (Dramatic Cantata for mezzo-soprano, arranged for chamber ensemble by Janna Baty and Patrick T. Jones)
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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Stephen Walt |
February 10 Sunday
FACULTY RECITAL
Fredric T. Cohen, oboe,
Stephen Walt, bassoon
& guest artist
Susan Nowicki, piano
Music by Hindemith, Poulenc, Koechlin, Hsueh Yung Shen &
Fred Cohen (the composer)
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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February 12 Tuesday
Basso Fundamentale
FACULTY RECITAL
Salvatore Macchia, contrabass
With guest: Matt Waugh, computer & electronics
Works by: Michele Biasutti, Franco Donatoni, Salvatore Macchia, Hans Werner Henze plus a premiere by Fabrizio Montero |
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February 17 Sunday
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FACULTY RECITAL
Lynn Klock, saxophone
Honoring David Sporny's 25 years as Professor of Jazz and Trombone at UMass Amherst
Featuring world premieres by Salvatore Macchia and Jeffrey W. Holmes, plus works by Fisher Tull and David Jex
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Other performers include Jeffrey W. Holmes, piano; the Ancora Chamber Ensemble (Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Lynn Klock, saxophone; David Sporny, trombone & Salvatore Macchia, contrabass); and the Infinity Brass Quintet (Eric Berlin & Andrew Stetson, trumpet; Laura Klock, horn; David Sporny, trombone & Scott Mendoker, tuba)
4 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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February 20 Wednesday
VISITING ARTIST
Masterclass with internationally renowned cellist and teacher Bernard Greenhouse
2:20 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall *
No charge
Presented by The Lively Arts, a program sponsored by the Department of Music & Dance and
the Fine Arts Center
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February 23 Saturday
FIVE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE
JAZZ FESTIVAL
Vocal & Instrumental Jazz Ensembles from UMass Amherst (Jazz Ensemble I; Chapel Jazz, Jazz Lab, Vocal Jazz & Chamber Jazz Ensembles), Amherst, Hampshire, Smith & Mt. Holyoke Colleges
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
3:30 pm: Five College Jazz Faculty Showcase
Student Union Ballroom * No charge
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February 23 Saturday
VISITING JAZZ ARTISTS
U.S. Air Force
Band of Liberty
Jazz Ensemble
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Performing the swinging sounds of Glenn Miller to contemporary big band jazz, the 18-piece U.S. Air Force Liberty Big Band, based at Hanscom Air Force Base outside Boston, has been entertaining audiences throughout the Northeast for more than 25 years.
7:30 pm * Student Union Ballroom * No charge
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February 24 Sunday
OPUS ONE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
With faculty members Elizabeth Chang, violin & ensemble coordinator; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Astrid Schween, cello & Salvatore Macchia, bass & advanced students
Including favorites of the literature: Rossini's String Sonata No. 2 in A Major & Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence
7:30 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * No charge
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February 26 Tuesday
FACULTY RECITAL
Astrid Schween, cello &
Maura Glennon, guest pianist
with members of the UMass Cello Choir
Includes Shostakovich: Sonata, Op. 40 & Debussy: Sonata for Cello & Piano
8pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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February 28 & 29 Thursday & Friday
(also Sat. March 1)
FIVE COLLEGE DANCE CONCERT
8 pm * Smith College, Theater 14
For tickets & more information: 585-2787
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MARCH 2008
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March 1 Saturday
CHAMBER CHOIR
Deanna Joseph, conductor
Music by Brahms, Distler, Davies & Badings
7:30 pm * Music on Main Series,
First Congregational Church, 165 Main St., Amherst *
$5/$10
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March 1 Saturday
FIVE COLLEGE DANCE CONCERT
8 pm * Smith College, Theater 14
For tickets & more information: 585-2787
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March 6 Thursday
VISITING ARTIST
A Masterclass by Vocal coach & Accompanist Kayo Iwama
Ms. Iwama, Associate Director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, will coach singer/pianist duos in the presentation of their pieces
1:30 - 3:30 pm *
Bezanson Recital Hall * No charge
Sponsored by the Alviani Masterclass Fund
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March 7 Friday
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr., director
Lynn Klock, saxophone
Lewis Spratlan: Concerto for Saxophone & Orchestra & Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 "Romantic"
8 pm * Fine Arts Center Concert Hall *
$5/$10
Sponsored by Stacey Styles Violin Restoration
7 pm: FREE Pre-concert talk in Bezanson Recital Hall, with Bruckner scholar Paul Hawkshaw & composer Lewis Spratlan
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 Trumpeter Taryn Smith
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March 9 Sunday
WIND ENSEMBLE & SYMPHONY BAND
Laura Rexroth, conductor
Music by Howard Hanson, Martin Ellerby, Steven Bryant, John Philip Sousa & others
4 pm * Fine Arts Center Concert Hall * $5/$10
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March 11 Tuesday
Jazz on Tuesday
TUESDAYS IN BEZANSON
Performances by Jazz Faculty:
Jeffrey W. Holmes, trumpet & piano;
Arturo O'Farrill, piano; Catherine Jensen-Hole, voice; Paul Lieberman, sax; David Sporny, trombone; Robert Ferrier, guitar & Salvatore Macchia, bass
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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March 13 Thursday
THEORY LECTURE SERIES
UMass Amherst Music Theory Professor Brent Auerbach will give a 50-minute talk entitled:
Tiered Polyphony Redux: Formalization, Analysis, and Historical Significance
12:20 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * No charge
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March 13 Thursday
LARK STRING QUARTET AND GUESTS
Deborah Buck & Lisa Lee, violin; Kathryn Lockwood, viola
& Astrid Schween, cello
Guest artists: Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Yousif Sheronick, percussion;
Yan Yu G'08*, piano & Mariana Rennó Jelen G'08*, viola
(*-Winners of the Lark Quartet Chamber Music Award)
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Mozart: Piano Quartet in G Minor, K.478, Brahms: Viola Quintet in G Major, Op. 111, Antal Doráti: Notturno and Capriccio, Arvo Part: Fratres & John Adams: John's Book of Alleged Dances
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $8/$15
Open Rehearsal: 4:30 pm, Bezanson, No charge
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March 24 Monday
LARK STRING QUARTET MASTERCLASS
Deborah Buck & Lisa Lee, violin; Kathryn Lockwood, viola & Astrid Schween, cello
4:40 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * No charge
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March 24 Monday
GUEST ARTIST RECITAL:
SONGS OF LIBBY LARSEN
Guest artists: Ann Tedards, soprano & Marva Duerkson, piano
Three song cycles by Libby Larsen, on texts written by women: My Ántonia (based on the Willa Cather novel), Sonnets from the Portuguese (text by Elizabeth Barrett Browning) & Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * No charge
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March 25 Tuesday
A Tribute to Max Roach (1924-2007)
27th ANNUAL JAZZ SHOWCASE
A Daylong Celebration of the legendary jazz drummer Max Roach
All events are free of charge
Photo Gallery Presentation & Alumni Jazz Ensemble
1 pm: Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union
Photographer Ed Cohen & Raoul Roach, Max's son, discuss photos. Performance by Music & Dance Department alumni--Jake Epstein, Andy Jaffe, Genevieve Rose, Avery Sharpe and Royal Hartigan;
Reading by Martín Espada
Edward Cohen's photographs will be on exhibit in the Student Union Art Gallery for two weeks beginning March 24, 2008
Panel Discussion
3:30 pm: New Africa House, 2nd floor
The Influence of Max Roach at UMass Amherst & Beyond
Herb Boyd, Sonia Sanchez, Billy Taylor, Frederick Tillis, Jake Epstein,
Randy Weston &
John H. Bracey, Jr., moderator
27th Annual Jazz Showcase Concert
8 pm: Bowker Auditorium, Stockbridge Hall
Six UMass Amherst Jazz Ensembles, directed by Jeffrey W. Holmes (producer), Catherine Jensen-Hole, Arturo O'Farrill, David Sporny &
Paul Lieberman
Featuring UMass Amherst jazz faculty, with guests: Sonia Sanchez, poet; Lark String Quartet; Dawning Holmes, voice; Yusef Lateef, reeds; Salvatore Macchia, bass; Billy Taylor, piano; Frederick Tillis, saxophone; Randy Weston, piano & Reggie Workman, bass
Presented by the Office of the Provost, College of Humanities & Fine Arts, Departments of African-American Studies and Music & Dance, the Fine Arts Center and the Center for Student Development |
March 29 Saturday
10th ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ FESTIVAL
Performances by High School Jazz Ensembles & UMass Amherst Jazz Faculty
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8:30 am - 6 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall & other Music Department sites Daytime activities are free & open to the public
Winning High School Band performs 7:25pm, Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Evening concert: Fine Arts Center Series, Christian McBride Band
8 pm, Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Tickets: (413) 545-2511, (800) 999-UMAS or at
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APRIL 2008
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FACULTY / ALUM RECITAL
Nadine Shank, piano & George Weremchuk '85,
Professor of Saxophone, University of Central Florida
Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche, Charles Koechlin: Three Etudes, Op. 188, Lawson Lunde: Sonata No. 1, Op. 12, Alessandro Marcello: Oboe Concerto & Pierre Max Dubois: Concerto
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * No charge
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April 6 Sunday
INFINITY BRASS
Dave's Faves
Favorite works of retiring Professor David Sporny
Eric Berlin & Andrew Stetson, trumpet; Laura Klock, horn; David Sporny, trombone & Scott Mendoker, tuba
Left to right: Andrew Stetson, Eric Berlin, Laura Klock, Scott Mendoker, David Sporny
Verne Reynolds: Suite for Brass Quintet, Paquito D'Rivera: Pieces for Brass Quintet, plus Baroque instrumental works by Samuel Scheidt
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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April 8 Tuesday
TUESDAYS IN BEZANSON
Serenade Heaven
Dvorák: Serenade in D minor, Op. 44
Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 25
Dohnanyi: Serenade in C Major, Op. 10
Performers include: Elizabeth Chang, violin; Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Laura Klock, horn; Christopher Krueger, flute; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Salvatore Macchia, contrabass; Astrid Schween, cello; Michael Sussman, clarinet and Stephen Walt, bassoon with students Ian Jessen, oboe; Michael Brignolo, clarinet; Michelle Huddy, bassoon; Jeanne MacDonald & Elizabeth Jones, horns
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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April 9 Wednesday
Ein Liederabend, in memoriam Craig Smith
FACULTY VOICE RECITAL
William Hite, tenor &
Judith Gordon, piano faculty, Smith College
William Hite
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Featuring songs of Schubert & Schumann, including Schumann's great masterpiece, Dichterliebe, Op. 48 on the poetry of Heine
Craig Smith, who died last year, was founder and long-time artistic director of Boston's Emmanuel Music, and was a pivotal figure in the musical development of Hite & Gordon. The recital includes repertoire that they performed under Smith's guidance.
8:15 pm (Note later starting time) * Bezanson Recital Hall *
$5/$10
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April 10 Thursday
THEORY LECTURE SERIES
A talk by
Deborah Stein, Professor of Music Theory, New England Conservatory of Music
The Lied as Fragment: Text & Tonal Fragmentation
12:20-1:10 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall *
No charge
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April 13 Sunday
VOICES OF NEW AFRICA HOUSE REUNION CHOIR
Horace Clarence Boyer, director
Guest choirs: The Year of Jubilee 3 and the choirs of Wesley United & Goodwin AME Zion Churches
2:30 pm * Wesley United Methodist Church, 98 N. Maple St., Hadley *
$10 Youth 18 & under; $15 Seniors;
$20 General admission
A Benefit for the Horace Clarence Boyer Gospel Music Fund
Tickets may be purchased from Food for Thought or A.J. Hastings in Amherst, or the Community Music School of Springfield
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April 13 Sunday
CHAMBERFEST
String, wind, brass & percussion students join together for a concert of wonderful music-making, highlighting the strength of chamber music at UMass Amherst
7 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * No charge
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April 15 Tuesday
JAZZ LAB ENSEMBLE
Paul Lieberman, conductor
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall *
No charge
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April 18 Friday
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTA
Concerto Competition Winner
Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr., director
Alicia Casey, violin (Concerto Competition winner)
Faculty soloists Elizabeth Chang, violin & Astrid Schween, cello
Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 & Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (first mvmt); Brahms: Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102 & Emanuel Rubin: In Memoriam: Liviu Librescu
8 pm * Fine Arts Center Concert Hall * $5/$10
Sponsored by Stacey Styles Violin Restoration
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April 19 Saturday
FACULTY JAZZ RECITAL
Arturo O'Farrill, piano & Jeffrey W. Holmes, trumpet
Arturo O'Farrill
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1 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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April 22 Tuesday
PAULINA STARK MASTERCLASS IN VOICE
Guest artist Lisa Saffer, lyric soprano
Due to her supreme musicality, stellar dramatic instincts, and solid vocal technique, American soprano Lisa Saffer is in demand worldwide for opera roles as diverse as Berg's Lulu & Handel's Cleopatra. Her concert work has taken her to virtually all of the leading American orchestras and also throughout Europe.
1:30-3:30 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * No charge
Made possible by the Stark Vocal Program Enhancement Fund
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April 23 Wednesday
WIND ENSEMBLE
Laura Rexroth, conductor
Includes movements from Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy, Frank Ticheli's Apollo Unleashed from his Symphony #2 & James Barnes' Fantasy Variations
8 pm * Fine Arts Center Concert Hall * $5/$10
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April 24, 25, 26 Thursday, Friday, Saturday
ALIVE WITH DANCE
New works by Senior dance majors
8 pm * Bowker Auditorium * $5/$10
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 Marimbist Saya Namikawa
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April 24 Thursday
MASS MARIMBA BAND &
UMASS MARIMBA ENSEMBLES
Thomas Hannum, director
Music of many styles played on percussion instruments. Selections feature Classical, Jazz, Latin and Pop music by Aaron Copland, Pat Metheny, Andy Narell and Paul Buono
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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April 26 Saturday
26th ANNUAL SAXOPHONE SYMPOSIUM
Lynn Klock, performer/director
Recitals by Prof. Klock & Guests: New York jazz artist Tim Ries & classical artist Griffin Campbell, Professor at Louisiana State University
Performances by University and High School Saxophone Quartets
Selmer, Yamaha, Keilworth & Yanigasawa saxophones on display to try
Tim Ries
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9 am - 6 pm * Fine Arts Center music wing *
$30 Advance (until 4/23), $35 on the day
(free for Music majors/minors)
Info: Prof. Klock at 413-545-2810, lklock@music.umass.edu
Visit www.umass.edu/saxophone for schedule & Registration form
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April 26 Saturday
A Retirement Celebration
TROMBONE CHOIR
David Sporny, director
Celebrating David Sporny's 26 years on the Music & Dance faculty; including alumni & current students from the trombone studio
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8 pm * Campus Center Auditorium * $5/$10
Reception to follow
To honor Professor Sporny, please consider making a contribution to the David D. Sporny Trombone Scholarship. Please send your check, made out to the Department of Music & Dance, with a note “for the Trombone Scholarship” to the Department of Music & Dance, M. Kushick, 267 Fine Arts Center, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002. To make a contribution through your credit card, call 413-545-0018.
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April 27 Sunday
20th Century Classics from Five Nations
FACULTY RECITAL
Christopher Krueger, flute with
Judith Gordon, piano faculty, Smith College
Olivier Messiaen: Le Merle Noir, in celebration of his centennial year; Stefan Wolpe: Piece in Two Parts; Luciano Berio: Sequenza No.1;
John Harbison: Montale Sketches & Sergey Prokofiev: Sonata in D
1 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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April 27 Sunday
CONCERT BAND
George Parks, director
130 band members from all majors on campus come together to provide band music for a Sunday afternoon; includes works by Sousa, Frank Erickson, Jim Curnow's Canticle of the Creatures & John Warrington's Dixieland Jamboree
George Parks
2 pm * Fine Arts Center Concert Hall * $5/$10
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April 27 Sunday
UNIVERSITY CHORALE
Deanna Joseph & Michael Carnaroli, conductors
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb & works by Mendelssohn & Fauré
4 pm * First Congregational Church, 165 Main St., Amherst * No charge
Please note: The location has been changed from the printed calendar
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April 30 Wednesday
(also in Northampton, MA on May 4)
FIVE COLLEGE EARLY MUSIC COLLEGIUM
Robert Eisenstein, director
A German Easter Mass and more: music of Heinrich Isaac, Ludwig Senfl & others for voices, Renaissance Viols & Renaissance Winds
8 pm * Wesley Methodist Church,
98 N. Maple St., Hadley * No charge
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MAY 2008
 Jeffrey W. Holmes
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May 1 Thursday
STUDIO ORCHESTRA &
JAZZ ENSEMBLE I
Jeffrey W. Holmes, director
Featuring a Beatles medley; Holmes' Midnite Snacks; Spyro Gyra tunes arr. Frank Newton (G'09) & Andrew Smicker (G'08); Ray Wright's Sackbut City featuring the trombone section; Oliver Nelson's Black, Brown & Beautiful featuring Tobias Thomas (G'09), alto sax & compositions by Smicker, Paul Lieberman (G'08), Adam Bosse (G'09), Thad Jones & Bill Murphy
8 pm * Fine Arts Center Concert Hall * $5/$10
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May 1, 2 & 3 Thursday, Friday & Saturday
EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHERS' SERIES
Innovative modern dance, ballet & jazz choreographed by UMass Amherst Dance Program's students
8 pm * Hampshire College Studio Theater *
$5-Five College students, seniors & children;
$8-General public
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May 2 Friday
Love in the Time of Opera
OPERA WORKSHOP
An evening of operatic scenes having to do with love in its various shades, including scenes from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Magic Flute & Cosi fan tutte; Stephen Paulus' The Postman Always Rings Twice; Verdi's Falstaff; Smetana's The Bartered Bride & Lee Hoiby's Summer & Smoke
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Nicholas Dahlman, guest stage director
Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr. & Nikki Stoia, music directors
Nikki Stoia, piano accompanist
William Hite, program coordinator
Janna Baty & Marjorie Melnick, advisors
Sarah Rulfs, stage manager
8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall * $5/$10
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May 3 Saturday
EARLY MUSIC CONCERTS
4 pm: Voces Feminae, Catherine Bell, director
Jewish music of the Middle Ages & Renaissance
7 pm: Euridice Ensembles, Robert Eisenstein, director
Baroque chamber music for voices & instruments with works by Rameau, Bach, Monteverdi & Purcell
Robert Eisenstein with singers
Both concerts at Sweeney Hall, Smith College * No charge
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May 4 Sunday
PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
Thomas Hannum, director
Featuring works by David Skidmore, Thierry de Mey, James Campbell, and a large ensemble arrangement of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint by UMass Alum Chris Retschulte
4 pm * Bowker Auditorium*
$5/$10
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May 4 Sunday
VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE
Catherine Jensen-Hole, director
Premieres of works & arrangements by Catherine Jensen-Hole & Jazz Composition graduate students; original compositions by Greg Jasperse, Kerry Marsh & Julia Dollison
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8 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall
* $5/$10
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May 4 Sunday
(also in Hadley, MA on April 30)
FIVE COLLEGE EARLY MUSIC COLLEGIUM
Robert Eisenstein, director
A German Easter Mass and more: music of Heinrich Isaac, Ludwig Senfl & others for voices, Renaissance Viols & Renaissance Winds
7 pm * St. John's Episcopal Church, 48 Elm St., Northampton * No charge
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May 6 Tuesday
CHAPEL JAZZ ENSEMBLE
David Sporny, director
8 pm * Bowker Auditorium *
$5/$10
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May 8 Thursday
SYMPHONY BAND
Laura Rexroth, conductor
Eric Whitacre: Ghost Train; Philip Sparke: Mandalen Landscapes;
Hale Smith: Somersault & William Schuman: Chester
8 pm * Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
* $5/$10
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May 8 & 9 Thursday & Friday
ALIVE WITH DANCE II
New works by Senior dance majors
8 pm * Kendall Theater,
Mount Holyoke College * $5/$10
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May 10 Saturday
5th ANNUAL UMASS AMHERST POPS GALA
Jeff Holmes leads the (Jazz) Studio Orchestra
7:30 pm * Campus Center Auditorium (Doors open at 7)
Featuring music by the Beatles, Rossini & Tchaikovsky, and from Carousel & Hairspray
UMass Amherst Pops Orchestra, Studio Orchestra, Vocal Jazz Ensemble
& UMass Dancers
Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr., Jeffrey W. Holmes, Billbob Brown & Catherine Jensen-Hole, directors
Andrew Garland, alumnus & guest baritone
Patrons are seated at tables where, for an additional charge, food and beverages are served.
BE A POPS GALA SPONSOR & GET PRIORITY SEATING.
Consider sponsorship of the Department of Music & Dance and its talented young musicians & dancers.
Contact Marilyn Kushick at mkushick@music.umass.edu or
(413) 545-0018.
Individual tickets to the Pops Gala, $45, are on sale at the
Box Office, (413) 545-2511. Please note that the last four Galas were sold out.
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May 11 Sunday
CHAMBER CHOIR
Deanna Joseph, conductor
Including works by Bruckner, Holst & Brahms
4 pm * St. John's Episcopal Church, 48 Elm St., Northampton *
No charge
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May 11 Sunday
STRING QUARTETS
String quartets and piano trios
play Beethoven, Brahms & more
7:30 pm * Bezanson Recital Hall *
No charge
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