A community event for String students of all ages, parents & teachers
Professors Elizabeth Chang, violin; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Astrid Schween, cello & Salvatore Macchia, contrabass
9am: Registration, Room 149 9:30am-3:30pm: activities include FacultyConcert, Master Classes, String Sectionals, String Day Orchestra rehearsal and mini-performance with UMass String Students & Raffle Prizes Bring Your Instrument!
Registration: --No fee for Teachers & Parents accompanying children age 12 or under, lunch available at $10 if bookedby 10/7 --Pre-Registration by 10/1: $25, lunch included, late applications accepted if space is available
Each participant completes a registration form (pdf) & sends it with $25 fee.Music sent upon receipt of registration.
OPUS ONE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Elizabeth Chang, faculty coordinator
Featuring Dvořák’s Serenade and Bartók’s Allegro molto (from String Quartet No. 4)
8:15pmBezanson Recital HallNo charge
Nov. 7 Saturday
DOUBLE REED DAY For high school/college double reed players, teachers, and adults
9am - 4:30pm UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center (Bezanson Recital Hall entrance, N. Pleasant St.)
Hosts: Fredric T. Cohen, Professor of Oboe, UMass Amherst & Stephen Walt, Artist-Teacher of Bassoon, UMass Amherst
Guest Artists & Presenters: Robert Williams (Principal Bassoon, Detroit Symphony Orchestra), Robert Sheena (Oboe & English horn, Boston Symphony Orchestra), Alan Fox, President, Fox Products, Nora Post, oboe technician (Oboe adjustment & repair), Master reedmakers: Stuart Dunkel (oboe) & Frank Wangler (bassoon).
Bring your instruments for a Double Reed Band blowout at the end of the day. Bring your reeds to our reed workshops.
Cost: Adults - $30 ($25 if paid in advance) Students - $20 ($15 in advance)
Sponsored in part by a generous contribution from Fox Products
Including oratorio choruses from Handel’s Solomon, Haydn’s The Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Romantic selections by Brahms, Rachmaninoff & Schumann, music by Vivaldi & Frank Ticheli, plus folk songs & spirituals
8pm St. John's Episcopal Church, 48 Elm St. (at Smith College), Northampton Nocharge
Nov. 8 Sunday 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall
INFINITY BRASS Welcoming new faculty member, tubist John Bottomley
Eric Berlin & Justin Carlin, trumpet; Laura Klock, horn; Norman Bolter, trombone & John Bottomley, tuba with Nikki Stoia, piano
Featuring Quintet #3, Op. 7 by Russian Romantic composer Victor Ewald, Rose Without a Thorn by Henry VIII (arr. Elgar Howarth) & Eric Ewazen’s Pastorale (adapted by Douglas Yeo)
$3-UMass Amherst students/ $5-Other students, seniors, children/ $10-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Laura Klock, Justin Carlin, John Bottomley, Eric Berlin, Norman Bolter
Nov. 14 Saturday 7pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
CHORAL SPECTRUM
UMass Amherst Chamber Choir, Chorale & Women's Choir with Massachusetts ACDA Men’s & Women’s High School Honor Choirs
Tony Thornton, director/coordinator
Guest conductors: Dr. Pamela Perry, Central Connecticut State University & Dr. Steven Young, Bridgewater State College
$3-UMass Amherst students/ $5-Other students, seniors, children/ $10-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Nov. 16 Monday
STRING QUARTETS
Graduate & Undergraduate ensembles
7:30pm Bezanson Recital HallNo charge
Nov. 17 Tuesday
AVANTI PLUS
Faculty members-- Christopher Krueger, flute; Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Michael Sussman, clarinet; Laura Klock, horn & Stephen Walt, bassoon--and their students
Beethoven: Quintet in Eb major, H.19& Mozart: Serenade in Bb major, "Gran Partita," K. 361
8pmBezanson Recital Hall$3-UMass Amherst students/ $5-Other students, seniors, children/ $10-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Nov. 19 Thursday
MASS MARIMBA BANDS & UMASS MARIMBA ENSEMBLES
Thomas Hannum, director
Featured guests: South Hadley HS Show Choir, Beth Ayn Curtis (UMass alum), director
A collage of classical, jazz, latin-jazz & pop selections, including the combined groups in the finale, Big Fun
8pm Bowker Auditorium $3-UMass Amherst students/ $5-Other students, seniors, children/ $10-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Nov. 21 Saturday 8pm (Printed calendar time of 4pm is INCORRECT)
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA & CHAMBER CHOIR
Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr. & Tony Thornton, directors
Works by Rameau, Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances & Concerto for Orchestra, plus Vivaldi: Gloria
St. Mary's Church, 3 Elm Street, Northampton No charge
Nov. 23 Monday
JAZZ ENSEMBLE I
Jeffrey W. Holmes, director
Steve Sonntag, guest trumpeter; Eric Blanchet, guest conductor
Featuring compositions & arrangements by current & former faculty & students, including Jeff Holmes, Fred Tillis, Dave Sporny, Lester Franklin Newton, Ric Hirsch, Alex Lee-Clark, Brian Thomas & Chris Lapidas, plus a Zappa Medley & classics by Joe Zawinul & Oliver Nelson
8pm Bowker Auditorium$3-UMass Amherst students/ $5-Other students, seniors, children/ $10-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Nov. 24 Tuesday 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
TUESDAYS IN BEZANSON Celebrating the Music Faculty
Henri Dutilleux: Les Citations & Louis Spohr: Nonet
Elizabeth Chang, violin; Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Ayano Kataoka, percussion; Laura Klock, horn; Christopher Krueger, flute; Hannah van der Swaagh, viola; Salvatore Macchia, contrabass; Astrid Schween, cello; Michael Sussman, clarinet; Stephen Walt, bassoon; with Gregory Hayes, guest harpsichordist
$3-UMass Amherst students/ $5-Other students, seniors, children/ $10-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Henri Dutilleux
Nov. 30Monday 8pmBezanson Recital Hall
AVANTI WIND QUINTET
Christopher Krueger, flute; Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Michael Sussman, clarinet; Laura Klock, horn & Stephen Walt, bassoon with Judith Gordon, guest pianist
Includes Francis Poulenc: Sextuor, Scott Wheeler: Village Music, Erwin Schulhoff: Divertissement
$3-UMass Amherst students/ $5-Other students, seniors, children/ $10-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Dec. 1 Tuesday
FIVE COLLEGE EARLY MUSIC COLLEGIUM
Robert Eisenstein, director
Music of Josquin des Prez (c.1450 to 1521) Sublime motets, chansons and instrumental works by the great master of the High Renaissance, performed by the voices, viols and winds of the Collegium
8pm Bezanson Recital Hall No charge
Dec. 3 Thursday
WIND ENSEMBLE
James Patrick Miller, director
Carolyn Bremer: Early Light, Ottorino Respighi: Huntingtower, Dana Wilson: Dance of the New World, Percy Grainger: Sussex Mummers Christmas Carol & J.S. Bach: Mein Jesu, was fur Seelenweh
8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall $3-UMass Amherst students/ $5-Other students, seniors, children/ $10-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Dec. 4, 5 & 6 Fri, Sat & Sun
Glorious—Mark Morris & Chuck Davis! UNIVERSITY DANCERS Paul Dennis, director
With University Orchestra & Chamber Choir
Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr. & Tony Thornton, directors
Mark Morris’ setting of Vivaldi's Gloria; Chuck Davis’ Blue Grass/Brown Earth (story of Africa's contribution to Bluegrass music and the iconic banjo), a new ballet by Tom Vacanti set to Schubert's Quintet in C, & Carol Ceniti's jazz piece, Speed Machine
Glorious—Mark Morris & Chuck Davis! UNIVERSITY DANCERS Paul Dennis, director
With University Orchestra & Chamber Choir Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr. & Tony Thornton, directors
Mark Morris’ setting of Vivaldi's Gloria; Chuck Davis’ Blue Grass/Brown Earth (story of Africa's contribution to Bluegrass music and the iconic banjo), a new ballet by Tom Vacanti set to Schubert's Quintet in C, & Carol Ceniti's jazz piece, Speed Machine
Includes music of J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Pergolesi, Purcell, Randall Thompson, Pablo Casals & Henry Leck, plus folk songs, a bit of Broadway (Sweet Charity) & spirituals
4pmFirst Congregational Church, Main St., AmherstNo charge
Dec. 4 Friday
PAULINA STARK VOICE MASTERCLASS
Featuring Andrew Garland, American baritone & UMass alumnus
2:30-4:30pmBezanson Recital HallNo charge
Made possible through the Paulina Stark Vocal Program Enhancement Fund
November 9 Monday
BORROMEO STRING QUARTET MASTERCLASS
Coaching UMass Amherst chamber music groups
12:15 - 2:15 Music Dept.- String studios and classrooms
Nov. 15Sunday
Nursury Rhymes for Grown-Ups FACULTY RECITAL
William Hite, tenor With Laura Klock, horn & pianists Gregory Hayes & Ludmila Krasin
Featuring the world premiere of Prof. Emeritus Charles Bestor’s Nursury Rhymes for Grown-Ups, Jeff Myers’ The Age of Assassins set to poems by Arthur Rimbaud, songs by Mendelssohn and poems of Pushkin set to music by the Russian composers Borodin, Glinka & Rachmaninov
Astrid Schween with a young student 
Fredric T. Cohen with students 
Henri Dutilleux
