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
Rebecca Clarke:Duo for Viola & Clarinet, Henri Dutilleux: Les Citations & Ludwig Spohr: Nonet
Elizabeth Chang, violin; Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Ayano Kataoka, percussion; Laura Klock, horn; Christopher Krueger, flute; Kathryn Lockwood, 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
Rebecca Clarke
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
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 the Vivaldi 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 Friday & Saturday, 8pm & Sunday, 3pm Bowker Auditorium $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 the Vivaldi 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 Friday & Saturday, 8pm & Sunday, 3pm Bowker Auditorium $3-UMass Amherst students/ $5-Other students, seniors, children/ $10-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Nov. 22Sunday
UNIVERSITY CHORALE & WOMEN’S CHOIR
Tony Thornton, director
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 
Rebecca Clarke
