Sunday, December 2nd 3pm, First Congregational Church, 165 Main St. Amherst
Stephen A. Paparo, Chorale conductor Sarah Bowe, Joshua Harper, Geoffrey Herrmann & Nhung Truong, graduate conductors
Includes music by Eric Whitacre: The Seal Lullaby; Morten Lauridsen: Dirait-on; Michael Praetorius: Jubilate Deoand Psallite, unigenito; Barbara Baker: The Storm is Passing Over; Andrea Ramsey: Heaven Unfolding & many other selections
No charge
Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Monday, December 3rd 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Catherine Jensen-Hole, director
Featuring Paris Rutherford's reharmonized arrangement of Livingston/Evans' a capella ballad, Never Let Me Go, commisioned by the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, plus compositions & arrangements by Jensen-Hole & others
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Symphony Band & Percussion Ensemble
Tuesday, December 4th 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Heidi Miller & Michael Compitello, conductors
Symphony Band Repertoire: Ron Nelson's Lauds; John Barnes Chance's Incantation and Dance; Eric Ewazen's Hymn for the Lost and the Living; Ronald Lo Presti's Elegy for a Young American; and David Stanhope's Folksongs for Band, Suite No. 3
Percussion Ensemble Repertoire: Jason Treuting's Extremes, Toru Takemitsu's Rain Tree, and John Cage's She is Asleep and Third Construction
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Avanti Plus: Glorious Mozart
CANCELLED/ RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 7
Faculty/Student Chamber Music Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Michael Sussman, clarinet; Laura Klock, horn; Stephen Walt, bassoon, Gilles Vonsattel, piano & students
Featuring Mozart: Piano Quintet, K. 452 & Gran Partita
Chapel Jazz & Jazz Lab Ensembles
Thursday, December 6th 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Felipe Salles, Tom Giampietro, Micah Maurio, & Jeff Schneider, directors
Featuring Duke Ellington's Cottontail & Nutcracker Suite Overture, Felipe Salles' The Journey, Wayne Shorter's Fee Fi Fo Fum, Sammy Nestico's Basie Straight Ahead & music by Thad Jones, Thelonious Monk, Ellen Rowe & others
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Five College Early Music Collegium The Floating City
Thursday, December 6th 8pm New Location: St. Theresa Catholic Church, 9 E. Parkview Dr., South Hadley
Robert Eisenstein, director
Renaissance music from Venice for voices, winds & strings, including Advent & Christmas music
No Charge
Wind Ensemble
Friday, December 7th 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
James Patrick Miller, conductor Featuring Eric Berlin, trumpet & Greg Spiridopoulos, trombone
Jeffrey W. Holmes: Continuum for Trumpet, Trombone & Wind Ensemble (World Premiere), Evan Hause: Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble, Einojuhani Rautavaara: Solitamessu, Gordon Jacob: Old Wine in New Bottles, and Paul Hindemith: March from Symphonic Metamorphosis
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Eric Berlin
Masters Recital
Thursday, December 6th 7:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Kristen Wallentinsen, violin
Free
Friday night, December 7-8 at 12 midnight
MIDNIGHT MESSIAH SING-ALONG
Handel's Messiah
Joshua Harper, conductor with Emma Donahue, soprano; Kaara McHugh, Nhung Truong & Liana Gineitis, alto; Timothy Sherriffs, tenor & Andrew Scoglio, bass
Orchestra comprised of UMass graduate & undergraduate students
Scores for singing will be provided.
Choir rehearsal (optional) at 10:30pm on Friday, Dec. 7 in Rm. 44, Music wing, FAC
Eric Berlin
Joshua Harper, conductor