Something new for Lovers of Jazz, Food & New Orleans
Friday, March 9, 2012,Campus Center Auditorium, 6pm doors open, 6:30pm music begins
The Food: Famed Chef Susan Spicer, winner of James Beard’s Lifetime Achievement Award, will cook a four-course meal of contemporary Louisiana cuisine & demonstrate a recipe. She co-owns Bayona, one of New Orleans’ top restaurants.
The Music:The Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, a New Orleans favorite, will play Delta, Piedmont and Chicago Style Blues. UMass Jazz Ensemble I, Jeffrey W. Holmes, director, also performs.
SOLD OUT
Feb. 26 Sunday 4pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
College Band Directors Eastern Division Conference Preview
James Patrick Miller, conductor; Timothy Anderson, guest conductor Lynn Klock, saxophone, Laura Klock, horn
Concertos by Dana Wilson & Karel Husa, Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Copland's Down a Country Lane, Holst's 1st Suite for Military Band & others
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Music by Jacob Druckman, Tom Johnson, Xenakis & Macchia
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Mar. 1, 2 & 3 Thursday, Friday, Saturday
FIVE COLLEGE FACULTY DANCE CONCERT
The Five College Dance Department presents five new dances: a new group work by NYC choreographer Monica Bill Barnes; director of NYC’s Chamber Dance Project Diane Coburn Brunning: torrid zone; Hampshire guest artist Cathy Nicoli: Subtext-Interject; UMass professor Tom Vacanti: Rinforzare & Amherst professor Wendy Woodson: (re)place
8pmKirby Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for students and free for Amherst College faculty/students/staff with AC ID. Early reservations are recommended and can be made by email at fcddance.reservations@gmail.com or by calling 413-538-2848. Reservations after Feb. 26 can be made at 413-542-2277.
Mar. 1, 2 & 3 Thursday, Friday, Saturday
FIVE COLLEGE FACULTY DANCE CONCERT
The Five College Dance Department presents five new dances: a new group work by NYC choreographer Monica Bill Barnes; director of NYC’s Chamber Dance Project Diane Coburn Brunning: torrid zone; Hampshire guest artist Cathy Nicoli: Subtext-Interject; UMass professor Tom Vacanti: Rinforzare & Amherst professor Wendy Woodson: (re)place
8pmKirby Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for students and free for Amherst College faculty/students/staff with AC ID. Early reservations are recommended and can be made by email at fcddance.reservations@gmail.com or by calling 413-538-2848. Reservations after Feb. 26 can be made at 413-542-2277.
Mar. 1, 2 & 3 Thursday, Friday, Saturday
FIVE COLLEGE FACULTY DANCE CONCERT
The Five College Dance Department presents five new dances: a new group work by NYC choreographer Monica Bill Barnes; director of NYC’s Chamber Dance Project Diane Coburn Brunning: torrid zone; Hampshire guest artist Cathy Nicoli: Subtext-Interject; UMass professor Tom Vacanti: Rinforzare & Amherst professor Wendy Woodson: (re)place
8pmKirby Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for students and free for Amherst College faculty/students/staff with AC ID. Early reservations are recommended and can be made by email at fcddance.reservations@gmail.com or by calling 413-538-2848. Reservations after Feb. 26 can be made at 413-542-2277.
Mar. 4 Sunday
STRING DAY
Annual event for string players of all ages: pre-college students & their parents, private or classroom string teachers & orchestra directors
Includes faculty concert, masterclass, informal orchestra rehearsal & mini-concert.All participants should bring their instruments.
With UMass Professors Elizabeth Chang (violin), Kathryn Lockwood (viola & coordinator), Astrid Schween (cello), Salvatore Macchia (bass) & Opus One Chamber Orchestra
9am-3:30pmFine Arts Center, Music Wing
Registration Due date: 2/21
In advance: $25 for students, includes lunch; Parents & teachers free (Optional lunch $10)
Late applicants accepted as space permits: $35 (lunch not included)
31st ANNUAL JAZZ SHOWCASE: Spotlight on New Orleans
Special guests: Washboard Chaz Blues Trio
Ensembles: Jazz Ensemble I, Chapel Jazz, Jazz Lab & Vocal Jazz
Directors: Thomas Giampietro, Jeffrey W. Holmes, Catherine Jensen-Hole, Felipe Salles, David Sporny, Jon C. Gardner & Micah Maurio
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
March 9 Friday
MUSIC THEORY LECTURE SERIES
Speaker: Sara Bakker, Indiana University PhD student in Music Theory
Playing with Patterns: Rhythm, Meter and Form in Ligeti’s Fanfares (1985), an investigation of the connection between rhythmic repetition and its large-scale significance.
Works by Stuart S. Smith: Castine for marimba & amplified off-stage voice, Alejandro Viñao: Book of Grooves, Vincent Calianno: The Light elusive & others
With guest artists: Sharif Mamoun & Joshua Perry, percussion, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello & Jerry Noble, piano
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
March 14 Wednesday 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Justin Falvo, graduate conductor & James Patrick Miller, artistic director Percy Grainger, Edvard Grieg, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jeffrey Brooks & more
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
March 27 Tuesday
TUESDAYS IN BEZANSON: JAZZ
Faculty performers: Thomas Giampietro, Catherine Jensen-Hole, Felipe Salles & guests
8pmBezanson Recital Hall ($3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors) Buy Tickets Online
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto & Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall($3 UMass students, $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors) Buy Tickets Online
March 31 Saturday
14th ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ FESTIVAL
Jeffrey W. Holmes, coordinator
Performances by H.S. Jazz ensembles; adjudications & clinics by UMass Jazz faculty & guests including Ernie Watts, sax
9am-6pm Bezanson Recital Hall& Music Wing sitesNo charge
March 31 Saturday
ERNIE WATTS & FRIENDS
Ernie Watts, saxophone, with combo & Jazz Ensemble I, Jeffrey W Holmes, director
Speaker: Charity Lofthouse, Professor at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Solving the Crime: Formal Foreshadowing & the Mystery of A-Flat Minor in Bernard Herrmann's Psycho score
Free & open to the public
Senior Recital
Geoff Herrmann, voice
Saturday, March 31, 4:00 PM
Amherst Unitarian
Free
March 26 Monday 7:30pm Unitarian Universalist Society
FACULTY RECITAL
Amy Johnson, Soprano With Elizabeth Chang, violin; Laura Klock, horn; Nadine Shank, piano & women singers from Ms. Johnson's voice studio
Music: Mozart: Per Pieta from "Cosi fan tutte"; Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs, Op. 27; Charpentier: Songs; Korngold: Songs of a Clown based on Fest the Fool's monologues in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"; Richard Pearson Thomas: Race for the Sky, written immediately after September 11th
Location: Unitarian Universalist Society, 121 North Pleasant St. Amherst, MA 01002
Admission: Admission is free, a donation is suggested
Alive With Dance presents Sunday Dance Series! Come out and join us for a day full of dancing.
Featuring the Ballroom Dance Team, Belly Dance Club, and Hip Hop Organization!
Only $6 a class! Or take all 7 classes for $36 and get one free! ... All proceeds benefit the Alive With Dance senior concert in April!
Location: Totman Gym, Studio 13
10:00-11:00 ChaCha-- Ballroom Dance Team 11:00-11:45 Contemporary-- Sarah Elaz 12:00-1:00 Belly Dance-- Belly Dance Club 1:00-1:45 Tap-- Jeff Gugliotti 1:45-2:30 Lunch Break 2:30-3:30 Break Dance-- Hip Hop Organization 3:30-4:15 Jazz-- Justine Picarello 4:30-5:30 Hip Hop-- Christen Vanyur
Sara Bakker (Courtesy of Indiana University)
