Wind Ensemble

Wednesday, March 27th
8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall

James Patrick Miller, artistic director

Charles O'Brien, graduate conductor

Works by Gounod, Ticheli, Husa, J.S. Bach, and Grainger 

Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors
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University Orchestra

Thursday, March 28th
8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall

Teresa Cheung, conductor

Soloists: Concerto Competition Winners Erik Anundson, alto saxophone & Robert T. Scott, percussion

Music: Pierre Max Dubois Concerto pour saxophone alto, Movement I;  Joseph Schwanter: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra, Movement I & Gustav Holst: The Planets

Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors
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Infinity Brass

Friday, March 29th
8pm Bezanson Recital Hall

Eric Berlin & Steve Felix, trumpet; Laura Klock, horn; Greg Spirdopoulos, trombone; & John Bottomley, tuba

Featuring UMass alumnus Edward Jacobs' Passed Time and music from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story

Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors
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Faculty Piano Recital

Saturday, March 30th
8pm Bezanson Recital Hall

Gilles Vonsattel, piano

Repertoire: Beethoven: Six Bagatelles, Op. 126; Heinz Holliger: Partita; Ravel: Sonatine & Gaspard de la Nuit; Honegger: Hommage à Ravel

Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors
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Graduate Recital

Maki Matsui, voice

Saturday, March 30, 4:00pm

Bezanson Recital Hall

Free

Extending Cage's Legacy, Lecture in Music Theory

Rob Haskins, Professor, University of New Hampshire

Friday, March 29, 2013,  1:25pm

Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass Amherst campus

ABOUT THE LECTURE: Since the late 1980s, many scholars have wrestled with Cage’s ideas with varying results. The lecture will offer a provisional assessment of Cage's achievement, including both unjustified and justified criticism of that achievement by other scholars; it will point toward productive ways in which we can engage with and creatively extend Cage’s important legacy, using theater as the principal example. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Rob Haskins, Associate Professor of Music History at the University of New Hampshire, holds a D.M.A. in harpsichord and Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music. He specializes in American music in the second half of the twentieth century, especially the music of John Cage. He has presented papers on Cage in Germany, Canada, and the U.S.  His most recent book is John Cage (Reaktion Books).  He recorded for Mode Records and served as musical Director for Alarm Will Sound’s 2012 new production of John Cage’s Song Books at the Holland Festival Abrons and River to River Festival (New York).

THIS EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

March 26  Monday  7:30pm
Bezanson Recital Hall

SENIOR VIOLA RECITAL

Bonnie Heung, viola

Free