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

Visit our vendors to try instruments and see the latest reed tools! 
Vendors: Fox Products, Nora Post Inc., Miller Double Reeds, Bel Canto Reeds, Charles Double Reed Co., Hickey's Music Center

For more information: swalt@music.umass.edu or fcohen@music.umass.edu

Fredric T. Cohen with students

Nov. 7  Saturday

CHAMBER CHOIR

Tony Thornton, director

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
No  charge