Monday, November 26th 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall Laura Klock, horn; with Elizabeth Chang, violin;Gilles Vonsattel, piano; Greg Spiridopoulos, trombone, & John Bottomley, tuba
Including Harbison: Twilight Music, Scriabin: Romance, & Macchia: Links, a premiere
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Laura Klock
University Orchestra
Wednesday, November 28th 8:15pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Dances by Anna Sokolow: Rooms (1955), Billbob Brown: Please/Thank You (with cellist Kristen Miller), Thomas Vacanti: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (with video artist Mark Piaget), Adrienne Hawkins: You'll know it when you get there (set to music by Art of Noise), and a traditional West African dance by Marilyn and Sekou Sylla
Saturday, December 1st (concert also on Friday, Nov. 30) 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Paul Dennis, director
Dances by Anna Sokolow: Rooms (1955), Billbob Brown: Please/Thank You (with cellist Kristen Miller), Thomas Vacanti: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (with video artist Mark Piaget), Adrienne Hawkins: You'll know it when you get there (set to music by Art of Noise), and a traditional West African dance by Marilyn and Sekou Sylla
Saturday, December 1st 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall No charge
Guest Artist: JOSHUA GREENE, Assistant Conductor, Metropolitan Opera
Greene, who holds a B.M. from The Mannes College of Music and an M.M. from the Manhatten School of Music, assisted Daniel Barenboim with Tristan and Isolde and James Levine with Orfeo ed Euridice, The Magic Flute, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg and Falstaff. He was Music Director of the New York City Opera National Company, conducting more than 30 performers of La Traviata in the U.S. and Canada. A noted recital acompanist, he has performed with singers such as Jerry Hadley, Jane Bunnell, Joyce Guyer, Carolyn James, and James Morris, at New York's Merkin Concert Hall and Carnegie-Weill Recital Hall, and the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena.
This Masterclass is part of a Guest Artist Residency, hosted by Professors Nadine Shank, Piano Coordinator, & William Hite, Voice Area Coordinator, and made possible through the generosity of the UMass Amherst College of Humanities & Fine Arts, Julie C. Hayes, Dean.
Graduate Recital
Saturday, December 1st 3pm Fine Arts Center, Room 44
Jeff Schneider, jazz
Free
Faculty Voice Recital: Amy Johnson, soprano Imagination Creates Reality, the Music of Richard Wagner
Tuesday, November 27 (Rescheduled from Nov. 3)
8pm New location: Immanuel Lutheran Church, 867 N. Pleasant St., Amherst Amy Johnson, soprano; with Marjorie Melnick, mezzo-soprano, William Hite, tenor & guest artists Joshua Greene, assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera and Vernon Hartman, Metropolitan Opera baritone
In anticipation of the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth, an all-Wagner recital will be performed. Including Wesendonck Lieder, Trois Melodies,Les Adieux de Maria Stuart and the Quintet from Die Meistersinger
No charge; donations welcome to benefit the Opera Workshop program of the Music & Dance Department
