March 27 Tuesday

TUESDAYS IN BEZANSON: JAZZ

Faculty performers: Thomas Giampietro, Catherine Jensen-Hole, Felipe Salles & guests

8pm   Bezanson Recital Hall    ($3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors) Buy Tickets Online

March 27 Tuesday

TAO: THE WAY OF THE DRUM

Athletic bodies, contemporary costumes & explosive Taiko drumming

Fine Arts Center Asian Arts & Culture program

7:30pm  Fine Arts Center Concert Hall   www.umasstix.com

March 30 Friday

UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA, CHAMBER CHOIR & CHORALE

Vince Lee, conductor
Yevgeny Kutik, guest violinist

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 sites  No charge

March 31 Saturday

ERNIE WATTS & FRIENDS

Ernie Watts, saxophone, with combo & Jazz Ensemble I, Jeffrey W Holmes, director

8pm  Bowker Auditorium    For tickets: 413 545 2511 or  www.umasstix.com

Junior Recital

David Morris, saxophone

Ryan McNiece, saxophone

Thursday, March 29, 7:30 pm

Bezanson Recital Hall

Free

Master's Degree Recital

Jeff Novotny, jazz

Wednesday, March 28, 8 PM

Jones Library, Amherst

Free

March 30  Friday  1:25pm   Bezanson Recital Hall

MUSIC THEORY LECTURE SERIES

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