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.
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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.
Sara Bakker (Courtesy of Indiana University)