NEW ORLEANS @ UMASS
Friday, March 9, 2012
New Orleans--Food with Chef Susan Spicer & Music with Washboard Chaz Blues Trio DetailsOnline Ticketing
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SPECIAL OFF-CAMPUS PERFORMANCES Click or scroll down
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Donate $100 or more, & receive our Department CD, with performances by our music & dance ensembles, as a thank you!
February 11 Saturday 7pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall 27th ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL HONOR BAND
James Patrick Miller, conductor/coordinator
Travis J. Cross, guest conductor/composer
Featuring the finest wind & percussion high school musicians in New England/the Northeast
No charge
Travis J. Cross
Amy Johnson
February 14 Tuesday 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall TUESDAYS IN BEZANSON
Faculty Performers: Amy Johnson, soprano; Marjorie Melnick, mezzo-soprano; William Hite, tenor; John Salvi (Alum BM'97, MM'00), baritone; Ayano Kataoka, percussion; Lynn Klock, saxophone; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Nadine Shank & Nicholas Shaneyfelt, piano
Includes Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzer, Op. 52; Somei Satoh: Birds in Warped Time II (viola/percussion); Pierre Lantier: Sicilienne (Alto saxophone/piano)
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children & seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass Music Majors/Minors
Box Office 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
February 17 Friday 1:25pm Room 44, Music wing MUSIC THEORY LECTURE SERIES
Speaker: Professor Gary Karpinski, Coordinator of Music Theory at UMass Amherst
Ambiguity: Another Listen An homage to the late music theorist Steve Larson and his ambigrams, constructed from ambiguous figures, which can be read the same way right-side-up or upside-down. The talk also explores how metric and tonal ambiguity affect music analysis and pedagogy.
Free & open to the public
Phil Giampietro
February 20 Monday 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
Phil Giampietro, euphonium with Nikki Stoia, piano
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children & seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass Music Majors/Minors. 413-545-2511
Something new for Lovers of Jazz, Food & New Orleans
Friday, March 9, 2012 6pm
Campus Center Auditorium BUY TICKETS
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, and Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Catherine Jensen-Hole, also perform.
Tickets: $65, includes dinner/concert,
413 545 2511 or Buy Tickets Online
Chamber Singers,
Tony Thornton, director
"Ensemble in Residence" for the Institute on Renaissance Music
American Choral Directors Associations Eastern Division Conference
Providence, Rhode Island
February 14, 2012
Marimba Ensembles, Thomas Hannum, director Friday, Feb. 3, 2012: Concert & Workshop at Syosset H.S., Long Island, NY
and Concert, Workshop & Masterclass at Manhasset H.S., NY
Saturday, Feb. 4: Clinic at Suffolk County Music Educators' Association
Day of Percussion, Sayville H.S., NY
UMass Studio Orchestra, Jeffrey W. Holmes, director
with special guest, jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan
Performance at the 3rd Annual Jazz Education Network Conference,
Galt Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky
The defining national/international annual Jazz Educator event
Friday, January 6, 2012, 11am
One of the best music schools/departments in Massachusetts and in New England, offering graduate and undergraduate Music Education, Jazz, Performance and Music Theory degrees and programs.
Phil Giampietro 
Washboard Chaz
Susan Spicer 