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April 2013
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MUSIC
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Online Ticketing page: fac.umass.edu/MusicandDance
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April 16 Wednesday 7:30pm
Abbey Chapel, Mt. Holyoke College
FIVE COLLEGE COLLEGIUM
Spring Returns!
Robert Eisenstein, director
Beyond Compère: Music of the French Renaissance
Mass movements, motets and chansons by Compère, Mouton, Crequillon and Manchicourt performed by voices and Renaissance winds.
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April 16 Wed. 8pm Bowker Auditorium
BRASS FEST
Eric Berlin, John Bottomley, Laura Klock & Greg Spiridopoulos, directors
Trumpet & Tuba/Euphonium Ensembles; Brass, Horn & Trombone Choirs perform Wagner, Britten, Grieg, Mahler & others
Free & open to the public
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April 17 Thursday 8pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
WIND ENSEMBLE
James Patrick Miller, conductor
Guest artists: Allyss Haecker, soprano (pictured) & Arthur Haecker, conductor & trombonist
Music by Frank Ticheli, Gabriel Fauré, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jayce Ogren & Paul Hindemith
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April 18 Friday 1:25pm FAC Room 44
MUSIC THEORY SPEAKERS' SERIES
Guest: Poundie Burstein,
Distinguished Professor,
City University of New York
Neo-Kochian Theory and Mid-18th Century Sonata-Form Exposition
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April 22 Tues. 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
SYMPHONY BAND & PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
James Patrick Miller & Ayano Kataoka, directors
Music by John Barnes Chance, Joseph Wilcox Jenkins, Dana Wilson, George Antheil's Ballet Mécanique & Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy
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April 23 Wed. 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
Tian Hui Ng, conductor
Amanda Hall, guest soprano
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs & Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op.73
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Ticketed concerts:
Free for Music/Dance majors or minors (except special events)
$3 for UMass Amherst students (except Dance concerts)
$5 for other students, seniors & children under 18
$10 for general public
Box Office 413-545-2511 or usually available at the door
Online Ticketing page: fac.umass.edu/MusicandDance
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OFF-CAMPUS PERFORMANCES
Minuteman Marching Band, Timothy T. Anderson, director
Thomas Hannum, associate director
Macy's Thankgiving Day Parade
New York City,
November 28, 2013
5th Annual Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference, Dallas
January 8-11, 2014
UMass Amherst Jazz Nonet, Jan 11, 12 noon, Conservatory Stage
Student Composition Showcase, Jan 11, 2pm, Pegasus Ballroom, includes September Again by winning composer & JAAMS student Lucas Apostoleris
Jeffrey W. Holmes with Earl MacDonald & the Jazz Education All-Stars,
Jan. 10, 12 noon, Inspirations Stage
Jazz & African-American Studies Music Program
has a booth (#410) with Jazz in July.
Chamber Choir, Tony Thornton, conductor
At the Eastern Div. Conference, American Choral Directors Association,
Baltimore, February 5-8, 2014
www.acdaeast.org
UMass Amherst Symphony Band, James Patrick Miller, conductor
At the College Band Directors Assoc. Eastern Div. Conference
New England Conservatory, Boston, March 6, 2014
With guests: percussionist Michael Burritt; composers Gunther Schuller & Daniel Nelson; conductors Heidi Johanna Miller, Robert Franzblau & Timothy T. Anderson
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FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS:
Here is a Video about the Music Program at UMass Amherst
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