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Dance Concert - Thereafter: Art of Understanding
Totman Performance Lab
7:30 pm
New choreography by UMass dance faculty Lauren Cox & Molly Fletcher Lynch-Clark, Hampshire College's Lailye Weidman, plus Lucinda Childs' "Dance 1" from her collaboration with Philip Glass & Sol LeWitt
Brass Chamber Music Concert
Bezanson Recital Hall
7:30 pm
Chamber music performed by ensembles from our combined brass studios.
Student Chamber Music - Brahms Trios
Bezanson Recital Hall, Free
2:00 pm
Horn Trio in E flat, Op. 40 and Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8 by Johannes Brahms
Holiday Card to Amherst: Choral Ensembles
Tillis Performance Hall
7:30 pm
Our combined choirs performing a delightful mix of spirituals, choral classics, and seasonal favorites to help ring in the holidays, including audience sing-alongs.
Including guest ensemble, UMass Gospel Choir, Maya Powe, conductor
Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Bezanson Recital Hall
1:00 pm
Catherine Jensen-Hole, director
Includes Brazilian and jazz standards, new repertoire from Rosana Eckert and Catherine Jensen-Hole, music of Chaka Khan and Elton John, and much more.
Graduate Woodwind Quintet
Bezanson Recital Hall, Free
4:30 pm
The quintet performs its end-of-semester concert, featuring classic and contemporary repertoire for the ensemble.
UMass Symphony Orchestra
Tillis Performance Hall
7:30 pm
Gonzalo Hidalgo Ardila, conductor
Verdi's Nabucco Overture, Mozart's Flute Concerto in G Major, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade - ONLINE TICKETING
Cobus du Toit, faculty flute soloist
Concert Band
Tillis Performance Hall
7:30 pm
Includes a premiere by Jeffrey W. Holmes for solo marimba and band, honoring the career of Thom Hannum - ONLINE TICKETING
Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band
Tillis Performance Hall
7:30 pm
Matthew Westgate and Lindsay Bronnenkant, conductors - ONLINE TICKETING
Stephen Peterson, guest conductor
Works by Felipe Salles, Edward Elgar, Dmitri Shostakovich, David Maslanka & more
Midnight Messiah - Choral Concert
Bezanson Recital Hall, Free
11:00 pm
The traditional holiday-time performance of Handel's Messiah by UMass and Five College choristers, led by graduate conductors Mallory Coakley & Miles Anglin.
