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Friday, October 26, 2012 << Previous Day Next Day >>
Masterclass: Mark Elf, jazz guitar
3:00pm, Stearns Building, Cady Room
Guitarist Mark Elf has been a staple of the jazz world for over 40 years. He has toured the globe, founded his own jazz label in 1995, and is a renowned clinician and performer. Free - no tickets required
Musicology Lecture: Fusion or Confusion?: The Making or Breaking of Tradition in Recent Experimentations by Hindustani Musicians - Stephen Slawek (University of Texas at Austin)
5:00pm, Burton Memorial Tower, Room 506
This paper examines the theoretical boundaries of musical tradition--and the potential factors that inform notions of authenticity--using examples that challenge the integrity of Hindustani sastriya sangita, the classical music of North India. My work calls on recent thinking concerning Peircean semiotics to analyze such elements as melodic materials, instrumentation, sonic quality, and performance etiquette. The central question is: What determines whether a musical innovation is a creative continuation of tradition or a destructive force that shortens the lifespan of the tradition?. Free - no tickets required
String Quartet Recital
7:00pm, Stearns Building, Cady Room
PROGRAM: Debussy - Quartet in G Minor, op. 10; Dvořák - Quartet in F Major, op. 96 (“American”); Mendelssohn - Quartet in A Minor, op. 13; Beethoven - Quartet in C Major, op. 59, no. 3; Berg - String Quartet, op. 3; Beethoven - Quartet in C Minor, op. 18, no. 4. Free - no tickets required
Symphony Band
8:00pm, Hill Auditorium
Michael Haithcock, conductor
Patricia Cornett, graduate conductor
Yehonatan Berick, violin
Composers known for their populist appeal transform images and metaphors of the human experience through the unspoken language of music. Aaron Copland’s El Salón México captures the vibrancy of a Mexican dance hall as Donald Grantham’s J’ai été au bal explores the joy of falling in love through the imagery of dance and Cajun folk songs. “American Maverick” Mason Bates provides a metaphorical joy ride through the “circuits” of our lives, while UM composer Evan Chambers paints a vivid picture of both despair and hope in his Outcry and Turning. Our own Michael Daugherty finds inspiration in the iconic images of Georgia O’Keefe’s skyscraper paintings for his Ladder to the Moon, featuring faculty artist Yehonatan Berick as violin soloist.
Pre-concert lecture with Evan Chambers, Michael Daugherty and Michael Haithcock at 7:15 in the Lower Lobby. For more information, see the Symphony Band YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/umsymphonyband
PROGRAM: Copland - El Salón México; Chambers - Outcry and Turning; Bates, Sea-Blue Circuitry, Patricia Cornett, graduate conductor; Daugherty - Ladder to the Moon, Yehonatan Berick, violin; Grantham - J'ai été au bal (“I went to the ball”). Free - no tickets required
Guest Recital: Hillary Herndon, Viola & Wei-Chun Bernadette Lo, Piano
8:00pm, Moore Building, Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Vaughan Williams - Romance; Britten - Lachrymae, op. 48 (“Reflections on a song of Dowland”); Bax - Legend; Bowen - Sonata no. 1 in C Minor. Free - no tickets required
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