The School of Music presents three concerts and two lectures celebrating the centennial of the birth of the well-known American composer Samuel Barber.
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is familiar to many listeners through his work Adagio for Strings, which has appeared in movies, was broadcast on the radio after the deaths of presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy, and, more recently, was even used as a dance mix. The School of Music will present three concerts celebrating Barber's works, during which all of Barber's compositions for solo voice and piano will be performed, along with several other works including the Adagio for Strings. Concerts will be held Monday, Oct. 25, and 8:15 in Ford Hall; Tuesday, Oct. 26 at 8:15 in Hockett Recital Hall; and Thursday, Oct. 28 in Hockett Recital Hall. Performers are School of Music faculty members Randie Blooding, Patrice Pastore, Carol McAmis, Deborah Montgomery-Cove, Jennifer Kay, Amanda DeMaris, Brad Hougham, and Dawn Pierce, voice; Nathan Hess and Wenqing Zhang, piano; and the Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jeffery Meyer and Chun-Ming Chen with faculty soloists Paige Morgan, oboe; Wendy Mehne, fulte; and Frank Campos, trumpet. All concerts are free and open to the public. Additionally, assistant professor of music theory Peter Silberman will present two pre-concert lectures: "The Songs of Samuel Barber" on Monday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 pm in Iger Lecture Hall (Whalen 2105) and "Multi-Level Pitch Organization in Barber's Four Songs, Op. 13" on Tuesday Oct. 26 at 6 pm in Iger Lecture Hall.
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