Take advantage of the more than 350 concerts offered each year by the School of Music. A full listing of all concerts and events is available at ithaca.edu/concerts; this week's are listed below.
Can't make it? Web-streamed performances are available live and on demand at ithaca.edu/music/live. Check the webcasting schedule for more information!
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2
8:15 p.m. | Ford Hall
Percussion Ensemble
Gordon Stout, director
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3
7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Woodwind Chamber Ensembles
8:15 p.m. | Ford Hall
Sinfonietta and Campus Choral Ensemble
James Mick and Susan Avery, conductors
Sinfonietta:
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony, first movement
Saint Saents: Danse Macabre
Corelli: Concerto Grosso No 8, Op 6
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite #1 selections
Holst: Jupiter from The Planets
Webstreamed live at www.ithaca.edu/music/live, and available on-demand approximately four days after the concert
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4
7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Faculty Recital: Nathan Hess, piano
John Corigliano: Fantasia on an Ostinato
George Perle: Fantasy Variations
Ned Rorem: Recalling
Samuel Barber: Sonata in E-flat minor, Op. 26
8:15 p.m. | Ford Hall
Wind Ensemble
Frank Battisti,The Col. Arnald Gabriel '50 HDRMU '89 Visiting Wind Conductor, guest conductor
Stephen Peterson, conductor
Igor Stravinsky: Symphonies d'instruments à vent
Darius Milhaud: Suite Francaise
Roger Zare: Mare Tranquillitatis
Steven Bryant: Concerto for Wind Ensemble
Webstreamed live at www.ithaca.edu/music/live, and available on-demand approximately four days after the concert
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5
7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Piano/String Ensembles
8:15 p.m. | Ford Hall
Concert and Symphonic Bands
Frank Battisti,The Col. Arnald Gabriel '50 HDRMU '89 Visiting Wind Conductor, guest conductor
Mark Fonder and Elizbeth Peterson, conductors
Concert Band: "Windband Classics"
Samuel Barber: Commando March
Ronald LoPresti: Elegy for a Young American
Vincent Persichetti: Symphony for Band
Symphonic Band:
Karel Husa: Smetana Fanfare
Gustav Holst: First Suite in E flat
Aaron Copland: Promise of Living
John Mackey: Strange Humors
Webstreamed live at www.ithaca.edu/music/live, and available on-demand approximately four days after the concert
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6
6:30 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Quartet Seminar Concert
8:15 p.m. | Ford Hall
Jazz Ensemble
Mike Titlebaum, director
"Kinda Monkish." The music of jazz pianist/composer Thelonious Monk will be performed as "head charts" --- music learned by ear, performed without reading any sheet music.
Webstreamed live at www.ithaca.edu/music/live, and available on-demand approximately four days after the concert
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7
12 p.m. | Ford Hall
Campus Band and Campus Jazz Ensemble
Dan Isbell & Bill Tiberio, directors
Campus Band:
Zdechlik: Chorale and Shaker Dance
Ticheli: Amazing Grace
Chance: Variations on a Korean Folk Song
Daehn: With Quiet Courage
Allen/Cramer: Whip and Spur
Whitacre: October
Vaughan Williams: Flourish for Wind Band
Nelhybel: Festivo
Webstreamed live at www.ithaca.edu/music/live, and available on-demand approximately four days after the concert
8:15 p.m. | Ford Hall
Symphony Orchestra
Brian DeMaris and Jose Luis Novo, conductors
Wagner: Overture to Das Liebesverbot
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major
Webstreamed live at www.ithaca.edu/music/live, and available on-demand approximately four days after the concert
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8
3 p.m. | Ford Hall
Winter Choral Concert
Janet Galvan and Derrick Fox, conductors
Webstreamed live at www.ithaca.edu/music/live, and available on-demand approximately four days after the concert
Chorus:
Rutter: Gloria
8:15 p.m. | Ford Hall
Percussion Ensemble
Conrad Alexander, director
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