Take advantage of the next two week of concerts offered by the School of Music. A full listing of all concerts and events is available at ithaca.edu/concerts; some highlights are featured below. Take advantage of the next two week of concerts offered by the School of Music. A full listing of all concerts and events is available at ithaca.edu/concerts; some highlights are featured below.
Can't make it? Web-streamed performances are available live and on demand at ithaca.edu/music/live. Check the expanded webcasting schedule for more information!
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19
The Manley and Doriseve Thaler Jazz Concert: The John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble
7:00 p.m. | Ford Hall
Topping the “Rising Star Big Band” category in DownBeat’s 2011 and 2012 Critics’ Poll, the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble has released two Grammy-nominated recordings, A Blessing in 2006 and eternal interlude in 2009. NPR describes this 19-piece contemporary big band's sound as combining “The regulated insistence of classical minimalism with the flexible color palette of jazz."
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21
James Houlik, saxophone
7:00 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22
Student Showcase Recital
12:00 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
A student-organized array of performances by students
African Drumming and Dance
8:15 p.m. | Ford Hall
Baruch Whitehead, director
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23
Guest Recital: Paul Hanson, bassoon
7:00pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
paulhansonmusic.com
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24
Faculty Recital: Richard Faria, bass clarinet
2:00 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
With pianist Diane Birr and oboist Paige Morgan | Music of Stark, Oxford, Perich, Dorff, and Mellits.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26
Lecture on Sports and Music by Timothy Johnson and Elijah Breton
5:00 p.m. | Iger, JJWCM 2105
After Dinner Mint
7:00 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
A School of Music Faculty Showcase: Movie Night
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27
Gamer Symphony Orchestra
8:15 p.m. | Ford Hall
Music from the world of video games performed by a full symphony orchestra
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
Master Class: Louis K. Thaler Concert Violinist Series Masterclass: Mark Steinberg, violin
7:00 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
Louis K. Thaler Concert Violinist Series: Mark Steinberg, violin & Marija Stroke, piano
8:15 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in E Major, BWV 1016
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata No. 1 in f minor, op. 80
Ferrucio Busoni: Sonata No. 2 in e mionr, op. 36a
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
Ensemble X Presents ICU Sound Works
8:15 p.m. | Ford Hall
ICU Sound Works is a new endeavor that seeks to build on the collaboration between music students and faculty at IC and CU. The emphasis will be on special ensemble projects that demonstrate the excellence of music-making on both hills. Dean Karl Paulnack and Xak Bjerken are featured as piano soloists with conductors Jeffery Meyer and Chris Younghoon Kim. The program includes Stravinsky’s Octet, Anders Hillborg’s Vaporized Tivoli, Decet by Can Bilir, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Nazareno.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31
Chamber Orchestra
7:00 p.m. | Ford Hall
Join graduate student Mario Torres in the first concert of the culmination of his conducting study at Ithaca College with Beethoven’s iconic Egmont Overture and Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat, the story of the devil and a soldier, aptly chosen for this Halloween evening.
The Music of Paul Smadbeck; Mr. Smadbeck, guest composer
7:00 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Faculty Recital: Susan Waterbury, violin and Elizabeth Simkin, cello
4:00 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Music of Ravel and Britten.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble
7:00 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall
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