Percussion...Jazz...Orchestra...Beethoven...and more - there's a lot happening at Whalen!
Full calendar at: ithaca.edu/music/events
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9
8:15pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Faculty Recital: Calvin Wiersma, violin
with Kyle Armbrust, viola, Greg Hesselink, cello, and Alison Wahl, soprano.
Mozart’s G Major Duo for violin and viola;
Along the Field for soprano and violin by Vaughan Williams;
Duo Sonata for violin and cello by Ravel;
songs by Piazzolla
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
5:00pm | Nabenhauer Recital Room
Ithaca Music Forum: Kwami Coleman, speaker
8:15pm | Ford Hall
Lecture Recital with Orchestra
Graduate conductor Andrew Kim will discuss and conduct selections from Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
2:00pm | Ford Hall
Percussion Ensembles
Mike Truesdell and Conrad Alexander, directors
This concert will be livestreamed at ithaca.edu/music/live/watch/ and will be available on-demand a few days after the concert.
8:15pm | Ford Hall
Jazz Ensemble
Mike Titlebaum, director
Bill Holman: Tree Frog, Told You So, Donna Lee
Duke Ellington: Harlem Airshaft, Concerto for Cootie, Main Stem
Thad Jones: Groove Merchant, Us
This concert will be livestreamed at ithaca.edu/music/live/watch/ and will be available on-demand a few days after the concert.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13
4:00pm | Ford Hall
Orchestra
Octavio Mas-Arocas, conductor
Susan Waterbury, violin; Elizabeth Simkin, cello; Dmitri Novgorodsky, piano
Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann: Gravitacoes
Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, Piano, and Orchestra, Op. 56
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, op. 47
This concert will be livestreamed at ithaca.edu/music/live/watch/ and will be available on-demand a few days after the concert.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14
7:00pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas: Concert II
In honor of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the birth of the immortal German master composer, Dr. Charis Dimaras - along with his current students and select recent alumni - presents the entire epic cycle in eight concerts throughout the 2019-2020 academic year.
On this program:
Sonatas Op. 22, 27/2 (Moonlight), 49/1 & 2 and 90
8:15pm | Ford Hall
Concert Band
Benjamin Rochford, conductor
This concert will be livestreamed at ithaca.edu/music/live/watch/ and will be available on-demand a few days after the concert.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15
8:15pm | Ford Hall
Wind Ensemble
Christopher Hughes, conductor
This concert will be livestreamed at ithaca.edu/music/live/watch/ and will be available on-demand a few days after the concert.
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All concerts are free and open to the public.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact:
Erik Kibelsbeck at ekibelsbeck@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3717.
We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
