Take note of spring music events
The Wake Forest music department offers concerts and recitals throughout the spring 2012 season. Jazzy tunes, electronic sounds mixed with romantic violin, piano, soprano and double bass are on the schedule. Click the event link for full calendar listing and locations.
MARCH 2012
Jazz Ensembles Concert
March 6, 7:30 p.m.
Philip Morgan and Jay Meachum, directors
The “Deacon Jazz Machine” performs swing and standards
Mixing Electronic Sounds with Romantic Violin
March 20, 4 p.m.
Jacqui Carrasco, violin
Associate Professor of Music Jacqui Carrasco will highlight Argentine-born composer Mario Davidovsky’s skill in combining romantic violin style with sophisticated pre-recorded sounds to create a lush and beautiful modern masterpiece. Part of the Z. Smith Reynolds Lecture Series to be held in the library auditorium.
Faculty Recital: Sonatas and Interludes, Louis Goldstein, piano
March 20, 7:30 p.m.
In 1940, John Cage invented the prepared piano while looking for a way to make the piano sound like a drum ensemble. From 1946 to 1948, he composed one of the masterpieces of 20th-century piano literature—a magical sound garden. Scales Fine Arts Center, Room M208
Presidential Scholar: Jorge Méndez-Estrada, double bass
March 22, 7:30 p.m.
with Thomas Turnbull, piano, and Jacob Eichhorn, clarinet
Featuring Méndez-Estrada’s original transcription of Pablo de Sarasate’s “Zigeunerweisen,” Bottesini’s “Gran Concerto,” and the world premiere of a piece for double bass, clarinet and piano composed by Eichhorn
Senior Recital: Mary Beth Freitag, soprano
March 24, 3 p.m.
with Jean T. Blackwood, piano, and Jacob Eichhorn, clarinet
Featuring works by Handel, Hahn, Mozart, Schubert, Pasatieri, Wildhorn and Guettel
Concert Choir
March 27, 7:30 p.m.
Brian Gorelick, conductor
Choral works whose texts and music paint pictures of the ideal world, both physical and spiritual. The admission charge for this concert will help cover the choir’s travel expenses when the group takes its third international tour in 2013 to Chile and Argentina.
Senior Honors Presidential Scholar Recital: Kayla Shipley, clarinet
March 30, 7:30 p.m.
with Peter Kairoff, piano
Featuring the “Sonata No. 1 in F” by Brahms and music by Tartini, Osborne, Ponchielli, and d’Rivera
Presidential Scholar Recital: Ilchan Fraser Song, piano
March 31, 2 p.m.
with Peter Kairoff, piano
Includes works by Bach, Chopin, Brahms, and Debussy
APRIL 2012
Collegium Musicum Concert
April 4, 7:30 p.m.
Stuart Carter and Brian Gorelick, directors
The Collegium Musicum Vocal Ensemble and Collegium Instrumentalists will present an early music concert featuring Renaissance Music of Spain and the New World.
Senior Honors Recital: Jacob Eichhorn, clarinet
April 13, 7:30 p.m.
Featuring the “Concerto in A Major for Clarinet” by Mozart and music by Ištvan and Schubert
String Chamber Music
April 19, 7:30 p.m.
Jacqui Carrasco, coordinator
Featuring a jazz setting of Gershwin’s “Summertime” and Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 4” with faculty soloists Jacui Carrasco, violin, and Kathryn Levy, flute
Senior Recital: Ingrid Goelst, mezzo-soprano
April 21, 3 p.m.
with Ann Listokin, piano
Featuring works by Haydn, Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Massenet, Poulenc, Leon, Hernandez, Kilenyi, and musical theater selections by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lislie Bricusse
Wind Chamber Music Concert
April 22, 3 p.m.
Student chamber ensembles perform, including flute choir, clarinet choir, quartets, and more
Jazz Improvisation Concert
April 22, 7:30 p.m.
Students in trios and quartets
University Jazz Ensembles Concert
April 24, 7:30 p.m.
Philip Morgan and Jay Meachum, directors
The “Deacon Jazz Machine” performs with guest artist Jerry Tyson, guitar
Spring Choral Concert
April 26, 7:30 p.m.
Brian Gorelick, conductor
The Wake Forest Concert Choir, Collegium Vocal Ensemble, and the Wake Forest Chamber Choir will combine to present “A Spring Choral E-Concert.” The compositions chosen for the program will be enterprising, entertaining, eclectic and electronic.
University Wind Ensemble Concert
April 29, 3 p.m.
Kevin Bowen and Philip Morgan, conductors
Featuring guest composer-in-residence and clinician Nathan Daughtrey. Daughtrey, a native of Greensboro, N.C., has performed and held masterclasses and clinics around the country and abroad.
MAY 2012
University Orchestra Concert
May 2, 7:30 p.m.
David Hagy, conductor
Featuring winners of this year’s Concerto Competition. The program includes works by Mozart, Handel, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, and Barber, as well as William Alwyn’s “Fanfare for a Festive Occasion and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2.”
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