April 12, 1999 Volume 21, No. 14

Chamber Music Octet to Perform in Ford Hall The New York Times has called them "everything chamber musicians should be," and the members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Wind Octet will have an opportunity to prove that in a concert on Thursday, April 15. The ensemble will play works by Beethoven and Mozart in an 8:15 p.m. performance in Ford Hall Auditorium. A free pre-concert lecture by professor of music Michael Galván will be given at 7:30 p.m. in Ford 201. The octet comprises David Shifrin and Bil Jackson on clarinet, Stephen Taylor and Allan Vogel on oboe, Frank Morelli and Milan Turkovic on bassoon, and Robert Routch and William Purvis on French horn. The program will feature Beethoven’s Octet for Winds and Rondino for Wind Octet, Mozart’s Serenade in C Minor for Winds, and excerpts from several of Mozart’s opera arias. Tickets may be purchased at the Ticket Center at Clinton House and at Rebop Records, Tapes, and Compact Discs in Collegetown. They are $8 for children, senior citizens, and Ithaca College students; $14 for Ithaca College alumni, faculty, staff, and administrators, members of the Friends of Ithaca College, and other students; and $16 for the general public. For more information call 274-3171. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is celebrating its 30th year devoted to the outstanding performance and creation of chamber music. The group’s pioneering structure features a core of 20 artist members, augmented by over 50 invited guests each season. In addition to presenting an annual series of concerts at its home base of Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the group tours extensively throughout the United States and Canada. It also reaches a national audience through Live from Lincoln Center telecasts and National Public Radio broadcasts. In addition to performing, Shifrin has served since 1992 as the society’s artistic director. In demand as a soloist with orchestras throughout the world, he appears frequently with such ensembles as the Emerson, Guarneri, and Tokyo quartets. One of his recordings earned a 1989 Grammy nomination, and his Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Mostly Mozart Orchestra was named record of the year in 1987 by Stereo Review magazine. Shifrin is also artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest, a summer festival in Oregon.