School of Music

Faculty Recital: Jennifer Kay, mezzo-soprano POSTPONED TO 12/3

Rescheduled to 3 December

Ithaca College Concerts: The Guarneri String Quartet

Bartok: String Quartet no. 3
Mozart: String Quartet no. 15 in D Minor, K. 421
Dvorak: String Quartet no. 12 in F Major, op. 96 (American)
The first concert in the Ithaca College Concerts Season. Tickets are required. Season subscribers will receive their subscription brochures in the mail. If you are not on this mailing list and would like to be added, please call 274-3171. Individual tickets will go on sale on September 10th at the Ticket Center at Clinton House 273-4497 or (800)-284-8422.

Masterclasses with the Guarneri String Quartet

Violinist Arnold Steinhardt in the Hockett Family Recital Hall
Violist Michael Tree in Ford Hall
Cellist Peter Wiley in the Nabenhauer Recital Room

Junior Recital: Rachel Seiden, oboe

Elective Senior Recital: Bethany Niedbala, viola

Junior Recital: Ella Nace, French horn - Cancelled

Senior Recital: Michael Quinn, baritone - Cancelled

Junior Recital: Megan Armenio, soprano

Elective Joint Recital: Michael Gould, tuba and Jennifer Strayer, euphonium

Faculty Recital: Wendy Herbener Mehne, flute

Diane Birr, piano
assisted by Kelly Jepson Covert, flute
Clarke: Spiral Lament
Doppler: Rigoletto Fantasie
Bach: Selections from the First Cello Suite
Mower: Sonata Latino

Composition Premieres I

Students of Dana Wilson and Sally Lamb

Symphonic Band

Elizabeth Peterson, conductor
John Mackey: Clocking
Donald Grantham: Don’t You See
Michael Markowski: Shadow Rituals
Darius Milhaud: Suite Francaise
Tchaikovsky/Cramer: Dance of the Jesters

Master Class: Allan Kolsky, clarinet

Concert Band

Mark Fonder, conductor
"All-Nighter"
Frank Ticheli: Wild Nights!
Alexander Scriabin/Reed: Nocturne Op. 9, no. 2
Modeste Mussorgsky/Hindsley: Night on Bald Mountain
Mark Camphouse: Watchman, Tell us of the Night
Guy Woolfenden: Illyrian Dances
Donald I. Moore: Rise and Shine

Faculty Recital: Brad Hougham, baritone RESCHEDULED TO 11/5

Diane Birr, piano
Music of Poulenc, Obradors, Pfitzner, Barber and Sondheim.

African Drumming and Dance Ensemble

Baruch Whitehead, director

Daniel Pearl Concert - Cancelled

Percussion Ensembles

Conrad Alexander and Gordon Stout, conductors

Junior Recital: Nicole Guberman, soprano

Elective Senior Recital: Molly Mattingly, piano/voice

Senior Recital: Lily Kaye Sevier, percussion

Junior Recital: Margaret Flower, mezzo-soprano

Symphony Orchestra

A joint concert with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra
Jeffery Meyer and Christopher Kim, conductors
Holst: The Planets
With high definition images from the recent Mars Rover mission.

Master Class: Joan Morris, vocalist

Chamber Orchestra

Jeffery Meyer, conductor
Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano, P.151
Bolcom: Commedia for (Almost) 18th-Century Orchestra (1972)
Beethoven: Symphony No.7, op.92, A major

Junior Recital: Amanda Strickland, clarinet

Guest Lecture: William Bolcom, composer

"Bolcom and Morris"

Wind Ensemble

Stephen Peterson, conductor
Alex Shuhan, horn
Elizabeth Shuhan, flute
Elliott Schwartz: A Summer's Journey
Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis
Gustav Holst: Suite No. 2 in F
Jeffery Hass: All the Bells and Whistles

Guest Concert: U.S. Air Force Band of Liberty

Jenkins: American Overture
Reeves/Brion: Yankee Doodle Humoresque
Ewazen: Trombone Concerto
Copland: Shenendoah and Simple Gifts
Stephenson: Symphony #1
Sousa: Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Kander/Whittall: All That Jazz
arr. Whittal: Halloween Medley
arr. Whittig: Liza Minelli Tribute
arr. Smith: Freedom
Armed Services Medley
Sousa: Stars & Stripes Forever
arr. Miller: God Bless America

Harpsichord Studio Recital

Students of Jean Radice

Master Class: Stephen Pollock, tenor saxophone

Guest Recital: Stephen Pollock, tenor saxophone

Music of Astor Piazzolla, Dana Wilson, arrangements of a Mahler song as well as traditional and popular tunes.

Faculty Recital: Harold Reynolds, trombone

Master Class: Paul Sperry

Elective Junior Recital: Beth Faulstick, percussion

Elective Senior Recital: Benjamin Russo, piano/jazz

Master Class: James Ehnes, violin

Master Class: Paul Sperry, tenor

Junior Recital: Ian Cruz, saxophone

Master Class: Paul Sperry

National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition Winners' Recital

Louis K. Thaler Concert Violinist Series: James Ehnes, violin and Andrew Armstrong, piano

Mozart: Sonata in A, K. 526
Bach: Chaconne from the Partita # 2 in D
Kernis: Two Movements (with bells)
Strauss: Sonata Op. 18

Senior Recital: Laura Intravia, voice - Cancelled

Elective Senior Recital: Thomas Peters, French horn

Master Class: Paul Sperry, tenor

Senior Recital: Jeannine McGreevy, violin

Elective Joint Recital: Shelby Apuzzo and Andrew Whitson, oboes - Cancelled

Senior Recital: Kelly Harbison, soprano RESCHEDULED TO 11/14

Junior Recital: Ryan Kuehas, trombone

Guest Lecture/Recital: Paul Sperry, tenor

Charis Dimaras, piano

Masterclass: Wilfred Roberts, bassoon

Octubafest

Ocotillo Winds

The Ocotillo Winds are a refreshingly entertaining breeze from the desert Southwest. Primarily a woodwind trio, the 2008 tour program features the addition of flutist, Elizabeth Buck with: oboist Martin Schuring; clarinetist Robert Spring and bassoonist Albie Micklich. With repertoire from the French countryside, the Brazilian rainforest and downtown Phoenix, their concerts are anything but dry.

Family Weekend Concert: Concert Band and Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Mark Fonder and Lauri Robinson-Keegan, conductors. Tickets required. Tickets may be obtained: (1) by participation in one of the family weekend packages, information is mailed OR (2) students in the concert may obtain two free tickets at the office the week before the concert. Students without family members attending may share theirs with students needing more. In addition, after those with tickets are seated, there is usually room for people without tickets to be admitted.
Concert Band Program:
“Trick or Treat”
Richard Wagner/Leidzen: Trauersinfonie
Modeste Mussorgsky/Hindsley: Night on Bald Mountain
Alfred Reed: Punchinello
Leroy Anderson: Clarinet Candy featuring the clarinet studios of Professors Galvan and Faria