Since the early 1970s the School of Music has sponsored nine different concerts at Lincoln Center, a world-renowned performance venue in Manhattan. In 1992, the concert featured five world-premiere performances of compositions commissioned by the School of Music to celebrate the centennial of Ithaca College. Ten years later, the concert celebrated the 80th birthday of Karel Husa, and, in 2005, Carl Orff’s Carmina Buranafilled Avery Fisher Hall.
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Legacy in Sound: Featuring the next generation of music educators and performers
Ithaca College Lincoln Center Performance
Friday, November 13, 2026
7:00 p.m., Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln CenterPreview Concert
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
7:00 p.m., Ford HallThe concert highlights Ithaca College’s long tradition of preparing outstanding musicians, educators, and arts leaders through rigorous training and transformative performance experiences. Whether pursuing careers as performers, teachers, scholars, or creative professionals, students carry these experiences into the ensembles, classrooms, and communities they will serve throughout their lives.
“Legacy in Sound: Featuring the Next Generation of Music Educators and Performers” will feature the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, directed by Daniel Cook; Jazz Ensemble, directed by Mike Titlebaum; Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ho-Yin Kwok; and Choir, directed by Khyle Wooten.
Program highlights include a commissioned work by composer and Ithaca College professor emeritus Dana Wilson, performed by the Jazz Ensemble and Wind Ensemble; Adolphus Hailstork’s Shout for Joy, performed by the Choir; and the final movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, bringing together the Symphony Orchestra and Choir. The Jazz Ensemble will also perform selections by Les Brown and Steve Brown.
This valued tradition is made possible thanks to the generosity of Charles Hack ’69 (Music Education) and John Neeson ’84 (Economics).
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The Exquisite Hour: MusIC of Love and Rapture
Ithaca College Choir, Chamber Orchestra, and Symphony OrchestraIthaca College Lincoln Center Performance
Saturday, April 29, 2017
8:00 p.m., Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
Preview Concert
Sunday, April 23, 2017
4:00 p.m., Ford Hall
Program
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Chamber Orchestra
Calvin Wiersma, director | Tucker Davis, stage directorDominick DiOrio (B.M. in Music, Ithaca College, 2006): Solaris: A Choral Symphony in Three Movements (World premiere commissioned work)
Samuel Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaard
Choir and Symphony Orchestra
Janet Galván, conductor -
MusIC of Our Time
Ithaca College Choir, Contemporary Ensemble, and Wind EnsembleIthaca College Lincoln Center Performance
Friday, April 17, 2015
8:00 p.m., Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
Preview Concert
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
8:15 p.m., Ford Hall
The Ithaca College Choir, Contemporary Ensemble, and Wind Ensemble—conducted by Janet Galván, Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann, and Stephen Peterson respectively—present an adventurous program of contemporary and new works.
The concert features the world premiere of IC 2006 alumnus Dominick DiOrio’sWe Dance—commissioned by the School of Music for this exciting evening. The program also includes the New York City premiere of André Previn’sMusic for Wind Orchestra (No Strings Attached).Ithaca College gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Charles Hack ’69 and Angella Hearn in helping to make this concert possible.