Fall 2011 - Music Department

Fall 2011 Concert Schedule

August

30 Tues. 8:00pm	Welcome Concert for the Class of 2015
	Presented by the members of the music faculty.

September

18 Sun. 3:00pm	Faculty Recital
	Todd Crow, piano. Music of Schumann, Liszt, and Bartók.
24 Sat. 8:00pm	Faculty Recital
	Drew Minter, countertenor and gut-strung harp, and James Ruff, tenor and Early Gaelic wire-strung harp. The Sweet Sorrow: Musicke for harps and voices heralding from the Celtic Isles.
25 Sun. 3:00pm	Faculty Recital
	Blanca Uribe, professor emerita, and Richard Wilson, pianos, present the music of Stravinsky featuring the Sonata for Two Pianos, Concerto for Two Pianos, and Petrushka.
30 Fri. 8:00pm	Faculty and Guest Recital
	Arnaud Sussmann and Lily Francis, violins, Roger Tapping, viola, and faculty member Sophie Shao, cello. An evening of Mozart string quartets including String Quartet No. 18 in A major, K. 464.

October

1 Sat. 8:00pm	Guest Jazz Event
	An evening of jazz with Kurt Elling. Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, a 2010 Grammy Award winner and “Male Singer of the Year”, as voted by the Jazz Journalists Association six times since 2000, will be joined by his creative collaborator of fifteen years, Laurence Hobgood, piano, and also John McLean, guitar, Clark Sommers, bass, and Ulysses Owens Jr., drums. Join us for a memorable evening of great jazz, pop, progressive rock and R & B. A Dickinson-Kayden Event
2 Sun. 3:00pm	Faculty and Guest Recital
	Bella Winds. Kirsten Economy, flute, Rachel Grasso, clarinet, and faculty member Elisabeth Romano, bassoon. Music of Franz Joseph Haydn, Walter Piston, Robert Muczynski and others.
8 Sat. 8:00pm	Vassar College Orchestra
	Eduardo Navega, conductor.
29 Sat. 8:00pm - postponed	Guest Event
	Concert postponed due to the forecast for inclement weather The Antioch Chamber Ensemble. Joshua Copeland, artistic director. “the city and the sea.” In its fourteenth season, the ensemble of twelve singers presents the world’s greatest choral literature, both sacred and secular.
30 Sun. 2:00pm -postponed	Faculty Recital
	Concert postponed due to the forecast for inclement weather Gail Archer, organ. “Franz Liszt: A Hungarian Rhapsodie.” A recital celebrating the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Chapel

November

5 Sat. 4:00pm	Senior Recital
	Christopher Connors, jazz guitar. A selected history of the 20th century jazz guitar including music of Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, John Scofield, and Pat Metheny. Luke Leavitt ’12, piano, Evan Becker ’13, bass, and Ben Roberts ’12, drums.
5 Sat. 8:00pm	Vassar College Women’s Chorus
	Drew Minter, conductor. “Something about Mary.” Marian music through the ages by Alfonso the Wise, Guillaume Dufay, Palestrina, Brahms, Verdi, and Rebecca Clarke. Benjamin Britten’s Missa Brevis, featuring Darren Motise, organ. Chapel
6 Sun. 3:00pm	Faculty and Guest Recital
	Courtenay Budd, soprano, Audrey Babcock, mezzo-soprano, and faculty member Miriam Charney, piano. "In Endless Assent: Vassar Poets in Song." Song settings of poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Adelaide Crapsey set by composers Lee Hoiby, Richard Wilson, John Harbison, Ned Roren, David del Tredici, and others.
11 Fri. 8:00pm	Faculty and Guest Recital
	Faculty member Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss, pianos. Featuring Schubert’s Variations on an Original Theme in A flat major D.813, Dutilleux’s Figures de Resonances, Ravel’s Rhapsodie Espagnole, and Ravel’s La Valse.
12 Sat. 4:00pm	Senior Recital
	Daryl Duran, flute. Music of Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, and Piazzolla.
12 Sat. 8:00pm	Vassar College Choir
	Christine R. Howlett, conductor.
13 Sun. 3:00pm	Vassar College Madrigal Singers
	Drew Minter, conductor. “Genius and Mentor: Schütz and Monteverdi; Italian Madrigals and Fresh Devices to Tickle the Ears of Today.”
19 Sat. 4:00pm	Senior Recital
	Ryan Layman, composition. Music for solo piano, strings, and winds.
19 Sat. 8:00pm	Faculty and Guest Recital
	Faculty member Christine R. Howlett, soprano, Patrick Wood Uribe, violin, and Holly Chatham, piano. “Love Raise Your Voice.” Music for soprano, violin, and piano featuring music of Donald Waxman, Richard Wilson, Leonard Enns, Tarik O’Regan, Carson Cooman, and others.
20 Sun. 3:00pm	Vassar College and Community Wind Ensemble
	James Osborn, conductor.

December

3 Sat. 4:00pm	Senior Recital
	William Healy, piano and composition. Music of Schubert, Ravel, and Healey.
3 Sat. 8:00pm	Vassar College Orchestra
	Eduardo Navega, conductor.
4 Sun. 7:00pm	A Service of Lessons and Carols
	Drew Minter, James Ruff, and Susan Bialek ‘86, conductors. Chapel
9 Fri. 8:00pm	Vassar College Jazz Ensemble
	James Osborn, director.

All events not otherwise noted take place in Skinner Hall of Music and are free and open to the public.

Programs are subject to change.

For further information and up-to-date details on all Vassar College Department of Music concerts, please call (845) 437-7294.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Campus Activities at (845) 437-5370.

Latecomers will be seated at the performers’ discretion.
All audience members are to be seated. Food and beverages are not permitted in the Recital Hall.
Cell phones and pagers must be silenced during performances.