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. |
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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 |
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30 Sun. 2:00pm -postponed | Faculty Recital |
Concert postponed due to the forecast for inclement weather 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. |
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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, |
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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. |
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13 Sun. 3:00pm | Vassar College Madrigal Singers |
Drew Minter, conductor. |
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19 Sat. 4:00pm | Senior Recital |
Ryan Layman, composition. Music for solo piano, strings, and winds. |
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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. |
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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. |
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3 Sat. 8:00pm | Vassar College Orchestra |
Eduardo Navega, conductor. |
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4 Sun. 7:00pm | A Service of Lessons and Carols |
Drew Minter, James Ruff, and Susan Bialek ‘86, conductors. Chapel |
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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.