Fall 2009
Don't miss a single performance during this final semester of spectacular musical events in Filene Hall!
Watch Zankel Hall receive its finishing touches as we present our final year of musical events in our cherished, well-used Filene Hall: the very first building to be completed in 1966 on Skidmore's "new" campus.
CARNEGIE HALL PREMIERES
featuring ENSEMBLE ACJW
OCTOBER 9, 8 PM
Free Admission
7 PM: Pre-concert conversation moderated by Prof. Charles M. Joseph.
This "fearless" ensemble returns, playing works by Roumain, Dvorak, and Saint-Saëns
SKIDMORE COLLEGE ORCHESTRA
Anthony Holland, Music Director
OCTOBER 24, 8 PM
Skidmore students free with ID
- Mendelssonh: Overture: The Hebrides, Symphony No. 4 Italian
- Dukas: Villanelle for Horn and Orchestra
- Special Guest soloist: Patrice Malatestinic, French horn
OCTOBER 29, 8 PM
"... among the elite of today's classical guitarists," playing Albeniz, Bach, Barrios, Brouwer and Metheny
NOVEMBER 5, 8 PM
"... play with 'commitment and passion'." Works for flute, violin and cello by Husa, Mozart, Douglas Anderson, William Dickerson and Hilary Tann.
NOVEMBER 12, 8 PM
"Intelligent, inventive, technically brilliant" jazz.
LEWIS PORTER, piano
NOVEMBER 15, 7 PM
World renowned jazz historian and "a helluva piano player". Solo jazz dedicated to John Coltrane.
SKIDMORE COLLEGE COMMUNITY CHORUS AND VOCAL CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Janet McGhee, Director
DECEMBER 5, 8 PM
Skidmore students free with ID<
SKIDMORE COLLEGE ORCHESTRA
Anthony Holland, Music Director
DECEMBER 11, 8 PM
Skidmore students free with ID
Music of Victory!
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
- Tchaikovsky: Overture 1812