Full Fall 2009 Concert Schedule

FACULTY PIANO LECTURE/RECITAL 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 7:30 PM
Pola Baytelman - The Music of Isaac Albeniz

CARNEGIE HALL PREMIERES

featuring ENSEMBLE ACJW

FRIDAY, 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

CELEBRATION WEEKEND
SHOWCASE CONCERT

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 3:15 PM
Classical performances, jazz combos, and more...
A sampling of the diverse talent and activities of our music students.

FACULTY SITAR RECITAL

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 7:30 PM
Veena Chandra with Devesh Chandra, tabla
Performing traditional classical music of North India

SKIDMORE COLLEGE ORCHESTRA

Anthony Holland, Music Director
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 8 PM
$5 general admission; $2 students & seniors
Skidmore students free with ID

Two Hundred Years of Mendelssohn!

• Mendelssohn: Overture: The Hebrides,
  Symphony No. 4, Italian
• Dukas: Villanelle for Horn and Orchestra
• Faculty soloist: Patrice Malatestinic, French horn

JASON VIEAUX, guitar

Sterne Virtuoso Series
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 8 PM
$5 general admission; $2 students & seniors
"... among the elite of today's classical guitarists," playing Albeniz, Bach, Barrios, Brouwer and Metheny

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 4:30 PM
Guitar Ensemble Coaching with Jason Vieaux

Annual FILENE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS CONCERT

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 8 PM

• Carolyn Bottelier, soprano
• Peter Clarke, trumpet
• Jane Esterquest, violin
• Leah Neuberth, flute/piccolo

EIGHT STRINGS AND A WHISTLE

Sterne Virtuoso Series
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5, 8 PM
$5 general admission; $2 students & seniors
"... play with 'commitment and passion'."  Works for flute, violin and cello by Husa, Mozart, Douglas Anderson, William Dickerson and Hilary Tann ("The Walls of Morlais Castle").

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4, 7:30 PM
Individual Master Classes with violist, cellist and flutist of Eight Strings and a Whistle

ADAM ROGERS QUARTET

Filene Concert Series
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 8 PM
$5 general admission;  $2 students & seniors
"Intelligent, inventive, technically brilliant" jazz.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11

4 PM Adam Rogers Quartet will coach the Skidmore Jazz Ensemble

8 PM Individual Master Classes for drums, bass, guitar and piano with members of the Quartet

FACULTY PIANO RECITAL  CANCELED

LEWIS PORTER, piano

Filene Concert Series
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 7 PM
$5 general admission; $2 students & seniors
World renowned jazz historian and "a helluva piano player."  Solo jazz dedicated to John Coltrane.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1-2:30 PM
Emerson Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
Lewis Porter will give a presentation on Miles Davis and John Coltrane, using rare video and audio.

SKIDMORE WOODWIND AND BRASS CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 5 PM
Coaches: Gene Marie Green and Patrice Malatestinic

BEATLEMORE SKIDMANIA

SKIDMORE STRING CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 8 PM
Michael Emery, Coach

VOICE RECITALS

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2:15 PM AND 3:45 PM
Payne Presentation Room, Tang Museum
Students of Anne Turner and Gene Marie Callahan Kern
Falling for Song

SKIDMORE SMALL JAZZ ENSEMBLES

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 7:30 PM
Coaches: John Nazarenko, Mark Vinci, George Muscatello

COMPOSITION RECITAL

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 3 PM
Original works by Skidmore music students

SKIDMORE COLLEGE COMMUNITY CHORUS
AND VOCAL CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Janet McGhee, Director
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 8 PM
$5 general admission; $2 students & seniors
Skidmore students free with ID

Community Chorus
(Mostly) Jewish Sacred Choral Music

• Bernstein: Chichester Psalms with harp and percussion
• Bloch: Excerpts from a Sacred Service
  
• Weill: Kiddush
• Janowski: Avinu Malkeynu
  

Vocal Chamber Ensemble - Britten: Ceremony of Carols

Anthony Holland, Music Director
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 8 PM
$5 general admission; $2 students & seniors
Skidmore students free with ID

Music of Victory!

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
• Tchaikovsky: Overture 1812