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Department of Music
Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY
12866

Department Phone
518-580-5320

Box Office Phone
518-580-5321

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Note:  Unless otherwise indicated, all events are at Filene Recital Hall, and general admission is $5, or $2 for seniors and students.

Three Great Series!
One Great Musical Experience!

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Guest Artists and Special Events in Filene

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                   

Two Hundred Years of Mendelssohn!
  • Mendelssonh: Overture: The Hebrides, Symphony No. 4 Italian
  • Dukas: Villanelle for Horn and Orchestra
  • Special Guest soloist: Patrice Malatestinic, French horn

 



JASON VIEAUX, guitar

OCTOBER 29, 8 PM

"... among the elite of today's classical guitarists," playing Albeniz, Bach, Barrios, Brouwer and Metheny

 



EIGHT STRINGS AND A WHISTLE               

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.

 



ADAM ROGERS QUARTET

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