Evening and Weekend Concerts Department of Music University of California, Berkeley FALL 2007 September | October | November | December

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Events Schedule

During Welcome Week:
Thursday, August 23, 2007
8pm, Hertz Hall, admission free

Our American Cousin (2007)
An opera about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Music by Eric Sawyer (Amherst University)
Libretto by John Shoptaw (UC Berkeley, Department of English).

Members of the University Chamber Chorus with soloists
Janna Baty, Alan Schneider, Angela Hines Gooch, and Drew Poling
Thomas Busse, choral director
Eric Sawyer, piano accompanist

This performance is sponsored by the Department of Music, and by the College of Letters & Science, as part of the “On The Same Page” program, which this year features Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills. For more information: http://onthesamepage.berkeley.edu/

Ernest Bloch Lecturer Professor Martha Feldman (University of Chicago)
Opening lecture: "Of Strange Births and Comic Kin"
Lecture series The Castrato in Nature will continue through the semester on Fridays in Morrison Hall.
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Friday, September 28, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
8pm, Hertz Hall, $12/8/4

University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Milnes

Rachmaninoff, Symphonic Dances
Sibelius, Tapiola
Cindy Cox, Cathedral Spires

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Also: Saturday, September 29, 2007
8pm, Wheeler Auditorium, $20, presented by Cal Performances

The Patricia Barber Ensemble

Innovative, Chicago-based jazz singer, pianist and composer Patricia Barber, whose most recent release is Mythologies, a song cycle based on characters from Greek mythology is a visiting resident fellow by joint invitation by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Department of Music.

For tickets and further information contact Cal Performances: http://calperfs.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-9988

Friday, October 5, 2007
8pm, Hertz Hall, admission free
Korean Traditional Dance by Aeju Lee (Seoul National University), National Treasure of Korea, and Korean Traditional Dance Society

Aeju Lee, M.F.A. is a professor of Physical Education at Seoul National University and is an intangible human treasure in the art of Buddhist Dance (“Suengmu”), an honor awarded by UNESCO in 1996. She is the President of Seoul National University Association of Professors for a Democratic Society.
This performance is presented for the opening of the new Tien Center for East Asian Studies by the Institute of East Asian Studies, the Center for Korean Studies, and the Department of Music, with support from the Korea Foundation and the Koret Foundation. For more information: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks

Friday October 26, 2007
Saturday, October 27, 2007
8pm, Hertz Hall, $12/8/4

University Symphony Orchestra
David Milnes, conductor

Beethoven, Symphony No. 7
and also
Bartok, Divertimento for Strings (conducted by Henry Shin)
Varèse, Octandre (conducted by Alexander Kahn)
Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments (conducted by Alexander Kahn)

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Thursday, November 1, 2007
6pm, Berkeley Art Museum, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

University Chamber Chorus
Matt Oltman (Assistant Music Director of Chanticleer), guest conductor

A concert for All Saint's Day including Tomás Luis de Victoria's Requiem, Officium defunctorum (1605)

Free admission to both the concert and galleries, as part of Free First Thursdays at BAM/PFA.
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Sunday, November 4, 2007
3pm, Hertz Hall, $12/8/4

University Wind Ensemble
Robert Calonico, director

Program:
Loretta K Notareschi, Sand in the Machine (premiere)
Christopher Rouse, Ku-Ka-Ilimoku for percussion ensemble
Vittorio Giannini, Symphony No. 3
Josh Puckett, Blink
Michael Gandolfi, Vientos y Tangos

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
8pm, Hertz Hall, open to the public, admission is free

Annual Department of Music Concerto Competition
Applicants must be music majors or members of University Symphony Orchestra.
Each applicant will perform for 12-15 minutes with piano accompaniment.

Winner/s will perform with the University Symphony in 2008.

Competition Schedule, Wednesday, November 14, Hertz Hall

8:00pm
Kevin Yu, cello Accompanist: Lori Lack
Schumann, Concerto in A minor, op. 129

8:15pm
Jessica Ling, violin Accompanist: Lori Lack
Ravel, Tzigane

8:30pm Carl Stanley, trumpet Accompanist: Irene Gregorio
Arutunian, Concerto for trumpet

8:45pm Ernest Ting-Ta Yen, violin Accompanist: Miles Graber
Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35

Break (as time permits)

9:00pm Christy Kyong, violin Accompanist: Miles Graber
Barber, Violin Concerto, Op. 14

9:15pm Kelsey Seymour, flute Accompanist: Miles Graber
Gordeli, Concerto for flute and orchestra

9:30pm Gabriel Trop, cello
Schnittke, Cello Concerto No. 1

9:45pm April Paik, violin Accompanist: Henry Shin
Chausson, Poème, op. 25

Saturday, November 17, 2007
8pm, Hertz Hall, $12/8/4

University Chorus
Aya Ueda, guest director

With Soloists: Krista Wigle, Paula Chacon, Matthew Oltman and Jeffrey Fields

MOZART, Requiem in D minor, K.626

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Sunday, November 18, 2007
3pm, Hertz Hall, $34

Jorge Liderman's 50th Birthday Celebration featuring
Cuarteto Latinoamericano, David Tanenbaum, guitar and Sonia Rubinsky, piano

Presented by Cal Performances at Hertz Hall. For tickets and more information: http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu or phone (510) 642-9988

Saturday, December 1, 2007
7pm (please note early start time), Hertz Hall, $12/8/4

Gamelan Sari Raras
Midiyanto and Ben Brinner, directors

Wayang Kulit (Javanese Shadow Play)
with Midiyanto, dhalang (puppermaster) and guest drummer Sumarsam (Wesleyan University)

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Friday, December 7, 2007
Saturday, December 8, 2007
8pm, Hertz Hall, $12/8/4

University Symphony Orchestra
David Milnes, conductor

Bruckner, Symphony No. 4 (Romantic)
R. Strauss, Don Juan
"The Flyer" - Music for film by Yiorgos Vassilandonakis Film by David Green

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Monday, December 17, 2007
8pm, Hertz Hall, $12/8/4

Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, David Milnes, music director, perform new acoustic and electronic music written by composers from the Berkeley New Music Project

Free admission for all UC Berkeley graduate students to this performance, with support from the Graduate Assembly.

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