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Fall Season Oct Zen Sound, Suspended Time 2015-16 Concert Series SEP. 14 FALL SEASON James Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi Monday, Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m. Lorimer Chapel (Funded in part by the Freda M. Charles Music Fund) Originally the instrument of Zen monks, the Japanese transverse bamboo flute (shakuhachi) has captivated the minds and hearts of listeners for centuries. Remarkably simple in design, it takes years to master. The sound is sensual and capable of great emotional depth. Shakuhachi SEP. 14 OCT. 24 DEC. 11 NOV. 19 grand master James Nyoraku Schlefer is a virtuoso Photo by: Jeff Earickson performer of traditional and contemporary shakuhachi music and a composer of new music for Japanese and Western instruments. OCT. 24 A Little Something for Everyone! Colby Symphony Orchestra, Eric Thomas, guest conductor Saturday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m. Lorimer Chapel The first orchestra concert of the season, conducted by Eric Thomas, director of Colby’s Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band, includes Soren Nyhus’s “Bittersweet Victory” (2014), written NOV. 14 OCT. 25 DEC. 54 OCT. 31 NOV. 7 OCT. 31 for the Noteflight video game composition competition; Geraldine Green’s jovial (and slightly mischievous) Bass Clarinet Concerto (1992), performed by Emily Berry ’16; Marianne Martinez’s Sinfonia in C (1770); and Howard pianist Kimberly Grigsby for an evening of well-known Cover Me … or Not! A Little More Something for Everyone! Hanson’s lush and expressive Symphony no. 2, the standards and some lesser-known, newer love songs by NOV. 14 DEC. 5 Romantic (1930). Colby Jazz Band, Eric Thomas, conductor Colby Symphony Orchestra, Janna Hymes, top emerging theater composers and lyricists. “Mr. Winther guest conductor stakes out the most fertile artistic territory in American Saturday, Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. OCT. 31 All Hallow’s Day Concert music: the high ground where show tunes, art songs and the Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center Colby College Chorale and Chamber Singers, singer-songwriter tradition merge.”(Stephen Holden, New John Coltrane’s “Lady Bird” draws on Tadd Dameron’s Lorimer Chapel Shannon Chase, director York Times) composition by the same name and foreshadows the Janna Hymes is the music director of Maine Pro Musica Saturday, Oct. 31, 3:30 p.m. famous Coltrane changes. Freddie Hubbard’s cool hard bop and the Williamsburg (Va.) Sinfonia. A much sought-after Five Degrees of Increasing Separation Lorimer Chapel NOV. 7 chart “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming” is a jazz rendition of conductor in the United States and abroad, maestra Hymes the classic 16th-century hymn. Patty Darling’s “Idioteque” offers an eclectic program that includes the Shostakovitch The Colby College Chorale and Chamber Singers perform Colby Wind Ensemble, Eric Thomas, conductor is a big-band arrangement of Radiohead’s hit. But Duke Ballet Suite no. 1; Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, featuring a festive program of music evocative of the season and in Saturday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m. Ellington’s Such Sweet Thunder suite and Denis DiBlasio’s Colby Applied Music Associate Eric Thomas as soloist; and celebration of Family Homecoming Weekend. Lorimer Chapel “Strong Like Bull!” are all their own. Beethoven’s Symphony no. 2 in D Major. Germaine Tailleferre (Overture for Orchestra) and Darius Old Love & New Love Milhaud (West Point Suite) were members of “Les Six”— If Music Be the Food of Love, Sing On! OCT. 31 NOV. 19 DEC. 11 46th Annual Service of Carols and Lights Michael Winther with Kimberly Grigsby French composers reacting to Wagner’s bombast and Collegium Chamber Singers and Players, DEC. 12 Friday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, 9 p.m. Debussy’s overt sensuality. Milhauds’ suite and William Timothy Burris, director Grant Still’s “To You, America” were both commissioned for Saturday, Dec. 12, 3:30 and 7 p.m. Page Commons, Cotter Union Thursday, Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m. the West Point sesquicentennial. Still and Vincent Persichetti Lorimer Chapel (Funded by the Robert J. Strider Concert Fund, with Lorimer Chapel (Symphony for Band) both received Peabody Conservatory A Colby tradition since 1971, the service includes readings, additional funding from the Office of Alumni Relations honorary doctorates in 1974. None has a connection with The Colby Collegium Chamber Singers and Players explore and the Theater and Dance Department) A “first-rate carol singing by candlelight, and the sounds of the Nickerson West Coast composer Julie Giroux (Culloden), but her music of 17th-century England. The late Renaissance and Carillon. Colby music ensembles provide a festive evening of singer of unusual refinement” with “a voice that traverses composition, based on Scottish folk tunes, was too perfect early Baroque in England produced a rich repertoire of both genres” (New York Times), Broadway singer/actor Michael traditional and contemporary seasonal music from around to pass up. choral and instrumental works that celebrate the human in the world. Winther joins forces with Broadway musical director and nature and the nature of being human. The program includes works by Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke, and John Wilbye. For up-to-date information on performances, go to colby.edu/artsatcolby or colby.edu/musicdept The Department of Music Presents An Evening of Gypsy Jazz 2015-16 Concert Series FEB. 6 New for 2015-16: SPRING SEASON Ameranouche Saturday, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m. Music in the Museum Lorimer Chapel (Funded in part by the Hazel Hoyt Witherell Memorial Concert Fund) The award-winning trio Ameranouche plays acoustic Gypsy- FEB. 6 MAR. 5 FEB.APR. 14 4 inspired music mixing flamenco, bebop, and jazz swing. Members of BOOM (Baroque Orchestra of Maine) OCT. 8 Whether playing a 1930 musette waltz or an Andalusian- Wednesday, Oct. 8, noon inspired original tune, Ameranouche’s Gypsy flamenco swing style is always fresh, virtuosic, and totally enjoyable. Lower Jetté Gallery APR. 2 Heidi Powell (baroque violin), Timothy Burris (lute and Renaissance and Baroque Traditions theorbo), and Raffael Scheck (baroque cello) perform music FEB. 14 of Improvisation by Bach, Corelli, Handel, and Pasqualino de Marzis. Ensalada NOV. 11 The Andre Segovia Continuum Sunday, Feb. 14, 3 p.m. Mark Leighton, Guitar Lorimer Chapel Wednesday, Nov. 11, noon (Funded in part by the Ermanno Comparetti Concert Fund) William D. Adams Gallery, Museum Lobby Though often associated only with jazz, a rich tradition of instrumental improvisation flourished in “classical music” Music composed for, transcribed by, or reintroduced into the throughout Europe from the late 15th century through the repertoire by Segovia during a career that spanned nearly mid-18th century. Ensalada presents a rich and varied the entire 20th century. Compositions by J.S. Bach, Isaac APR. 30 APR. 16 APR. 23 APR. 9 program of examples of these traditions of melodic, harmonic, Albéniz, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Francisco Tárrega. and rhythmic improvisation. Poetry and Lyric: 20th-Century Song FEB. 25 From Russia with Love Shannon M. Chase, mezzo-soprano; MAR. 5 Yuri Lily Funahashi, piano Colby Symphony Orchestra, Janna Hymes, Maine Saxophone Project In Spring Time, the Only Pretty Ring Time! APR. 9 APR. 23 Thursday, Feb. 25, noon guest conductor Saturday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. Collegium Chamber Singers and Players, Lower Jetté Gallery Saturday, March 5, 7:30 p.m. Lorimer Chapel Timothy Burris, director Lorimer Chapel Shannon M. Chase, choral conductor and applied (Funded in part by the Ermanno Comparetti Concert Fund) Saturday, April 23, 2016 7:30 p.m. Three staples of uniquely Russian classical music are Lorimer Chapel music associate in voice, joins forces with pianist The Maine Saxophone Project started at the University of Yuri Lily Funahashi. featured: from Mikhail Glinka, early-19th-century father Southern Maine in 2006 and hasn’t stopped growing. The The Colby Collegium Chamber Singers and Players celebrate of the Russian orchestral style, his rousing opera overture combo has roots in a Charlie Parker tribute band formed nature’s renewal with music of spring. Instrumental excerpts Trancing in the Palace Ruslan and Lyudmila; from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, late- by Med Flory and Buddy Clark in 1972, which featured from “Le Journal du Printemps” by Johann Caspar Ferdinand MAR. 10 Kabbalah, Altered States, and Morton Feldman’s 19th-century romantic and master melodist, his Symphony harmonized arrangements of Parker’s music. M.S.P. has Fischer, as well as songs and madrigals of spring by Palais de Mari (1986) no. 2, The Little Russian; from Aram Khachaturian, Soviet- expanded beyond Parker’s compositions to perform Francesca Caccini, Thomas Morley, Clément Janequin, and endorsed, then condemned, then endorsed again, his arrangements that explore new styles and colors. Claudio Monteverdi. Thursday, March 10, 7 p.m. Masquerade suite of five dances. Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz Stylin’! Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass Where Artistry Resides APR. 16 APR. 30 Morton Feldman (1926-1987) was a central figure in the so- called New York School of American painters and musicians APR. 2 Colby Jazz Band, Eric Thomas, conductor MAY 1 Colby College Chorale and Colby-Kennebec Choral Colby Wind Ensemble, Eric Thomas, conductor Saturday, April 16, 7:30 p.m. Society, Shannon Chase, conductor; of the 1940s-70s. Associate Professor Emerita Ursula Reidel (German), Associate Professor Steven Nuss (music), Saturday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center Colby Symphony Orchestra, Janna Hymes, Lorimer Chapel guest conductor and pianist Nathan Trivers perform and discuss Feldman’s The Jazz Band’s final concert this season features idiomatic Saturday, April 30, and Sunday, May 1, 7:30 p.m. last work for piano. They suggest that Palais de Mari is the A composer’s inspiration can come from anything or examples of various classic jazz styles.
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