Minuteman Marching Band Department of Free Faculty Concerts At McGuirk Stadium (unless otherwise noted) Performances by our world class faculty highlights Tinothy T. Anderson director | Thom Hannum associate director music&dance Org.
are now free and open to the public! PAID COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & FINE ARTS Nonprofit U.S. Postage U.S. August November 2 No. Permit Amherst, MA 26 | Hawai'i 11 | Maine September Sunday, October 1 (at Fenway Park) September 26 Tuesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE 7:30pm | Bezanson Recital Hall 9 | Old Dominion December Fredric Cohen 30th Anniversary Concert Centenary Concert: 30 | Ohio 1 | Merry Maple Fredric T. Cohen and friends The Music of Philip Bezanson (in the Amherst Town Common)
Featuring William Hite, tenor; Gilles October 21 | Homecoming, Georgia Southern Watch for the “Power and Vonsattel, piano & others October 28 | Band Day Appalachian State Class” at the Tournament Celebrate one of the iconic early leaders of 29 | MICCA Finals of Roses Parade 3 Tuesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE January 1, 2018, 11am our music program while helping to ensure (in Lawrence, MA) On the Edge a strong and vibrant future for our Department. Jonathan Hulting-Cohen & Nadine Shank For football game times & details see umassathletics.com $25 Patron tickets available; includes For Marching Band information see umass.edu/band 4 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE reserved seating and reception with the artists. Felipe Salles’s Interconnections Ensemble Regular tickets $10 / $5 Felipe Salles & big band 8 Sunday | 4:30pm | BRH | FREE Schubert at the Keyboard Nigel Coxe (Emeritus) 11 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Friday, October 20 The Voice of the Clarinet 7:30pm | CH | $25 / $18 Romie de Guise-Langlois and friends 43rd Annual Multiband Pops
15 Sunday | 4:30pm | BRH | FREE Concert on Homecoming All in the UMass Family Weekend Gregory Spiridopoulos with faculty, spouses, & guests Jeffrey W. Holmes, producer/coordinator TICKETS&INFORMATION Showcase of 15 wind, brass, choral, orchestral,
November dance & percussion ensembles plus the Box Office & Online Minuteman Marching Band 413-545-2511 or 2 Thursday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE fineartscenter.com/MusicandDance Salon Music Wind faculty coordinated by Matthew Westgate Information Department of Music & Dance East Fine Arts273 Center of Massachusetts Amherst University Amherst, MA 01003-9330 Wednesday, October 25 413-577-2154 or 15 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE 7:30pm | FAC Concert Hall Check out our new website umass.edu/music/events From Haydn to Hoedown Follow us on Facebook @UMassMusicDance Edward Arron, Elizabeth Chang, Cobus du Toit, UMass Amherst Symphony Jonathan Hulting-Cohen & Nadine Shank Orchestra: Welcome Morihiko! Ticket Prices* Morihiko Nakahara begins his tenure as Director UMass Amherst students...... FREE (New!) of Orchestral Studies with a rousing program of Other students, seniors, children...... $5 Brahms's Symphony No. 2 and Dvořák 's Cello General Public...... $10 Concerto featuring faculty cellist Edward Arron, plus Mason Bates’s Attack Decay Sustain Release *Except Multiband Pops on 10/20 and Univ Dancers on 11/30-12/2) FALL2017 Department of music&dance COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & FINE ARTS calendar of events FALL 2017 september october
1 Sunday | 7:30pm | BRH 10 Tuesday | 7:30pm | CH | 23 Monday | 7:30pm | CH | $10 / $5 Centenary Concert: The FREE, tickets required Symphony Band FIVE COLLEGE NEW Matthew Westgate, conductor MUSIC FESTIVAL Music of Philip Bezanson U.S. Marine Band FRIDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 8-10 William Hite, tenor; Gilles Vonsattel, (The President’s Own) 25 Wednesday | 7:30pm | CH | piano & others The return of our own Lt. Col. Jason $10 / $5 8 Friday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE $10 / $5 / $25 patron, includes UMass Amherst Five Colleges and Beyond reserved seating & reception with K. Fettig ‘97 ’98, U.S. Marine Band the artists Director and White House music Symphony Orchestra: Music by Dan Warner, Robert Stern, Gunther advisor, with Malcolm W. Rowell, Jr., Welcome Morihiko! Schuller, David Sanford & Don Wheelock Morihiko Nakahara, director 3 Tuesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE guest conductor. Edward Arron, cello 9 Saturday | 2pm | BRH | FREE Faculty Concert: On the Edge Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, saxophone & Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Dvořák: New Duos and Five 11 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Cello Concerto in B minor; Mason College Composition Nadine Shank, piano Music by Giacinto Scelsi, Edison Denisov, Faculty Concert: Bates: Attack Decay Sustain Release Competition Winner The Voice of the Clarinet Competition winner plus violin duos by David Liebman & David Amram: Three Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet 26 Thursday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Stan Charkey, Bruce Quaglia & Dayton Greenwich Village Portraits With Jamie-Rose Guarrine, soprano; Jazz Lab Ensemble Kinney; saxophone duo by Christine 4 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Edward Arron, cello & guest Dann Friedman, director Delphine Hedden Faculty Concert: Jeewon Park, piano Felipe Salles’s Music by Schubert, Weber, Glinka & more 27 Friday | 8pm | BRH | FREE 9 Saturday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Interconnections Ensemble Guest Artist Concert Old as New Again: Felipe Salles, composer and conductor, 13 Friday | 7:30pm | BOW | $10 / $5 Jazz Ensemble I Nathan Jorgensen, saxophones & The Art of Transcription presents The Lullaby Project, his Aaron Ragsdale, percussion Music by György Kurtág, Thomas Adès, five-movement suite for big band, plus and Chapel Jazz Jeffrey W. Holmes & Thomas Charles Wuorinen, Henri Dutilleux & tangos & more 28 Saturday | 5:30pm | CH | FREE Salvatore Macchia Giampietro, director High School & Collegiate 15 Sunday | 4:30pm | BRH | FREE Choral Festival | 3pm | BRH | FREE 10 Sunday Faculty/Guest Concert: MassACDA Honors Choirs with UMass
New Music Masters All in the UMass Family Chamber Choir & Chorale Music by John Harbison, György Kurtág, Gregory Spiridopoulos, trombone, with Tony Thornton & Stephen A. Paparo, Morton Feldman, George Crumb & faculty, spouses, & guests conductors; Susan Conkling & Anthony Frank Bennett Jason Hooper, Matthew Westgate, & Ben Trecek-King, guest conductors Smar, trombone; Emiliano Ricciardi & Allyson Michal, violin; Karl Knapp, 28 Saturday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE cello; Sheffra Spiridopoulos, horn Guest Artist Recital: & Erica Drake, percussion Lawler & Fadoul Music by Prokofiev, Saglietti, Small, Zara Lawler, flute & Paul J. Fadoul, marimba 6 Friday | 7:30pm | CH | $10 / $5 and others Wind Ensemble with 16 Monday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE 30 Monday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE New England Brass Band Guest Artist Concert, Brass of UMass Matthew Westgate & Stephen Bulla, Masterclass, Q & A Brass Student Chamber Ensembles conductors, Eric Berlin, trumpet Michael Wayne, clarinet, soloist Boston Symphony Orchestra Includes Joseph Turrin’s The Sounding of the Call 20 Friday | 7:30pm | CH | $25 / $18 43rd Annual Multiband 8 Sunday | 4:30pm | BRH | FREE Pops Concert Faculty Emeritus Concert: Jeffrey W. Holmes, producer/coordinator Schubert at the Keyboard Showcase of 15 wind, brass, choral, Five College Opera: Nigel Coxe, piano orchestral, dance & percussion The Scarlet Professor Music by Franz Schubert ensembles plus the Minuteman Sept 15, 16, 23 | 8pm; 17 & 24 | 3pm Marching Band. Includes John Williams’ Mendenhall Center for the Arts, Star Wars theme and more Smith College Music by Eric Sawyer; Libretto by Harley Erdman; Stage Director: Ron Bashford; Music Director: Eduardo Leandro; Featuring William Hite, UMass Voice faculty as Prof. Newton Arvin november thescarletprofessoropera.com 2 Thursday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE 14 Tuesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Faculty Chamber Winds String Chamber Music Concert: Salon Music Elizabeth Chang, coordinator Matthew Westgate, coordinator 15 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE William Walton: Façade: An Faculty Chamber Concert: Entertainment & Kurt Weill: Little From Haydn to Hoedown Threepenny Music Haydn: Londoner Trio; Beethoven: Ghost 9 Thursday | 7:30pm | BRH | $10 / $5 Trio; Mantovani: L’oeuf; Peterson: Opus One Chamber Trio; Henryson: Off Pist Orchestra Edward Arron, cello; Elizabeth Chang, A faculty-student collaboration 18 Saturday | 9am-5pm | BRH | FREE violin; Cobus du Toit, flute; Jonathan Western Mass Flute Day Hulting-Cohen, saxophone & Cobus du Toit, coordinator Nadine Shank, piano Guest Artist Concert at 4:30pm: Christina 26 Tuesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Jennings, University of Colorado, Boulder Faculty Concert: Fredric Cohen 17 Friday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE 30th Anniversary Concert Brass Bash 29 Wednesday | 7:30pm | Grace Fredric T. Cohen, oboe with Ayano Trombone & Brass Choirs, Horn, Trumpet Church | FREE Kataoka, percussion; Lawrence Schipull, & Tuba Ensembles Five College Early organ; Basil Reeve, oboe & Salvatore Greg Spiridopoulos, Eric Berlin, Josh Music Collegium Macchia, double bass. Includes Macchia’s Michal & John Bottomley, directors Robert Eisenstein, director Isónnia and Henri Dutilleux’s Les Citations
december 7 Thursday | 7:30pm | BOW | $10 / $5 Jazz Ensemble I Jeffrey W. Holmes, director New student & faculty works plus seasonal favorites
9 Saturday | 7:30pm | CH | $10 / $5 Chamber Choir, Chorale, Women’s & Recital Choirs: Holiday Card to Amherst Tony Thornton & Stephen A. Paparo, conductors
30 Nov. & 1-2 Dec. | 7:30pm | Totman Performance Lab | $14 / $5 University Dancers Co-Artistic Directors: Tom Vacanti and Leslie Frye Maietta A surrealist evening of dance theatre inspired by Pablo Neruda and Federico Garcia-Lorca
1 Friday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE 4 Monday | 7:30pm | CH | Euridice Baroque $10 / $5 10 Sunday | 2pm | BRH | $10 / $5 Ensemble Wind Ensemble & Vocal Jazz Ensemble Robert Eisenstein, director Concert Band Catherine Jensen-Hole, director Matthew Westgate & Timothy 2 Saturday | 7:30pm | BOW | $10 / $5 11 Monday | 7:30pm | CH | $10 / $5 Marimba Bands T. Anderson, conductors Nadine Shank, piano UMass Amherst & Ensembles Symphony Orchestra Thomas Hannum, director Includes music by Hindemith and a piano concerto premiere Morihiko Nakahara, director Joshua Michal, horn 3 Sunday | 4:30pm | BRH | FREE by David Maslanka Guest Artist Concert: Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol; R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1; Tchaikovsky: Sax & Strings 6 Wednesday | 7:30pm | CH | Symphony No. 4 Duo Montagnard: Joseph Murphy, $10 / $5 saxophone & Matthew Slotkin, guitar Symphony Band & 12 Tues | 7:30pm | BOW | $10 / $5 Plus the Admiral Launch Duo: Percussion Ensemble Chapel Jazz & Jazz Lab Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, saxophone Matthew Westgate & Ayano Ensembles & Jennifer R. Ellis, harp Kataoka, directors Thomas Giampietro & Includes selections from the Vox Dann Friedman, directors Novus 15 Minutes of Fame project
VENUE KEY BRH = Bezanson Recital Hall • BOW = Bowker Auditorium • CH = Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Photos: Richard Ares, Ben Barnhart, Eric Berlin, Jim Coleman, www.umass.edu/music Jon Crispin, Pat Mahon, Bill Sitler, John Solem, Hamilton Studios