Eastman Ensembles Rehearsal/Concert Schedule Spring 2016 Classes begin: Mon, 1/11; Spring Break: Sat, 3/5 to Sun, 3/13; Jury Week : Mon, 4/18 to Fri, 4/22; Last day of class: Mon, 5/2 http://www.esm.rochester.edu/ensembles/concerts/ Cycle I Concert Date/ Hall Ens. Conductor Repertoire Rehearsals begin (#) (Thu 1/21, Fri 1/22, preview) Th- 804A Opera Stephen Carr, Stage Giacomo Puccini – Suor Angelica Sa, 1/28-30, 7:30 Sun 1/31, 2:00 Director Umberto Giordano – Mese Mariano Ksenia Lelëtkina, Music Director Fri, 29 Jan ET PHIL Neil Varon, conductor Wolfgang A. Mozart – Overture to “The Magic Flute” (7’) Reh begin Mon, 1/11 (8) Piano Soloist TBD Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major (23’) Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6 (46’) Mon, 1 Feb/ ET ESSO Neil Varon, conductor Richard Wagner – Prelude to Act III of “Die Meistersinger” Reh begin Mon, 1/11 (9) James Van Demark, (5’) narrator Camille Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals (21’) Ludwig Van Beethoven – Symphony No. 2 (32’) Wed, 3 Feb/ ET EWO Mark Davis Scatterday Peter Van Zandt Lane – Hivemind (9’) Reh begin Mon, 1/11 (10) and Eric Laprade, Michael Daugherty – Niagara Falls (10’) conductors Steven Stucky – Threnos (10’) Robert Russell Bennett – Suite of Old American Dances (20’) Fri, 5 Feb/ ET EWE Kevin Holzman, David Maslanka – Symphony No. 2 (35’) Reh begin Mon, 1/11 (11) conductor Bert Appermont – Symphony No. 2 (30’) Wed, 10 Feb/ ET GCO Graduate Student Lowell Liebermann – Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, Op. Rehearsals: 1/12, 2/2 and 2/9, Conductors 39 (25’) regular class time; Sun, 2/7, 8-10 Chris Wong, flute Robert Schumann – Concerto for violoncello and Orchestra PM, RWR; Wed, 2/10, Dress: 3:45- Other soloists tbd in a minor, Op. 129 (25’) 5:25; concert 8:00, KH@ET Alexandra Pakhmutova – Trumpet Concerto (25’) Thu, 11 Feb KH EJE Bill Dobbins, director Rep TBD Bill Holman, guest artist Mon 15 Feb KH MN Brad Lubman, conductor Georg Friedrich Haas – In Vain (70’) Tue, 16 Feb KH NJE Dave Rivello, director Rep TBD Cycle II Concert Date/ Hall ENS Conductor Repertoire Rehearsals begin (#) Fri, 19 Feb/ ET PHIL Neil Varon, conductor Ludwig van Beethoven – Coriolan Overture (8’) Reh begin Wed, 2/3 (starting Alan Cline, baritone Gustav Mahler – Selections from Rückertlieder (<18’) with strings only, WBP join on soloist Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 (47’) 2/8) (8) Sat, 20 Feb/ ET ESSO Neil Varon, conductor Alexander Borodin – Overture to “Prince Igor” (10’) Reh begin Fri, 2/5 (8) Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas **Sat, 2/20, dress in KH@ET, Tallis (15’) 1-3 PM Sergei Prokofiev – Suite from “Lieutenant Kijé” (20’) Sun, 21 Feb, 3pm Ref Rep Singers Hana Cai, Carlo Serrano RS: Luth (RS) (RS) and Philip Silvey Johannes Brahms – Gypsy Songs Church Women’s (WC), conductors Edward Elgar – Spanish Serenade; The Snow Chorus (WC) WC: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Stabat Mater Wed, 24 Feb/ ET EWO Mark Davis Scatterday, Eric Whitacre – Equus (7’) Reh begin Fri, 2/5 (9) Kevin Holzman, and Eric Karel Husa – Al Fresco (12’) Laprade, conductors John Mackey – The Frozen Cathedral (14’) Joseph Schwantner – Recoil (25’) Fri, 26 Feb/ ET EWE Mark Davis Scatterday, Roberto Sierra/Scatterday – Fandangos (12’) Reh begin Mon, 2/8 (10) conductor Béla Fleck/Scatterday – County Clare (7’) **Additional reh: Béla Fleck, guest artist Fleck/Scatterday – The Landing (10’) Thu, 2/25, EEW 415, Evening Fleck/Verrier – Impostor (Concerto for Banjo and Wind Time TBD Orchestra) (35’) Sat, 27 Feb, 8pm St. Eastman William Weinert, James MacMillan – Miserere Mary’s Chorale (EC) conductor Francis Poulenc – Mass in G Sergei Rachmaninoff – Vespers (All-Night Vigil) Tues, 1 Mar KH Jazz Lab Rich Thompson, director Rep TBD Band Tues, 1 Mar Hatch Collegium Paul O’Dette, conductor Rep TBD Musicum Fri, 4 Mar/ ET Studio Bill Dobbins, director Rep TBD Reh begin Mon, 2/22 (6) Orchestra Current 11/24/2015 3:11 PMh:\calendar and reh sched\15-16\spring 2016, portrait, rep and dates, rev 11,24,15.docx Cycle III Concert Date/ Hall Ens Conductor Repertoire Rehearsals begin (#) Fri, 18 Mar/ ET EWO Mark Davis Scatterday, Trumpet Symposium Reh begin Fri, 2/26 (9) Kevin Holzman and Eric Patrick Harlin – Rapture (9’) Laprade, conductors Boris Kozhevnikov – Symphony No. 3 “Slavyanskaya” mvts. 1 and 4 (11’) Trumpet soloists TBD Stephen Paulus – Concerto for Two Trumpets (23’) Fisher Tull – Rhapsody (12’) Mon, 21 Mar KH Chamber Jeff Campbell, director Rep TBD Jazz Justin Flynn, guest artist Wed, 23 Mar/ ET ESSO Neil Varon, conductor Béla Bartók – Rumanian Folk Dances (6’) Reh begin Fri, 2/26 (9) Dmitri Shostakovich – Ballet Suite No. 1 (14’) Shostakovich – Symphony No. 1 (28’) Wed, 30 Mar KH MN Brad Lubman, conductor Steve Reich – Quartet for Two Pianos and Two Vibraphones Steve Reich, guest (16’) composer Reich – Double Sextet (22’) Michael Burritt, Reich – Radio Rewrite (19’) vibraphone Fri, 1 Apr/ KH EWE Mark Davis Scatterday, Steve Danyew – Alcott Songs (12’) Reh begin Mon, 3/14 (9) Kevin Holzman, Eric Alan Hovhaness – Symphony No. 7 (14’) Laprade and Reed Igor Stravinsky – Octet Chamberlin, conductors David Liptak - Octet Mon, 4 Apr/ KH PCO Neil Varon, conductor Felix Mendelssohn – Overture to “Ruy Blas” (7’) Reh begin Mon, 3/14 Guitar soloist TBD Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Guitar Concerto No. 1 (19’) (10) Wolfgang A. Mozart – Symphony No. 38 (26’) Th, 7 April KH Jazz Lab Rich Thompson, director Rep TBD Band Fri, 8 Apr KH EJE/NJE Bill Dobbins and Dave Rep TBD Rivello, directors Th – Sa, 7 -9 April, 7:30 PM ET Opera Steven Daigle, Stage Mozart – Marriage of Figaro Sun, 10 April, 2:00 PM Director Reh begin Mon, 3/14 (11) Benton Hess, Music 3/28 & 3/30, extended reh to Director 7:00 4/1, extended reh to 7:30 4/2, Tech reh: 1:30-5:00 4/4 & 4/5 – DRESS reh, 7:30- Sun 10 Apr, 8pm Ref Rep Singers Lauren Adja Park, Nils RS: Luth (RS) Klykken (RS) and Philip Franz Schubert – An die Sonne, Der Tanz, Lebenslust Church Women’s Silvey (WC), conductors Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Te Deum Chorus (WC) WC: Heinrich Schütz – Cantate Domino Gwyneth Walker – I Thank You God Stephen Paulus – Day Break Eleanor Daley – Three Poems from the Parlour Joan Szymko – Arise My Love Trad./arr. Susan Brumfield – No Time Trad./arr. Cristian Grases – La Paloma Cycle IV Concert Date/ Hall Ens Conductor Repertoire Rehearsals begin (#) Mon, 11 Apr/ Hochstein ESSO Garrett Wellenstein, Gioachino Rossini – Barber of Seville Overture (8’) Reh begin Fri, 3/25 (8) conductor Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Concerto for Double Bass in E Double Bass soloist TBD Major (11’) Wolfgang A. Mozart – Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K.543 (29’) Wed, 13 Apr/ ET EWO Mark Davis Scatterday, Germaine Tailleferre – Suite Divertimento (12’) Reh begin Fri, 3/25 (9) Kevin Holzman, and Eric Joaquín Rodrigo – Adagio for Wind Orchestra (11’) Laprade, conductors Philip Sparke – Dance Movements (18’) Karel Husa – Music For Prague 1968 (25’) Tue, 26 Apr KH Collegium Paul O’Dette, conductor Rep TBD Musicum Wed, 27 Apr KH MN Oliver Hagen, and Edo Magnus Lindberg – Corrente (11’) Frenkel, conductors Bruno Mantovani – Turbulences (11’) Edo Frenkel – Silhouette for 18 players and 3 conductors (3’) Anton Webern – Symphony, Op. 21 (10’) Franco Donatoni – Flag (11’) Fri, 29 Apr/ ET ERC with William Weinert, Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 1 “A Sea Reh begin Mon, 4/11 PHIL conductor Symphony” (63’) (7) **Additional dress rehearsals: Tue, 4/26 7:30-10pm Thu, 4/28 7:30-10pm Mon, 2 May/ ET EWE Mark Davis Scatterday, Giuseppe Verdi/Luigi Bassi – Fantasia da Concerto Reh begin Mon, 4/11 conductor “Rigoletto” (9’) (7) Tadayoshi Takeda, Jonathan Russell – TBD Double Concerto Clarinet soloist Joseph Schwantner - …and the mountains rising nowhere (20’) Current 11/24/2015 3:11 PMh:\calendar and reh sched\15-16\spring 2016, portrait, rep and dates, rev 11,24,15.docx .