The following is apartial list of concert Feh. 2VAnOpera Sampler" March 5-7-Danceability Workshop activities for February and March. For Three-day workshop in Gerlinger more information, call our Community Feh. 21-"Old Wine &New Spirits" Annex; dance concert by Steve Paxton and Relations Ofice weekdays at 346-5678. Anne Tedards, Barbara Baird, Robert Joint Forces Dance Co. on March 6. Hladky and J. Robert Moore. FEBRUARY (Faculty Artist Seris) March &Music from Far-Away Lands Feb. 3-Robert Kyr & Steve Owen (Children's Concert Series) (Faculty Artist Series) Feb. 23-Composers Forum Concert March 7-Victor Steinhardt, piano Feb. 5-Lawrence Maves & Barbara Feb. 25-Oregon Gospel Ensemble (Faculty Artist Series) GonzAlez-Palmer: Phi Beta Benefit - (Faculty Artist Series) Feb. 27-Bacb's "Musical Offering" March %-Oregon Vocal Jazz Ensemble (Faculty Artist Series) Feh. 6--Gerald McBoing Boing and March 9-Collegium Mnsicum Carnival of the Animals Feb. 28-Univer~itj' Symphony (Children's Concert Series) March 9-Oregon Wind Ensemble & Feb. 28-Chamber Music at Tea Time Oregon Symphonic Band Feb. 9-Jazz Combos I MARCH March 10-UO Men's Ensemble & Feb. 10-Oregon Wind Ensemble & March 2-Rhonda Rider, Lois Shapiro UO Women's Chorus Oregon Symphonic Band (Vanguard Series) March 11-Da Capo Chamber Players Feb. 11-Quartet Sine Nomine March 3--Oregon Percussion Ensemble (Chamber Music Series) (Chamber Music Series) March 4-University Singers & UO March IkEdward Kammerer, horn Feb. 16-Pacific Rim Gamelan Chamber Choir (Faculty Artist Series) Feb. 17-"Bones & Brass" March 5-Oregon Jazz Ensemble UNIVERSITY of OREGON SCHOOL of MUSIC and DEPARTMENT of DANCE Nonprofit Organization US. 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V, No. 1 MUSIC TODAY FESTIVAL-April 7-30, 1993 UO School of Music-Schedule of Events Wednesday, April 7 Tuesday, April 20 The Dean's Desk UO Faculty Artist Series: Vanguard Concert Series: Violinist Joseph Genualdi & Friends Lecture (4 p.m.) and concert by Sally Pinkas, piano Anne Dhu McLucas, Dean Thursday, April 8 Wednesday, April 21 Six months later-and after attending Eugene Symphony Orchestra ; UO Faculty Artist Series: some thirty or forty concerts, many music by Saint-Saens, Faure, and Charles Dowd and Oregon Percussion Ensemble; classrooms, countless committee meet- American composer Stephen Smith music of Xenakis; with Spencer Carroll, harpsichord LEDGER LINES is the official ings, having read many letters and newsletter of the University of Oregon questionnaires from all of you, and having Thursday, April 22 Friday, April 9 School of Music, and is published had lots of profitable interactions with UO Faculty Artist Series: New Music for Horn and Horn Ensemble; twice a year for alumni, faculty, and performed bv students of Ed Kammerer community groups of various sorts-I am Soprano June Schock, tubist Richard Frazier, friends of the music school. Your more "tuned in" to the School of Music guest hornist Jack Herrick Chimera: comments are always welcome. (DancelTheater work with Pacific Rim Gamelan) and to the arts in this community than when I first wrote for Ledger Lines. Saturday, April 10 Friday, April 23 Address all correspondence to: The School of Music, of course, can be "Crossing Cultures: An Evening of Music & Dance from University Singers perform contemporary choral music LEDGER LINES Eastern Europe Central Asia, and the Near East" a world unto itself, as I began to discover Chimera School of Music with the Oregon Ethnic Dance Theater, Slavej, at the height of the concert season, when University of Oregon two or three concerts would be held on the and UO East European Folk Music Ensemble Saturday, April 24 Eugene, OR 97403-1225 same evening! What has been a great services and community outreach dramati- Celebrating the life and music of John Cage, or call (503) 346-3761. Monday, April 12 plus poetry readings by Northwest poets pleasure to me is to discover the generally cally, highlighting our quality and our "A Concert of Post-Romantic Music for Flute" Chimera high quality of the offerings here, both readiness to provide musical offerings to UO flute students of Richard Trombley ANNE DHU McLUCAS those of the students and of the faculty, any and all who want them. Sunday, April 25 Dean whose performances often vied with some Students will he encouraged to provide Tuesday, April 13 World Music Series: SCOTT BARKHURST of the best I heard in Boston. When our community service in various ways, and UO Faculty Artist Series: Klezmer music by Brave Old World Newsletter Editor students and faculty get into the swing of there will he programs and courses that Soprano Ann Tedards and Con Brio; Chimera music by Vaughan Williams and Hal Owen the year, there seem to me to be no more will help them to envision ways of BARBARA H. GOODSON productive people-a nice answer to the interacting with the community once they Monday, April 26 Assistant to the Dean for Development legislature that worries about professorial Wednesday, April 14 UO Symphony; leave the University. Among the most UO Jazz Concert music by John Adams, Robert Kyr, Ellen Taafe Zwilich productivity. exciting of these prospects is a new degree SARA JONES BRANDT A prime example of this productivity Director of Development, offering being worked out with the Thursday, April 15 Tuesday, April 27 Oregon Bach Festival will be displayed in April, when the entire program in Arts Administration, which Electronic music by the UO Electronic Music Studio Oregon Composers Forum; music school-along with our dance will provide courses in Performing Arts music by emerging West Coast composers KAREN ENGELS department, theater department, and many Management, both at the undergraduate Friday, April 16 Contributing Writer exciting guests-will unite in a month- level and for a new master's degree. Add George Rochberg: Lecture (4 p.m.) Wednesday, April 28 long festival of the arts called Music this to many of the exciting ideas that UO Faculty Artist Series: Chamber Music Series: JANA ADAMS Today (see story, page 3). And when came out of the Curriculum Review (see Pianist Claire Wachter and the Lafayette String Quartet; Student Assistant measured by standards of the world at UO Contemporary Music Ensemble. music by Alastair Hood, Mozart, Mendelssohn, the report on page 4), and the prospect of Conferences: Assn. of West Coast Music Theorists and UO student composer COVER: Among the featured mists at the large, we clearly make the grade-witness new faculty members in violin, cello, jazz and College Music Society, NW Chapter (April 16-18) upcoming Music Today Festival are the winning of the National Opera Associ- piano, and piano pedagogylperformance, Thursday, April 29 (clockwise): Con Brio, George Rochberg, ation's competition by our very own Opera and we will have no dearth of new ideas Saturday, April 17 Eugene Symphony Orchestra; Lafayette Quartet, and Sally Pinkas. Workshop, a story featured on page 2. and people to work with in the future. Faculty Artist Series: music by Ravel, Shostakovich, and Ginastera But there are things for us to tackle. This is all happening, of course, in a Pianist Sally Pinkas; music by George Rochberg, The School of Music, after all, is not the time of impending austerity measures, and Friday, April 30 Roger Sessions and Frederic Rzewski only world, and both faculty and students Iam cognizant of the threat to ongoing as Kronos String Quartet; need to work to get themselves and their music by Zorn, El Din, Golijov, Benshoof, and Gorecki well as new programs. However, it is not Sunday, April 18 music out into the world. We are finding in my nature to he a pessimist; we will Oregon Mozart Players; ways to do this-the time-honored ways survive whatever cuts have to he made, music by Honegger, Rossini, Mozart & Telemann TICKET INFORMATION: UO Opera Workshop: Tobermoty(West Coast premiere) Tickets for Eugene Symphony, Oregon Mozart of concert-giving and recruitment visits- and we will continue to plan ahead for a Players, and UO Chamber Music Series available at the but we also need to make recordings vibrant future, in which the School of Monday, April 19 Hult Center Ticket Office (687-5000). available, get hooked up with television, Music will become better known for the UO Faculty Artist Series: Tickets to Chimera available at University Theatre and reach the people who both need and fine work that goes on here. Pianists Dean Kramer & Victor Steinhardt, with guest Box Office (346-4191). want entertainment and education who artist Art Maddox; music by Hindemith, Steinhardt, All other tickets available at Beall Hall Box Office on the The University of Oregon is an equal may not have heard of us: TOthat end, we and Messiaen day of the concert. opportunity, affirmativeaction institution are working on upgrading ouf recording For more information, contact the Music Today Festival office (503: 346-5680) committed to cultural diversity. Gonzrilez-Palmer and June Schock Eugene Symphony Orchestra, the UO Opera Workshop deserve tremendous credit for their fine Music Today Festival Oregon Mozart Players, Oregon work. Both the musical and dramatic Percussion Ensemble, University presentation were excellent." Symphony, and University Singers. ~riumphsin San ~rancisco The UO School of Music will receive a Premieres April 7 . several Faculty Artist Series concerts, UO Ensemble Wins First Place in Chamber Opera Competition small amount of funding from the NOA to UO Pioneers a Unique Three-Week Offering of Music, Education including performances by Charles Dowd make the trip to New Orleans, but will (percussion), Richard Frazier (tuba), Joe need to raise enough money to send 23 ne of the most ambitious and remarkable diversity of artistic activities Genualdi (violin), Dean Kramer (piano), people, 20 of whom are student singers comprehensive events ever that are thriving here." J.