Denver jazz trumpeter visits UO.Byline: The Register-Guard Two jazz concerts are among the four events in the coming week at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. School of Music and Dance, 961 E. 18th Ave. UO SCHOOL OF MUSIC UO Jazz Ensembles with trumpeter Ron Miles Tonight, Beall Hall Denver trumpeter Ron Miles will play with UO student jazz ensembles and with a UO faculty lineup during an 8 p.m. concert in Beall Hall tonight. The Oregon Jazz Ensemble will perform three pieces with Miles, including two works written by UO students especially for this performance: `Jazz Ensemble No. 3' by Justin Morell, and `The Size of It, the Color' by Doug Detrick. Three jazz combo pieces - written by students David Swigart, Ben Darwish and Josh Deutsch Josh Deutsch is a pop writer from New York and Sr. VP of A&R and staff producer for Virgin Records. Josh produced and wrote on the forthcoming Rickey Fante record. - also will be performed with Miles. The program will conclude with Miles joining five members of the UO jazz faculty, performing some of Miles originals. Faculty members include Steve Owen For other persons named Steve Owen, see Steve Owen (disambiguation). Steven Richard "Steve" Owen was a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was played by Martin Kemp. and Idit Shner, saxophones; Mike Denny, guitar; Toby Koenigsberg, piano; and Tyler Abbott, bass. Miles is a staple of the Denver jazz scene. He also works as a music professor at Metropolitan State College there. He plays festivals and venues around the world, and has worked with performers such as Bill Frisell William Richard "Bill" Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is a North American jazz guitarist, progressive folk musician and composer. Frisell uses a wide range of effects (delay, distortion, reverb, octave shifters, and volume pedals, to name a few) to create unique sounds from his , Madeleine Peyroux, Don Byron, the Ellington Orchestra and Fred Hess' Boulder Creative Music Ensemble. Tickets are $7, $5 for students and senior citizens, at the door. The Jazz Cafe Friday, Room 178 of the Music School The School of Music's Jazz Cafe presents its final evening of jazz combos at 8 p.m. in Room 178 of the music school. Five student combos will perform, including one ensemble of five guitars. The program includes music by George Gershwin, Sonny Rollins Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7 1930 in New York City) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20. and Paul Desmond Paul Desmond (25 November 1924 - 30 May 1977), born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five". , as well as some original student compositions. Tickets are $7, $5 for students and senior citizens, at the door. Light refreshments will be on sale. Master Classes with musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra, founded 1900 by Fritz Scheel, who was its conductor until his death in 1907. Scheel was followed by Karl Pohlig (1907–12). Under the leadership (1912–38) of Leopold Stokowski, the orchestra became one of the world's finest Sunday, Beall Hall and Room 186 of the Music School Two principals from the Philadelphia Orchestra will give free master classes Sunday afternoon before the orchestra's performance at the Hult Center that evening. Bassoonist Danny Matsukawa and hornist Jennifer Montone will be the featured teachers. Admission is free. The public is welcome to observe as the artists work with UO student musicians. Matsukawa's bassoon bassoon (băs  n`), double-reed woodwind instrument that plays in the bass and tenor registers. Its 8-ft (2.4-m) conical tube is bent double, the instrument thus being about 4 ft (1. master class will be at 3 p.m. in Room 186
of the music building.
Montone's horn master class will be at 4 p.m. in Beall Hall. Chamber Music on Campus Wednesday, Beall Hall Student chamber ensembles will perform at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Admission is free. The program includes a wind septet by Paul Hindemith Noun 1. Paul Hindemith - German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963) Hindemith ; a Fantasie for piano, four-hands by Franz Schubert; a quintet for piano and strings by Robert Schumann; `Fripperies' for horn quartet by Lowell Shaw; a violin-viola duet by W.A. Mozart; a string quartet by Johannes Brahms; David Maslanka's `Wind Quintet No. 3' and Schubert's famous piano quintet, `The Trout.' |
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