Festival features modern music.Byline: The Register-Guard A guitar quartet, an electronic accordionist, a composers collective, a gamelan gamelan Indigenous orchestra of Java and Bali and, more generally, of Indonesia and Malaysia. A gamelan usually consists largely of gongs, xylophones, and metallophones (rows of tuned metal bars struck with a mallet). Gamelan polyphony is complex and many-voiced. and a medieval bard telling the tale of "Beowulf" are among those scheduled to perform during the Music Today Festival 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, 961 E. 18th Ave. The eight-concert biennial festival, devoted to music of the 20th and 21st centuries, begins Wednesday with soprano Ann Crumb singing music written by her father, George Crumb
Crumb's program includes Three Early Songs by George Crumb and "Hearing Bells" by David Crumb, plus jazz pieces with Steve Owen and James Bunte on sax, Jason Palmer on drums, Toby Koeningsberg on piano and Tyler Abbott on bass. Ann Crumb is an award- winning actress who has originated leading roles on Broadway and in London. She sang on her father's 70th birthday CD, which won a 2003 Grammy. Tickets are $9 and $5. Other concerts: A 20th-21st Century American Sampler, 8 p.m. Thursday, Beall Hall, $9 and $5. "Margaret Songs" by Libby Larsen, "Irreveries From Sappho" by Elizabeth Vercoe, Suite for Violin and Piano by Henry Cowell, Three American Pieces by Lukas Foss, "East Wind" by Shulamit Ran, Fantasy Variations on a Sacred Harp Tune by Robert Kyr and "The Single Stroke Roll Meditation" by Pauline Oliveros. Pauline Oliveros, 8 p.m. Friday, Beall Hall, $9 and $5. An award-winning avant-garde composer who was a co-founder of the San Francisco Tape Music Center The San Francisco Tape Music Center was founded in 1962 by composers Morton Subotnick and Ramon Sender as a "nonprofit cultural and educational corporation, the aim of which was to present concerts and offer a place to learn about work within the tape music medium" ([1]). , Oliveros plays electronic accordion. Her program includes The Greeting Meditation, The Breath Improvisation, Meditation Texts and "the fierce urgency of now." Santa Fe Guitar Quartet, 8 p.m. Saturday, Beall Hall, $9 and $5. The quartet, which includes one American and three Argentinians, will play Two Dance Episodes from "Rodeo" by Aaron Copland, "Hamsa" by Roland Dyens, Two Spanish Pieces by Isaac Albeniz, Three Latin American Pieces by Paquito D'Rivera and "Las Quarto quar·to n. pl. quar·tos 1. The page size obtained by folding a whole sheet into four leaves. 2. A book composed of pages of this size. Estaciones Portenas" by Astor Piazzolla. Eugene Composers Collective, 7 p.m. Feb. 20, Cozmic Pizza, 199 W. Eighth Ave., $2. New music by Eugene composers, in traditional and experimental styles. Pacific Rim Gamelan, 8 p.m. Feb. 21, Beall Hall, $5 and $3. Balinese percussion orchestra presents a program of premieres by UO composers. Trio Pacifica, 8 p.m. Feb. 22, Beall Hall, $9 and $5. Violinist Kathryn Lucktenberg, cellist Steve Pologe and pianist Victor Steinhardt play Steinhardt's Piano Trio (1998), William Bolcom's ragtime ragtime: see jazz. ragtime U.S. popular music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries distinguished by its heavily syncopated rhythm. Ragtime found its characteristic expression in formally structured piano compositions, the accented left-hand Spring Trio of traditional flower songs (1997) and Ludwig van Beethoven's "Archduke arch·duke n. 1. In certain royal families, especially that of imperial Austria, a nobleman having a rank equivalent to that of a sovereign prince. 2. Used as a title for such a nobleman. " Trio in B-flat Major (Op. 97). Benjamin Bagby's "Beowulf," 8 p.m. Feb. 23, Beall Hall, $9 and $5. A specialist in medieval musical performance, Bagby uses his tenor voice and a six-string lyre lyre, generic term for stringed musical instruments having a sound box from which project curved arms joined by a crossbar. The strings are stretched between the crossbar and the sound box and are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. to recount the chilling tale of a bloodthirsty blood·thirst·y adj. 1. Eager to shed blood. 2. Characterized by great carnage. blood monster. Bagby has a degree in voice from Oberlin Conservatory, a degree in German literature from Oberlin College and an advanced degree from the Schola Cantorum, where he and Barbara Thornton formed the early music ensemble Sequentia. |
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