Horn professor will attempt to make wind instruments sing.Byline: The Register-Guard Three faculty concerts are scheduled this 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. Also planned: a children's program spotlighting the organ. Horn professor Ellen Campbell will play at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, will be $7 for general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens. Campbell's recital will include songs and arrangements for horn and piano. "I always wanted to be a singer," says Campbell, who has included on her program opera arias by Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi as well as popular and jazz selections. Performing with Campbell will be Salem pianist Jennifer Garrett, a former member of the faculty at Texas Tech University. Members of the UO string faculty will give a recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Beall Hall. Tickets, available at the door, will be $7 for general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens. The program will include Suite Populaire Espagnole by Manuel de Falla Noun 1. Manuel de Falla - Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946) Falla , W.A. Mozart's Quartet for Piano and Strings (K. 493), Serenade serenade [Ital. sera=evening], term used to designate several types of musical composition. Opera and song literature yield numerous examples of the serenade sung or played by a lover at night beneath his beloved's window; outstanding is for String Trio A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. The earliest string trio form consisted of two violins and cello, a grouping which had grown out of the baroque trio sonata. by Erno Dohnanyi and two pieces by Livingston Gearhart: Variations of a British Air and Suite for String Trio. Performing in various combinations will be associate professor Fritz Gearhart, violin; associate professor Leslie Straka, viola; visiting professor Ken Finch, cello; and professor Victor Steinhardt and assistant professor Gregory Mason, piano. UO faculty organist Barbara Baird, along with guest organists Julia Brown Julia Brown was an American madam and prostitute. In the 1830s, Brown entered a brothel owned by Adeline Miller, a well-known New York madam. She did not stay long, however; soon Brown was running brothels of her own on Chapel and Church streets. and Philip Bayles, will demonstrate "The Mighty Organ" in a one-hour children's concert beginning at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Beall Hall. Tickets, available at the door, will be $3 for adults, $2 for children and students, or $5 for a family ticket. Baird will show how the organ is many instruments in one by playing sounds on Beall Hall's Ahrend organ comparable with a trumpet (Stephen Dunn), an oboe oboe (ō`bō, ō`boi) [Ital., from Fr. hautbois] or hautboy (ō`boi, hō`–), woodwind instrument of conical bore, its mouthpiece having a double reed. (J. Robert Moore) and a 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. (Steven Vacchi).
The artists also will show how the keyboard instrument comes in all sizes, using the small, portable organ that is often used in Oregon Bach Festival The Oregon Bach Festival is an annual celebration of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, held in Eugene, Oregon in late June and early July. It was co-founded by German conductor Helmuth Rilling and the former president of the American Choral Directors Association, Royce Saltzman, concerts. Musical selections will range from J.S. Bach's famous Toccata and Fugue Toccata and Fugue may refer to several classical compositions
Organist Barbara Baird, oboist J. Robert Moore, trumpeter Stephen Dunn and bassoonists A list of bassoonists who have articles about them on Wikipedia, or who should have articles written about them. See also: American bassoonists
The program includes Sonata Prima for bassoon and organ by Giovanni Bertoli; "Elevation" and "Offertorio" for organ by Domenico Zipoli; Concerto in D Major for trumpet and organ by Tommaso Albinoni; "Sketches from China" for bassoon and oboe, written in 2000 by Michael Curtis; "Prayer for a Dead Soldier" for trumpet and organ by Dalibor Vackar; Suite for Oboe and Organ, written in 1999 by UO Professor Emeritus Hal Owen; and Albinoni's Concerto in C Major for trumpet, bassoon, bass, organ and three oboes. For more information on any of the concerts, call the music school weekdays at 346-5678. To confirm concert times and ticket information, call GuardLine from a touch-tone phone at any time; call 485-2000 and select category 2533. |
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