Symphony, tuba bands, harp virtuoso at UO.Byline: The Register-Guard Four concerts featuring repertoire for symphony and harp as well as low brass and jazz 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, 961 E. 18th Ave. The University Symphony, under the direction of Professor Wayne Bennett, will perform at 3 p.m. today in Beall Concert Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission, $3 for students and senior citizens. The program: "Petite Suite" by Claude Debussy; "Feste Romane" by Ottorino Respighi; and "Flos Campi" by Ralph Vaughan Williams Noun 1. Ralph Vaughan Williams - English composer influenced by folk tunes and music of the Tudor period (1872-1958) Vaughan Williams , with associate professor Leslie Straka as featured viola soloist. The UO Tuba Choir and members of the Oregon Tuba Association will join forces for OcTUBAfest at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Beall Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission, $3 for students and senior citizens. In the "high-class, low-brass" concert, UO tuba students and faculty will play solo, duet and ensemble literature by J.S. Bach, Edward Elgar and others. The Oregon Tuba Ensemble will play "St. Louis Blues March," "Mood Indigo" and "Lichtensteiner Polka polka, ballroom dance for couples in 2/4 time. Originated by Bohemian peasants about 1830 from steps of the schottische and other dances, the polka by 1835 reached the drawing rooms of Prague, from which it spread to the capitals of Europe. ," among others. The evening will conclude with a massed tuba ensemble playing John Philip Sousa's "Liberty Bell March." Dan Yu, the first Chinese harpist to win the gold medal in the U.S. International Harp Competition, will be featured in a guest artist recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Beall Hall. Admission is free. Competing against 36 harpists from 14 countries, Yu not only took the first prize at the U.S. competition, but also captured two additional prizes. In Eugene she will play a suite by Bach, a sonata by Germaine Tailleferre, an arabesque arabesque (ărəbĕsk`) [Fr.,=Arabian], in art, term applied to any complex, linear decoration based on flowing lines. In Islamic art it was often exploited to cover entire surfaces. by Claude Debussy and a Spanish dance by Enrique Granados, among other pieces. Yu will close her program with "Spring on the Moonlit moon·lit adj. Lighted by moonlight. moonlit Adjective illuminated by the moon Adj. 1. River," an ancient Chinese melody. This season, Yu will have two debut recitals, in Alice Tully Hall The Alice Tully Hall is a concert hall that is part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. It was created from the donations of Alice Tully, a chamber music benefactor and patron of the arts. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and at Wigmore Hall in London. Her first CD was released on Egan Records last spring. For more information, or to receive a complete calendar of events, call the UO music school weekdays at 346-5678. |
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