Tuba teacher makes debut.

Byline: The Register-Guard

Concerts introducing a new tuba professor, celebrating chamber music composed by Nazi concentration camp prisoners and featuring the music and dance of Ghana are scheduled this week at the University of Oregon School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave.

Michael Grose, the music school's new tuba professor, will perform at 8 p.m. Monday in Beall Concert Hall. Tickets, available at the door, will be $7 for general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens.

Grose's program will include both transcriptions and original works for tuba, including Suite for Tuba by Don Haddad, Nocturne in E-flat by Frederic Chopin, Sonata for Tuba by Paul Hindemith, Concerto for Bass Tuba by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Four Pieces by Hindemith (assisted by bassoonist Steven Vacchi) and "Beelzebub" by Andrea Catozzi.

Ezra Bartz, a UO student majoring in piano performance, will be the accompanist.

Grose received his bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Northwestern University. Before coming to Oregon, he was principal tubist of the Savannah Symphony Orchestra in Georgia and the Hilton Head Orchestra in North Carolina.

Third Angle, a Portland-based New Music ensemble, will present "Music of Terezin: Sparks of Glory" at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Beall Hall. Tickets, available at the door, will be $7 for general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens.

From 1941 to 1944, prisoners of the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Terezin, Czechoslovakia, created works of art while living in circumstances best described as inhuman. As part of Expressions of Human Dignity Month, Third Angle will play some of this chamber music, including works by Victor Ullmann, Gideon Klein and Pavel Haas.

The ensemble also will play Paul Schoenfield's "Sparks of Glory," narrated by Portland actress Michele Mariana.

Obo Addy and Okropong will present the music and dance of Ghana at 8 p.m. Friday in Beall Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $10 for general admission and $8 for students and senior citizens.

Addy and his group also will do a free lecture-demonstration at 2 p.m. Friday in the Dougherty Dance Theatre on the third floor of the Gerlinger Annex, 1484 University St.

Obo Addy learned the traditional drumming and singing of the Ga culture of Ghana at an early age. He plays the full range of West African master drums, supporting drums, xylophones and other percussion instruments.

For more information on these events, call the UO music school weekdays at 346-5678.

To confirm concert times and ticket information, call GuardLine from a touch-tone phone at any time; punch up 485-2000 and select category 2533 for a recorded message about the week's events.