UO's contemporary music festival opens Friday.Byline: The Register-Guard The University of Oregon's Music Today Festival, a biennial celebration of contemporary music, will include seven concerts and premiere performances of more than 20 composi- tions. It begins Friday and runs through April 17 at the UO School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave. The festival will feature Argentina's Santa Fe Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. Guitar Quartet, the piano duo Quattro Mani Mani (mä`nē): see Manichaeism. Mani or Manes or Manichaeus (born April 14, 216, southern Babylonia—died 274?, Gundeshapur) Persian founder of Manichaeism. , UO and guest choruses singing works from the international "Waging Peace through Singing" initiative, two concerts of new music by regional composers and two percussion programs, including a tribute to the late Lou Harrison Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat (Pak Cokro). . ``Especially in the most challenging times, music - and particularly new music - inspires us to celebrate the forces of hope and creativity,'' said the festival's director, associate professor Robert Kyr Robert Kyr (b. 1952) is an American composer and music educator. Robert Kyr is one of America's prominent living composers, and is probably the most prolific composer of his generation (12 symphonies, 3 chamber symphonies, 3 violin concerti, numerous large works for . Friday The Oregon Composers Forum will present premieres by UO graduate composition students at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Tickets are $5 general admission, $3 for students and senior citizens, at the door. The program includes Ben Hunter's "Ephemeral Transformation" for trumpet, bass and two percussionists; Music for Solo Clarinet by Bill Whitley; Micah Hayes' "Once Upon a Time" for violin and piano; Jeremy Jennings' "Still Tones" for flute, harp and viola; Abstracts for solo 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. by
Brett Wartchow; Nate Brown's "Songs from the Galaxy" for
baritone voice Noun 1. baritone voice - the second lowest adult male singing voicebaritone singing voice - the musical quality of the voice while singing and chamber ensemble; "Glimpses of the Moon" for solo violin by Brian Bice; String Quartet string quartet Ensemble consisting of two violins, viola, and cello, or a work written for such an ensemble. Since c. 1775 such works have been perhaps the predominant genre of chamber music. by Mei-ling Lee; and Sonata No. 2 for Trumpet and Piano by Erik Ferguson. Saturday The University Singers, UO Chamber Choir A chamber choir is the choral equivalent of a chamber ensemble, using voices instead of instruments. The choir will usually consist of 5-15 elite singers, often associated with a larger choral group. and guest choruses from San Francisco State University • • [ and Boise State University will present three afternoon concerts and an evening program of international works on the theme of peace. The music was selected from more than 700 entries by composers from 30 countries who responded to the "Waging Peace Through Singing" initiative sponsored by the Carlton Savage Endowment for Peace. At 2 p.m., the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden choir will sing music by Thomas Morely, Charles Stanford, Benjamin Britten, Nick Page, Jan Sweelinck, Moses Hogan and others. At 3 p.m., the Boise choir will sing selections by Henry Purcell, J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Aaron Copland, Murray Schafer and Meredith Monk. At 4 p.m., the University Singers and UO Chamber Choir will sing "Daemon Pronounced "dee-mun" as in the word "demon," it is a Unix program that executes in the background ready to perform an operation when required. Functioning like an extension to the operating system, a daemon is usually an unattended process that is initiated at startup. Irrepit Callidus" by Gyorgy Orban, "Chichester Psalms" by Leonard Bernstein and the American folksong "Cindy." A pass for the three afternoon programs is $5 at the door. In the evening concert, the Boise State University Meistersingers, directed by Giselle Wyers, will sing "O Kallis Kotima" by Zilvinas Karpis, "Magic Songs" by Murray Schafer, "Now Close the Windows" by Leonard Mark Lewis and "Ave Maria" by Wyers. The University Singers and UO Chamber Choir, directed by Sharon Paul, will sing "Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight" by John White, "A Shining Peace" by David Evan Thomas, "Chantez a Dieu" by Jan Sweelinck and "In Paradisum" by Edwin Fissinger. The San Francisco State University Chamber Singers, directed by Joshua Habermann, will sing Derek Jacoby's "Requiem" (with the UO Chamber Choir), Nick Page's "And the Trees Stood Like Beautiful Buildings," Moses Hogan's "My Soul's Been Anchored" and Alberto Grau's "Kasar Mie La Gaji." Tickets are $5 for the general public, $3 for students and senior citizens. April 13 Individual artists and ensembles will honor composer Lou Harrison, who died this winter at the age of 85, in a concert at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Tickets are $7 for the general public, $4 for students and senior citizens, at the door. Artists and the public are invited to share thoughts and memories of Harrison in a free pre-concert event at 7 p.m. Concert performers will include pianist/composer Art Maddox, the Oregon Percussion Ensemble, the Pacific Rim 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. , Gamelan Sari Pandhawa, 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. Javanese Gamelan and the 100th Monkey Ensemble. The program consists primarily of compositions by Harrison, plus traditional Balinese music and premieres of music for gamelan by UO composers Brian Bice, Nate Brown, Dan Cavanagh, Micah Hayes, Ben Hunter and Jeremy Jennings. April 14 The Santa Fe Guitar Quartet, an innovative ensemble whose repertoire ranges from Baroque works to modern tangos, will perform at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Tickets are $7 for the general public, $4 for students and senior citizens, at the door. The quartet's program, titled "Bach, Bartok, Piazzolla and Friends," includes Prelude and Ricercar A ricercar (or ricercare, recercar; the terms are interchangeable) is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition. The term means to search out, and many ricercars serve a preludial function to "search out" the key or mode of a following by Will Ayton, "Fantasia fantasia (făntā`zhə) [Ital.,=fancy], musical composition not restricted to a formal design, but constructed freely in the manner of an improvisation. In the 16th and 17th cent. de los Ecos" by Leo Brouwer, Romanian Folk Dances Romanian Folk Dances is a suite of six short piano pieces composed by Béla Bartók in 1915, based on seven fiddle tunes of the Romanian Folklore. It comprises of: 1. JOC CU BÂTĂ – Dance With Sticks
g) [Ital.,=flight], in music, a form of composition in which the basic principle is imitative counterpoint of several voices. by Bach, Three Modern Tangos by Astor
Piazzolla, three pieces by Pat Metheny and works by Isaaz Albeniz,
Carlos Guastavino and Manuel Infante.
Diverse tunings and guitars enable the quartet to play a variety of works at original pitch. Consisting of two Argentineans and two North Americans, the quartet has been touring internationally since 1989. April 15 The 100th Monkey Ensemble will play 20th century classical works at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Tickets are $5 for the general public, $3 for students and senior citizens, at the door. The program includes Charles Ives' "From the Steeples and the Mountains" for brass and percussion; Alan Hovhaness's "The Flowering Peach" for harp, clarinet and percussion; Joseph Schwantner's "Sparrows" for chamber ensemble and Igor Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat." April 16 Quattro Mani, a piano duo whose CDs have won international awards, will play contemporary "Harmonies of a New World" at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Tickets are $7 for the general public, $4 for students and senior citizens, at the door. The program includes Introduction and Etude e·tude n. Music 1. A piece composed for the development of a specific point of technique. 2. A composition featuring a point of technique but performed because of its artistic merit. for Two Pianos by Jan Jirasek, "Departures" by Stephen Scott, "Harmonia Mundi (Harmony of the World)" for two pianos and percussion by UO composition professor David Crumb and "New World Landscapes" for two pianos and toy piano by Robert Patterson. Quattro Mani pianists Susan Grace and Alice Ryback will be joined by percussionist David Colson. Quattro Mani's latest CD, a recording of George Crumb's music for two pianos, was issued by Bridge Records and immediately nominated as Best Chamber Music CD of the Year at the Cannes Classic Awards. Percussionist Colson founded the Current and Modern Consort, a new music ensemble based in Ann Arbor, Michigan  “Ann Arbor” redirects here. For other uses, see Ann Arbor (disambiguation). Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. . At Rice University, he formed the Pierrot Plus Ensemble, that school's new music ensemble. April 17 Percussionists Charles Dowd and Tracy Freeze will conclude the festival with "Senor Mouse," a program of acoustic chamber jazz for vibraphone/marimba duo, at 8 p.m. in the Gerlinger Hall alumni lounge, 1468 University St. Tickets are $7 for the general public, $4 for students and senior citizens, at the door. The program includes the premiere of Dowd's "Movie Theme" and premieres of 11 orchestration/arrangements by Dowd, including "Blue Montreux" by Matthias Schmidt, "Guacha Guara" by Cal Tjader, "Scrapple scrap·ple n. A mush of ground pork and cornmeal that is set in a mold and then sliced and fried. [Diminutive of scrap1.] Noun 1. from the Apple" by Charlie Parker, "Memories of Tomorrow" by Keith Jarrett and "La Fiesta" and "Senor Mouse" by Chick Corea and Gary Burton. For more information, call the music school at 346-5678 for a festival brochure, or you can check the UO music Web site: www.music.uoregon.edu. MUSIC PREVIEW Music Today Festival Where/when: University of Oregon School of Music, Friday through April 17 Concerts: Oregon Composers Forum at 8 p.m. Friday "Waging Peace Through Singing" at 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday Lou Harrison Memorial Concert at 8 p.m. April 13 Santa Fe Guitar Quartet at 8 p.m. April 14 Hundredth Monkey Ensemble at 8 p.m. April 15 Quattro Mani piano duo at 8 p.m. April 16 "Senor Mouse" percussion concert at 8 p.m. April 17 CAPTION(S): Above: The acclaimed piano duo Quattro Mani - Susan Grace (left) and Alice Ryback - will perform at the festival April 16. Their program will include a piece by UO composition professor David Crumb. Left: The Santa Fe Guitar Quartet will perform April 14. Their program includes a wide range of music, from J.S. Bach to Pat Metheny. |
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