UO festival celebrates new musical directions.Byline: The Register-Guard UO SCHOOL OF MUSIC A faculty violin recital and the Music Today Festival are coming up in the next 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 and Dance. Music Today Festival Friday through Tuesday The Music Today Festival, celebrating new directions in music, includes four concerts beginning Friday, all at the UO's Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Acclaimed harmonica harmonica. 1 The simplest of the musical instruments employing free reeds, known also as the mouth organ or French harp. It was probably invented in 1829 by Friedrich Buschmann of Berlin, who called his instrument the Mundäoline. virtuoso Joe Powers will be joined by guitarist Lewis Childs, koto koto (kō`tō), a Japanese string instrument related in structure to the zither. It consists of an elongated rectangular wooden body, strung lengthwise with 7 to 13 silk strings. master Mitsuki Dazai and tango dancers for a program of music from around the world. Powers is a graduate of the UO composition department, with an international career. He has just returned from a tour of Japan. Powers also studied tango in Argentina. His music is often a blend of Latin, American and Asian styles. The concert is at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $10. Philip and Ellen Frohnmayer present a vocal program of 20th century music by Benjamin Britten Noun 1. Benjamin Britten - major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976) Britten, Edward Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh , Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Virgil Thomson and John Ireland. They will also sing classical songs by W.A. Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Henry Purcell and others. The Frohnmayers were visiting professors at the UO School of Music and Dance in 2005. Philip Frohnmayer earned a master's in music from UO in 1972. He is a brother of UO President Dave Frohnmayer. The concert, `A Euro-American Vocal Journey,' is at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $10. The So Percussion Ensemble will celebrate composer Steve Reich's 70th birthday by performing some of his hits, along with ``the so-called laws of nature,' a breakthrough piece by David Lang, one of the founders of 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 City's Bang on a Can Bang on a Can is a multi-faceted musical organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1987 by three American composers who remain its artistic directors: Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon. Festival. The concert is at 8 p.m. Monday. Tickets are $10. The festival wraps up with a concert of world premieres by 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. , which is one of two Indonesian percussion orchestras at the UO music school. All of the performers are composers of this program. The So Percussion Ensemble will join the gamelan in several of the works. The concert is at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets are $7. Faculty recital Wednesday, Beall Hall Violinist Fritz Gearhart will be joined by pianist Victor Steinhardt and cellist Steven Pologe in performing `Sonata No. 1 in A Major' by W.A. Mozart, `Duo for Violin and Cello' by Zoltan Kodaly and `Sonatina son·a·ti·na n. A sonata having shorter movements and often less technically demanding than the typical sonata. [Italian, diminutive of sonata, sonata; see sonata. for Violin and Piano' by Gearhart. The recital is at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Tickets are $10 ($8 for students and senior citizens) at the door. |
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