Youth ensembles to perform.Byline: The Register-Guard EUGENE SYMPHONY percussionist Brian Scott will be the featured soloist in a joint concert by the Arts Umbrella youth ensembles on Tuesday. Scott will play Darius Milhaud's Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra with the Eugene Junior Orchestra, conducted by David Chinburg. The orchestra also will play compositions by Antonin Dvorak and Lennie Niehaus. The Encore Strings, conducted by Ruth Root, will play arrangements of the "Habanera Habanera Carmen’s “love is a wild bird” provokes hearers. [Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Flirtatiousness " from Georges Bizet's "Carmen" and Rheinhold Gliere's "Russian Sailors' Dance." The Cadet Orchestra, conducted by Forrest Moyer, will play William Selby's "English Fugue fugue (fy  g) [Ital.,=flight], in music, a form of composition in which the basic principle is imitative counterpoint of several voices. " and Elliott Del Borgo's
"Dance Scenario," among others.
The orchestras will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the South Eugene High School South Eugene High School is a public high school located in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was founded as Eugene High School around 1900, and was located at Willamette Street and West 11th Avenue in a brick building that later served as Eugene's city hall. Auditorium, 400 E. 19th Ave. Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for students in middle school through college; younger children are free. Tickets will be sold at the door. Information: 484-0473 MU PHI EPSILON Mu Phi Epsilon (ΜΦΕ) is a co-ed international professional music fraternity and honor society. It boasts over 75,000 members in 128 collegiate chapters and 74 alumni chapters in the US and abroad. , an international professional music student organization 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. , will present a concert of solo and chamber works for flute, piano and voice, played by UO music school students, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the First Congregational United Church of Christ United Church of Christ, American Protestant denomination formed in 1957 by a merger of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches (see Congregationalism) and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. , 1050 E. 23rd Ave. Admission is free; donations will be accepted at the door. Proceeds will go toward music student scholarships. THE WEEKLY SHOcase concert will not be held this week. The free series will resume at 12:15 p.m. Dec. 12 in the Hult Center lobby with holiday music by Eugene Symphony conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and members of the orchestra. Information: 682-5733. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON harp students under the direction of Laura Zaerr will perform at 2 p.m. Saturday in Beall Concert Hall at the UO School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave. Admission is free. Selections include a sonata for two harps by Johann Dussek, "Claire de Lune" by Claude Debussy, "Playful Pizzicato pizzicato (pĭt'səkä`tō), in music, the technique of plucking the strings of an instrument that is usually bowed. Directions for playing pizzicato are found in early 17th-century music. " by Benjamin Britten; Saraband saraband (sâr`əbănd), dance of Asian origin that first appeared in Spain in the 16th cent. At that time it was characterized by alternate 3–4 and 3–8 meter and was accompanied by castanets and tambourines. and Allegro by G.F. Handel, "La Joyeuse" by Jean-Philippe Rameau and a trio from "L'enfance du Christ L'enfance du Christ (English: The Childhood of Christ), Opus 25, is a choral work by the French composer Hector Berlioz, based on the story of Christ's Nativity. Berlioz wrote his own words for the piece. " by Hector Berlioz for harp and two flutes. The grand finale will feature eight harps together, playing "Les Pins de Charlannes" by Henriette Renie. The school's Lyon and Healy concert harp, recently donated by LaRayne Jenkins of Portland, will be officially dedicated and played during the concert. "INTIMATE WORKS" by Co-Art Dance and the Van Ummersen Dance Company will be revealed Saturday and Dec. 8 at the Lord Leebrick Theatre, 540 Charnelton St. The Eugene dance companies will present pieces from their repertoire and premieres several new works. The Van Ummersen Dance Company offers a performance season of new choreography and improvisation, tours the Northwest and organizes educational workshops, festivals and salons. Margo Van Ummersen, the artistic director, received an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship this year. A new Eugene company, Co-Art Dance Company creates contemporary modern dance and collaborates with other artists. It was founded by Tim and Corrie Cowart. Both are graduate teaching fellows working on master's degrees in dance at the University of Oregon. "Intimate Works" will be presented at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Saturday and Dec. 8. Admission is $10 in advance or $12 at the door. Tickets are available at the Lord Leebrick box office (465-1506). THE MOTET motet (mōtĕt`), name for the outstanding type of musical composition of the 13th cent. and for a different type that originated in the Renaissance. The 13th-century motet, a creation (c. SINGERS will be joined by harpist Jeff Parsons in a program of classical and contemporary holiday motets and favorite carols from around the world at 5 p.m. Saturday at the John G. Shedd John Graves Shedd (July 20, 1850 - October 22, 1926) was the second president and chairman of the board of Marshall Field & Company. Born on a New Hampshire farm, Shedd arrived in Chicago, Illinois in 1871 and began working as a stock clerk for Marshall Field. Institute for the Arts, 285 E. Broadway. Parsons, of Corvallis, will accompany the group on harp in eight pieces, including selections from Benjamin Britten's mysterious and dramatic "A Ceremony of Carols" for treble voices and harp. The Motet Singers, a 10-voice Eugene women's a cappella ensemble, will also sing four works - "The Angel Gabriel," "Deck the Hall," "Deo Gracias" and "Merry Christmas Darling "Merry Christmas Darling" by The Carpenters was written by Richard Carpenter & Frank Pooler and originally recorded in 1970. At the time it was only available on a 45 rpm from A&M Records (1236) and later in 1974 reissued as A&M 1648 and in 1977 as A&M 1991. " - arranged by Eugene composer-arranger Audrey Snyder Brown. The program is rounded out by other classic motets, carols such as "Away in a Manger" and the popular tune "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." A $5 suggested donation will be taken at the door. Information: 344-5271. |
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