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November
Lecture-Recital:
Katie Morgan, soprano
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
11:00 am, Room M208
Katherine Morgan, a recipient of the undergraduate Richter research grant, will be giving a lecture-recital about Sir Arthur
Sullivan's art songs. Audience members will join Katherine as she explores the relationships Sullivan had with famous Victorian
poets, his many love affairs, and the intensely personal connection he had with his music.
Faculty Recital:
Lee Morgan, mezzo-soprano
Carol Cook, piano
Richard Cook, tenor
Friday, November 6, 2009
7:30 pm
A recital featuring Brahms' Zigeunerlieder and works by Bach, Barber, Purcell, Handel, Strauss, Duparc and Sondheim.
String Chamber Music Concert:
Beethoven and More
Saturday, November 7, 2009
7:30 pm
Jacqui Carrasco, coordinator
This concert highlights the chamber works of Ludwig Van Beethoven, with selections from his early string quartets, and a later violin sonata. The playful Scherzo from Dvořák's "Bass" quintet rounds out the evening.
Flute Fest
Sunday, November 8, 2009
3:00 pm
Kathryn Levy, director
This collaborative annual concert, now in its fifteenth year, will feature students from the studio of Kathryn Levy, the WFU Flute Choir, The Silver Wind Flute Choir of Winston-Salem and community flutists. The program will include solo works by Pergolesi and Telemann, as well as Ravel's Mother Goose Suite and Faure's Pavane.
Secrest Artists Series:
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
7:30 pm, Wait Chapel
This 200-year-old orchestra will perform Philip Glass's violin concerto, with Renaud Capuçon, soloist, and Bernstein's Symphonic Dances.
Collegium Musicum Concert
Thursday, November 12, 2009
7:30 pm
Stewart Carter and Brian Gorelick, directors
This program will feature madrigals and sacred works written by the leading English composers of the 17th century. The Collegium Musicum Vocal Ensemble will sing works by Henry Purcell, Orlando Gibbons, John Dowland, and Thomas Weelkes. Two of Dowland’s ayres will be sung with guitar accompaniment to represent the performance practice of the period. The voices of the ensemble will combine with the Collegium Instrumentalists to present two madrigals with consort accompaniment to close the program.
Senior Voice Recital:
Leah Wagner-Stout, mezzo-soprano
Saturday, November 14, 2009
7:30 pm
Thomas Turnbull, piano
This recital will feature vocal works of Schubert, Brahms, Debussy, Sondheim, and others, encompassing a wide variety of musical styles including early opera, German Lieder, American art song, and musical theatre.
Faculty, Student and Guest Artist Concert:
Charanga!
Sunday, November 15, 2009
3:00 pm
Students and faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University will join forces for an evening of charanga, a style of Cuban dance music featuring strings and including danzόn and salsa arrangements. Guest artists include David Garcia, director of UNC's Charanga Carolina, Latin percussionist Nelson Delgado, and flutist Debra Reuter-Pivetta. Pianist Federico Pivetta will also perform Latin jazz selections with WFU faculty violinist Jacqui Carrasco.
University Jazz Ensemble Concert
Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:30 pm
Kevin Bowen and Philip Morgan, conductors
Wind Chamber Music Concert
Saturday, November 21, 2009
7:30 pm
Jacqui Carrasco, coordinator
University Wind Ensemble Concert
Sunday, November 22, 2009
3:00 pm
Kevin Bowen and Philip Morgan, conductors
The WFU Wind Ensemble will feature "Music with a Spanish Flair" in its concert on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 3:00 PM in Brendle Recital Hall. The centerpiece of the program is a new work for wind ensemble, Symphony No. 3, 'Don Quixote', by Robert W. Smith.
Guest Artist:
Benjamin Verdery, guitar
Sunday, November 22, 2009
7:30 pm
An internationally known recording artist and prolific composer, Benjamin Verdery is Chair of the Guitar Department at Yale School of Music. Part of the 2009-2010 Guitar Series.
general admission - $12
free with WFU ID card
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